Update 6/3/2020: The leadership of the American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages (AATSEEL), the American Council of Teachers of Russian (ACTR) Board of Directors, and the Association for Slavic, East European & Eurasian Studies (ASEEES) Executive Board sent this letter to Ohio University urging President Nellis, Provost Sayrs, and Dean Plassmann to reverse the planned closure of the Russian program at OU.
Ohio University has notified faculty members Dr. Mila Shevchenko (Associate Professor of Instruction) and Tetyana Dovbnya (Visiting Assistant Professor) that they are terminated by Fall 2021, effectively canceling the Russian program at the university. We, the undersigned members of the REEES (Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies) community, are addressing the below letter to Provost Sayrs and President Nellis to express our deep concern about these short-sighted decisions. You can add your name to the list of signatures (periodically updated here) through this form.
Dear President M. Duane Nellis and Provost Elizabeth Sayrs,
We strongly urge you and fellow university leaders to ensure the reopening of the Russian program at Ohio University and the reinstatement of professorial contracts for Dr. Mila Shevchenko and Tetyana Dovbnya. As researchers, professors, students, public sector employees, and private sector employees who have studied or taught the Russian language, we understand the material benefits OU stands to lose if it follows through on the decision to terminate this program. We also understand firsthand the material damage this decision will cause if left unreversed.
Russian language and culture programs like the one at OU transformed the life of every individual listed below. The university’s decision to abandon those transformations going forward has a number of consequences that are incompatible with the financial pressure universities and their communities now face. For example:
The closure of this program disrupts undergraduate degree completion. It also disrupts students’ career plans and their ability to obtain funding, all amid a global pandemic in which jobs are already scarce.
By diminishing students’ opportunities for growth, faculty dismissals harm OU’s ability to attract new undergraduate students when it needs them most.
This closure damages the university’s contribution to interlinguistic communication as the United States faces multiple global crises in which Russian speakers play a major role. Specifically, it inhibits the university’s involvement in any solution to the current economic crisis, the climate crisis, a crisis of digital communication and disinformation, a crisis of cybersecurity and privacy, and a crisis of intercultural understanding in the United States, each of which threatens the university itself.
This closure damages the university’s capacity to prepare students for public service in a critical language.
This closure drains Ohio University’s academic reputation and its status relative to peer institutions. Miami University, Bowling Green State University, the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee, the University of Pittsburgh, the University of Kentucky, and many others all have undergraduate populations comparable to or thousands smaller than OU’s. They all foster full-fledged Russian programs, including some of the best publicly-funded programs nationwide. The decision not to reinstate Ms. Dovbnya and Dr. Shevchenko would be a decision to publicly fall behind the university’s peer institutions.
This closure displays a disregard for the livelihoods of two outstanding faculty members, uprooting their lives in a moment of severe economic pressure. This, in turn, divides the university community during a time when every university needs unity to function.
Like you, we are wholeheartedly invested in the survival and recovery of higher education in the United States amid the COVID-19 pandemic. That recovery depends on the will of universities to choose approaches that allow them to remain competitive. Ohio University can choose to be a leader in how institutions of higher education react to these circumstances. OU’s leadership has decided to extend contracts for faculty in African-American Studies and Women’s Gender, and Sexuality Studies after previous threats to those programs. Your leadership continued to hire brilliant new faculty like Ms. Dovbnya to proceed in its tradition of excellence. You have the ability to follow that path now, weathering the storm without harming your community. A decision not to do so would be so out of line with the university’s stated mission as to engender disbelief.
Your students and alumni have already expressed that disbelief in large numbers on social media platforms. They are painfully aware of the sacrifices required by the COVID-19 pandemic. Still, every OU student and graduate who has spoken out about the prospect of losing the university’s Russian program was shocked and outraged. Each spoke either to the impact Dr. Shevchenko, Ms. Dovbnya, and their predecessors had on them or to their desire to take courses with these faculty members in the future. Please ask what it means to allow a decision to take hold that none of the people you serve appear to believe is necessary.
We look forward to banding together with those students as well as our colleagues in other fields to ensure that OU and other institutions follow a path to excellence rather than failure amid this crisis. In the process, we will communicate our views to Ohio’s elected and appointed officials.
To echo Ohio University’s vision statement, no university can be “the nation's best transformative learning community”—not even close—without the opportunity to learn the second-most-used language for online content and one of the most widely spoken languages in the world. We ask you to ensure that your students have that opportunity.
Sincerely,
Ani Kokobobo, Associate Professor and Chair, Department Slavic and Eurasian Languages and Literatures, University of Kansas
Colleen Lucey, Assistant Professor of Russian, University of Arizona
Hilah Kohen, PhD student, Department of Comparative Literature and Literary Theory, University of Pennsylvania
Alyssa Gillespie, Associate Professor of Russian, Bowdoin College
Yelena Furman, Lecturer, UCLA
Alexey Vdovin, Associate Professor, Deputy Dean for Research, Faculty of Humanities, Higher School of Economics, Moscow
Gleb Vinokurov, M.A. student, McGill University
Brendan McElmeel, PhD Candidate, University of Washington
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Steven Seegel, Professor of History, University of Northern Colorado
Maria Whittle, PhD Candidate, University of California Berkeley
Tatiana Klepikova, Postdoctoral Researcher, U of Toronto
Vera Senina, PhD Candidate, Columbia University
Eliza Rose, Assistant Professor of Central European Studies, UNC - Chapel Hill
Sophie Pinkham, writer
Barbara Allen, Associate Professor of History, La Salle University
Eve Levin, Ahmanson-Murphy Professor; Chair, History Department; Editor, The Russian Review
Karin Beck, Associate Dean of the School of Arts and Humanities, Lehman College, CUNY
Fiona Bell, PhD student, Dept. of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Yale University
Brigid O'Keeffe, Associate Professor of History, Brooklyn College
Ben Lash, Yale grad and high school physics teacher
Dr. Wayles Browne, Professor Emeritus of Linguistics, Cornell University
Nicholas Kupensky, Assistant Professor of Russian, USAFA
Lenora Murphy, Ph.D student, Stanford University
Alana Felton, PhD student, Yale University
Susanna Nazarova, Lecturer of Russian, Mount Holyoke College
Ian Garner, PhD, Queen's University
Sian Roberts, graduate of Russian and Soviet Studies
Henry Reichman, Professor Emeritus of History, California State University, East Bay; Chair AAUP Committee on Academic Freedom and Tenure
Amie Ferris-Rotman, Russian Studies alum (UCL in London)
Irina Meier, Lecturer of Russian, University of New Mexico
Dr. Kevin O'Brien, Professor Emeritus, Chapman University
Dr Philip Chadwick, North London Collegiate School
Sarah Clovis Bishop, Associate Professor of Russian, Willamette University
