He received the Rubinlicht Prize for his outstanding contribution to Yiddish scholarship in 2023.
He is the author of Revivalistics: From the Genesis of Israeli to Language Reclamation in Australia and Beyond (Oxford University Press, 2020), the seminal bestseller Israelit Safa Yafa (Israeli – A Beautiful Language; Am Oved, 2008), Language Contact and Lexical Enrichment in Israeli Hebrew (Palgrave Macmillan, 2003), 多源造词研究 (A Study of Multisourced Neologization; East China Normal University Press, 2021), three chapters of the Israeli Tingo (Keren, 2011) and Engaging – A Guide to Interacting Respectfully and Reciprocally with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People, and their Arts Practices and Intellectual Property (2015). He is a co-author of the first online Dictionary of the Barngarla Aboriginal Language (2018), and the Barngarla trilogy: (1) Barngarlidhi Manoo (‘Speaking Barngarla Together’): Barngarla Alphabet & Picture Book, 2019; (2) Mangiri Yarda (‘Healthy Country’): Barngarla Wellbeing and Nature, 2021; and (3) Wardlada Mardinidhi (‘Bush Healing’): Barngarla Plant Medicines, 2023. He is the editor of Burning Issues in Afro-Asiatic Linguistics (2012), Jewish Language Contact (2014), a special issue of the International Journal of the Sociology of Language, and the co-editor of Endangered Words, Signs of Revival (2014).
Professor Zuckermann has been an international academic board advisor of the Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP) since its establishment (2004), took part at the ISGAP Oxford SUmmer Institute in 2025, and is currently researching “anti-semANtism from deicide to DEI-cide: Linguistic fallacies employed by antisemites.”
Zuckermann is Professor (Level E) at Flinders University (Adelaide), Wútóng Distinguished Chair Professor at Beijing Language and Culture University, and Adjunct Professor at the Institute for Positive Psychology and Education, Australian Catholic University (Sydney).
He was elected fellow of the Academy of Oriental Scholars (Shanghai) in 2011 and the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS) in 2014.
He is a senior member and immediate past Chair of the Jury for the Jeonju International Awards for Promoting Intangible Cultural Heritage, South Korea. He was President of the Australian Association for Jewish Studies (AAJS) in 2017-2023, President of the Australasian Association for Lexicography (AustraLex) in 2013-2015, Chief Investigator in an NHMRC research project assessing language revival and mental health in 2017-2021, Australian Research Council (ARC) Discovery Fellow in 2007–2011, and Gulbenkian Research Fellow at Churchill College Cambridge in 2000-2004. He has been an elected board member of the Foundation for Endangered Languages (FEL).
Prof Dr Dr Zuckermann has been Consultant and Expert Witness in (forensic) linguistics, (corpus) lexicography, trademarks, brand names, semantics and antisemitism, in court cases all over the globe.
He is the founder of Revivalistics, a new global, comparative, trans-disciplinary field of enquiry surrounding language reclamation, revitalization and reinvigoration. On 14 September 2011 he launched, with the Barngarla Aboriginal communities of Eyre Peninsula, South Australia, the reclamation of the Barngarla language. He has been closely involved with many other language revivals in Australia (e.g. Bayoongoo, Western Australia) and all over the globe. Zuckermann has also taught at Middlebury College (Vermont, USA) (2019-2021), University of Adelaide (February 2011 – November 2023), University of Queensland (2006-2011), University of Cambridge (2000-2004), National University of Singapore, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, East China Normal University, Shanghai International Studies University, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, University of Haifa, and University of Miami.
Professor Zuckermann has been Professorial Scientist and Research Fellow at the Braginsky Center for the Interface between Science and the Humanities, and the Pilpel Genomics Lab, Department of Molecular Genetics, Weizmann Institute of Science; Tel Aviv University; Rockefeller Foundation’s Study and Conference Center, Villa Serbelloni, Bellagio, Italy; Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, University of Texas at Austin; Israel Institute for Advanced Studies, Hebrew University of Jerusalem; Institute for Advanced Study, La Trobe University (Melbourne); Mahidol University (Bangkok); and Kokuritsu Kokugo Kenkyūjo (National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics, Tokyo). He has been Denise Skinner Scholar at St Hugh’s College Oxford, Scatcherd European Scholar at the University of Oxford, and scholar at the United World College of the Adriatic (Italy).
His MOOC (Massive Open Online Course), Language Revival: Securing the Future of Endangered Languages, has attracted 20,000 learners from 190 countries (speakers of hundreds of distinct languages):
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