Edward Stankiewicz (17 November 1920 – 31 January 2013) was the B. E. Bensinger Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures at Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut from 1971 until he retired in 1991.

He survived the Holocaust, and immigrated to the United States after being freed from Buchenwald concentration camp.

Stankiewicz developed a love for Italian when he transited through the country after World War II.

[4] Stankiewicz is best known for his research on Slavic accentology and morphophonemics.

He wrote on all Slavic languages, but took a particular interest in South Slavic languages and traveled to Yugoslavia in order to conduct field studies.