Note from the Editor-in-Chief

During my time in Pittsburgh, I received training in general linguistics with a specialization in sociolinguistics and language contact.My MA thesis focused on the Hungarian language use of American Hungarians in McKeesport, Pennsylvania-a former steel town near Pittsburgh-examining the effects of language contact with English and the processes of language attrition.American Hungarian language use thus became my first topic of research, in which I authored a comprehensive chapter in a 2005 book about varieties of Hungarians outside of Hungary (Fenyvesi, ed., 2005), and to which I have returned in recent years as the sociolinguist working in the Appalachian Hungarian Heritage Project (AHHP), which investigates the historical, social, and linguistic aspects of former Hungarian communities in Appalachia in a comprehensive and multidisciplinary fashion.In 2024/2025, I was a Fulbright scholar at West Virginia University in Morgantown, working on this project.At a personal level, I have spent my entire life mediating between cultures and living a multilingual life.