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Curriculum vitae of Daniel Bunčić

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Academic positions held

  • Since 2012 Slavic Department of the University of Cologne
    • Since 2016 full professor of Slavic linguistics
    • April 2019 to September 2023 job sharing (50% part-time employment) with Katrin Schlund (2019–2020,1 year), Anna-Maria Sonnemann (2020–2021 and 2022–2023, 2 years) and Vladislava Warditz (2021–2022) as substitute professors (and part-time employment for ½ year in 2020 with Ljudmila Geist as lecturer)
    • February—August 2018 guest scholar at the Department of Modern and Classical Language Studies of Kent State University in Kent (Ohio)
    • 2017 rejected the offer of a chair in Slavic linguistics at the University of Konstanz and accepted the retention offer of the University of Cologne
    • 2013—2016 assistant professor (“Juniorprofessor”) of Slavic linguistics
    • 2013—2014 additionally visiting professor at the Slavic Department of Basel University
    • 2012—2013 temporary professor of Slavic linguistics
  • 2007—2013 Slavic Department of Tübingen University
    lecturer with Tilman Berger
    (in the summer semester 2007 additionally visiting lecturer at Bonn University; 2012–2013 on leave for temporary professorship at Cologne University)
  • 2001—2007 Slavic Department of Bonn University
    research fellow with Helmut Keipert

Education

  • 2012 habilitation at the Faculty of Humanities of Tübingen University
    Habilitation thesis: Biscriptality in Slavic and non-Slavic languages: A sociolinguistic typology
  • 2001—2006 graduate studies at the Slavic Department of Bonn University
    PhD thesis: Die ruthenische Schriftsprache bei Ivan Uževyč: unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der Lexik seines Gesprächsbuchs Rozmova/Besěda
    PhD supervisor: Helmut Keipert
  • 1994—2000 undergraduate studies at the University of Cologne:
    • Slavic studies, English studies and political science
      degree received: certification as secondary teacher of Russian and English
      thesis: Das sprachwissenschaftliche Problem der innerslavischen ›falschen Freunde‹ im Russischen
    • 1997—1998 year abroad at St. Petersburg State University
  • 1993 finished the Heinrich Heine Gymnasium in Bottrop

Appointed and elected positions

Membership in academic associations

Personal details

  • born 3 November 1973 in Bottrop
  • married to Barbara Bunčić (secondary school teacher of mathematics and music; choir director)
  • two daughters: Lara () and Marie ()
  • deputy chair of the parliamentary group of Alliance 90/The Greens in the town council of Brühl (since 2020)
  • 2007–2012 executive board of the consumers’ cooperative Unser Herrlesbergladen eG, running a corner store in Tübingen
  • 1993–1994 alternative civilian service as ambulance driver at the Bottrop Fire Brigade

‘CV of failures’

(based on the idea of Melanie Stefan, 2010, A CV of failures, Nature 468, 467)

Unsuccessful applications for academic positions

  • 2000 application for the position of Research Assistant at the Slavic Department of Dresden University of Technology
  • 2006 application for a junior professorship (W1 without tenure track) in Slavic Linguistics at the University of Hamburg
  • 2010 application for a full professorship (W3) in Slavic Cultural Studies (with a focus on linguistics) at the University of Cologne
  • 2012 application for a full professorship (W2) in Slavic Linguistics at the University of Jena
  • 2013 application for a full professorship in Slavic Linguistics at the University of Zurich
  • 2014 application for a full professorship in Slavic Linguistics at the University of Innsbruck
  • 2014 application for a full professorship in Slavic Linguistics at the Vienna University of Economics and Business
  • 2015 application for a full professorship (W3) in Slavic Philology (Linguistics) at the University of Freiburg
  • 2016 application for a full professorship in Slavic Linguistics at the University of Graz

Unsuccessful application for third-party funding

  • 2019 proposal to the German Research Foundation (DFG) for a subproject “Modality in the development of East and South Slavic futures” within a Research Unit “Diachronic typology of futures in the languages of Europe”