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
Autumn 2022
Spring 2022
Winter 2022
Autumn 2021
Spring 2021
Winter 2021
Affiliations
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