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Elizabeth Mertz

American legal anthropologist · United States · Academics · Born 1955 · age 71

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Elizabeth Mertz is a linguistic and legal anthropologist who is also a law professor at the University of Wisconsin Law School, where she teaches family law courses. She has been on the research faculty of the American Bar Foundation since 1989.

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Awards

Herbert Jacob Book Prize2008

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Mother: Barbara Mertz

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Elizabeth Mertz is a linguistic and legal anthropologist who is also a law professor at the University of Wisconsin Law School, where she teaches family law courses. She has been on the research faculty of the American Bar Foundation since 1989. She has a PhD in Anthropology from Duke University and a JD from Northwestern University. Her early research focused on language, identity and politics in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, and her dissertation dealt with language shift in Cape Breton Scottish Gaelic, drawing on semiotic anthropology.

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Country
United States
Category
Academics
Type
Academic
Status
living
Dates
Born 1955 · age 71

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