Open Letter on the Termination of Russian Studies Faculty at Ohio University

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,

  1. Ani Kokobobo, Associate Professor and Chair, Department Slavic and Eurasian Languages and Literatures, University of Kansas
  2. Colleen Lucey, Assistant Professor of Russian, University of Arizona
  3. Hilah Kohen, PhD student, Department of Comparative Literature and Literary Theory, University of Pennsylvania
  4. Alyssa Gillespie, Associate Professor of Russian, Bowdoin College
  5. Yelena Furman, Lecturer, UCLA
  6. Alexey Vdovin, Associate Professor, Deputy Dean for Research, Faculty of Humanities, Higher School of Economics, Moscow
  7. Gleb Vinokurov, M.A. student, McGill University
  8. Brendan McElmeel, PhD Candidate, University of Washington
  9. #SaveOUrProfs
  10. Steven Seegel, Professor of History, University of Northern Colorado
  11. Maria Whittle, PhD Candidate, University of California Berkeley
  12. Tatiana Klepikova, Postdoctoral Researcher, U of Toronto
  13. Vera Senina, PhD Candidate, Columbia University
  14. Eliza Rose, Assistant Professor of Central European Studies, UNC – Chapel Hill
  15. Sophie Pinkham, writer
  16. Barbara Allen, Associate Professor of History, La Salle University
  17. Eve Levin, Ahmanson-Murphy Professor; Chair, History Department; Editor, The Russian Review
  18. Karin Beck, Associate Dean of the School of Arts and Humanities, Lehman College, CUNY
  19. Fiona Bell, PhD student, Dept. of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Yale University 
  20. Brigid O’Keeffe, Associate Professor of History, Brooklyn College
  21. Ben Lash, Yale grad and high school physics teacher
  22. Dr. Wayles Browne, Professor Emeritus of Linguistics, Cornell University
  23. Nicholas Kupensky, Assistant Professor of Russian, USAFA
  24. Lenora Murphy, Ph.D student, Stanford University
  25. Alana Felton, PhD student, Yale University 
  26. Susanna Nazarova, Lecturer of Russian, Mount Holyoke College
  27. Ian Garner, PhD, Queen’s University
  28. Sian Roberts, graduate of Russian and Soviet Studies
  29. Henry Reichman, Professor Emeritus of History, California State University, East Bay; Chair AAUP Committee on Academic Freedom and Tenure
  30. Amie Ferris-Rotman, Russian Studies alum (UCL in London) 
  31. Irina Meier, Lecturer of Russian, University of New Mexico
  32. Dr. Kevin O’Brien, Professor Emeritus, Chapman University
  33. Dr Philip Chadwick, North London Collegiate School
  34. Sarah Clovis Bishop, Associate Professor of Russian, Willamette University 
  35. Jennifer Wilson, PhD (Contributing Writer, The Nation)
  36. Victoria Kononova, Assistant Professor of Russian, Lawrence University
  37. Holly Decker, MARS Columbia University, Harriman Institute, Sr. Associate at the American Petroleum Institute 
  38. Rachel Stauffer, Instructor of Spanish and Russian, James Madison University; Conference Manager, AATSEEL
  39. Bradley A Gorski, Assistant Professor of Slavic, Georgetown University
  40. Tiffany Zhu, Undergraduate, Slavic Languages and Literatures major, Stanford University
  41. Andrew Roth, Moscow correspondent, The Guardian
  42. T.J. Sjostrom, Research Associate, Institute for Defense Analyses
  43. Jacob Lassin, Postdoctoral Fellow, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Harvard University
  44. Russian Instructor, Santa Monica College; Editor and Russian Flagship Consultant, UCLA Center for World Languages
  45. Lydia Pakhomova, Researcher, Institute of Slavic Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences
  46. Svetlana Grenier, Associate Professor of Slavic Languages, Georgetown University
  47. Alexander Mishnev, Pd.D. student, Russian Culture and Society, University of St. Gallen
  48. Dakota Irvin, PhD, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
  49. Lora Mjolsness, UC Irvine
  50. Tom Dolack, Visiting Assistant Professor, Wheaton College
  51. Anne Hruska, English Instructor, Stanford Online High School
  52. Devin Browne, Teacher of Russian, Pittsburgh Brashear High School, Pittsburgh Public Schools
  53. Venya Gushchin, Graduate Student in Slavic Languages and Literatures, Columbia University
  54. Kristin Bidoshi, Associate Professor of Russian and Director of Russian and East European Studies Program, Union College
  55. Viktoria Ivleva, Assistant Professor, Russian Studies, Durham University
  56. Anna Kozlova, PhD candidate, Department of History, Carleton University
  57. Aristotle Papanikolaou, Professor of Theology, Fordham University
  58. PhD Candidate in Slavic Languages and Literatures, UC Berkeley 
  59. Mara Sukholutskaya, Professor of Languages, East Central University, President of Central Association of Russian Teachers of America (CARTA)
