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Marija Runić is a linguist from Bosnia and Herzegovina who works at The University of Banja Luka. She earned her doctorate in linguistics from The University of Padua in Italy. Her research focuses on formal linguistics, specifically in the area of syntax and syntax-semantics interface, sociolinguistics and linguistic and education. In 2019-2020, she was a Fulbright Scholar at the Western Washington University with a research project on linguistics and education in post-conflict societies. Runić’s work primarily examines Romance and Slavic languages in a situation of language contact and explores sociolinguistic dynamics in post-conflict Bosnia and Herzegovina. Beyond academia, she frequently consults as a Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian specialist for the language industry. She is also actively engaged in language activism supporting endangered languages, promoting metalinguistic awareness and fighting linguistic discrimination in Bosnia and Herzegovina and internationally. Runić, M. and Božović, J. (in press). Ethnographic Research for Languages in Conflict: Insights from Bosnia and Herzegovina. to appear in S. Dubinsky, M. Gavin, and H. Starr (eds), Cambridge Handbook of Language and Political Conflict, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.; Runić, M., Montibeler, R. and Falaleev, P. (2025) Štivoroto: A lost story of language loss. In A. Sorescu-Marinković, M. Ćorković, and M. Mirić (eds), Vulnerable and Endangered Languages in Europe. Belgrade: Institute for Balkan Studies, Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts and Faculty of Philology, University of Belgrade, 115–138. ; Božović, J. and Runić. M. (2025) When monolingual meets plurilingual: Language ideologies in Brčko District's integrated education. In A. Elizaincín and Y. Rodriguez (eds), The impacts of language conflict in educational setting, New York and London: Routledge, 73-90. ; Runić, M. (2024) L’insegnamento dell’aspetto verbale nella didattica delle lingue straniere: alcune riflessioni e proposte, [The teaching of verbal aspect in foreign languages: some reflections and proposals] Filolog 15 (29), 88-113. ; Runić. M. (2023) Per uno più consapevole dei traduttori automatici nell’insegnamento di una LS [For a more conscious use of machine translation tools in teaching of a foreign language], In O. Arsić, G. Baselica e P. Lazarević (eds), I gigli nel campo. Studi in onore di Ljiljana Banjanin. Alessandria: Edizioni dell'Оrso, 521-530. ; Runić, M. (2023). It’s High Time: Linguistics in High Schools in Bosnia and Herzegovina. In Pinneda, A. and Corr A. (eds) Theoretical Linguistics in Pre-University Classroom. Proceedings of the British Academy 257, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 68-89.; Božović, J. and Runić. M. (2022) Jezička politika u obrazovnom sistemu Brčko Distrikta: primjer uspješne ili neuspješne priče? [Language policy in the educational setting of Brčko District: an example of success or failure?] Lingua Montenegrina 1 (29), 119-136.; Runić, M. (2022) Kampanja Njegujmo srpski jezik: pitanja i zablude [Linguistic campaign Let’s preserve Serbian language: issues and misconceptions], Riječ 16, 27-47.