Ilya S. Yakubovich

The Oriental Institute

The University of Chicago

1155 East 58th Street Chicago IL 60637

sogdiana@uchicago.edu /  +1 (773) 924 2076

 

 

  EDUCATION

 

2nd Ph.D. Oriental Languages. Russian State University for the Humanities, October 2009

Ph.D. (with honors). Linguistics and Near Eastern Studies. University of Chicago, June 2008.

M.A. Near Eastern Studies. University of California in Berkeley, May 1999.

B.A. (with excellence). Linguistics. Russian State University for the Humanities, May 1996.

 

 

  PRINCIPAL RESEARCH AREAS

 

Language Contact in Ancient Societies.

Socio-Historical and Indo-European Linguistics.

Anatolian and Iranian Philology.

 

 

 

PUBLICATIONS

 

Book 

 

Sociolinguistics of the Luvian Language. Leiden: Brill, 2009. Circa 450 pp.

 

Luvian is an Indo-European language that was spoken in Asia Minor (modern Turkey) in the second and early first millennium BC and is attested in the cuneiform and hieroglyphic transmission. The descriptive component of my research is the corpus-based study of structural interference, lexical borrowings, code-switching, and code alternation involving Luvian and its geographic neighbors, such as Hittite, Akkadian, Hurrian, and Greek. I classify these data according to the existing typologies of language contact in order to reconstruct the sociolinguistic situation in Ancient Anatolia.

 

 

 Journal Articles

 

  1. “The Luvian Enemy”. Kadmos 47/1-2 (2009): 1-19.
  2. “Hittite-Luvian Bilingualism and the Origin of Anatolian Hieroglyphs”. Acta Linguistica Petropolitana 4/1 (2008): 9-36.
  3. “Free-standing genitive and hypostasis in Hittite”. Journal of Near Eastern Studies 65/1 (2006): 39-49.
  4. “Were Hittite kings divinely anointed?” Journal of Ancient Near Eastern Religions 5 (2005): 107-37.
  5.  “The Syntactic Evolution of Aramaic ZY in Sogdian”. Studia Iranica, 34/2 (2005): 199-230.
  6. “Lydian Etymological Notes”. Historische Sprachforchung, 118/1-2 (2005): 75-91.
  7. “Mugh 1.I. Revisited”. Studia Iranica 31/2 (2002): 231-53.
  8. “Nugae Sogdicae”. Bulletin of the School of the Oriental and African Studies, 65/3 (2002): 543-9.

 

Chapters in Honorary, Memorial, and Ad HocVolumes

 

1.       “Two Armenian Etymologies”. Giorgi Melikishvili Memorial Volume (ed. I. Tatishvili et al.). Tbilisi: Logos, 2009, pp. 266-72. 

2.       (with A. Kassian) “Muršili II’s Prayer to Telibinu”. Tabularia Hethaeorum: hethitologische Beiträge Silvin Košak zum 65th Geburtstag (ed. D. Groddek and M. Zorman). Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2007, pp. 423-54.

3.        (with Y. Yoshida)  “The Sogdian fragments of  Sam­ghāta Sūtra in the German Turfan Collection”. Languages of Iran: Past & Present. A Volume of Iranian Studies in memoriam David Neil MacKenzie (ed. D. Weber). Wiesbaden: Harassowitz, 2005, pp. 239-268.

4.       “Carian monument”.  Hr²dā manasā. Sborinik statej k semidesiatiletiju s dnia rozhdenija Leonarda Georgijevicha Gercenberga (ed. N. Kazanskij). Saint-Petersburg: Nauka. 2005, pp 240-251.

5.        (with A. Kassian) “DUTU-AŠ in Hittite Texts”. Šarnikzel. Hethitologische Studien gewidmet an Emil Orgetorix Forrer (ed. D. Groddek and S. Rössle). Dresden: Technische Universität Dresden, 2004, pp. 395-407.

6.       (with A. Kassian). “The reflexes of IE initial clusters in Hittite”. Anatolian Languages (ed. V. Shevoroshkin and P. Sidwell). AHL Studies in the Science and History of Language 6. Canberra: Association for the History of Language, 2002, pp. 10-49.

7.       “Nugae Luvicae”. Anatolian Languages (ed. V. Shevoroshkin and P. Sidwell). AHL Studies in the Science and History of Language 6. Canberra: Association for the History of Language, 2002, pp. 189-209.

8.       “Labyrinth for tyrants”. Studia Linguarum 3(1) (GS. A. A. Korolev). Moscow: Languages of Slavonic Culture, 2002, pp 93-116.

