Brian D. Joseph
AREA SPECIALIST – GREECE AND THE BALKANS
Brian D. Joseph is Distinguished University Professor of Linguistics, and The Kenneth E. Naylor Professor of South Slavic Linguistics, at The Ohio State University. His degrees are in Linguistics, from Yale (A.B., 1973), and Harvard (A.M., 1976; Ph.D., 1978). He has held fellowships from NEH, ACLS, and Fulbright, and holds two honorary doctorates (La Trobe, 2006; Patras, 2008). He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the Linguistic Society of America, and is a member of the American Philosophical Society.
His research focus is historical linguistics, especially regarding Greek, from Ancient through Modern, in its genealogical context as an Indo-European language and its geographic context within the Balkans. A current research project involves fieldwork among the minority Greek-speaking communities of southern Albania, from a sociolinguistic, dialectological, and Balkanistic perspective.