Jennifer Wilson, PhD (Contributing Writer, The Nation)
Victoria Kononova, Assistant Professor of Russian, Lawrence University
Holly Decker, MARS Columbia University, Harriman Institute, Sr. Associate at the American Petroleum Institute
Rachel Stauffer, Instructor of Spanish and Russian, James Madison University; Conference Manager, AATSEEL
Bradley A Gorski, Assistant Professor of Slavic, Georgetown University
Tiffany Zhu, Undergraduate, Slavic Languages and Literatures major, Stanford University
Andrew Roth, Moscow correspondent, The Guardian
T.J. Sjostrom, Research Associate, Institute for Defense Analyses
Jacob Lassin, Postdoctoral Fellow, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Harvard University
Russian Instructor, Santa Monica College; Editor and Russian Flagship Consultant, UCLA Center for World Languages
Lydia Pakhomova, Researcher, Institute of Slavic Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences
Svetlana Grenier, Associate Professor of Slavic Languages, Georgetown University
Alexander Mishnev, Pd.D. student, Russian Culture and Society, University of St. Gallen
Dakota Irvin, PhD, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Lora Mjolsness, UC Irvine
Tom Dolack, Visiting Assistant Professor, Wheaton College
Anne Hruska, English Instructor, Stanford Online High School
Devin Browne, Teacher of Russian, Pittsburgh Brashear High School, Pittsburgh Public Schools
Venya Gushchin, Graduate Student in Slavic Languages and Literatures, Columbia University
Kristin Bidoshi, Associate Professor of Russian and Director of Russian and East European Studies Program, Union College
Viktoria Ivleva, Assistant Professor, Russian Studies, Durham University
Anna Kozlova, PhD candidate, Department of History, Carleton University
Aristotle Papanikolaou, Professor of Theology, Fordham University
PhD Candidate in Slavic Languages and Literatures, UC Berkeley
Mara Sukholutskaya, Professor of Languages, East Central University, President of Central Association of Russian Teachers of America (CARTA)
Amanda Bosworth, PhD in Russian History, Cornell University
Jenny Kaminer, Associate Professor of Russian, University of California-Davis
Francoise Rosset, Chair, Russian and Russian Studies and Coordinator of Women and Gender Studies
Emily Wang, Assistant Professor of Russian, University of Notre Dame
Kristy Ironside, Assistant Professor of Russian History, McGill University
Allan Reid, Professor of Russian Comparative Cultural Studies, University of New Brunswick
Gergana Hardy, sociology undergrad student at George Mason University
Donna Tussing Orwin, F.R.S.C., Professor and Chair, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Toronto
Amber Ivanov, PhD candidate, University of Ghent, Belgium
Jon Stone, Associate Professor of Russian and Chair of German, Russian and East Asian Languages, Franklin & Marshall College
Mariia Gorshkova, Stanford University, PhD Student, Dept. of Slavic Languages and Literatures
Alexander Cigale, Author of Russian Absurd
Irina Shevelenko, Professor of Russian, University of Wisconsin -- Madison
Thomads Newlin. Professor and Chair of Russian, Oberlin College
Chris Holmes, M.A. Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Toronto
C. M. Coppage, JD Candidate, UNC–Chapel Hill
Aliide Naylor, freelance journalist & author
Rebekah Anischenko, B.A. student, Pre-Social Work, Ohio University
Abigail Weil, Oxford University Press
Anna Berman, Associate Professor in the Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures, McGill University
Margaret Samu, Lecturer in Art and Design History and Theory, Parsons School of Design/The New School
Yana Gorokhovskaia, Independent Scholar
Edith W. Clowes, Brown-Forman Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Virginia
Melissa Bokovoy, Professor, University of New Mexico, President-Elect of Association for Women in Slavic Studies
Chris Moldes, MA Slavic Studies, Duke University '15
Tetyana Dzyadevych, Visiting Professor of Russian, New College of Florida
Milàn Czerny, M.A student, King's College London
Sibelan Forrester, Professor of Russian, Swarthmore College
Harry Leeds Master of Nursing Student, University of Minnesota
Ani Abrahamyan, PhD Student, Department of Slavic and East European Languages and Cultures, Indiana University
Zachary Hicks, PhD student, UC-Berkeley
Raisa Sidenova, PhD, Lecturer in Film, Newcastle University, UK
Alexey Golubev, Assistant Professor of History, University of Houston
Melissa Miller, Assistant Teaching Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies in Russian, University of Notre Dame
Jerome Katsell, Independent Scholar and Translator
Associate Professor, Texas Tech University
Tamara Trojanowska, Associate Professor, University of Toronto
Evgeniia Platonova, MA History student, Central European University
Laura Kline, Sr. Lecturer in Russian, Wayne State (on behalf of the WSU Russian Program)
Anthony Qualin, Associate Professor of Russian, Texas Tech University
Ludmila Shleyfer Lavine, Associate Professor, Director of Russian, Bucknell U
Deirdre Ruscitti Harshman, Assistant Professor of History, Christopher Newport University
Marian Schwartz, Russian literary translator
Cecil Leigh Wilson, Ph.D. graduate, University of Wisconsin Madison
Maksim Hanukai, Assistant Professor of Russian, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Kathryn David, PhD candidate in history, New York University
Sonja Poremsky
Еlena Hodgson, teacher of Spanish and French at Montessori Children's Center of Allen Park, Russian teacher at Community Education Program of Southgate, former head of Russian Tea at Wayne State University, Michigan
Assistant Professor of Polish
Anya Shatilova, PhD student, Ethnomusicology, Wesleyan University
SIlvia Giorgini, Senior Lecturer Wayne State University
Elena Pedigo Clark, Assistant Professor of Russian, Wake Forest University
Samuel Driver, PhD Candidate in Slavic Studies, Brown University
Stuart Goldberg, Associate Prof. of Russian, Georgia Institute of Technology
Deb Byrne, PhD
Lev Nikulin, Postgraduate Research Associate, Princeton University
Alexander Kondakov, assistant professor, University College Dublin
Grayson Petit
Kathleen Manukyan, Director, Summer Language Institute, University of Pittsburgh
Iryna Pugachova, Associate Professor of Russian Language (Adjunct), Tidewater Community College, Virginia Beach, VA
Mladen Uhlik, Associate Professor of Russian language, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
Kevin Moss, Jean Thomson Fulton Professor of Modern Languages and Literature, Middlebury College
Greg Ormiston, Visiting Teaching Assistant Professor of Russian, University of Denver
Alexander Spektor, Associate Professor of Russian at University of Georgia
Eileen Kane, Associate Professor of History, Connecticut College
Maggie Levantovskaya, lecturer, Santa Clara University
Viktoryia Baum, Russian linguist for NY state government
Daniil Leiderman, Instructional Assistant Professor, Texas A&M University
Lauren Hunt, Assistant Professor of Horn and Music History, Utah State University
Christine Jacobson, Assistant Curator of Modern Books and Manuscripts, Harvard University
Daniel Rodriguez
Amber Urich, Children’s Librarian, Dekalb County Public Library, Russian Major at Lawrence University ‘16
Robert Chandler (translator of Russian literature for NYRB Classics, Penguin Classics, Random House and others)
Dr Nicola Kozicharow, Research Fellow of Trinity Hall, Cambridge and Affiliated Lecturer in History of Art, University of Cambridge
Kevin M. F. Platt, Professor of Russian and East European Studies, University of Pennsylvania
Shannon Spasova, Assistant Professor, Michigan State University
Andrew Janco, Haverford College
Ashley McDermott, Linguistic Anthropology PhD Student, University of Michigan and 2017 REEES MA, UNC Chapel Hill
Instructor of Russian, Russian Language Coordinator, University of Oklahoma-Norman
Roman Utkin, Assistant Professor of Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies, Wesleyan University
Dr. Lila W. Zaharkob, Associate Professor of Russian and Director for the Russian and Central Eurasian Program, Wittenberg University, Springfeld, OH.
