Department of Anthropology

What makes us different is what makes us human..

Emily McEwan-Fujita

Emily McEwan-Fujita received her PhD from the University of Chicago in 2003. She is a linguistic anthropologist who studies minority language revitalization efforts in Scotland.

Her geographical area of specialization is Scotland, particularly the Western Isles (Outer Hebrides). She has conducted fieldwork in the Uists, Stornoway, Inverness, Edinburgh and Glasgow on Scottish Gaelic language revitalization efforts.

Her research focuses on several aspects of Gaelic revitalization: economic development and “project culture” in the Highlands and islands, adult minority language learning and ethnic boundary marking, Gaelic in the new Scottish Parliament, and public “discourses of death” about Gaelic in the British media.

McEwan-Fujita’s next research project will be a long-ranging consideration of the impact of ideologies of standard language on Gaelic-English bilinguals, particularly in relation to Gaelic literacy practices.

She is teaching courses on language and culture; language, ethnicity, and nationalism; and endangered languages.

emcewan@pitt.edu

Research

Language, Ethnicity, and Nationalism

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