Lesya Stavytska, head of the Department of Sociolinguistics at the Ukrainian Language Institute of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, earned her Doktor nauk in 1996. She will spend five months at Harvard (February–June 2006) to work on "Linguistic Gender Studies: Language, Consciousness, Discourse." Stavytska will be looking at the theoretical aspects and new trends in structuring an interdisciplinary paradigm of gender. Specifically, she will be studying gender stereotypes in Ukrainian phraseology.