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.