Andriy Danylenko is a lecturer in the Department of Modern Languages and Cultures at Pace University. He earned his Ph.D. in 1990 from Moscow Friendship of Peoples University. During his four-month stay at Harvard (February–May 2008), Danylenko will work on the topic “The Formation of New Standard Ukrainian in 1798: Bridging Tradition and Innovation.” Danylenko hopes to present a comprehensive survey of consecutive stages in the formation of new standard Ukrainian from late Middle Ukrainian to the early modern period, examining the place of Ruthenians and their languages (Church Slavonic and prosta mova) in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and comparing the sociolinguistic situation in Galicia, Transcarpathia, and Bukovyna to that in the Hetmanate and Sloboda Ukraine in the eighteenth century.