Shana Poplack

Distinguished University Professor | Canada Research Chair in Linguistics | Founding Director of the Sociolinguistics Laboratory, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa

Shana Poplack is Distinguished University Professor and Canada Research Chair in Linguistics at the University of Ottawa, and founding director of the Sociolinguistics Laboratory there. Her work applies theoretical and methodological insights gained from the scientific study of everyday speech to a variety of languages and linguistic phenomena involved in language contact, language change and linguistic ideology. She has published widely on the linguistic history and development of Vernacular Black English.

Experience

–present

Professeure éminente | Titulaire de la Chaire de recherche du Canada en linguistique | Directrice fondatrice du Laboratoire de sociolinguistique de l'Université d'Ottawa, University of Ottawa

Education

University of Pennsylvania, Doctorat en Linguistique

Honours

Doctorat honorifique (University College Dublin, 2017); Membre de l’Ordre du Canada (2014) ; Médaille d’or du CRSH (2012) ; Prix Découverte (Ministère de la recherche et de l’innovation de l’Ontario, 2008) ; Prix de recherche (Fondation Trudeau, 2007) ; Prix Killam (Conseil des arts du Canada, 2007) ; Médaille Pierre Chauveau (Société royale du Canada, 2005) ; Bourse de recherche Killam (Conseil des arts du Canada, 2001) ; Membre de la Société royale du Canada (1998)