Monica Heller (born June 1955) is a Canadian linguistic anthropologist and Professor at the University of Toronto.
The political meanings of the uses of French and English in Quebec in the 1960s led to her interest in language and its influence on society.
Currently she is Full Professor at the University of Toronto's Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE) in the department of Humanities, Social Sciences & Social Justice Education with a joint appointment to the Department of Anthropology.
Using a political economy approach, she has tracked shifts in ideologies of language, nation and State, and examined processes of linguistic commodification in the globalized economy, along with the emergence of post-national ideologies of language and identity.
[3] Heller was executive program chair for the 2010 annual meetings of the American Anthropological Association in New Orleans.