David S. Danaher
Credentials: Slavic
Position title: Department Chair, Professor
Email: dsdanaher@wisc.edu
Address:
Office number: 832 Van Hise Hall
Language(s): Czech, Russian
Research/Language Interests: Václav Havel; culture of dissent in East Central Europe; Leo Tolstoy; ethnolinguistics; cognitive linguistics.
About Me: I have taught the Czech language sequence and also courses on Central East European literature and culture as well as on Leo Tolstoy and the structure of contemporary Russian (a required course for graduates students in our PhD program). Other research and teaching interests include cognitive linguistics, ethnolinguistics (the relationship between language and culture), and science fiction.
Education:
• Brown University, PhD Slavic Languages and Literatures (1995)
• Brown University, MA Slavic Languages and Literatures (1990)
• American University, BA Russian Area Studies/French Language and Literature (1989)
Awards:
- Excellence in Teaching (Post-Secondary), AATSEEL (2024)
- Anonymous Fund grant ($4000) for April 2024 symposium (2024)
- Sabbatical leave (Fall 2019)
- Honorary faculty inductee and speaker, Phi Kappa Phi, UW-Madison (2018)
- Honored Instructor, University Housing Academic Initiative (2018, 2020)
- Honored Instructor, University Housing Academic Initiative (2015, 2017)
- Distinguished Honors Faculty Award, UW-Madison Honors Program (2014)
- Sabbatical leave (2012-13)
- Vilas Associate Award, UW Madison (2006-07)
- Fulbright Lectureship Grant, Charles University, Prague (Spring 2006)
- Sabbatical leave (Fall 2005)
- Kiekhofer Distinguished Teaching Award, UW-Madison (2004)
- Summer Funding Research Grant, Graduate School, UW-Madison (2002)
- Lilly Teaching Fellowship, UW-Madison (2000)
- Summer Funding Research Grant, Graduate School, UW-Madison (2000)
- Doctoral Dissertation of Outstanding Merit in Slavic, Brown University (1995)
- Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation on Czech Studies, Brown University (1995)
Website: http://www.cokdybysme.net