#  Michael Flier 

Oleksandr Potebnja Professor of Ukrainian Philology Emeritus

Ph.D. University of California Berkeley

 

 

 



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Michael Flier is a linguist and semiotician, with special interests in Ukrainian and East Slavic language, literature, and culture, and a member of the Steering Committee for the [Ph.D. Program in Byzantine Studies](/special-graduate-program-byzantine-studies). He is the author of *Aspects of Nominal Determination in Old Church Slavic* (Mouton, 1974) and of numerous publications on historical Slavic linguistics and on the semiotics and history of power and ceremony in the Slavic world. These include "Political Ideas and Rituals" in *The Cambridge History of Russia* (2006); "Seeing is Believing: The Semiotics of Dynasty and Destiny in Muscovite Rus" in *Ceremonial Culture in Pre-Modern Europe* (2007); “Muscovite Ritual in the Context of Jerusalem Old and New,” *Canadian-American Slavic Studies 49* (2015); “Murder Most Foul: Picturing the Death of Andrei Bogoljubskij” in *Seeing Muscovy Anew: Politics—Institutions—Culture* (2017); *The Battle for Ukrainian: A Comparative Perspective.* (with co-editor Andrea Graziosi, 2017).



 

 

 





 

 

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