HSU’s Sonntag Wins Fulbright Chair

Mar 20, 2007

HSU Professor Sam Sonntag has been awarded a Fulbright Chair in Canada to pursue her research of resistance to the global spread of English.

A professor in the University’s Department of Government and Politics, Dr. Sonntag will be appointed Research Chair in Globalization and Cultural Studies at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, for the 2007-2008 academic year.

Her project is titled “Global English and Linguistic Autonomy,” in which she will examine the possibility—and desirability—of multinational resistance to the spread of English as the dominant world language. Part of her research will center on a comparison of Canadian and American attitudes toward the proliferation of call centers, both in Canada and in other locations like India.

Dr. Sonntag is a previous Fulbright recipient, in South Asia, in 1993-1994.

She will be joined in Canada by her husband, Professor Emeritus Bob White.