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Brief Bio
Brief Bio
Heidi E. Hamilton is Professor Emerita, Department of Linguistics, Georgetown University where she taught courses in discourse analysis and applications of interactional sociolinguistics from 1990-2021. Her research interests focus on issues of discourse and Alzheimer's disease, language and aging, and health discourse.
Heidi E. Hamilton is Professor Emerita, Department of Linguistics, Georgetown University where she taught courses in discourse analysis and applications of interactional sociolinguistics from 1990-2021. 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), Handbook of Language and Health Communication (with Chou), and, most recently, Language, Dementia, and Meaning Making: Navigating Challenges of Cognition and Face in Everyday Life. She has given plenary lectures at a range of linguistics, health, and aging conferences and workshops around the world, including in Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Germany, Japan, Norway, Spain, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and the United States.
Awards include the Fulbright Distinguished Chair in Linguistics in Innsbruck, Austria; DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) Gastdozentin in Berlin, Germany; Humboldt Research Award in Potsdam, Germany; and the Schuyler Community Schools Foundation Distinguished Alumni Award (Schuyler, Nebraska). 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.
Professional History
Professional History
Georgetown University, Washington, D.C.
2007- 2021 Professor, Department of Linguistics (as of August 2021 Professor Emerita)
Humboldt Research Award (Humboldt-Forschungspreis), Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Universität Potsdam, Germany, Spring 2020
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
Freie Universität Berlin (Free University of Berlin), Germany
1985-1989 Lecturer (Lehrbeauftragte), Department of Linguistics John F. Kennedy Institute of North American Studies
Concordia Language Villages, Concordia College, Minnesota
2015-2020 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
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.
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