Program

Fellowships for Postdoctoral Research in East European Studies, 1985

Project

A comparative grammar of Balkan verbal categories

Abstract

Program

Fellowships for Postdoctoral Research in East European Studies, 2000

Project

The Balkan languages: contact, convergence and individuation

Abstract

Program

East European Studies Program Conference Grants, 2007

Project

Conference "Critical Spaces of Hope: Locating Postsocialism and the Future in post-Yugoslav Anthropology"

Department

Slavic Languages and Literatures

Abstract

Program

ACLS Fellowship Program, 2012

Project

Balkan Languages and Identities: Macedonia as Macrocosm, Mesocosm, and Microcosm

Named Award

ACLS/NEH International and Area Studies Fellow

Department

Slavic Languages and Literatures

Abstract

This project yields new knowledge in Balkan linguistics; contributes to interdisciplinary conversations on language contact and identity issues in the humanities and social sciences by filling a gap in the existing literature; and brings the results to speakers of the languages as well as to academic and policy communities. The main research is on language and identity in the Balkans, with a focus on Macedonia as macrocosm, Skopje as microcosm, and the towns of the western periphery as mesocosm linking the two. Dissemination will also be achieved by academic and popular lectures and articles. The work builds on previous research with the crucial addition of the significance of peripheral towns in the linguistic shaping of the metropole.