9.       “The Distribution of -st- and -št- in Classical Persian”. Studia Linguarum 1 (Fs. A Zalizniak). Moscow: RGGU, 1997, pp. 21-36.

10.   (with E. Rieken) “The New Values of  Luwian Signs L 319 and L 172”. To appear in a forthcoming Festschrift.

11.   (with M. Valério) “Semitic Word for Iron as Anatolian Loanword”. To appear in a forthcoming Festschrift.

12.   “West Semitic god El in Anatolian hieroglyphic Transmission”. To appear in a forthcoming Festschrift.   

13.   “From Lower Land to Cappadocia”. To appear in a forthcoming Festschrift.

 

Chapters in Conference Proceedings

 

1.      “Anaptyxis in Hitt. *spand- ‘to libate’: One More Case of Luvian Influence on New Hittite”. Indojevropejskoje jazykoznanije i klassicheskaja filologija XIII. Chtenija pamiati I. M. Tronskogo (ed. N.A. Bondarko and N.N. Kazanskij). St. Petersburg: Nauka, 2009, pp. 545-57.

2.      “Luwian Migrations in Light of Linguistic Contacts”. Anatolian Interfaces: Hittites, Greeks, and their neighbors (ed. B. J. Collins et al.). Oxford: Oxbow Books, 2008, pp. 123-34.

3.      “The Origin of Luvian Possessive Adjectives”. Proceedings of the Nineteenth Annual UCLA IE conference (ed. K. Jones-Bley et al.). Washington, DC: Institute for the Study of Man, 2008, pp. 193-217.  

4.      “Head-noun Ellipsis in Hittite and Elsewhere: A Study in Recoverability Conditions”. CLS 40-2: The Panels / Papers from the panels of the fortieth annual meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society (ed. N. Adams et al.). Chicago Linguistic Society 2008, pp. 37-53.   

5.      “Prehistoric Contacts between Hittite and Luwian: the Case of Reflexive Pronouns”.  Proceedings of the Seventeenth Annual UCLA IE conference, Los-Angeles, October 27-28, 2005 (ed. K. Jones-Bley et al.). Washington, DC: Institute for the Study of Man, 2006, pp. 77-106. 

6.      “Marriage Sogdian Style”. Iranistik in Europa - gestern, heute, morgen (ed. H. Eichner  et al.). Vienna: Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften. 2006, pp. 307-44.  

7.      “Nugae Sogdicae II”. Turfan Revisited – The First Century of Research into the Arts and Cultures of the Silk Road (ed. D. Durkin-Meisterernst et al.).  Berlin: D. Reimer. 2004,  pp. 420-4

8.      “The reflexes of Indo-European *#CR- clusters in Hittite” (with A. Kassian). Proceedings of the Twelfth Annual UCLA IE conference, Los Angeles, May 26-28, 2000 (ed. M. Huld et al.).  Washington, DC: Institute for the study of Man, 2001, pp. 29-49.

9.      “Laryngeals from velars in Hittite: a Triple-Headed argument”. Proceedings of the Eleventh Annual UCLA IE conference, Los-Angeles, June 4-5, 1999 (ed. K. Jones-Bley et al.). Washington, DC: Institute for the study of Man, 2000, pp. 135-50.

10.  ‘“Stative” suffix /-āi-a-/ in the Verbal System of Indo-Iranian”. Proceedings of the Tenth Annual UCLA IE Conference, Los Angeles, May 21-23, 1998 (ed. K. Jones-Bley et al.)..Washington, DC, Institute for the study of Man, 1999, pp. 65-75.

11.  “Reflection of the Long Diphthong /āi/ in the Sanskrit Verb”. Proceedings of the International Conference in South Asian Languages (Moscow, July 1-4, 1997). Moscow: Institute of Asian and African Countries, 1998, pp 212-20.

12.  “Information Structure and Word Order in the Aramaic of the Book of Daniel”. Literary-Linguistic Approaches to Narrative: the Ancient Near East (including Egypt), and Neighbouring Regions (ed. F. Hagen et al). Louvain-la-neuve: Peeters. Forthcoming.

   

Reviews         

 

1.      The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the World’s Ancient Languages Ed. R. Woodard. JNES 68/1 (2009): 41-43

2.      Phonétique et morphologie de la langue lydienne. By Raphaël Gérard. JNES 68/1 (2009): 43-45.

3.      Indojevropejskoje jazykoznanije i tipologija jazykovykh situacij: sbornik statej k 75-letiju professora A.L Griunberga (1930-1995). Ed. M.N. Bogoliubov. Indo-European Studies Bulletin 13/1 (2008): 51-53.