Roslyn Schindler, Associate Professor Emerita, German, Slavic, and Asian Studies, Wayne State University
Research Fellow, The University of Sydney
Yehudith Dashevsky, B.A. alumna University of Pennsylvania
Olga Sheikina, language teacher and Russian speaker
Rebecca Erickson, PhD Candidate, Universiteit van Amsterdam
Rochelle G. Ruthchild, Center Associate, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Harvard University
Katarzyna Romaniuk, prospective student
Kristine Shmakov, Instructor of Russian and Russian Department Chair, Portland Community College
Bridget Stonchus, M.A. in Russian and East European Studies
Peter Holquist, Assoc. Professor, History, University of Pennsylvania (History and Slavic BA, Indiana University, 1986)
Katherine Zubovich, Assistant Professor of History, Ryerson University
Elizabeth Lee Roby, Upper School Russian Teacher, Friends School of Baltimore
Evan Johnson, Head of US Operations, Admitad
Michael Katz, Professor Emeritus of Russian and East European Studies, Middlebury College
David Han '19, B.A. in Russian and Political Science, Williams College
Katherine Graney, Professor of Political Science, Skidmore College
Quinn Dombrowski, Academic Technology Specialist in the Division of Literatures, Cultures, and Languages; Stanford University
Marc L. Greenberg, Professor of Slavic Languages, U. of Kansas
Emmylou de Meij, Fulbright ETA Alumna Latvia
Julian Gonzales-Poirier, Student of Russian Language and Literature at Middlebury College
Jonathan Z. Ludwig, Teaching Assistant Professor of Russian
Bella Grigoryan, Associate Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Pittsburgh
Olga Seliazniova, PhD Candidate, USC
Cammeron Girvin, PhD, UC Berkeley, Slavic Languages & Literatures
Jennifer Sheridan Moss, Associate Professor of Classics, Wayne State University
President, Canadian Association of Slavists, and Professor, Department of History, Concordia University (Montreal)
Michael Dennis Martin, PhD Student, University of Michigan
Alexander McConnell, Ph.D. Candidate in History, University of Michigan
Dr. Amber Aulen, Instructor of Russian, University of Toronto
Russell Scott Valentino, Professor of Slavic and East European Languages and Cultures, Indiana University
Leonidas Pittos PhD, Senior Lecturer in Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies, Wayne State University
Yulia Kim, PhD student, Columbia University, Slavic Department
John Vsetecka, PhD Candidate, Michigan State University
Layla Guest, Russian Studies Student, UCL SSEES
Cecilia King, M.A. student, Department of Slavic and Eurasian Languages and Literatures, University of Kansas
Dr. Maria Khotimsky, Senior Lecturer in Russian, Global Languages, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Maria Guzenko, independent Russian translator
Vincent Bohlinger, Professor & Director of Film Studies, Rhode Island College
Dr. Sean McDaniel
Johannah White, OER & Instruction Librarian, Baton Rouge Community College
Robert A. Rothstein, Amesbury Professor of Polish Studies Emeritus, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Dr. Lisa McLendon, KU School of Journalism/Affiliated Faculty, KU CREES
Alyssa DeBlasio, Associate Professor of Russian, Dickinson College
Lydia Roberts, PhD Student, UCLA
Olga Zilberbourg, writer and editor of Punctured Lines
Glenn Kranking, Associate Professor and Director of Russian and East European Studies, Gustavus Adolphus College
Shamaila Anjum, MSc in Economic and Social History
Saeed Khan, Director, Global Studies, Wayne State University
Leah Goldman, Visiting Assistant Professor of History, Washington & Jefferson College
Renee Perelmutter, Slavic and Eurasian Languages and Literatures, University of Kansas
Devin McFadden, PhD student, Slavic and Eurasian Languages and literatures
Rachael Neidinger, PhD Student, Harvard University
Shannon Hill, LCSW and LMSW in Michigan and Illinois
Anysia Mayer PhD, Professor, Educational Leadership, California State University Stanislaus
Olivia Crough, graduate student, Harvard University
Dr Rachel Morley, Associate Professor of Russian Cinema and Culture, University College London, School of Slavonic and East European Studies (UCL SSEES)
Svetlana Rasmussen, PhD, Adjunct Instructor, University of Guam
Vitaly Chernetsky, Associate Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures; Director, Center for Russian, East European & Eurasian Studies, University of Kansas
Roy Chan, Associate Professor of East Asian Languages and Literatures, Participating Faculty, Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies, University of Oregon
Dr Josephine von Zitzewitz, Marie Curie Fellow in Russian Literature, UiT The Arctic University of Norway
Olesya Kisselev, Assistant Professor, University of Texas San Antonio
Clarissa Ibarra, PhD Candidate, UC Berkeley
Daniel Brooks, Visiting Assistant Professor of Russian, Franklin & Marshall College
Dildora Damisch, program supporter
SA Karpukhin, Lecturer, Dept. of German, Nordic, and Slavic, UW-Madison
Jessica Graybill
Il’ia Karagulin, Slavic Studies PhD student at Yale University
Fabrizio Fenghi, Assistant Professor of Slavic Studies, Brown University
K. T., PhD Student, Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Toronto
Karen Stidd, Retired landscape supervisor, Stanford University
Matthew Wisneski, current masters candidate in Eurasian, Russian, and East European Studies, Georgetown University
Erin Coyne
José Vergara, Visiting Assistant Professor of Russian, Swarthmore College
Amber N. Nickell, PhD Candidate, Department of History, Purdue University
Liliya Dashevski, graduate student, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Yale University
Rebecca Wells, Lecturer in Russian, University of California, San Diego
Katya Hokanson, Associate Professor of Russian and Comparative Literature, University of Oregon
Kathleen Conti, PhD Candidate, UT Austin
John Jutila, Russian Linguist, U.S. Army
Gabrielle Cornish, University of Rochester
Ewa Malachowska-Pasek, Ladislav Matějka Collegiate Lecturer, University of Michigan
Veronika Ambros, Professor Emerita, University of Toronto
Ryan Cook, Assistant Professor of Film and East Asian Studies, Emory University
Nicholas Kiene, B.A. in Russian Studies, University of Notre Dame
Roza Starodubtseva, Russian language lecturer, UNCW
Arlene Forman, Emerita, Department of Russian Language, Literature and Culture, Oberlin College
Claire Roosien, Assistant Professor of History, Providence College
Mary A. Nicholas, Professor of Russian, Lehigh University
Nariman Skakov, Assistant Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Stanford University
John MacKay, Chair, Slavic Languages and Literatures, Yale University
Brooke Mackowiak, incoming History Ph.D. student at Rutgers University
Rebecca Stasko, Wayne State University alumni - Slavic Languages and Literature degree, living in Siberia
Scott Haggart, UT grad, Russian
Marina Madorskaya, Federal Government, Analyst
Molly T. Blasing, Assistant Professor of Russian Studies, University of Kentucky
Sharon Kowalsky, Department Head of History, Texas A&M University-Commerce
Simon Ertz, PhD, Centennial Scholar & Librarian, Hoover Institution Library & Archives, Stanford University
