Robert Greenberg

Professor (adjunct); Associate Dean, School of Arts and Sciences, Hunter College
2701 Hall of Graduate Studies, 432-7748
robert.greenberg@yale.edu

Education
B. A. 1983, Sarah Lawrence College; M. A. 1985, Ph. D. 1991, Yale University

Interests
Slavic linguistics, language and nationalism in the former Yugoslavia, dialects and ethnic identity among the Southern Slavs, structure and history of the Slavic languages, cultural history of the Slavic peoples and their languages

Current Courses
-Languages and Politics
-Introduction to the Slavic Languages
-The Slavic Peoples and Their Languages
-Language, Nationalism and Ethnic Conflict
in the Balkans
-Special Topic courses in Slavic Linguistics

Recent Publications
Language and Identity in the Balkans: Serbo-Croatian and Its Disintegration. Oxford/New York: Oxford University Press, 2004, 188 pp; expanded and revised paperback edition, 2008, 206 pp; Croatian edition published in 2006, Winner, 2005 AATSEEL Prize for the Best Book in Slavic Linguistics

“From Serbo-Croatian to Montenegrin: Politics of Language in Montenegro” Language in Former Yugoslavia Lands, eds. Celia Hawkesworth and Ranko Bugarski (2004), 54-64

“The Border between South Slavic and Balkan Slavic: Key Morphological Features in Serbian Transitional Dialects” (co-authored with Sofija Miloradovic). Of All the Slavs My Favorites: Studies in South Slavic and Balkan Linguistics in Honor of Howard I. Aronson on the Occasion of His 66th Birthday. eds. Victor A. Friedman and Donald L. Dyer. 2002. Bloomington, IN: Slavica Publishers, pp. 309-322.

“Language, Nationalism, and the Yugoslav Successor States.” Language, Ethnicity and the State: Eastern Europe Since 1989 (ed. Camille O’Reilly). London- New York 2001): 17-42.

“Language and the National Idea.” Prilozi na oddelenieto za lingvistika I literaturna nauka na makedonskata akademija na naukite I umetnostite 26/1-2 (2001): 75-88.

“The Dialects of Macedonia and Montenegro: Random Linguistic Developments or Evidence of a Sprachbund.” Juznoslovenski filolog 56/1-2 (2001): 295-300.

“Language Politics in the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia: The Crisis over the Future of Serbian.” Slavic Review 59/3 (2000): 625-640.