4.      Margins of Writing, Origins of Cultures Ed. S. Sanders. JIES 36/1-2 (2008): 202-11.

5.      Akkadian Language in its Semitic Context. Ed. G. Deutscher and N.J.C. Kouwenberg. Bibliotheca Orientalis  2008/1-2: 149-54.

6.      Lenguas en Contacto: El testimonio escrito. Ed. P. Bádenas de la Peña et al. JAOS 127/2 (2007): 217-18.

7.      The Luwians. Ed. C. Melchert. JNES 66/2 (2007): 140-44.

8.      Studies in Zoroastrian Family Law: a Comparative Analysis By Bodil Hjerrild.  JNES 65/3 (2006): 214-16.

9.      Legends, Tales, and Fables in the Art of Sogdiana. By Boris Marshak. JNES 65/3 (2006): 223-25.

10.  Studies in Iranian Linguistics and Philology. By Wojciech Skałmowski. Iranian Studies 39/2 (2006): 190-94.

11.  Histoire des marchands sogdiens. By Etienne de la Vaissie`re. JNES 65/2 (2006): 122-24.

12.  Studies in the Origin, Development and Interpretation of the Kizzuwatna Rituals. By Jared Miller. JIES 33/3-4 (2005): 422-33.

13.  The Avestan Vowels. By Michiel de Vaan. JIES 32/3-4, 2004: 387-95. 

14.  Indo-Iranian Languages and Peoples. Ed. Nicholas Sims-Williams. JIES 31/3-4 (2003): 475-82.

15.  Etimologicheskij slovar’ iranskikh jazykov (Iranian Etymological Dictionary), v. 1. By Vera S. Rastorgujeva & Dzhoj I. Edelman, Indo-European Studies Bulletin 10/1 (2002): 30-1.

16.  Introduccio'n al avestico. By Javier Martínez & Michiel de Vaan. JIES 29/3-4 (2001): 485-90.

17.  Etimologicheskij slovar’ vakhanskogo jazyka. By Ivan M. Steblin-Kamenskij. JIES 29/3-4 (2001): 481-5.

18.  Bactrian Documents from Northern Afghanistan. I: Legal and Economic Documents. By Nicholas Sims Williams. JIES 29/3-4 (2001): 476-81.

19.  (Review article) “The Child of the Century. (Discussing the Ossetic Etymological Dictionary of V.I. Abaev and its author)”. Journal of the Association of Graduates in Near Eastern Studies 8/1 (1998): 5-11.

20.  (with D. Campbell). Die hethitischen Tontafelkataloge aus Hattuša (CTH 276-282). By Paola Dardano. JNES, forthcoming.

21.  The Kingdom of the Hittites: New Edition. By Trevor Bryce. JNES, forthcoming.

22.  Sprachen des Alten Orients. Ed. M. Streck. JNES, forthcoming.

23.  The Carian Language. By I. Adiego. JNES, forthcoming.

24.  Glossar des Lykischen. By G. Neumann. JNES, forthcoming.

25.  Einführung in die hurritische Sprache. 2.,überarbeitete Auflage. By I. Wegner. JNES, forthcoming.

26.  Le Hōm Stōm et la zone des déclarations (Y7.24-Y15.4, avec les intercalations de Vr3 à 6). By Jean Kellens. JNES, Forthcoming.

27.  Iranica in the Achaemenid Period (ca. 550-330 B.C.): Lexicon of Old Iranian Proper Names and Loanwords, Attested in Non-Iranian Texts. By Jan Tavernier. JNES, Forthcoming.

28.  L’alignement syntaxique dans les langues indo-européenes d’Anatolie. By Slylvain Patri. JNES, Forthcoming.

29.  Völker und Sprachen Altanatoliens. By Maciej Popko. JNES, Forthcoming.

30.  The Disappearance of Writing Systems: Perspectives on Literacy and Communication. Ed. John Baines et al. JAOS, Forthcoming.