Stephen M. Dickey, Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Kansas
Chloe Moreno
Maria Hristova, Assistant Professor of Russian, Lewis & Clark College
Ekaterina Babintseva, Visiting Assistant Professor and Hixon Riggs Early Career Fellow, Harvey Mudd College
Julia Chadaga, Associate Professor and Chair of Russian Studies, Macalester College
Aaron Schwartzbaum, Eurasia Program Fellow, Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI)
Kathleen Scollins, Associate Professor of Russian, University of Vermont
Olga Klimova, University of Pittsburgh
Sara Ruiz, graduate student, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Michigan
Mykah Jones, JD candidate, Mitchell Hamline School of Law
Masha Shpolberg, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, Wellesley College
Luz Forero, Adjunct Faculty, Department of Modern Languages, University of La Verne
Yana Zlochistaya, PhD student, UC Berkeley
Alexandra Hidalgo, Assistant Professor of Writing, Rhetoric, and American Cultures, Michigan State University
Olga Savchenko, PhD student, University of Kansas
John O'Neill, Russian Studies Major, Lawrence University
Nikki Lohr, M.A. Student, Middlebury College School of Russian
Roman Ivashkiv, Lecturer in Slavic Lang and Lit & Translation Studies / Director of the Ukrainian Studies Program, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Lidia Tripiccione, Ph.D. student, Slavic Department, Princeton
Alyssa Park, Associate Professor, University of Iowa
Gretchen Aiyangar, Language Program Coordinator, the Less-Commonly-Taught Languages (LCTL) Center, University of Pittsburgh
Skyler Slater, graduate of the University of Kentucky Russian Studies Program
Senior faculty member, Brandeis University
Olga Kolomeitsev
Dr. Natalia Aleksiun, Professor of Modern Jewish History, Touro College
Stephanie L.Merkel, Associate Professor of Comparative Literature, Ohio Wesleyan University
Caroline Murray, Former Fulbright ETA to Uzbekistan and B.A. in Russian
Nicole Harry, PhD candidate UNC Chapel Hill, Russian History
Jeanmarie Rouhier-Willoughby, Professor of Russian, Folklore and Linguistics, University of Kentucky
Victoria Juharyan, Visiting Assistant Professor, Middlebury College
Katya Burvikova, Lecturer, University of New Hampshire
Martha Dage, Former Russian Student, Former ESL Instructor Schoolcraft College
Kate Holland, Associate Professor of Russian Literature, University of Toronto
Benjamin D. Allen, attorney.
Instructor, Wayne State University
Erik McDonald, Lecturer of Russian, University of Minnesota
Georgii Martirosian, M.A. student, Comparative Literature Department, Russian State University for Humanities
Albert Ulwelling: Russian Student at Lawrence University and recipient of State Department NSLY award for intensive Russian study in Chisinau, Moldova
Denise Hoppess, CEO, American English Language Services
Dr. Brittany R. Roberts, Independent Scholar (formerly of University of California, Riverside)
Nadja Berkovich,Teaching Assistant Prof., Univ. of Arkansas
Nathaniel Wood, Associate Director, Orthodox Christian Studies Center, Fordham University
Walker Griggs, Ohio native and PhD student in Russian Literature, University of Southern California
Nancy Ries, Professor of Anthropology and member of Russian Studies, Christian A. Johnson Endeavor Chair in Liberal Arts Studies and Director, Division of University Studies
Christine Evans, Associate Professor of History, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Maddy Brotherton, Lawrence University alum, Russian language minor
Eric Naiman, Departments of Slavic Languages and Comparative Literature, University of California, Berkeley
Christina Manetti, Ph.D., independent scholar, language teacher and translator
Amelia Glaser, Associate Professor of Russian and Comparative Literature, UC San Diego
D. Brian Kim, Assistant Professor of Russian and East European Studies, University of Pennsylvania
Diana Kravchenko, Russian Language Professor and Lead Faculty at College of Southern Nevada
Lynne deBenedette, Senior Lecturer in Slavic Studies, Brown University
Laura Olson Osterman, Professor of Slavic Studies, University of Colorado, Boulder
Zach Rewinski, Instructor of Russian, Colorado State University
Dr Connor Doak, Lecturer in Russian, University of Bristol
Joey Cherney, J.D., Harvard Law School
Carol Apollonio, Professor of the Practice of Slavic And Eurasian Studies, Duke University, Alumna, Ohio University Honors Tutorial College, 1977
Irina Kogel, Lecturer in Russian, Davidson College
prof. dr. Milena Mileva BLAZIC, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
Dr Maria Belova, Russian Teaching Fellow, Warwick University, UK
Dr Elwira Grossman, Stepek Lecturer in Polish Studies and Comparative Literature, University of Glasgow, UK
Dr. Irene Ivantcheva, Asst. Professor in French, U of Cincinnati
Lecturer in Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian, Columbia University
Angela MacDougall, M.S. Global Studies & International Affairs, Northeastern University
Andrea Gullotta, Lecturer in Russian, University of Glasgow
Linda J. Speck, Ph.D., retired faculty from Wayne State University
James Rann, Lecturer in Russian, University of Glasgow
Rossen Djagalov, Assistant Professor, New York University
Ksenia Radchenko, Ph.D., Slavic Languages and Literatures, USC
Siobhan Hearne, Leverhulme Early Career Fellow, Durham University (UK)
Mariya Ivancheva, Lecturer, University of Liverpool
Shamil Khairov, Lecturer in Russian, University of Glasgow
Enrique Santos, Associate Professor of Russian Language and Culture, Complutense University of Madrid (Spain)
Jan Surman, Research Fellow, National Research University Higher School of Economics
Assistant Professor of English, Lingnan University, Hong Kong
Scout Mills, PhD student, Department of Slavic Languages, Columbia University
Neil Robinson, Professor of Comparative Politics, University of Limerick
John Bates, Lecturer in Polish, SMLC, University of Glasgow
Dr Adelina Angusheva-Tihanov, Russian and East European Studies, University of Manchester, UK
Anita Hrnjak, senior lecturer of Russian language at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb, Croatia
Pavel Khazanov, Assistant Professor of Russian, Rutgers University
Professor Galin Tihanov, Queen Mary University of London
Victoria Dearman, Vice President, Dearman Systems Inc
Dominic Leppla, Dept. of Film, Television & Media Arts, Quinnipiac University
Daniel Green, Teaching Associate in Russian, University of Cambridge
Justin Wilmes, Assistant Professor of Russian, East Carolina University
Dr Margarita Vaysman (MPhil, DPhil, Oxon), Lecturer in Russian, University of St Andrews
Thomas P. Hodge, Professor of Russian, Wellesley College
Robert Crane, PhD, Valdosta, Georgia
Natalia Vygovskaia, PhD student, Brown University
Cynthia Ruder, Professor of Russian Studies, University of Kentucky
Jennifer Tishler, Associate Director of CREECA, UW-Madison
Thomas Feerick, PhD student, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Northwestern University
Stephanie Richards, Adjunct Professor, Department of English, John Cabot University, Rome
Vladimir Alexandrov, B. E. Bensinger Professor Emeritus of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Yale University
