Monika Wingender

Dr Monika Wingender is Professor for Slavic Linguistics at the Justus Liebig University of Giessen. Since 2006, she is also Managing Director of the Giessen Center for Eastern European Studies (GiZo). Wingender was, among others, principal investiator for two Volkswagen Foundation projects on bi-/multilingualism and contested language diversity in Eastern Europe. Out of this, emerged her co-edited collected volume Language Politics, Language Situations and Conflicts in Multilingual Societies: Case Studies from Contemporary Russia, Ukraine and Belarus (Harrassowitz 2021). Wingender’s papers have been published in, among others, Die Welt der Slaven, Sotsiolingvistika, European Yearbook of Minority Issues, Osteuropa, as well as collected volumes and handbooks.