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 is the author of 10 monographs in the areas of bilingualism, language acquisition, immigration and exile and language policy and linguistic law, most of which have been published by major academic publishers. His book “Iberian Romance Languages in Contact with Jewish Languages: Language History, Dialect Formation, Language Acquisition, and Language Preservation” is now in press (Bloomsbury). He is also the author of 35 refereed papers in tier-one linguistic journals or with world-class presses.
Faingold has received fellowships and grants from national and international foundations, including the NEH, the DAAD and the DFG. He has held visiting positions at research institutes including the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg, the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, UCLA, NYU, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the University of Cape Town. He served as an expert witness in a landmark case on language discrimination in the United States, Maldonado v. City of Altus, 433 F.3d 1294 (10th Cir. 2006), and was invited to speak at the United Nations on language discrimination. In 2026, Faingold received The University of Tulsa Outstanding Researcher Award in recognition of a lifetime of research.
Awards & Honors
- Outstanding Researcher Award, The University of Tulsa, 2026
Education
- Ph.D., Tel-Aviv University
Research Interests & Areas of Expertise
- Language development
- Bilingualism
- Language policy
- Language and the law
- Spanish in the U.S.
- Immigration studies
- Jewish Argentina
