Danko Sipka is a professor of Slavic languages and applied linguistics and the coordinator of Slavic Languages and Cultures at Arizona State University, where he teaches Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian, Polish, and Slavic linguistics in the School of International Letters and Cultures. He also holds a titular (presidential) professorship conferred upon him by the president of the Republic of Poland.
His previous experience includes stints at the universities of Sarajevo, Belgrade (former Yugoslavia), Poznan, Wroclaw, Warsaw, the Jagiellonian University (Poland), and the universities of Munich and Dusseldorf. Dr. Sipka served as a senior linguist or consultant to numerous language industry companies, such as McNeil Technologies, Microsoft, Inxight, Comprehensive Language Center, Glyph, TranExp, Avant Assessment, Franklin Electronic Publishers, Microsoft Proofing Unit, and others.
He hold a Ph.D. in linguistics from the U. of Belgrade, a doctorate in psychology from the Polish Academy of Sciences, and an M.A. in Russian from the University of Poznan. Prof. Sipka is an ACTFL-certified Oral Proficiency Tester for Polish and English.
Danko Sipka's research interests include lexicography, lexicology, linguistic anthropology, lexical and inflectional morphology, computational linguistics, and computer-assisted learning. His most recent publication is Lexical Conflict: Theory and practice with Cambridge University Press. His publications encompass over 150 papers and reviews as well as 30 books, including: SerboCroatian-English Colloquial Dictionary, Springfield: Dunwoody Press, 2000, p. i-xxxiv, 1-664, Dictionary of Serbian, Croatian, and Bosnian New Words, Springfield: Dunwoody Press, 2002, p. i-xii, 1-130, and A Comparative Reference Grammar of Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian, Springfield: Dunwoody Press, 2007, 1-740. Dr. Sipka has presented invited lectures and keynote talks in the United States, Poland, Germany, Austria, and Serbia.
Prof. Sipka is the editor-in-chief of the Journal of Less Commonly Taught Languages.