Vyach. Vs. Ivanov. Institute of World Culture

Vyacheslav Vsevolodovich Ivanov

Director of the Institute of World Culture
Member of Russian Academy of Sciences

Curriculum Vitae

PLACES OF EMPLOYMENT:

Moscow State Lomonosov University (MGU); Institute of Slavic Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences; Russian State Humanities University (RGGU); University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures and Indo-European Studies Program.

EDUCATIONAL HISTORY

High School, Moscow (1940-41, 1943-46, with honors).
M.A. Moscow State University, English Philology (1946-1951 with honors).
Ph.D. Moscow State University, Hittite and Indo-European Grammar,(1951-55).
University of Vilnius, Doctorate in Baltic and Indo-European Linguistics (1980).

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

Professor, Russian Anthropological School of the Russian State Humanities University (RGGU), 2003-to present.
Professor, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures and Program of Indo-European Studies, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), December 1991 - present.
Professor, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Stanford University, August 1990-November 1991.
Leading Research Fellow of the Institute of Slavic and Balkan Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, 1989-present.
Director of the Research Institute of World Culture of the Moscow Lomonosov State University (MGU), 1989-present.
Chairman of the Department of Theory and History of World Culture and Professor, Philosophical Faculty, Moscow State University, 1989 - April, 1995.
Director of the All-Union Library of Foreign Literature, Moscow, December 1989 to October, 1993.
Professor, Archival and Historical Institute, Moscow, 1988- 1989.
Associate Professor, High Courses for the Cinema Scriptwriters, Moscow, 1965 - 1974.
Chairman of the Department of Structural Typology, Institute of Slavic and Balkan Studies, Academy of Sciences of the USSR, Moscow, 1963 - December, 1989.
Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Slavic and Balkan Studies, Academy of Sciences of the USSR, Moscow, 1961 - 1963.
Chairman of the Research Group for Automatic Translation, Institute of Computer Technology and Exact Mechanics, Academy of Sciences of the USSR,Moscow, 1959 - 1961.
Assistant Professor, Department of General Linguistics Laboratory for Automatic Translation, State Pedagogical Institute for Foreign Languages, Moscow, 1959-1961.
Senior Lecturer(1954 - 1958), Assistant Professor (1958 - 1959) Department of General and Comparative Linguistics, Moscow State University .
Research Fellow, Laboratory of Electronic Engineering Models, Academy of Sciences of the USSR, 1957 - 1959.

VISITING PROFESSORSHIP (SELECTED DATA)

Visiting Scholar, Kluge Humanities Center, Library of Congress, Washington, D. C., Fall 2004
Distinguished Visiting Professor, Humanitiies Center and Russian Department, Grinnell College, Fall 2002.
Visiting Scholar, Library of Congress. Washington, D.C., Fall 1998.
Visiting Professor, Charles University, Prague, September 1997
Visiting Professor, Institute of Philosophy, Naples, April 1994
Visiting Professor, Slavic Department, Linguistics Department and Department of Comparative Literature, Stanford University, Winter 1989 and Spring 1990.
Visiting Professor, Slavic Department, University of Kiel, Federal Republic of Germany, Winter 1989 - 1990.
Visiting Professor, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of California, Los Angeles, Spring 1989.
Visiting Professor, Slavic Department, Bochum University, Federal Republic of Germany, Spring 1988 and Spring 1994.
Visiting Professor, Tartu State University, 1986.
Visiting Professor, State Pedagogical Institute, Tallinn,1985.
Visiting Professor, Tbilisi State University,1984.
Visiting Professor, Debrecen University, Debrecen, Hungary,1982.
Visiting Professor, Vilnius State University,1981.
Visiting Professor, Latvian State University, Riga,1973.

PUBLIC SERVICE

Copenhagen Seminars Expert and Triglav group member/ United Nations Seminar of Experts on Cultural Problems in connection with the Copenhagen 1995 World Social Summit,Triglav (near Liubliana), Slovenia / Copenhagen, October 1994- to present.
Chair, Commision on Cultural Anthropology of the Russian Academy of Sciences Scholarly Concil of the World Culture, 1996-to present.
Member, Russian Presidential Committee on Culture and Arts, August,1996 - 1998.
Curator, Exhibition of the Russian Orthodox Church of Alaska Archives, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., Spring - Fall, 1994
Member, Russian Presidential Commission for Pardon, September 1992 - October 1994.
Representative of the Russian Federation in the Supreme Soviet (Parliament), October - November 1991.
People's Deputy of the USSR (Member of Congress), April, 1989 - December 1991.
Member of the Commission of the USSR Supreme Soviet on Language, Culture, National and International Traditions and Monuments, June 1989 - 1991.
President of the Translation Section of the USSR Writers' Union, Moscow Section, 1988 - 1991
President of the Moscow Linguistic Society, 1988 - 1990.
Head of the Linguistic Division of the Governmental Scientific Council for the Study of the Problem of Consciousness, Moscow 1981 - 1987.
Co-Chair of the International Symposium for Baltic Linguistics, Vilnius, September, 1985.
Head of the Linguistic Section of the Scientific Council for Cybernetics, Academy of Sciences of the USSR, 1959 - 1963.
Chair of the Organizational Committee of the First Symposium for the Study of Sign Systems, USSR Academy of Sciences, Moscow, December, 1962.
Member, The Speech Section and the Commission for Applied Linguistics of the Committee for Acoustics, Academy of Sciences of the USSR, 1957 - 1961.

