Bilaniuk is an assistant professor of Anthropology at the University of Washington, where she teaches courses on anthropological linguistics, the anthropology of communication, and the politics and culture of language. Her fieldwork has included investigation of the language dynamics in post-Soviet Ukraine. In addition to her many scholarly articles in English and Ukrainian, Bilaniuk is the co-editor, with Kathryn Lyon and Ben Fitzhugh, of Post-Soviet Eurasia: Anthropological Perspectives on a World in Transition (Ann Arbor, MI, 1996). While at HURI, she will be completing a book on the politics of language and identity in Ukraine.