Former Fellows

Grace E. Fielder is Professor Emerita in the Department of Russian and Slavic Studies at the University of Arizona. She holds a PhD in Slavic Linguistics from the University of California at Los Angeles and her research interests are in the historical and contemporary sociolinguistics of the Balkan languages. Recent publications include “The Semiotics of Ideology: the Bulgarian Definite Article Rule” (2019), “Takin’ it to the Streets: Language Ideology in post-1989 Bulgaria” (2019), “A Constellation of Greek Adversative Connectives?” (2019), and “Bible Translation and Language Recognition on Balkan Slavic Territory” (2018). Grace was also part of the team that translated Aleko Konstantinov’s Bai Ganyo: Incredible Tales of a Modern Bulgarian (2010) into English. She serves on the National Policy Advisory Committee for the Slavic and Eurasian Language Resource Center at Duke University and has held research grants from IREX, ACLS and the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences.