Grace E. Fielder is a professor emerita in the Department of Russian and Slavic Studies at the University of Arizona. She holds a Ph.D. from UCLA in Slavic Linguistics and her current research and teaching interests deal with language, identity, culture, and ideology in the Balkans. She was a Fulbright scholar at the University of Sofia, Bulgaria, and has moonlighted as a lavender harvester on the island of Hvar in Croatia.