Vyacheslav Vsevolodovich Ivanov

Vyacheslav V. Ivanov is Professor of Slavic Languages and Literature at UCLA, Leading Research Fellow of the Institute of Slavic and Balkan Studies at the Russian Academy of Sciences, and Director of the Research Institute of World Culture at Moscow Lomonosov State University. He is a full member of the Russian Academy of Sciences and a Foreign Fellow of the British Academy. Ivanov is an authority on the Hittite language, a semiotician, philologist and Indo-Europeanist probably best known for his glottalic theory of Indo-European consonantism and for placing the Indo-European urheimat in the area of the Armenian Highlands and Lake Urmia. Ivanov is Chair of the Commission on Cultural Anthropology of the Russian Academy of Sciences Scholarly Council of World Culture, and a former member of the Council of Scholars of the John Kluge Humanities Center at the Library of Congress. He has received numerous honors and awards, including the Pasternak Literary Prize (Moscow, 2002), the Order of the Grand Duke Gedimin (Lithuanian Republic Governmental Decoration, 2002), the Lenin Prize of the USSR (1989), and the Medal of the College de France (1989). His most recent book in English is Selected Essays (2003).