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Curriculum Vitae

Dissertation

  • Title: “Phonological Aspects of Language Contact Along the Slavic Periphery”
  • Proposal defended 5/17/10

Education

Degree-granting programs

  • 2006 – present: Ph.D. student in Slavic Linguistics and Linguistics, University of Chicago
  • 2006: BA/MA in Slavic Linguistics, University of Chicago

Certificate-granting programs / seminars / institutes

  • Certificate of completion: 27th International Seminar on Albanian Language, Literature, and Culture; Prishtina, Kosovo, August 2008
  • Completion of Intermediate Albanian I and Advanced Mastery Albanian at the Critical Languages Institute of Arizona State University, summer 2008
  • Certificate of completion: 39th International Seminar for Macedonian Language, Literature, and Culture; Ohrid, Macedonia, August 2006
  • Certificate of completion: Medieval Slavic Summer Institute; The Ohio State University, June – July 2006 (courses in Slavic paleography and readings in Church Slavonic texts)
  • Certificate: Azbukum program in Serbian language, level 4 of 4; Belgrade, Serbia, July – August 2005.

Awards

  • May 2010: Student support grant to attend the 2010 Balisage conference in Montreal
  • April 2010: ACLS travel grant to attend the 2010 annual meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea in Vilnius, Lithuania
  • May 2008: FLAS award for summer study of Albanian
  • September 2006: Century Fellowship, University of Chicago
  • June 2006: ACLS grant for summer study of Macedonian in Ohrid, Macedonia
  • June 2006: Induction into Phi Beta Kappa
  • June 2006: George V. Bobrinskoy award from University of Chicago Slavic Dept.
  • June 2005: Order of the October Star award for Russian language from University of Chicago Slavic Dept.
  • April 2002: College Honor Scholarship from University of Chicago
  • May 2002: National Merit Scholar award
  • April 2001: Winner of NY State Olympiada of Spoken Russian

Teaching

  • Summer 2010: Intermediate Albanian at the Critical Languages Institute, Arizona State University
  • 2009-2010: First Year Russian (RUSS 10100-10200-10300)
  • Spring 2009: South Slavic II (co-taught with Yaroslav Gorbachov) (SOSL 33200)
  • Winter 2009: South Slavic I (co-taught with Prof. Lenore Grenoble) (SOSL 33100)
  • 2006-2009: Fourth Year Russian through Contemporary Short Stories (RUSS 21002-21102-21202)
  • 2009-2010: TA for Second Year Russian (RUSS 20100-20200-20300)
  • 2008-2009: TA for first-, second-, and third-year BCS (Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian) (BCSN 10100-10200-10300, BCSN 20100-20200-20300, BCSN 30100-30200-30300)
  • 2007-2008: TA for Fourth Year Russian through Contemporary Short Stories (RUSS 21002-21102-21202)
  • Fall 2007: Second year Russian I (RUSS 20100)

Languages

  • Russian: superior
  • Serbian: superior
  • Albanian: high
  • Macedonian: intermediate-high
  • Turkish: intermediate
  • Bulgarian: intermediate
  • French: intermediate
  • Hindi: intermediate-low
  • Georgian: basic
  • Reading knowledge of: German, Old Church Slavonic, Old Russian / Rusian, Italian

Relevant work experience

  • Spring 2006 –2008: Data compilation for project “Aspectual Pairs of BCS verbs”
  • Spring 2006: Assistant Editor of Leptir Mašna
  • May 2005 – present: Research assistant with Nada Petkovic (lecturer in Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian) (general editing, preparation of glossaries, etc.)
  • Winter 2005 – August 2005: Research assistant, Slavic department (Searchable Database of Medieval Slavic Documents, Prof. Daniela Hristova)

Service

  • Spring 2009: Student coordinator for Workshop on Language Variation and Change, University of Chicago
  • Student council representative, Balkan Express

Publications

  • Forthcoming. “When is Orthography Not Just Orthography? The Case of the Novgorod Birchbark Letters”. Proceedings of the 36th Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society. [pdf]
  • Forthcoming. “Diachronic and Areal Aspects of Macedonian Hiatus Resolution”. Proceedings of the 7th Macedonian-North American Conference on Macedonian Studies. [pdf]

Selected talks

  • “Orthography and the Jer Shift in the Birchbark Letters.” April 2010: Medieval Slavic Workshop, University of Chicago. [handout]
  • “An XML-based approach to dialectological data: The development of syllabic liquids in Bulgarian.” April 2010: 17th Balkan and South Slavic Conference. Co-authored with Quinn Dombrowski. [slides-pdf] [slides-ppt]
  • “An Albanian Look at the Jers.” April 2010: 17th Balkan and South Slavic Conference. [handout]
  • “When is Orthography Not Just Orthography? The Case of the Novgorod Birchbark Letters.” February 2010: Berkeley Linguistics Society. [handout]
  • “Vowel Harmony Loss in West Rumelian Turkish.” January 2010: Linguistic Society of America Annual Conference, Baltimore. [slides] [extended abstract]
  • “Vowel Harmony Loss in West Rumelian Turkish.” December 2009: Workshop on Language Variation and Change, University of Chicago.
  • November 2009: AAASS 2009, Boston. Participant in Roundtable “Macedonian Language Contact – From Linguistic League to Diaspora.”
  • “On Vowel Contraction in Macedonian.” November 2009: 7th Macedonian-North American Conference on Macedonian Studies.
  • “Albanian-Slavic Contact and the Modeling of Phonological Borrowing.” May 2009: Slavic Forum 2009, University of Chicago.
  • “Vowel-Zero Alternations in Albanian and Morphophonological Contact.” February 2009: Albanian Linguistics Workshop, University of Chicago.
  • “Albanian-Slavic Contact: Phonetic and Phonological Variation.” November 2008: AAASS 2008, Philadelphia.
  • “On the development of syllabic liquids in East South Slavic.” April 2008: Slavic Forum 2008, University of Chicago.
  • “A New Balticism in Old Novgorod?” October 2007: Slavic Cognitive Linguistics Association Conference.
  • “Ancient Dialect Continua and the North Russian Dialect.” September 2007: 5th Graduate Colloquium of Slavic Linguistics, The Ohio State University.
  • “Early East Slavic Dialect Differentiation: Perspectives and Chronology.” October 2006: 4th Graduate Colloquium of Slavic Linguistics, The Ohio State University.
  • “Cokan’e and the Velar Palatalizations in the Old Novgorod Dialect.” September 2006: Slavic Linguistics Society.
  • “On the development of *tъrt groups in Bulgarian.” March 2006: Midwest Slavic Conference, The Ohio State University.
  • “Active participles in Stefanit i Ixnilat: The evolution of participial forms in a Middle Bulgarian Manuscript.” April 2005: Southeast European Studies Association (SEESA) conference, The Ohio State University.