  60. Amanda Bosworth, PhD in Russian History, Cornell University
  61. Jenny Kaminer, Associate Professor of Russian, University of California-Davis
  62. Francoise Rosset, Chair, Russian and Russian Studies and Coordinator of Women and Gender Studies
  63. Emily Wang, Assistant Professor of Russian, University of Notre Dame
  64. Kristy Ironside, Assistant Professor of Russian History, McGill University
  65. Allan Reid, Professor of Russian Comparative Cultural Studies, University of New Brunswick
  66. Gergana Hardy, sociology undergrad student at George Mason University 
  67. Donna Tussing Orwin, F.R.S.C., Professor and Chair, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Toronto
  68. Amber Ivanov, PhD candidate, University of Ghent, Belgium
  69. Jon Stone, Associate Professor of Russian and Chair of German, Russian and East Asian Languages, Franklin & Marshall College
  70. Mariia Gorshkova, Stanford University, PhD Student, Dept. of Slavic Languages and Literatures
  71. Alexander Cigale, Author of Russian Absurd
  72. Irina Shevelenko, Professor of Russian, University of Wisconsin — Madison 
  73. Thomads Newlin. Professor and Chair of Russian, Oberlin College 
  74. Chris Holmes, M.A. Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Toronto 
  75. C. M. Coppage, JD Candidate, UNC–Chapel Hill
  76. Aliide Naylor, freelance journalist & author
  77. Rebekah Anischenko, B.A. student, Pre-Social Work, Ohio University
  78. Abigail Weil, Oxford University Press
  79. Anna Berman, Associate Professor in the Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures, McGill University
  80. Margaret Samu, Lecturer in Art and Design History and Theory, Parsons School of Design/The New School
  81. Yana Gorokhovskaia, Independent Scholar
  82. Edith W. Clowes, Brown-Forman Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Virginia
  83. Melissa Bokovoy, Professor, University of New Mexico, President-Elect of Association for Women in Slavic Studies
  84. Chris Moldes, MA Slavic Studies, Duke University ’15
  85. Tetyana Dzyadevych, Visiting Professor of Russian, New College of Florida
  86. Milàn Czerny, M.A student, King’s College London
  87. Sibelan Forrester, Professor of Russian, Swarthmore College
  88. Harry Leeds Master of Nursing Student, University of Minnesota
  89. Ani Abrahamyan, PhD Student, Department of Slavic and East European Languages and Cultures, Indiana University
  90. Zachary Hicks, PhD student, UC-Berkeley 
  91. Raisa Sidenova, PhD,  Lecturer in Film, Newcastle University, UK 
  92. Alexey Golubev, Assistant Professor of History, University of Houston
  93. Melissa Miller, Assistant Teaching Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies in Russian, University of Notre Dame
  94. Jerome Katsell, Independent Scholar and Translator
  95. Associate Professor, Texas Tech University
  96. Tamara Trojanowska, Associate Professor, University of Toronto
  97. Evgeniia Platonova, MA History student, Central European University
  98. Laura Kline, Sr. Lecturer in Russian, Wayne State (on behalf of the WSU Russian Program)
  99. Anthony Qualin, Associate Professor of Russian, Texas Tech University
  100. Ludmila Shleyfer Lavine, Associate Professor, Director of Russian, Bucknell U
  101. Deirdre Ruscitti Harshman, Assistant Professor of History, Christopher Newport University
  102. Marian Schwartz, Russian literary translator 
  103. Cecil Leigh Wilson, Ph.D. graduate, University of Wisconsin Madison
  104. Maksim Hanukai, Assistant Professor of Russian, University of Wisconsin-Madison
  105. Kathryn David, PhD candidate in history, New York University
  106. Sonja Poremsky
  107. 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 
  108. Assistant Professor of Polish
  109. Anya Shatilova, PhD student, Ethnomusicology, Wesleyan University
  110. SIlvia Giorgini, Senior Lecturer Wayne State University 
  111. Elena Pedigo Clark, Assistant Professor of Russian, Wake Forest University
  112. Samuel Driver, PhD Candidate in Slavic Studies, Brown University 
  113. Stuart Goldberg, Associate Prof. of Russian, Georgia Institute of Technology
  114. Deb Byrne, PhD 
  115. Lev Nikulin, Postgraduate Research Associate, Princeton University
  116. Alexander Kondakov, assistant professor, University College Dublin
  117. Grayson Petit
  118. Kathleen Manukyan, Director, Summer Language Institute, University of Pittsburgh
  119. Iryna Pugachova, Associate Professor of Russian Language (Adjunct), Tidewater Community College, Virginia Beach, VA
  120. Mladen Uhlik, Associate Professor of Russian language, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
