Career
During the early 1960s, Ivanov was one of the first Soviet scholars to take a keen interest in and develop semiotics. He worked with Vladimir Toporov on several linguistic monographs, including an outline of Sanskrit. In 1962 he joined Toporov and Juri Lotman in establishing the Tartu-Moscow Semiotic School.
In the 1980s Ivanov worked with Tamaz Gamkrelidze on a new theory of Indo-European migrations, which was most recently advocated by them in Indo-European and Indo-Europeans (1995). He led the All-Union Library of Foreign Literature between 1989 and 1993 and held a seat in the Supreme Soviet of Russia. Simultaneously, he established the Institute of World Culture and held a chair in Theory and History of World Culture at the Moscow University.
Since the late 1990s Ivanov shares his time between Moscow (where he teaches in the Russian State University for the Humanities) and Los Angeles, where he delivers courses at the University of California, Los Angeles. He also worked as a professor in Stanford University and Yale University.
He was made a full member of the Russian Academy of Sciences in 1990, and he has been a Foreign Fellow of the British Academy since 1977.
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