Professor Sarah Ogilvie
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Sarah Ogilvie is Professor of Language and Lexicography in the Faculty of Linguistics, Philology, and Phonetics at the University of Oxford.
Before Oxford, she taught Linguistics at Stanford, Cambridge, and Australian National University, and worked at Amazon's innovation lab in Silicon Valley. She also worked as an editor on the Oxford English Dictionary for many years.
Sarah completed her doctorate in Linguistics at the University of Oxford, and is originally from Australia where she studied for a BSc in Computer Science and Pure Mathematics at University of Queensland and MA in Linguistics at the Australian National University.
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Sarah is Professor of Language and Linguistics in the Faculty of Linguistics, Philology, and Phonetics, and Director of the Dictionary Lab at Oxford. She specializes in lexicography, endangered languages, language revitalization, the history of dictionaries, and the interface of technology with the Social Sciences and Humanities (digital humanities). Her research includes work on Australian Aboriginal and American Indian languages, especially relating to language documentation and revitalization.
She was co-founder and inaugural Director of Oxford’s MSc in Digital Scholarship..
Concise Encyclopedia of Languages of the World (Elsevier, 2010)
Words of the World: A Global History of the OED (Cambridge University Press, 2012)
Keeping Languages Alive (Cambridge University Press, 2013)
The Whole World in a Book (Oxford University Press, 2020)
Cambridge Companion to English Dictionaries (Cambridge University Press, 2020)
Gen Z, Explained: the Art of Living in a Digital Age (University of Chicago Press, 2021)
The Dictionary People: the unsung heroes who created the Oxford English Dictionary (Penguin, 2023)