John C. Maher

Linguist

JOHN C. MAHER studied philosophy, education and linguistics at the University of London (BA, M.Th. PGCE), University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (M.A.) and the University of  Edinburgh (Ph.D.). He is is a dual national of the UK and the Republic of Ireland. 

He is currently a Professor of Linguistics in the Department of Society, Culture and Media at International Christian University, Tokyo. 

He was a lecturer at the University of Edinburgh, Senior Academic Member of St. Antony’s College, Oxford University, and a Research Fellow of Gakushuin University. 

He was British Council Lecturer at De La Salle University, Manila, a guest lecturer at the University of Leeds, Monterey Institute of International Studies, University of Manchester Centre for Cosmopolitanism and Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Université de Paris VI. He is a founding member of Nihon Gengo Shakai Kagakkai 日本言語社会科学会 (Japan Association of the Sociolinguistics).