Curriculum Vitae

August 2002

Danko Šipka

 


General Information

 

Birth date and place

July 9,1962, Banjaluka, Yugoslavia

(at present Republic of Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina)

Citizenship and Legal Status

Bosnia and Herzegovina and FR of Yugoslavia, permanent residence (“green card”) in the USA, permanent residence in Poland

marital status

married, two children

E-mail

Danko.Sipka@asu.edu

Web

http://www.public.asu.edu/~dsipka

 

 


Chronology of Education

 

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/

 

 

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/

 

 

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/)

 

 

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/)

 

 

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/

 

 

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/)

 

 

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/)

 


Additional Education

 

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

 


Grants and Awards

 

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

 


Employment

 

August 2002-

Associate Professor Research and Associate Director of the Critical Languages Institute, Arizona State University, Tempe, USA

 

 

February 2002 – April 2002

Consultant to the Microsoft Corporation, Seattle, USA

 

 

June 2000 – July 2002

Visiting professor at the Critical Languages Institute, Arizona State University, USA (summer semesters only)

 

 

June 2000

Interpreter at the Russian and East European Studies Consortium, Arizona State University, USA

 

 

June 1999 – July 2002

Senior Linguist at McNeil Technologies, Springfield, VA, USA

 

 

August 1998 -

Associate Professor at the Adam Mickiewicz University Slavic Department, Poznan, Poland

 

 

January 1999 - January 2000

Consultant to the Translation Experts Ltd, London, UK

 

 

July 1998 - June 1999

Consultant to the Multilingual Research and Management, Kensington, MD, USA

 

 

July 1996 -July 1998

Visiting Professor at the Adam Mickiewicz University Slavic Department, Poznan, Poland

 

 

December 1997 – June 1998

Consultant to the New Mexico State University Computing Research Laboratory, Las Cruces, NM, USA

 

 

October 1993 - October 1997

Graduate Fellow at the School of Social Sciences of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland

 

 

October 1995 - February 1996

Visiting Scholar at the Wroc³aw University Slavic Department, Wroc³aw, Poland

 

 

October 1993-December 1998

Linguistic Research Director, Translation Experts Ltd, London, UK

 

 

September 1993 - August 1994

Interpreter, Breslaff Centre, London, UK

 

 

August 1994 - June 1996

Visiting Scholar at the Adam Mickiewicz University Slavic Department, Poznan, Poland

 

 

October 1992 - September 1993

Visiting Scholar at the Warsaw University Slavic Department, Warsaw, Poland

 

 

October 1990 - September 1992

Humboldt Visiting Scholar at the University of Duesseldorf and University of Munich, Germany

 

 

January - September 1990

Assistant Professor at the South-Slavic Department of the University of Sarajevo, Sarajevo, Yugoslavia

 

 

September 1987 - June 1988

Fulbright Visiting Scholar at the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, USA