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Gale Stam, Ph.D., is a Professor of Psychology at National Louis University in Chicago, Illinois. Her primary research focuses on psycholinguistics, gesture studies, and second language acquisition. She holds a Ph.D. in Psychology from the University of Chicago, an M.A. in Linguistics from Northeastern Illinois University, and a B.A. in Political Science from the University of Illinois at Chicago.
Stam’s research emphasizes the interplay between gesture, language, and cognition, particularly in L1 and L2 acquisition. She has conducted longitudinal studies on conceptual shifts in thinking-for-speaking across languages and collaborated internationally, including with institutions in France, South Africa, and Sweden. Her work appears in journals like Gesture and Modern Language Journal, and she co-edited influential volumes such as Gesture: Second Language Acquisition and Classroom Research.
Stam serves on editorial boards for Language and Sociocultural Theory and previously for Gesture. Her teaching spans B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. programs in Psychology and includes courses like Psychology of Artistic Expression and Advanced Cross-Cultural Communication. She has presented globally, including at conferences in Finland, Portugal, and South Africa.
Outside academia, Stam writes fiction, including the short story Andrei's Chance and the fairy tale In Ten Days, both available on Amazon Kindle.