Kevin Corrigan, Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Interdisciplinary Humanities, Middle Eastern and South Asian Studies Department, Emory UniversityDepart
Chas Cassidy, M.A. in Slavic from Northwestern University, MLIS candidate at University of Illinois
Abigail Luddy-Dunn, McGill University
Leta Nikulshina
John Stachelski, Graduate Student, Yale University
Kevin Clark, USA (Retired)
Maggie L, Grant Writer, Welcome Project PA
Jokubas Salyga, Lecturer in Politics, Nottingham Trent University
Besnik Pula, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Virginia Tech
Philippa Hetherington, Lecturer in Modern Eurasian History, University College London
Michele A Berdy, Arts Editor, The Moscow Times
Ingrid Kleespies, Associate Professor, Russian Studies, University of Florida
Jasmine Trinks, PhD Candidate, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Northwestern University
Lyndsay Miller, Tutor, University of Glasgow
Sean Guillory, Digital Scholarship Curator, REEES University of Pittsburgh, SRB Podcast host
Ainsley Morse, Assistant Professor of Russian, Dartmouth College
Chulhyun Hwang, Ph.D. student, Department of Slavic and Eurasian languages and literatures, University of Kansas
Gina Peirce, Center for Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies, University of Pittsburgh
Maya Vinokour, Department of Russian & Slavic Studies, New York University
Sean Griffin, Postdoctoral Fellow, Dartmouth College
Emily Walton, B.A. Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies, Miami University ('16), M.A. Eurasian, Russian, and East European Studies, Georgetown University ('19)
Regina Kazyulina, Lecturer, Bates College
Dr Nari Shelekpayev, Associate Professor in History, European University at St. Petersburg, Russia
Victoria Somoff, Associate Professor of Russian, Dartmouth College
Kimberly Sirb
Elizaveta Mankovskaya, PhD student, Slavic Department, Princeton University
Melissa Porterfield, Lecturer in Theatre History and Directing, Valdosta State University
Emma Claire Foley, disarmament policy specialist
Lindsay Ceballos, Assistant Professor of Russian and East European Studies, Lafayette College
Lisa C. Hayden, literary translator
Angelina Ilieva, Instructional Professor, University of Chicago
Mary Grayson Brook, PhD student, Princeton University Department of German
Rachel A. Sims, PhD Candidate English Literature, The University of Arizona
Nova Kaplun, recent graduate
Dr Rachel Morley, Associate Professor of Russian Cinema & Culture, University College London, School of Slavonic & East European Studies, UK
Orchestral Librarian, Indiana University
Florence Helbing, PhD student, Department of Slavic Languages & Literatures, University of Pittsburgh
Yuliya Ilchuk, Assistant Professor, Stanford University
Larisa Fialkova, Associate Professor of Russian and Comparative Literature, University of Haifa, Israel
Klara Buda, PhD candidate, the European Graduate School, Division of Philosophy, Art & Critical Thought Alter Kehr 20, CH-3953 Leuk-Stadt.
Kevin Rothrock, Meduza, Managing Editor
Mera Cronbaugh, Undergraduate Student, Department of Slavic and East European Languages and Cultures, Ohio State University
Adam E. Leeds, Assistant Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Columbia University
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David L Cooper, Associate Professor of Slavic, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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Katherine E. Young, Poet/Translator from Russian
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Anika Walke, Associate Professor of History, Washington University in St. Louis
Charlotte Rottiers, PhD student, KULeuven
Joe Crescente, media literacy specialist at American Center, Moscow, Russia
Monica Popescu, Associate Professor of English and William Dawson Scholar of African Literatures, McGill University
Thomas Jesús Garza, Associate Professor of Slavic and Eurasian Studies, University of Texas at Austin
Benjamin Jens, Assistant Professor of Russian & Slavic Studies, University of Arizona
Anand Dibble, graduate student, Stanford University
Irina Dubinina, Associate Professor of Russian, Brandeis University
Dragana Obradovic, Associate Professor, University of Toronto,
Alan Maričić, independent historian
Dr. Laura Shear Urbaszewski, Instructor of Russian, DePaul University
Elena Monastireva-Ansdell, Assistant Professor of Russian, Colby College
James McGavran, Associate Professor of Russian, Kenyon College
Danko Šipka, Professor of Slavic Langauges
Megan Kennedy, PhD Candidate, University of Madison Wisconsin
Megan Luttrell, PhD in Slavic languages and literature from the University of Kansas
Teaching Assistant Professor of Russian, UNC-Chapel Hill
Anastasiia Gordiienko, Visiting Assistant Professor of Russian, University of Arizona
Ryan Rowe, M.M.student, University of Minnesota. B.A. Slavic Languages & Cultures, UNC-Chapel Hill
Susanne Fusso, Professor of Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies, Wesleyan University
David Powelstock, Assoc. Prof. of Russian & Comparative Literature, Brandeis University
Diana Sacilowski, PhD Candidate, UIUC
Alexander Burry, Associate Professor of Slavic and East European Languages and Cultures, The Ohio State University
Elena Mariakhina, student, M.A. in Slavic Languages and Literatures, Russian State University for the Humanities (Moscow, Russia)
Michael Furman
Edward Tyerman, Assistant Professor, University of California, Berkeley
Katherine Bowers, Assistant Professor of Slavic Studies, University of British Columbia
Yuri Corrigan, Associate Professor, Boston University
Natalya Kuznetsova, Lecturer of Russian, University of Utah
Valeria Sobol, Associate Professor and Head, Dept of Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Bonnie Krejci, PhD student, Department of Linguistics, Stanford University
Laura Loth, Associate Professor of French, Rhodes College
Lachlan Bebout, Alumnus, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of California, Berkeley
Jessie Labov, Director of Academic and Institutional Development, McDaniel College Budapest
Amy Jones, PhD Candidate, Carolina-Duke German Program
Aleksandra Marciniak, PhD Student, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Michigan
Nancy Condee, Director, Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies, University of Pittsburgh
Aglaya Glebova, Assistant Professor, History of Art, UC Berkeley
Kathryn Cook, B.A. History and Russian, Tulane University 2019
Giulia Dossi, Ph.D. Candidate, Slavic Department, Harvard University
Sidney Dement, Associate Professor of Russian Studies, Binghamton University
Sumanth Gopinath, Associate Professor of Music Theory, University of Minnesota Twin Cities
Nadezhda Braun, BA in Russian, University of Notre Dame
Anastasiya Osipova, Assistant Professor of Russian, Department of Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Colorado Boulder
Jason Cieply, Assistant Professor, Hamilton College
Iryna Hniadzko, lecturer in Russian, Johns Hopkins University
Peter Weisensel, Emeritus Professor of History, Macalester College
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Comparative Literature, NYU