  121. Kevin Moss, Jean Thomson Fulton Professor of Modern Languages and Literature, Middlebury College
  122. Greg Ormiston, Visiting Teaching Assistant Professor of Russian, University of Denver
  123. Alexander Spektor, Associate Professor of Russian at University of Georgia
  124. Eileen Kane, Associate Professor of History, Connecticut College
  125. Maggie Levantovskaya, lecturer, Santa Clara University
  126. Viktoryia Baum, Russian linguist for NY state government
  127. Daniil Leiderman, Instructional Assistant Professor, Texas A&M University
  128. Lauren Hunt, Assistant Professor of Horn and Music History, Utah State University
  129. Christine Jacobson, Assistant Curator of Modern Books and Manuscripts, Harvard University
  130. Daniel Rodriguez
  131. Amber Urich, Children’s Librarian, Dekalb County Public Library, Russian Major at Lawrence University ‘16
  132. Robert Chandler (translator of Russian literature for NYRB Classics, Penguin Classics, Random House and others)
  133. Dr Nicola Kozicharow, Research Fellow of Trinity Hall, Cambridge and Affiliated Lecturer in History of Art, University of Cambridge
  134. Kevin M. F. Platt, Professor of Russian and East European Studies, University of Pennsylvania
  135. Shannon Spasova, Assistant Professor, Michigan State University
  136. Andrew Janco, Haverford College
  137. Ashley McDermott, Linguistic Anthropology PhD Student, University of Michigan and 2017 REEES MA, UNC Chapel Hill 
  138. Instructor of Russian, Russian Language Coordinator, University of Oklahoma-Norman
  139. Roman Utkin, Assistant Professor of Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies, Wesleyan University
  140. Dr. Lila W.  Zaharkob, Associate Professor of Russian and Director for the Russian and Central Eurasian Program, Wittenberg University, Springfeld, OH.
  141. Roslyn Schindler, Associate Professor Emerita, German, Slavic, and Asian Studies, Wayne State University
  142. Research Fellow, The University of Sydney
  143. Yehudith Dashevsky, B.A. alumna University of Pennsylvania
  144. Olga Sheikina, language teacher and Russian speaker
  145. Rebecca Erickson, PhD Candidate, Universiteit van Amsterdam
  146. Rochelle G. Ruthchild, Center Associate, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Harvard University
  147. Katarzyna Romaniuk, prospective student
  148. Kristine Shmakov, Instructor of Russian and Russian Department Chair, Portland Community College
  149. Bridget Stonchus, M.A. in Russian and East European Studies
  150. Peter Holquist, Assoc. Professor, History, University of Pennsylvania (History and Slavic BA, Indiana University, 1986)
  151. Katherine Zubovich, Assistant Professor of History, Ryerson University
  152. Elizabeth Lee Roby, Upper School Russian Teacher, Friends School of Baltimore
  153. Evan Johnson, Head of US Operations, Admitad
  154. Michael Katz, Professor Emeritus of Russian and East European Studies, Middlebury College
  155. David Han ’19, B.A. in Russian and Political Science, Williams College
  156. Katherine Graney, Professor of Political Science, Skidmore College
  157. Quinn Dombrowski, Academic Technology Specialist in the Division of Literatures, Cultures, and Languages; Stanford University
  158. Marc L. Greenberg, Professor of Slavic Languages, U. of Kansas
  159. Emmylou de Meij, Fulbright ETA Alumna Latvia 
  160. Julian Gonzales-Poirier, Student of Russian Language and Literature at Middlebury College
  161. Jonathan Z. Ludwig, Teaching Assistant Professor of Russian
  162. Bella Grigoryan, Associate Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Pittsburgh 
  163. Olga Seliazniova, PhD Candidate, USC
  164. Cammeron Girvin, PhD, UC Berkeley, Slavic Languages & Literatures
  165. Jennifer Sheridan Moss, Associate Professor of Classics, Wayne State University 
  166. President, Canadian Association of Slavists, and Professor, Department of History, Concordia University (Montreal)
  167. Michael Dennis Martin, PhD Student, University of Michigan
  168. Alexander McConnell, Ph.D. Candidate in History, University of Michigan
  169. Dr. Amber Aulen, Instructor of Russian, University of Toronto
  170. Russell Scott Valentino, Professor of Slavic and East European Languages and Cultures, Indiana University
  171. Leonidas Pittos PhD, Senior Lecturer in Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies, Wayne State University 
  172. Yulia Kim, PhD student, Columbia University, Slavic Department
  173. John Vsetecka, PhD Candidate, Michigan State University 
  174. Layla Guest, Russian Studies Student, UCL SSEES
  175. Cecilia King, M.A. student, Department of Slavic and Eurasian Languages and Literatures, University of Kansas
