Boris Uspensky#
Present and Previous Positions
- Professor emeritus of the Naples Oriental University
- 2006Full professor at the Russian State University for the Humanities
- 1993 - 2009 Full professor of the Naples Oriental University
- 1992 - 1993 Fellow of the Institute for Advanced Studies at Russian State University for the Humanities
- 1977 - 1992 Full professor of Moscow State University
- 1965 - 1977 Senior Research Fellow of Moscow University
- 1963 - 1965 Research Fellow at the Institute of African Studies of the Academy of Sciences of USSR
- 1963 Ph.D Linguistics, Moscow State University
Fields of Scholarship- General linguistics
- Slavistics
- Semiotics
Honours and Awards- 2001 Doctor honoris causa, Russian State University for the Humanities, Moscow
- 2003 Doctor honoris causa, Konstantin Preslavsky University, Shumen
- 2010 Doctor honoris causa, Belgrade University
- 1990 Member, Academia Europaea (London)
- 1987 Foreign Member, Austrian Academy of Sciences (Vienna)
- 1999 Foreign Member, The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters (Det Norske Videnskaps-Akademi) (Oslo)
- Member, Kungl. Humanistiska Vetenskapssamfundet i Lund (Société Royale des Lettres de Lund)
- 2007Early Slavic Studies Association Annual Distinguished Scholarship Award