Katya Jordan, Assistant Professor of Russian, Brigham Young University
Anne Lounsbery, Professor and Chair, Department of Russian & Slavic Studies, New York University
Jillian Porter, Assistant Professor of Russian, University of Colorado, Boulder
Professor of Sociology, Williams College
Jordan Gans-Morse, Associate Professor of Political Science, Northwestern University
Erin Hutchinson, Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard University Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies
George Gasyna, Associate Professor, Slavic Langs and Lits, Univ. of Illinois
Allison Leigh, SLEMCO/LEQSF Regents Endowed Professor in Art & Architecture, University of Louisiana at Lafayette
Evan Alterman, PhD Candidate, Slavic Languages and Literatures, Stanford University
Jenifer Presto, Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and Russian /Director of Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies, University of Oregon
Jenny Barrier
Susan Smith-Peter, Professor of History and Director of the History MA Program, College of Staten Island/CUNY (OU grad)
Tim Harte, Professor of Russian, Bryn Mawr College
Jessica Ginocchio, PhD student, Comparative Literature (Russian), UNC-Chapel Hill
Franklin Sciacca, Associate Professor of Russian (emeritus), Hamilton College
David A. Goldfarb, Ph.D., Independent Scholar, Polish Literature
Peter Thomas, Associate Professor of Russian, Lawrence University
Judith Record McKinney, Associate Professor of Economics Emerita, Hobart and William Smith Colleges
Edythe C. Haber, Professor Emerita of Russian, University of Massachusetts Boston
MayaLisa Holzman, PhD, Independent Scholar
Alice Nakhimovsky, Distinguished Professor of Jewish Studies and Russian and Eurasian Studies, Colgate University
Ania Aizman, Michigan Society of Fellows and University of Michigan Slavic Department
Oleksandra Wallo, Assistant Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Kansas
Nicole Möller Gonzalez, PhD Student, Syracuse University
Sara Dickinson, Associate Professor of Russian Literature and Culture, Università di Genova
Svetlana Vassileva-Karagyozova, Associate Professor of Polish Language and Literature, University of Kansas
Cris Martin, Davis Center for Russia and Eurasian Studies, Harvard University
Alaina DeLeo, MA Student, KU, Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies
Yuliya Komska, Associate Prof. of German, Dartmouth College
Prof Eliot Borenstein, Russian & Slavic Studies, NYU
Sergei Bogatyrev, Associate Professor in Early Russian History, University College London
Shoshana Keller, Professor of Russian and Eurasian History, Hamilton College
Liz Ewaskio, Instructor of Russian, University of Utah
Piotr Axer, PhD Candidate, Brown University
Marie-Alice L'Heureux, Professor of Architecture, University of Kansas
Kristine Shmakov, Instructor of Russian and Russian Department Chair, Portland Community College
Ana Berdinskikh, PhD Candidate, Yale University
Kristen Welsh, Associate Professor of Russian Area Studies, Hobart & William Smith Colleges
Joanna Kot, Professor of Russian and Polish, Northern Illinois University
Holly Myers, Assistant Professor of Russian, University of Delaware
Anastasia Kostetskaya, Associate Professor of Russian, University of Hawaii, Manoa
Assel Almuratova, PhD student
Robert Person, Associate Professor of International Relations, United States Military Academy
Mark Eliot Nuckols, Ind. Scholar, translator for watchingamerica.com, Rights in Russia, Slavic Ph.D. from Ohio State U.
Gregory Freidin, Professor Emeritus, Slavic, DLCL, Stanford University
Liudmila Klimanova, Assistant Professor, University of Arizona
Professor Russell E. Martin, Westminster College, New Wilmington, PA
Frederick Corney, Professor of History, William & Mary
Erik R. Scott, Associate Professor of History, University of Kansas
Justine Buck Quijada, Associate Professor, Religious Studies, Wesleyan University
Hans J. Rindisbacher, Professor of German and Russian, Pomona College
Jon Giullian. Librarian for Slavic & Eurasian Studies., University of Kansas
Anastasia Pease, Senior Lecturer, Union College
Tom Roberts, Assistant Professor of Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies, Smith College
Natalia Forrat, Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Michigan
Sarah Ampolsk, graduate student, School of International Service, American University
Ilona Sotnikova, PhD candidate at UW-Madison
Alex Averbuch, PhD Candidate, the University of Toronto
Dr Sam Beaton, PhD in Czech Studies, University of Glasgow
Joan Neuberger, Professor of History, The University of Texas at Austin
Matthew Pyskir, B.A. Student Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies, University of Kansas
Alec Wood, M.A. student, Comparative and Regional Studies, American University
Boris Stepanov, Leading research fellow, Higher school of economics (Moscow)
John G. Garrard, Professor Emeritus of Russian Studies, University of Arizona
Abigail Robson
Erika Haber, Professor of Russian, Syracuse University
Riley Ossorgin, Director of Russian Program in Modern Languages and Literatures, Fordham University
Dr. Inna Tigountsova, Lecturer in Russian, Queen Mary University of London
Alexis Mrachek, M.A. Student, Center for Eurasian, Russian, and East European Studies, Georgetown University
Karen Auerbach, Associate Professor of History, University of North Carolina
Genese Grill, PhD in Germanic Literatures & Languages
Erica Camisa Morale, PhD candidate, USC
Katherine Antonova, Associate Professor of History, Queens College, City University of New York
Paula Michaels, Associate Professor of History, Monash University
Anna Borovskaya-Ellis, Assistant Professor, University of Virginia
David H. Mould. Professor Emeritus, Media Arts & Studies, Ohio University
Marjorie Mandelstam Balzer, Editor Anthropology and Archeology of Eurasia
Ilya Kliger, Associate Prof, Russian Studies, NYU
Dr. Beth Holmgren, Professor of Polish and Russian Studies, Department of Slavic and Eurasian Studies, Duke University
Daniel W. Pratt, Assistant Professor of Slavic Languages and Culture, McGill University
Wilson Bell, Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy, History, and Politics, Thompson Rivers University
Daria Ezerova, Postdoctoral Research Scholar, Harriman Institute at Columbia University
Inés García de la Puente, Research Assistant Professor, Boston University
Samantha Hentschke, University of Missouri Russian Program alumni
John Romero, Postdoctoral Fellow, Russian Studies Workshop, Indiana University - Bloomington
Tatyana Gershkovich, Carnegie Mellon University
James Nealy, PhD Candidate, History, Duke University
Andrew Chapman, University of Texas at San Antonio
Kenzy Seifert, A.M. Candidate in Russian, Eastern European, and Central Asian Studies at Harvard University
Margaret Godwin-Jones, Ph.D. student, Department of Slavic and Eurasian languages, University of Kansas
David Herman, Associate Professor and Chair, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Virginia
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Sydney Shiller, B.A. student, Russian Studies, McGill University
Lisa Wakamiya, Associate Professor of Slavic
Timothy Model, Havighurst Fellow, Miami University