31.  A grammar of the Hittite Language. By Harry A. Hoffner and H. Craig Melchert. Bibliotheca Orientalis, Forthcoming.

 

Encyclopedia Articles 

 

1.      “V. I. Abaev”. Encyclopedia Iranica. forthcoming.  http://iranica.com/newsite/articles/unicode/supp4/Abaev.html

2.      “N. J. Marr”. Encyclopedia Iranica. forthcoming. http://www.encyclopediairanica.com/newsite/articles/unicode/ot_grp8/ot_marr_20050722.html 

3.      ‘Middle Iranian Marriage Contracts’.  Encyclopedia Iranica. forthcoming. www.iranica.com/newsite/articles/ot_grp7/ot_marriage_bact_20050113.html   

 

Varia  

 

1.      “T. Zhdanova” (obituary). Jazyki Mira: Tipologija. Uralistika. Pamiati T. Zhdanovoj. Ed. V. Plungian and A. Urmanchijeva. Moscow: Indrik, 2002. pp. 669-73.

2.      (with A. Kassian and V. Shevoroshkin) “A.A. Korolev” (obituary). Studia Linguarum 3(1) (GS. A. A. Korolev). Moscow: Languages of Slavonic Culture, 2002, pp. 5-10.

3.      Communication about the conference “Long Range Linguistic Comparison: Prospects on the Eve of the Third Millenium (Moscow: May 28 – June 2, 2000)”. Indo-European Studies Bulletin 10(1), 2002, pp. 30-1.

4.      “Proiskhozhdenije *-je-/-ā- glagovov v praslavianskom”. Problemy izuchenija dal’nego rodstva jazykov na rubezhe tretjego tysiacheletija. Doklady i tezisy mezhdunarodnoj konferencii (Moskva, 29 maja- 2 ijunia 2000). Moscow: RSUH, 2000, pp. 178-9.

5.      “Mezhdu ‘B’ i ‘G’. K voprosu ob istoriko-foneticheskikh korreliatakh processa kontaminacii”. Pervaja vserossijskaja konferencija po problemam sravnitel’no-istoricheskoj indoevropeistiki. Tezisy dokladov. Moscow: Dialog-MGU, 1997, p. 41.

 

 

 

 

 

           PRESENTATIONS (since 2000)

 

1.      “Iranian mā ‘to become, to be’ and its Indo-European Cognates”. 21th Annual UCLA Indo-European Conference. Los Angeles, October 2009.

2.      “From Lower Land to Cappadocia”. Urartu and its Neighbours. Erevan, September 2009.

3.       “Anaptyxis in Hitt. *spand- ‘to libate’: One More Case of Luvian Influence on New Hittite”. Chtenija, posviashchennyje pamiati Iosifa Moisejevicha Tronskogo. St. Petersburg, June 2009.

4.      “Phonetic Interpretation of Hurrian Sibilants in the Light of Indo-European Evidence”. The Sound of Indo-European: Phonetics, Phonemics, and Morphophonemics. Copenhagen, April 2009.  

5.      “Linguistic Convergence between Bactrian and Sogdian”. 16th Annual Central Eurasian Studies Conference. Bloomington, IN, February 2009.  

6.      “West Semitic god El in Anatolian hieroglyphic transmission”. American Oriental Society, 2009 Midwestern Regional Meeting. Bourbonnais, IL, February 2009.   

7.      “Luvians and Greeks: Linguistic Diversity in Pre-Classical Anatolia”. UC Berkeley (Linguistics) and UCLA (Indo-European Studies). January 2009.

8.      (with M. Valério) “The Spread of the Word for “Iron” in the Ancient Eastern Mediterranean”. Intercultural Contacts in the Eastern Mediterranean. Cairo, October 2008. 

9.      “Who invented the Anatolian Hieroglyphic Script?” VII International Congress of Hittitology. Çorum, Turkey, August 2008.

10.  “Corpus Approach to the Decipherment of Ancient Scripts”. Conference in Corpus Methods in Linguistics and Language Pedagogy, Chicago, March 2008.

11.  “The Deeds of Anitta and the Legend of Sargon”. American Oriental Society, 218th Annual Meeting. Chicago, March 2008.

12.  “The Origin of Luvian Possessive Adjectives”. 19th Annual UCLA Indo-European Conference. Los Angeles, November 2007.   

13.  “Pragmatics of Code-Switching in the Hittite Empire”. Working Session of the Indogermanische Gesellschaft. Marburg, September 2007.

14.  “Linguistic Contacts between Luvian and Hurrian: the Case of Possessive Constructions with Plural Possessor”. 53rd Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale. Moscow, July 2007.

15.  “The Merger of Nominative and Accusative Plural in Hattusa Luvian”. Colloque “Variations, concurrence et évolution des cas”. Paris, April 2007.

16.  “The Status of Luvian in the Hittite Empire”. Department of Greek and Latin, University of London, March 2007.

