Olga Steriopolo

Olga Steriopolo is a Senior Researcher at the Leibniz-Zentrum Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft (ZAS) in Berlin, focusing on grammatical gender, sociolinguistics, and expressive morphology. She has held leadership roles as Principal Investigator in projects like 'The interrelation between social gender and grammatical gender' (2014–2019) and 'A typology of Gender' (2012–2014). Her research spans Russian dialects, German-Ukrainian language contact, and non-binary gender linguistics.

• Education:
  • Ph.D. in Linguistics, University of British Columbia (UBC)
  • Fulbright Scholar, University of Northern Colorado
  • Post-graduate studies, St. Petersburg State University

Research Interests include:

• Grammatical gender systems across languages
• Sociolinguistic variation and gender-neutral language
• Expressive morphology in Slavic and endangered languages
• Language contact in immigrant communities
• Syntax-morphology interfaces in multilingual contexts

Scientific Awards:

• DAAD Scholar (Freie Universität Berlin)
• Fulbright Scholar (University of Northern Colorado)

Teaching includes seminars at Humboldt University of Berlin on grammatical variation (SS 2024) and collaborative workshops on language and gender.