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July 9,1962,
Banjaluka, Yugoslavia (at present
Republic of Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina) |
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Citizenship and
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Bosnia and
Herzegovina and FR of Yugoslavia, permanent residence (“green card”) in the
USA, permanent residence in Poland |
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marital status |
married, two
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1999 |
Habilitation (habilitacja) in Slavic Studies, Adam Mickiewicz
University /Habilitation is not graded in Poland, the decision of the
Scholarly Council was unanimous, the decision was approved unanimously by Central Qualifying
Committe on February 17, 2000/ |
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1998 |
Ph.D in Psychology, Institute of Psychology of the Polish Academy of
Sciences, Dissertation: “The Concepts of Democracy and National Interest,
Attitudes toward Those Values and Interpretation of Political Events (Using
the Example of the War in the Former Yugoslavia)” /Ph.D thesis is not graded
in Poland, the decision of the Scholarly council was unanimous/ |
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1998 |
M.A in Russian Philology at the Adam Mickiewicz University Russian
Department, Thesis: “Generating Slavic Inflections in Minimal Information
Grammar” (GPA 4.9 /scale 1-5, with 6 given only exceptionally/) |
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1997 |
Diploma, Graduate School for Social Research, four-year graduate
program in Sociology, Psychology, Philosophy (GPA 5.2 /scale 1-5, with 6
given only exceptionally/) |
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1989 |
Ph.D. in Linguistics, University of Belgrade,
Yugoslavia, Dissertation: "Lexical Homonymy in Standard Contemporary
Serbo‑Croatian” /Ph.D thesis is not graded in
Yugoslavia/ |
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1987 |
M.A. in Philology, University of Belgrade,
Yugoslavia Major: Linguistics,Thesis topic: "Terminological Lexicon of
the Car‑mechanic Profession in Serbo‑Croatian", (GPA 9.5
/scale 5-10/) |
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1985 |
B.A. in South Slavic Languages and Yugoslav
Literatures, University of Sarajevo, Yugoslavia, Graduate Paper: "The
Mechanisms of Semantic Generalization and Formal Condensation, Using the
Example of the Proverbs from V.P. Karadzic's Collection" (GPA 9.8 /scale 5-10/) |
International Summer School in Political
Science International Relations, Stawiska, Olsztynek, Krynica Górska (Poland),
10 courses, each is an equivalent of one-semester course at American
universities, summer of 1994,1995,1996,1997,1998
Six-month research in the teaching
of Polish as a foreign language and Polish emigre studies at the Polonian
institute of the Jagiellonian University, Cracow, Poland, 1994
Summer School in Human Rights, Miedzeszyn, Poland,
September 1994
Graduate Colloquium and one
lexicologic course given by Prof. Leonhard Lipka at the University of Munich,
Germany, 1991-1992
One course of applied
linguistics given by Prof. Dieter Wunderlich at the University of Düsseldorf,
Germany, 1991
Two courses of computational
linguistics given by Prof. C.C. Cheng at the University of Illinois at Urbana‑Champaign,
1987-1988
Summer School of Slovenian
Language, Literature, and Culture, University of Ljubljana, summer of 1986
Various foreign language courses (English, German,
French, Polish) at different institutions
Won a Fellowship from the Stefan
Batory Foundation for research at the Polonian Institute of the Jagielonian Institute in Cracow, Poland, in
the Summer semester 1994
Won a Fellowship from the Polish
Academy of Sciences for Graduate Study at the School for Social Research in the
academic year of 1993‑94, in Warsaw, Poland
Granted an Alexander von
Humboldt Foundation Post‑Doctoral
Research Fellowship in the academic year of 1990‑91 and 1991‑92 at
the University of Düsseldorf and the University of Munich, Germany
Awarded a Fulbright grant to
teach Serbo‑Croatian and to research in the fields of lexicology and
lexicography in the academic year of 1987‑88, at the University of
Illinois at Champaign‑Urbana, and the University of Pittsburgh
Awarded a Grant from the Faculty
of Philosophy in Ljubljana to participate in the Seminar of Slovenian Language,
Literature and Culture at the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, summer of 1986
Won a Silver University Award
for excellent scholarly performance in each academic year, University of
Sarajevo, Bosnia and Hercegovina, academic years of 1981-82, 1982-83, 1983-84,
1984-85
Won a Golden University Award
for excellent scholarly preformance at the end of my undergraduate program,
University of Sarajevo, Bosnia and Hercegovina, fall of 1985
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August 2002- |
Associate Professor Research and
Associate Director of the Critical Languages Institute, Arizona State
University, Tempe, USA |
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February 2002 – April 2002 |
Consultant to the Microsoft
Corporation, Seattle, USA |
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June 2000 – July 2002 |
Visiting professor at the Critical Languages Institute, Arizona State
University, USA (summer semesters only) |
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June 2000 |
Interpreter at the Russian and East European Studies Consortium,
Arizona State University, USA |
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June 1999 – July 2002 |
Senior Linguist at McNeil Technologies, Springfield, VA, USA |
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August 1998 - |
Associate Professor at the Adam Mickiewicz University Slavic
Department, Poznan, Poland |
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January 1999 - January 2000 |
Consultant to the Translation Experts Ltd, London, UK |
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July 1998 - June 1999 |
Consultant to the Multilingual Research and Management, Kensington,
MD, USA |
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July 1996 -July 1998 |
Visiting Professor at the Adam Mickiewicz University Slavic
Department, Poznan, Poland |
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December 1997 – June 1998 |
Consultant to the New Mexico State University Computing Research
Laboratory, Las Cruces, NM, USA |
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October 1993 - October 1997 |
Graduate Fellow at the School of Social Sciences of the Polish Academy
of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland |
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October 1995 - February 1996 |
Visiting Scholar at the Wroc³aw University Slavic Department, Wroc³aw,
Poland |
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October 1993-December 1998 |
Linguistic Research Director, Translation Experts Ltd, London, UK |
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September 1993 - August 1994 |
Interpreter, Breslaff Centre, London, UK |
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August 1994 - June 1996 |
Visiting Scholar at the Adam Mickiewicz University Slavic Department,
Poznan, Poland |
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October 1992 - September 1993 |
Visiting Scholar at the Warsaw University Slavic Department, Warsaw,
Poland |
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October 1990 - September 1992 |
Humboldt Visiting Scholar at the University of Duesseldorf and
University of Munich, Germany |
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January - September 1990 |
Assistant Professor at the South-Slavic Department of the University
of Sarajevo, Sarajevo, Yugoslavia |
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September 1987 - June 1988 |
Fulbright Visiting Scholar at the University of Illinois,
Champaign-Urbana, USA |