Benjamin Lussier, Ph.D. Candidate, Dept. of Slavic Languages, Columbia University
Stone Sudyk, B.A. student, Global Studies: War & Peace, Ohio University
Jennifer Marston William, Head of the School of Languages and Cultures, Purdue University
Rebecca Kay, Professor of Russian Gender Studies, University of Glasgow
Miriam Neirick, Professor of History, California State University, Northridge
Iverson Long, Diplomat and Attorney
Amanda Murphy, Assistant Professor, Nazarbayev University
Amb. (ret.) Carey Cavanaugh, Professor of Diplomacy and Conflict Resolution, Patterson School of Diplomacy, University of Kentucky
Sarah J. Young, Associate Professor of Russian, School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London
Daniel Nexon, Department of Government and School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University
Maximilian Hess, Eurasia Fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute
Catriona Kelly, Professor of Russian, University of Oxford, UK, Past President, Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies
Christopher Hagan, MPA feature
Professor - Alec Nove Chair in Russian and East European Studies
Manu, PhD student in History, Cornell University
Anoushka Alexander-Rose
Ellen Rutten, Professor of Literature, University of Amsterdam
Anne O. Fisher, Translator, Senior Lecturer in Translation and Interpreting Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Vadim Shkolnikov, Dotsent, Department of Philology, NRU Higher School of Economics, St. Petersburg, Russia
Katerina Pavlidi, PhD candidate in Slavonic Studies, University of Cambridge
Artemy Kalinovsy, Senior Lecturer, University of Amsterdam
Stefan Lacny, PhD student, University of Cambridge
Vanessa Prolow, translator
John Narins, Writer
Jonathan Flatley, Professor, English Department, Wayne State University
Gustaf Schwen, previous student of Russian
Brendan Mooney, Visiting Assistant Professor, Miami University
Benjamin Sigelman, English Teacher, Williamsburg Charter High School
Mark Conliffe, Professor of Russian, University of Calgary
Christine D. Worobec, Distinguished Research Professor, Northern Illinois University
Zsuzsanna Magdo, Associate Director, Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies, University of Pittsburgh
John Bartle, Associate Professor of Russian, Hamilton College
Irina A. Dolgova, Slavic Languages Program Coordinator, Yale University
Zachary Kelly, Assistant Director, ISEEES, UC Berkeley
Terri Peterson, Russian Area Studies Alumna, Wellesley College
Renee Stillings, Director, The School of Russian and Asian Studies
Svitlana Rogovyk, Slavic Language Program Director, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Ali khaledi Nasab, post doc
Mikhail Krutikov, Professor and Chair, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Michigan
Julie Hemment, Professor of Anthropology, UMass Amherst
Benjamin Paloff, Associate Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures and of Comparative Literature, University of Michigan
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Jean Peterson, Associate Professor of English, Bucknell University
Donald J. Raleigh, J. R. Judson Distinguished Professor of History, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Alisa Lin, Assistant Professor of Slavic and East European Languages and Cultures, The Ohio State University
Elizabeth Morrow Clark, Professor of History, West Texas A&M University
Stephen Badalyan Riegg, Assistant Professor, Texas A&M University
Piotr Westwalewicz PhD, Polish Language and Culture Lecturer IV and Undergraduate Advisor, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Nadia Vinogradova, PhD Candidate, Slavic Languages and Literatures, Northwestern University
Jillian Costello, PhD Student, Stanford University
Virginia Olmsted McGraw, PhD Candidate, Russian and East European History, UNC-Chapel Hill
Pennsylvania State University
Betsy Jones Hemenway, Director and Senior Lecturer in Women's/Gender Studies and History, Loyola University Chicago
Lidia Levkovitch, PhD Candidate, Comparative Literature, Rutgers University
Robyn Jensen, Visiting Assistant Professor, Dept. of German and Russian, Pomona College
Alex Braslavsky, M.Phil. Candidate, University of Oxford
Robert Gibb, Lecturer in Sociology, University of Glasgow
Mariya Lomakina, Ph.D, Instructor, Honors College, Montana State University
Veronika Egorova, Senior Preceptor in Slavic Languages, Harvard Univeristy
Emily Laskin, PhD student, UC Berkeley Dept. of Comparative Literature
Dr. Jessica Gerschultz, Associate Professor of African and African-American Studies, University of Kansas
David Rivera, Visiting Assistant Professor, Hamilton College
Anna Shkireva, PhD student, University of New Mexico
Andrew Ringlee, Department of Defense
Martha M. F. Kelly, Associate Professor of Russian, University of Missouri
Jaroslaw Piekalkiewicz, Professor Emeritus Of Political Sciecne anmd Russian and East European Studies
Elena Vasileva, PhD student, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Toronto
Kirsten Rutsala, Department of Modern and Classical Languages and Literatures, Virginia Tech
Chad Kahanek, Border patrol
Charles Springer, Russian Major, Dartmouth College
Chris Pike, Visiting Assistant Professor of Russian
Jonathan Brown Moscow Correspondent Agence France Presse
Yelena Zotova, Associate Teaching Professor of Russian
Megan Benka
Beth, OU Alumna and National Security Education Program Scholarship Awardee for Russian Language Study
Nurlan Kabylkhak, PhD Student, UNC-Chapel Hill
Angela Brintlinger, Professor and Director of Center for Slavic and East European Studies, Ohio State University
Bryan Matte, student at Hamilton College
Anthony Pearce, Graduate Student, National Research University Higher School of Economics
Emma Belanger, Hamilton College Class of 2020, BA in Russian Studies
Anika Tullos, B.A. Student, Russian Language, Hamilton College
Rachel Hutchison, B.A. Russian, The Ohio State University
Nick Lyon, Student at Hamilton College
Hamilton College Student
Sarah Sandison, student, Hamilton College
Cooper Lynn, M.A. student, Department of Slavic, East European, Eurasian Languages and Cultures, UCLA
Agnia Ivanov, Russian Studies Minor, Hamilton College
Max Roder, Account Executive, Ogilvy
Martin Ponti, Assistant Professor of Hispanic Studies, Washington College
Alexander I. Pereswetoff-Morath, Ph.D., Reader in Slavonic Studies, Stockholm University, Sweden
John Pendergast, Associate Professor and Russian Program Director, Department of Foreign Languages, West Point - United States Military Academy
Miriam Finkelstein, Assistant Professor, University of Graz, Austria
Sara Orr, Visiting Assistant Professor of Russian, Willamette University
Cierra Jay, Russian Minor, Trinity University
Karina McCorkle, PhD candidate in Slavic Languages and Literatures, UC Berkeley
Alla Nedashkivska, Professor of Slavic Applied Linguistics, Associate Chair Undergraduate, Dept. of Modern Languages and Cultural Studies, University of Alberta (Canada)
Jeanne Willcoxon, Assistant Professor of Theatre, Hamilton College
Marie Shelley, Teacher
Lynne Ikach, Professor of Russian, Cornell College
Mieka Erley, Asst. Professor of Russian and Eurasian Studies, Colgate University
