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June 2006 > Students > Honors
Kattan Captures Research Award
Shlomy Kattan, an Israel-born, Language, Literacy, Society and Culture third-year Ph.D. student, has received a Dissertation Fieldwork Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research. The generous award is considered one of the most coveted awards for graduate students in anthropology and related fields.
The grant will fund his study "Language socialization and language ideology among Israeli emissaries: A global ethnography of transnationalism." According to Kattan’s abstract, the study examines “language ideologies and socialization practices among families of Israeli emissaries (shlichim) sent by the Jewish Agency for Israel to Los Angeles, California, for two years, following their transition from Israel to the United States and back, focusing on the English-language acquisition and Hebrew-language maintenance of the children both at home and at school in Israel and in California.
“The goal of this study is to obtain greater understanding of how children growing up in a transitory and transitional setting learn to use multiple languages in culturally appropriate ways.”
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