Laada Bilaniuk

Professor

Ph.D., Anthropology, University of Michigan, 1998

B.A., Anthropology; Art, Yale University, 1990

bilaniuk@uw.edu

Denny Hall, M244

Fields of Interest

Ukraine

Background and Experience

Summary

Linguistic anthropology, language ideology, language politics, nationalism, popular culture, gender; Ukraine, post-Soviet states

Affiliated Departments:

Research

Publications, Essays, Articles, and Book Chapters

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.
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.

Publications, Books

Bilaniuk, Laada. 2005. Contested Tongues: Language Politics and Cultural Correction in Ukraine. Cornell University Press.

Research Advised: Graduate Dissertations

Courses Taught

Autumn 2020

ANTH 203 A: Introduction to Anthropological Linguistics

Spring 2020

ANTH 479 B: Advanced Topics in Medical Anthropology

Winter 2020

ANTH 464 A: Language Politics and Cultural Identity

Autumn 2019

ANTH 203 A: Introduction to Anthropological Linguistics

Spring 2019

Winter 2019

Autumn 2018

ANTH 360 A: Anthropology of Popular Culture

Spring 2017

ANTH 360 A: Anthropology Of Popular Culture - Course Website

Winter 2017

Spring 2016

ANTH 464 A: Language Politics And Cultural Identity

Winter 2016

Autumn 2015

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