Desislava Lilova, Associate Professor of Cultural History, Sofia University, Bulgaria
Jenifer Parks, Associate Professor of History, Rocky Mountain College
Marko Dumančić, Associate Professor, Director CITL, Western Kentucky University
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Vadim Shneyder, Assistant Professor of Russian, UCLA
Zachary J. Deming, PhD student, Department of Slavic Languages, Columbia University
Max Gordon, PhD candidate, Northwestern University
Dr. Victoria Legkikh , University of Vienna
Ramona Kappelman Kline, B.A. Russian Language, Portland State University
Anna Karpusheva, PhD Candidate, The University of Kansas
Natalya Sukhonos, PhD, Independent Scholar
Henryk Baran, O'Leary Professor of Russian Studies, Emeritus, University at Albany
Ben Sutcliffe, Professor of Russian, Miami University
William Mills Todd III, Research Professor, Harvard University
Sergei Sychov, Instructor of Russian, Portland State Univeristy
K. Maya Larson, M.A. in REEES and Ph.D. candidate, University of Oregon
Dr. Zakhar Ishov, post-doctoral research fellow, IRES Institute for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Uppsala University
Jeanette Owen, Ph.D.; Director, Critical Language Scholarship Program, American Councils for International Education
Natalie McCauley, Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Richmond
Grace Mitchell (BA in Russian Studies, University of Chicago)
Valeria Sajez, Lecturer of Russian, Lafayette College
Michael Coates, Ohio native and Ph.D. candidate, University of California, Berkeley
Irina Denischenko, Mellon Assistant Professor of Russian Culture, Vanderbilt U
Yves Wienecke, Russian Flagship Student, Portland State University
Michael F. Meyer, PhD Candidate of Environmental Sciences, Washington State University
Victoria Thorstensson, Assistant Professor, Nazarbayev University, Kazakhstan
Danielle Covolo, PhD Student, Indiana University of Pennsylvania
Lara Ravitch, Dean, Russian Language Village, Concordia Language Villages
Diane Nemec Ignashev, Class of 1941 Professor of Russian and the Liberal Arts, Carleton College; Professor in the Department of Communication Studies, Lomonosov Moscow State University
Eva Thomas, Alumna, UC Berkeley Department of Slavic Languages & Literatures
Soelve I. Curdts, Professor of Comparative Literature, Heinrich Heine University Duesseldorf
Robert H. Greene, Associate Professor of History and Co-Director of Russian Studies, University of Montana
Nick Gossett, Assistant Professor of Russian, University of South Alabama
Polina Dimova, Assistant Professor of Russian, University of Denver
Betsy Prytup (2001 graduate of Ohio University with a B.A. in history, Russian minor) now a resident of Karelia, Russia
Rósa Magnúsdóttir, Associate Professor of History, Aarhus University, Denmark
Dr Helena Duffy, Collegium Researcher, University of Turku
Kevin Bartig, Professor, Michigan State University
Anna Alsufieva, Assistant Professor of Russian, Portland State University
Reed Johnson, Lecturer, Russian Department, Bowdoin College
Todd Armstrong, Professor, Grinnell College
Toni Cross, JD Candidate, Vanderbilt University Law School
Dr. Hannah Chapman, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Miami University
A. Kate White, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Western Michigan University
Student, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Alina Klin, Senior Lecturer, WSU, Detroit
Boris Wolfson, Associate Professor and Chair of Russian, Amherst College
Anna Bloom, Graduate Student, Russian and East European Institute and Department of Slavic and East European Languages and Cultures, Indiana University
Chloë Kitzinger, Asst. Professor of Russian, Rutgers University
Neil Bermel, Professor of Russian and Slavonic Studies, University of Sheffield (UK)
Irina Erman, Assistant Professor of Russian, College of Charleston
Ms. Cynthia Rennolds, Master of Science of International Business
Basil Lvoff, alumnus of the CUNY Graduate Center Comparative Literature Program
Jess Jensen Mitchell, PhD Candidate Slavic Languages and Literatures, Harvard University
Naomi Caffee, Assistant Professor of Russian and Humanities, Reed College
Jenya Mironava, PhD Candidate, Harvard University
Grace E. Fielder, Professor Emerita, Russian & Slavic Studies University of Arizona
Sara Shedroff, Hamilton College
Valentina Iepuri, Associate Professor of Modern Languages, University of Mississippi
Megan Blackwell, BA Russian Literature, Culture, and Translation student, Kent State University
Alexander Perpeliev, PhD candidate, Sofia University
Melissa Bokovoy, Professor of History, Councilor, Research Division of the American Historical Association and President-Elect, Association for Women in Slavic Studies
Valerie Sperling, Professor of Political Science, Clark University (Worcester, MA)
Laurie Stoff, Principal Lecturer, Barrett, the Honors College, Arizona State University
Hilde Hoogenboom, Associate Professor, Russian, School of International Letters & Cultures, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ
Helen Myers, PhD, Senior Lecturer in Russian Studies, Ohio State University
Vincent Artman, Instructor of Peace & Conflict Studies, Wayne State University
Valentina Gueorguieva, Associate professor of Cultural Studies, Sofia University
Serenity Stanton Orengo, PhD Candidate and TA, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Aaron Hale-Dorrell, PhD, Historian
Michaela Telfer, Doctoral Candidate/AL, University of Southern California
Kelly E. Miller, Ph.D., Associate Dean for Learning and Research Services, University of Miami Libraries
Nattanop Palahan, PhD student, St Petersburg University
Kathryn Yegorov-Crate, M.A. student, Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies, University of Texas-Austin
Andrew Smith
Evgueni Zashev, Associate Professor of Medieval Studies
Sara Feldman, Preceptor in Yiddish, Harvard University
A.E. Instructor, UofSC
Esra Predolac, Lecturer, Department of Slavic and Eurasian Languages and Literatures, University of Kansas
Mel Huang (Central & East European analyst)
Alexandra Clark, BA Slavic Languages and Literatures, Indiana University Bloomington
Mila Saskova-Pierce University of Nebraska emerita
Peter J. Rabinowitz, Professor of Comparative Literature, Hamilton College
Isabel Jaén, Professor of Spanish, Portland State U
Clare Griffin, Assistant Professor, Nazarbayev University
Dr. Kate Transchel, Professor Emeritus of Soviet History, California State University, Chico.
Alessandro Achilli, Lecturer in Ukrainian Studies, Monash University, Melbourne
Robert Romanchuk, Pribic Family Associate Professor of Slavic, Florida State University
Daria Aleeva, Senior Instructor of Russian, Portland State University
Olga Lyanda-Geller, PhD, Senior Lecturer, School of Languages and Cultures, Purdue University
Max Gersch, Student, Hamilton College
Matthew Schmidt, Assoc. Professor National Security, grad U. Kansas CREES
Elena Razlogova, Concordia University, Montreal
Natalie Zelensky, Associate Professor of Music, Colby College
Karina Ross
Andrew Sloin, Department of History, Baruch College, CUNY
Ilya Vinitsky, Professor, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Princeton University
