Senior Associate Dean Robert D. Greenberg, PhD

Robert Greenberg joined Hunter College in 2008 as Associate  Dean and a Professor of Linguistics in the Department of Anthropology.   He served as the Acting Dean of the School of Arts and Sciences from 2009-2011.  He received his Ph.D. from Yale University in 1991, and has taught at Yale, Georgetown, and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He was the Director of UNC's Office of Distinguished Scholarships, and was the Associate Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of New Haven before coming to Hunter.  He is a specialist in South Slavic languages and linguistics, and has worked primarily on sociolinguistic issues in the former Yugoslavia.  He has explored issues of language, nationalism, and ethnic identity both in Tito's Yugoslavia and in the years following Yugoslavia's breakup.  His publications include numerous books and articles on South Slavic and Balkan Slavic topics.  His most recent book,  Language and Identity in the Balkans (Oxford University Press, 2004, second revised and expanded edition, 2008), received an award in 2005 for the best book in Slavic Linguistics from the American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages.  Dr. Greenberg has been a research fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, and has held two Fulbright scholarships.  In February 2010 he was awarded the William Clyde DeVane medal for excellence in teaching and scholarship from the Phi Betta Kappa chapter at Yale, and in September 2010 he was the recipient of a CUNY Diversity award.