HONORS AND AWARDS

Member, Lithuanian Academy of Sciences April 2007
Foreign Member, Croatian Academy of Arts and Sciences, . May 2004
Prize of the Russian President for the contribution to Russian art and literature, February 2004
The Order of the Great Duke Gedimin ( Lithuanian Republic Decoration), August 2002.
Pasternak Literary Prize ( Moscow), June 2002.
Member, Latvian Academy of Sciences 2001
Member, The Council of Scholars of The John Kluge Humanities Center, The Library of Congress, 2001- 2005
Full Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, May 2000- to present.
Diploma of honor of "Revue de l'histoire ancienne" ("Vestnik drevnej istorii"), Moscow -1997.
UCLA Faculty Research Lecturer, Spring 1995.
Mongtomery Fellow, Dartmouth College, Fall 1995.
Prize for the best Zvezda publication (St. Petersburg) of 1995.
Member of the American Philosophical Society, 1994 - present.
Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1993 - present.
President of the Booker Prize Russian Novel Committee, 1993.
Member of the Russian PEN-Club, 1992 - present.
Medal for the achievements in semiotics of the Institute of Semiotics of the Indiana University, Bloomington- March 1991.
Northrop Frye Professor of Comparative Literature, University of Toronto, Winter 1991.
Member of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences (RAEN), 1991 - present.
Member of the Council of Scholars, Library of Congress, 1990 -1995
The USSR Government State Prize for the book The Myths of the Peoples of the World,1990 (together with several coauthors).
Medal of the College de France, Paris- March, 1989.
Fox Fellow, Yale University, October, 1988.
The USSR Government Lenin Prize - for the monograph Indo-European and Indo-Europeans (in collaboration with T. V. Gamkrelidze), 1988.
Foreign Fellow of the British Academy, 1977 - present.
Honorary Member of the American Linguistic Society, 1967 - present.

EDITORIAL AND PUBLISHING WORK (selected data)

Henrik Birnbaum . IN Memoriam. Coed.: M.S.Flier, J.Schaken, D.S,Worth (International Journal of Slavic Linguistics and Poetics, XLIV-XLV]), 2006,
'UCLA Slavic Studies', vol. 4 'Speculum Slaviae Orientalis' (coed. Yulia Verkholantsev, members of the editorial board of the series: H.Andersen, A.Ospovat, R. Vrooon), Moscow, 2005.
'UCLA Indo-European Studies', vol.2. Richards, R.O. The Pannonian Slavic dialect of the common Slavic proto-language. Los Angeles, 2003 (coeditor: Prof. Brent Vine);
Chairman, Editorial Board, 'Journal of Linguistic relationship' (International journal, Moscow).2008
Member of the Editorial board, 'Russian Journal of Communication', 2008
Coeditor of linguistic articles, Journal of Indo-European Studies (Washington, D.C. : Institute for the Study of Man), 2000-present
Member of the Editorial Board, Star (Zvezda), St.-Petersburg, 1999-present
Member of the international editorial board, Interdisciplinary Journal of Germanic Linguistics and Semiotic Analysis (University of California, Berkeley), Spring, 1996 - 1999
Editorial Board member, Experiment. A Journal of Russian Culture. Institute of Modern Russian Culture, Los Angeles, 1995- present.
Advisory Board Member of the Eisenstein Center of Cinema Cultural Studies and of the journal, Cinema Studies Notes (Kinovedcheskie zapiski), Moscow, 1993 -present.
Editorial Board member, Slavic Review, 1993-1996.
Editor, Elementa. Journal of Slavic Studies and Comparative Cultural Semiotics, (New York, Gordon and Breach Academic Publishers), Spring 1992 -2000.
Advisory Editorial Board Member, The Continent, Moscow-Paris, 1992 to present
Editorial Board Member, Foreign Literature (Inostrannaia Literatura), Moscow, 1992 -to present
Editorial Board Member, Encyclopedia of Linguistics, Edinburgh, 1991 - 1993.
Editorial board member, Scale (Diapazon), Moscow, 1991-1993
Editorial Board member, Banner (Znamia), Moscow, 1990- 1994
Editorial Board member, Symbol (Simvol), Paris, 1989- 1993
Coeditor, Razvitie etnicheskogo samosoznanija slavjanskix narodov v epoxu razvitogo feodalizma (The Growth of the Ethnic consciousness of the Slavic peoples in the period of the late Feudalism), Moscow :Nauka, 1989.
Editorial Board Member, Daugava, Riga, 1988 - 1990.
Editor-in-Chief, Baltic and Slavic Studies, Moscow, 1980 to present
Advisory Editorial Council Member, Linguistic Inquiry, Cambridge, Mass., 1978 - 1986.
Editorial Board member, Journal of Indo-European Studies, 1971 -2000.
Advisory Editorial Board Member, Poetics, 1977 - 1981.
Editorial Board Member, Acta Linguistica Hafniensia, Copenhagen,1971 - 1980.
Editorial Board Member, Works on Semiotics, Tartu, 1964 to 1990; 2001- present.
Editorial Board Member, Problems of Linguistics(Voprosy jazykoznanija), Moscow, (also an assistant editor)1955 - 1959, 1988 -1993, 2002- present.
Editorial board Member, The Journal of the University of Moscow, series of history and philology (Vestnik Moskovskogo universiteta) 1957-1958.

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