Curt Woolhiser

Ph.D., Indiana University, 1995
Preceptor in Russian, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures
Faculty Associate, Davis Center

Contact Information
cwoolhis@fas.harvard.edu
http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~slavic/newsite/people/curtwoolhiser.htm

Research Interests
Russian language instruction, Slavic linguistics, sociolinguistic approaches to the study of language variation and change, language/dialect contact, language attitudes and language ideology, language planning and language conflict in the former USSR, sociolinguistics and foreign language pedagogy.

Current Projects
The Russian Language in Social Context: Issues in Russian Sociolinguistics; "Structural and Socio-Pragmatic Aspects of Belarusian-Polish and Belarusian-Russian Codeswitching"; "Dialect Maintenance, Dialect Change and Dialect Death in the Contemporary Polish-Belarusian Border Region"; "Linguonyms, Language Ideologies and Linguistic Boundaries in Southwestern East Slavic."

Selected Publications
Cognates in Contact: The Dialects of the Polish-Belarusian Borderlands and the Typology of Contact-Induced Innovation (in press).

"Political Borders and Dialect Convergence/Divergence in Europe" (in press).

"Metalinguistic Discourse, Ideology and 'Language Construction' in the BSSR, 1920-1939" (in press).

"Constructing National Identities in the Polish-Belarusian Borderlands" (2003).

"Language Ideology and Language Conflict in Post-Soviet Belarus" (2001).