Dr Sarah Ogilvie is a Senior Research Fellow in the Faculty of Linguistics, Philology, and Phonetics and of Campion Hall
Dr Sarah Ogilvie is Senior Research Fellow in the Faculty of Linguistics, Philology, and Phonetics (and of Campion Hall) at the University of Oxford. She is the Director of Oxford’s MSc in Digital Scholarship. Before Oxford, she taught at Stanford and Cambridge Universities, and worked at Amazon’s innovation lab in Silicon Valley.
Dr Ogilvie is a linguist, lexicographer, and computer scientist who works at the intersection of technology and the social sciences. Her research focuses on lexicography, endangered languages, language documentation, field methods, historical development of language, corpus linguistics, and digital humanities. She directs the Dictionary Lab, a lab for digital research on dictionaries and language.
Books in order of publication:
Words of the World: A Global History of the Oxford English Dictionary – 2012
Cambridge Companion to English Dictionaries – 2020
The Whole World in a Book: Dictionaries in the Nineteenth Century – 2020
Gen Z, Explained: the art of living in a digital age – 2022
The Dictionary People: The Unsung Heroes Who Created the Oxford English Dictionary – 2023
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