Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the U. of Kansas, specializing in Slavic historical linguistics, sociolinguistics, and dialectology. Have spent more than a decade as a department chair and a short stint as associate dean. I have strong interests in academic program development, mentoring, and open access issues. I have co-founded and co-edited two open access journals in Slavic linguistics, Slovenski jezik / Slovene Linguistic Studies, and Slavia Centralis, each contributing to niches in an attempt to enrich the ecosystem of scholarly communication in my field.
Slavic linguistics
O jeziku slovanskih prebivalcev med Donavo in Jadranom v srednjem veku (pogled jezikoslovcev) / On the Language of the Medieval Slavic Population in the Area between the Danube and the Adriatic (from a Linguistic Perspective) (with Marko Snoj), Zgodovinski časopis / Historical Review (2012)
The essay responds to historians and archaeologists using linguistic data to enrich or justify their...
A Balkanism in Central Europe? Realis vs. Irrealis in Subordinate Clauses in Prekmurje, Dialektologie a geolingvistika v současné stŕední Evropě (2011)
The paper examines the distinction between realis- and irrealis-marking complementizers (ka vs. da in the...
Problema comunicării ştiinţifice: de ce este necesar accesul liber (Open Access)? O perspectivă transatlantică, Vatra. Serie nouă (2011)
This article was written to raise awareness among researchers in the Open Access movement and...
The Illyrian Movement: A Croatian Vision of South Slavic Unity, Handbook of Language and Ethnic Identity: The Success-Failure Continuum in Language Identity Efforts, vol. 2 (2011)
The article appears in a handbook that demonstrates the interconnection between language and ethnic identity,...
Nova opisna slovnica ziljščine, Slavistična revija (2010)
A review essay on Tijmen Pronk (2009) The Slovene Dialect of Egg and Potschach in...
Open Access
Open Access and the Author-Pays Problem: Assuring Access for Readers and Authors in a Global Community of Scholars (with A. Townsend Peterson and Ada Emmett), Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication (2013)
The Scholarly Communication Problem: Why Open Access is Necessary – A Transatlantic Perspective – (with Ada Emmett), Hall Center Communiqué (2011)
This article was written to raise awareness among researchers in the Open Access movement and...
Faculty Open Access Policies: Public Missions, Public Research, Public Good (with Laura Ada Emmett and Diane J. Graves), American Association of University Professors Annual Meeting (2010)
Language planning
“The American Model”: English Only or Engagement with a Multi-Polar World?, Uporabno jezikoslovje (2011)
The paper discusses language policy in the US and the lack of it. Traditional neglect...