17.  “Pragmatics of the Glossenkeil in Bronze Age Syria and Anatolia”. American Oriental Society, 217th Annual Meeting. San Antonio, March 2007.

18.  “Clitic Reduplication in Neo-Hittite”. Linguistic Society of America, 2007 Annual Meeting. Anaheim, CA, January 2007.

19.  “Asymmetrical Bilingualism in the Hittite Empire”. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, October 2006.

20.  “Achaemenid Religion according to the Administative Documents from Persepolis”.  Society for Scholars of Zoroastrianism – 2006.  Burr Ridge IL, June-July 2006.

21.  “Life after Death: a Linguist’s View. Grammatical Evolution without Native Transmission”. École Pratique des Hautes Études, Paris, June 2006.

22.  “Word Order and Information Structure in Aramaic of the Book of Daniel”. Framing Plots, an interdisciplinary conference. London, December 2005.

23.  “Prehistoric contacts between Hittites and Luwians”. School of Orental and African Studies, University of London, December 2005.

24.  “The Origin of Anatolian Medio-passive Extensions –si and –di”.  17th Annual UCLA Indo-European Conference. Los Angeles, November 2005.  

25.  “Were Hittite Kings Divinely Anointed?” VI International Congress of Hittitology. Rome, September 2005.

26.  “Internal Negation in Urartian”. 51st Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale. Chicago, July 2005.

27.  (with Y. Yoshida) “The Sogdian Sam­ghātasūtra”. American Oriental Society, 215th meeting. Philadelphia, April 2005.  

28.   “Two Armenian Etymologies”. 3rd Graduate Student Colloquium in Armenian Studies. Los Angeles, February 2005. 

29.  “Development of Anatolian Prefixes in Lydian”. 16th Annual UCLA Indo-European Conference. Los Angeles, November 2004.

30.  “Luwian Migrations in Light of Linguistic Contacts”. Hittites, Greeks, and their Neighbors in Ancient Anatolia. An International Conference in Cross-Cultural Interaction. Atlanta, September 2004.

31.  “The Syntactic Evolution of Aramaic ZY in Sogdian”. 37th International Congress of Asian and North African Studies. Moscow, July 2004. 

32.  “Antecedent-free head-noun ellipsis in Hittite and elsewhere”. 40th annual meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society’. April 2004.

33.   “Marriage on the Silk Road: A Comparative Analysis”. American Oriental Society, 214th meeting. San-Diego, March 2004.  

34.  “Three kinds of ZY in Sogdian”. V International Conference of Iranian Studies. Ravenna, Italy, October 2003.

35.  “Against the Absolute Genitive in Hittite”. V International Congress of Hittitology. Çorum, Turkey, September 2002.

36.  “The importance of Turfan texts for Iranian Lexicography”. Turfan Revisited (The First Century of Research into the Arts and Cultures of the Silk Road). Berlin, September 2002.

37.   “Sogdian Documents on the Arab Conquest of Sogdia”. American Oriental Society 212th meeting, Houston, March 2002.

38.  “Sogdian Marriage Contract Nov. 4 in the Light of Parallel Documents”, Iranistik in Europa: Gestern – Heute – Morgen. Graz, Austria, February 2002.

39.  (with G. Starostin) “Constraining Brugmann’s Law”. 13th Annual UCLA Indo-European Conference, Los-Angeles, November 2001. 

40.  “Nugae Sogdicae”. American Oriental Society 211th meeting, Toronto, March 2001.

41.   “Die –ā- Präterita im Slavischen und Indogermanischen”. Institut für Sprachwissenschaft der Universität der Universität Köln. Cologne, October 2000.

42.  “Sarmato-Caucasica”. Iranistik 2000: Aktuelle Trends iranistischer Forschung, Bamberg, Germany, October 2000.

43.  (with A. Kassian) “Indo-European initial clusters in Hittite”, 12th Annual UCLA Indo-European Conference, Los-Angeles, May 2000. 

                                     

 

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

 

Undergraduate and Graduate Courses.

 

“Introduction to Linguistics III (Sociolinguistics and Historical Linguistics)”. University of Chicago, Spring 2006.

“Historical Linguistics”. University of Chicago, Fall 2004 (teaching assistant), Winter 2008.

“Introduction to Indo-European Linguistics”. University of Chicago, Winter 2006, Spring 2008.

“Languages of the World”. University of Chicago, Spring 2005.

“Hieroglyphic Luwian”. University of Chicago (taught jointly with Theo van den Hout), Spring 2005. 

