Alicja Boruta-Sadkowski

Alicja Boruta-Sadkowski is an instructor in the Department of Modern Languages at the University of Northern Iowa, where she teaches Russian and occasionally Polish.She received her Ph.D. in Slavic linguistics from the University of Michigan in 1997.Her dissertation was entitled: The Development of Twentieth Century Standard Belarusian: Russian and Polish Influences on the Belarusian Language Variants of Vilnia, Mensk, and Horadnia, 1918-1939.She is a member of AATSEEL, AAASS, ACTR, and MAB.Her articles on the development of the Belarusian language in the early twentieth century have appeared in: The Belarusian Enlightenment: Achievements of a Millennium.Proceedings from the International Congress (Minsk 20-21 Oct. 1998), Proceedings from the International Congress (Minsk 17-19 May 2000), Book I; Belarus and the World Community: Interaction and Mutual Enrichment of Cultures as a Manifestation of the Culture and Peace (Minsk, forthcoming, 2001).She is currently working on two other articles on the Belarusian language.