About
Eduardo D. Faingold is professor of Spanish and linguistics in the School of Language and Literature at The University of Tulsa. He holds an M.A. in English linguistics from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and a Ph.D. in linguistics from Tel-Aviv University. Faingold has held visiting appointments at the University of California Los Angeles, Stony Brook University, New York University, the University of Cape Town, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Tel-Aviv University, the Technical University of Berlin, and the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig and the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg, Germany. He received numerous grants and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the German Science Foundation (DFG), the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), the South African Science Foundation, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Tel-Aviv University, and The University of Tulsa.
Faingold is the author of numerous articles in prestigious refereed journals such as Language Problems and Language Planning, International Journal of Jewish Education Research, Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages, Estudios de Lingüística Aplicada, International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, and Language Sciences, and of a dozen books by top publishers, including Palgrave Macmillan, Lexington Books, and Gunter Narr Verlag.
His most recent books include “Language Rights and the Law in the United States and its Territories” (Lexington Books, 2018), “Language Rights and the Law in the European Union” (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020), “Language Rights and the Law in Scandinavia: Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Iceland, the Faroe Islands, and Greenland” (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023), and “Exile from Argentina: A Jewish Family and the Military Dictatorship (1976-1983)” 2nd Edition (Information Age Publishing, 2024). Faingold is working on a new book dealing with the Spanish language in contact with the Hebrew and Yiddish languages in Latin America, Europe, and Israel.
Education
- Ph.D., Tel-Aviv University
Research interests and areas of expertise
- Language development
- Bilingualism
- Language policy
- Language and the law
- Spanish in the U.S.
- Immigration studies
- Jewish Argentina