 “Old Persian”. University of California in Berkeley, Spring 1998; University of Chicago, Winter 2009. 

“Avestan”. Russian State University for the Humanities, Fall 2009

 “Introduction to Iranian Philology”. Russian State University for the Humanities, Fall 1995- Spring 1996.

 

 

Continuing Education Courses at the Oriental Institute.

        

“Cultures of the Silk Road”. Spring 2004, Fall 2006.  

“Troy and the Trojan War: a Story Not Told by Homer”. Fall 2005, Spring 2009.  

“Life and Legacy of Zoroaster”. Winter 2005.

“You say watar, I say water: in Search of Indo-Europeans”. Spring 2008.

“When East First Met West: Greek and Roman Exploration of the Orient”. Fall 2008.

“From the Nile to the Indus: the Ancient Persian Empire”. Winter 2009.

“Cultures of Ancient Afghanistan”. Fall 2009

 

RELATED PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

 

Participation in the Leadership Development and Education for Sustained Peace Program (lecturing American soldiers on the history of Afghanistan). 2009-

Developing and grading Russian tests for State Certified Court Interpreters (project sponsored by the Judicial Counsel, State of California). 2004-2006.   

Automatic Recognition of the Corpus of Hieroglyphic Luwian Inscriptions leading to its digitalization for the use of the Chicago Hittite Dictionary (a special grant from the Oriental Institute discretionary funds).  Summer 2003.

Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Turfanforschung project, visiting research fellow. April-December 2002.

Central Asia - Silk Road Working Group, Graduate Student Researcher. Fall 1997.

 

LANGUAGES

 

Fluency: Russian (mother tongue), English, French, German, Italian, Persian.

Advanced Reading Proficiency: Spanish, Turkish, East Armenian, Dari of Afghanistan

Also completed coursework in Latin, Homeric and Classical Greek, Vedic and Classical Sanskrit, Old Church Slavonic, Old Russian, Old Norse, Lithuanian, Avestan, Old Persian, Sogdian, Middle Persian, Parthian, Baluchi, Wakhi, Hittite, Palaic, Luwian, Lycian, Lydian, Carian, Classical Armenian, Albanian, Arabic, Akkadian, Elamite, Hurrian, Urartian.

 

LANGUAGE CERTIFICATES:

 

 Goethe Institut Dresden, German, Oberstufe. 1999.

 Corsi internazionali della lingua e cultura italiana (Università di Milano). 1998.

 Familiarizing and Advancement with the Persian Language and Culture (Tehran). 1997.

 

       FIELD WORK

 

China, Xinjiang, Tashqurghan autonomous district. Investigation of the modern Iranian languages of China (Wakhi and Saryqoli). August 1998.

Tadjikistan (Khodzhent district). Investigation of the Northern Tadjiki dialects. August 1996.

Northern Siberia. Investigation of the language of the Nganasans (Uralic family). July-August 1992.

 

 HONORARY GRANTS, FELLOWSHIPS, AND AWARDS

             

Oliver Gurney Memorial Award for the best paper in Anatolian Studies by a junior scholar (University of Liverpool). First Prize. 2009.

Award for Excellence of the Friends and Alumni of the Indo-European Studies (UCLA) for the best conference paper by a junior scholar. 2007.

Mellon Foundation / University of Chicago Dissertation Year Fellowship. 2006-7.   

François Furet Travel Grant (summer travel to France). 2006.

Stuart Tave Teaching Fellowship (declined). 2006. 

Doolittle-Harrison fellowship (academic travel). 2005, 2004. 

Oppenheim Grant (supplementary stipend). 2005.

FLAS (Title 6) fellowship for summer study of Turkish. 2004. 

DAAD fellowship for research work in Germany, 1 year. 2002.

University of Chicago, Century Fellowship, 5 years (awarded to top 2 incoming students in the department). 2001-6.

UC Berkeley, Dean’s Normative Time Fellowship, 1 year (declined). 2001-2.   

Houtan Fellowship (www.houtan.org, first tenant, 6 months). 2000.

DAAD Fellowship for summer study in Germany. 1999.

Mellon Research/Travel Grant. Summer 1999.

Humanities and Social Sciences Research Grant Summer 1998. 

UC Berkeley, William and Flora Hewlett Fellowship, 3 years. 1997-2000.

Soros Graduate Fellowship (grant #H2B70H), 1 year. 1997-8.

Moscow Mayor Fellowship for Excellence in Undergraduate Studies (awarded to the top student in the department). 1995-6.