Biography of HEIDI E. HAMILTON

Brief Bio

 Heidi E. Hamilton is Professor in the Department of Linguistics, Georgetown University where she teaches courses in discourse analysis and applications of interactional sociolinguistics. Her research interests focus on issues of discourse and Alzheimer's disease, language and aging, and health discourse.
 Her books include Conversations with an Alzheimer's Patient,Language and Communication in Old Age: Multidisciplinary Perspectives, Glimmers: A Journey into Alzheimer's Disease,Handbook of Discourse Analysis (with Tannen and Schiffrin),Linguistics, Language, and the Professions (with Alatis and Tan), Doing Foreign Language (with Crane and Bartoshesky), and Handbook of Language and Health Communication (with Chou).   Her current book project is titled Language, Dementia, and Meaning Making: Navigating Everyday Challenges of Epistemic Understanding and Face.  She has given plenary lectures at a range of linguistics, health, and aging conferences and workshops around the world, including in Austria, Belgium, Germany, Japan, Norway, Spain, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and the United States. 
Major awards include the Fulbright Distinguished Chair in Linguistics in Innsbruck, Austria and DAAD Gastdozentin in Berlin, Germany. For the past forty-plus summers, she has taught German and carried out research as Village Mentor at the K-12 language and cultural immersion programs of Concordia Language Villages in northern Minnesota  http://www.concordialanguagevillages.org/. 
          Heidi lives in Rockville, Maryland with her husband, Dan, Professor at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies.  Their son, Sean, studies at Lawrence University in Wisconsin.  Their daughter, Siri, lives in Massachusetts with her husband, Shawn, and teaches third grade in Boston.

              Academic and Professional History

Ø  Georgetown University, Washington, D.C.

2007- present Professor, Department of Linguistics Chair, Department of Linguistics, 2009-2015

          The German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) Visiting Professorship Award (Gastdozentin) John-F-Kennedy-Institut für Nordamerikastudien, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany, Spring 2008

1997-2007 Associate Professor, Department of Linguistics Fulbright Distinguished Chair in Linguistics, University of Innsbruck, Austria, Spring 2003

1992-1997 Assistant Professor on the tenure track Department of Linguistics

1990-1992 Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Linguistics

Ø  Freie Universität Berlin (Free University of Berlin), Germany

1985-1989: Lecturer (Lehrbeauftragte), Department of Linguistics John F. Kennedy Institute of North American Studies

Ø    Concordia Language Villages, Concordia College, Minnesota

2015-present: Village Mentor

2005-2015: Senior Researcher

1992-2005: Research Coordinator (summers only)

1973-1992: variety of positions including Assistant Dean and Program Director

            Educational Background

Ph.D. in Linguistics, Georgetown University, Washington, D.C., 1989. With distinction.

M.S. in Linguistics, Georgetown University, Washington, D.C., 1983.

B.A. St. Olaf College, Northfield, Minnesota, 1977. Summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa. 

 Teaching and Mentoring

·      Teaching at Freie Universität Berlin and Universität Innsbruck Courses taught at Freie Universität Berlin (1985-1989 and 2008 as DAAD Gastdozentin)  ·                     Introduction to Linguistics  ·                     Introduction to Sociolinguistics  ·                     Discourse Analysis: Conversation  ·                     Language and Political Power in the United States Courses taught at Universität Innsbruck (as Fulbright Distinguished Chair in Linguistics 2003)  ·                     Discourse Analysis: Conversation  ·                     Discourse Analysis: Narrative  ·                     Doctor-Patient Communication Contact Information E-Mail: hamilthe@georgetown.edu or heidi.e.hamilton@gmail.com Homepage: https://sites.google.com/a/georgetown.edu/hamilthe/ Address:  Department of Linguistics Georgetown University Washington, D.C. 20057-1051