Danko Sipka

Danko Sipka (born 1962) is a Serbian American linguist and professor of Slavic languages and applied linguistics at Arizona State University.
Biography.
He was educated at Polish Academy of Sciences, Adam Mickiewicz University, and University of Belgrade in the fields of linguistics and psychology. He was an Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Fulbright program, and American Council of Learned Societies fellow. He received fellowships from the Australian National University, and Hokkaido University, Japan. In 2010 he received titular professorship from the president of the Republic of Poland Bronisław Komorowski. He won "NCOLCTL Walton Award" in 2019. In the spring of 2021 he was an Istvan Deak Visiting Professor at Columbia University
Research.
Sipka is the author of various monographs and dictionaries, such as Serbian-English general dictionaries for "Prometej", the monograph titled "Lexical Conflict: Theory and practice" with Cambridge University Press; and "Lexical Layers of Identity: Words, Meaning, and Culture in the Slavic Languages".
His main research interests lie in the fields of lexicography, lexicology, linguistic anthropology, computational linguistics, and Slavic linguistics. In 2017, Sipka has signed the Declaration on the Common Language of the Croats, Serbs, Bosniaks and Montenegrins. Sipka was the editor-in-chief of the Journal of the National Council of Less Commonly Taught Languages from 2008 to 2020.