Professor
Sociocultural Anthropology
Biography
Ph.D., Anthropology, University of Michigan, 1998
B.A., Anthropology; Art, Yale University, 1990
Linguistic anthropology, language ideology, language politics, nationalism, popular culture, gender; Ukraine, post-Soviet states
Research
Selected Research
- Bilaniuk, Laada. 2023. Memes as antibodies: Creativity and resilience in the face of Russia’s war. In Dispossession: Anthropological Perspectives on Russia’s War Against Ukraine, ed. by Catherine Wanner. Pp. 143-166. New York: Routledge. Download PDF
- Bilaniuk, Laada. 2022. The trajectory of language laws in Ukraine: inclusions and omissions in naming and categorization since 1989. Acta Slavica Iaponica 43: 49-71.
- Bilaniuk, Laada. 2020. Linguistic conversions: Nation-building on the self. Journal of Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Societies 6(1): 59-82. Download PDF
- Bilaniuk, Laada. 2017. Purism and pluralism: Language use trends in popular culture in Ukraine since independence. The Battle for Ukrainian: A Comparative Perspective, edited by Michael Flier and Andrea Graziosi. Pp. 343-363. Harvard University Press. Download PDF
- Bilaniuk, Laada. 2016. Ideologies of Language in Wartime. In Revolution and War in Contemporary Ukraine: The Challenge of Change, edited by Olga Bertelsen. Pp. 139-160. Stuttgart: Ibidem Verlag.
- Bilaniuk, Laada. 2016 Race, media, and postcoloniality: Ukraine between nationalism and cosmopolitanism. City & Society 28(3): 341-364. DOI:10.1111/ciso.12096
- Bilaniuk, Laada. 2014. Conflicting epistemologies in the study of mixed languages. In Trasjanka und Suržyk - gemischte weißrussisch-russische und ukrainisch-russische Rede. [Trasjanka and Suržyk – Mixed Belorussian-Russian and Ukrainian-Russian Speech], Gerd Hentschel, Oleksandr Taranenko, and Sjarhej Zaprudski. (eds.). Pp. 27-30. New York: Peter Lang.
- Bilaniuk, Laada. 2010. Language in the balance: The politics of non-accommodation in bilingual Ukrainian-Russian television shows. International Journal of the Sociology of Language 201:105-133.
- Bilaniuk, Laada. 2005. Contested Tongues: Language Politics and Cultural Correction in Ukraine. Cornell University Press.
Research Advised
- Brame, Roxanne R. The traditional Hammam Bathhouse from Morocco to France : the body, purity, and perception. Diss. U of Washington. 2018.
- Jian, Ge. The Impact of Global English in Xinjiang, China: Linguistic Capital and Identity Negotiation among the Ethnic Minority and Han Students. Diss. U of Washington, 2016.
- Derek Greenfield. White Face, Black Space: My Journey as a Chief Diversity Officer at an HBCU. Diss. U of Washington, Independent PhD program, 2015.
- Carroll, Jennifer J. Choosing Methadone: Managing Addiction and the Body Politic in Ukraine. Diss. U of Washington, 2015.
- Rhodes, Lauren Monsein. Being Latvian Discourse and Identity among Individuals of Black African Descent. Diss. U of Washington, 2012.
- Clark, Heather D. We Are the Same but Different: Navigating African American and Deaf Cultural Identities. Diss. U of Washington, 2010.
- Markova, Mariana Ivanova. Living through the Fall of Communism: Life Narratives of the Last Soviet Generation. Diss. U of Washington, 2010
Courses Taught
Spring 2025
Winter 2025
Autumn 2024
Spring 2024
Winter 2024
Autumn 2023
Spring 2023
Winter 2023
Affiliations
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