Michael Biggins: Education & Background

Education

• PhD, Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Kansas, 1985
• MA, Germanic Languages and Literatures, University of Kansas, 1978
• MS, Library and Information Science, University of Illinois/Urbana-Champaign, 1988

Professional memberships

• Society for Slovene Studies (President, 2017-2020)
• Association for Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies
• American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages

Awards and appointments

• Honorary Consul of the Republic of Slovenia for Washington State
• Affiliate Professor, UW Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures
• Janko Lavrin Award for Contributions to Slovene Literature in the World (2015)
• UW Distinguished Staff Award (2005)

Languages spoken

• Russian, Slovenian, German (near-native)
• French, Norwegian, Czech, Polish, Bosnian-Croatian-Serbian (functional fluency)
• Spanish, Italian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Bulgarian, Lithuanian (reading proficiency)