  176. Dr. Maria Khotimsky, Senior Lecturer in Russian, Global Languages, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  177. Maria Guzenko, independent Russian translator
  178. Vincent Bohlinger, Professor & Director of Film Studies, Rhode Island College
  179. Dr. Sean McDaniel
  180. Johannah White, OER & Instruction Librarian, Baton Rouge Community College 
  181. Robert A. Rothstein, Amesbury Professor of Polish Studies Emeritus, University of Massachusetts Amherst
  182. Dr. Lisa McLendon, KU School of Journalism/Affiliated Faculty, KU CREES
  183. Alyssa DeBlasio, Associate Professor of Russian, Dickinson College
  184. Lydia Roberts, PhD Student, UCLA
  185. Olga Zilberbourg, writer and editor of Punctured Lines 
  186. Glenn Kranking, Associate Professor and Director of Russian and East European Studies, Gustavus Adolphus College
  187. Shamaila Anjum, MSc in Economic and Social History
  188. Saeed Khan, Director, Global Studies, Wayne State University
  189. Leah Goldman, Visiting Assistant Professor of History, Washington & Jefferson College
  190. Renee Perelmutter, Slavic and Eurasian Languages and Literatures, University of Kansas
  191. Devin McFadden, PhD student, Slavic and Eurasian Languages and literatures 
  192. Rachael Neidinger, PhD Student, Harvard University 
  193. Shannon Hill, LCSW and LMSW in Michigan and Illinois
  194. Anysia Mayer PhD, Professor, Educational Leadership,  California State University Stanislaus 
  195. Olivia Crough, graduate student, Harvard University
  196. Dr Rachel Morley, Associate Professor of Russian Cinema and Culture, University College London, School of Slavonic and East European Studies (UCL SSEES)
  197. Svetlana Rasmussen, PhD, Adjunct Instructor, University of Guam
  198. Vitaly Chernetsky, Associate Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures; Director, Center for Russian, East European & Eurasian Studies, University of Kansas
  199. Roy Chan, Associate Professor of East Asian Languages and Literatures, Participating Faculty, Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies, University of Oregon
  200. Dr Josephine von Zitzewitz, Marie Curie Fellow in Russian Literature, UiT The Arctic University of Norway
  201. Olesya Kisselev, Assistant Professor, University of Texas San Antonio 
  202. Clarissa Ibarra, PhD Candidate, UC Berkeley
  203. Daniel Brooks, Visiting Assistant Professor of Russian, Franklin & Marshall College
  204. Dildora Damisch, program supporter 
  205. SA Karpukhin, Lecturer, Dept. of German, Nordic, and Slavic, UW-Madison
  206. Jessica Graybill
  207. Il’ia Karagulin, Slavic Studies PhD student at Yale University
  208. Fabrizio Fenghi, Assistant Professor of Slavic Studies, Brown University 
  209. K. T., PhD Student, Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Toronto
  210. Karen Stidd, Retired landscape supervisor, Stanford University
  211. Matthew Wisneski, current masters candidate in Eurasian, Russian, and East European Studies, Georgetown University
  212. Erin Coyne
  213. José Vergara, Visiting Assistant Professor of Russian, Swarthmore College
  214. Amber N. Nickell, PhD Candidate, Department of History, Purdue University
  215. Liliya Dashevski, graduate student, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Yale University
  216. Rebecca Wells, Lecturer in Russian, University of California, San Diego
  217. Katya Hokanson, Associate Professor of Russian and Comparative Literature, University of Oregon
  218. Kathleen Conti, PhD Candidate, UT Austin
  219. John Jutila, Russian Linguist, U.S. Army
  220. Gabrielle Cornish, University of Rochester
  221. Ewa Malachowska-Pasek, Ladislav Matějka Collegiate Lecturer, University of Michigan
  222. Veronika Ambros, Professor Emerita, University of Toronto
  223. Ryan Cook, Assistant Professor of Film and East Asian Studies, Emory University 
  224. Nicholas Kiene, B.A. in Russian Studies, University of Notre Dame
  225. Roza Starodubtseva, Russian language lecturer, UNCW
  226. Arlene Forman, Emerita, Department of Russian Language, Literature and Culture, Oberlin College
  227. Claire Roosien, Assistant Professor of History, Providence College
  228. Mary A. Nicholas, Professor of Russian, Lehigh University
  229. Nariman Skakov, Assistant Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Stanford University
  230. John MacKay, Chair, Slavic Languages and Literatures, Yale University
  231. Brooke Mackowiak, incoming History Ph.D. student at Rutgers University
  232. Rebecca Stasko, Wayne State University alumni – Slavic Languages and Literature degree, living in Siberia
  233. Scott Haggart, UT grad, Russian
  234. Marina Madorskaya, Federal Government, Analyst
  235. Molly T. Blasing, Assistant Professor of Russian Studies, University of Kentucky
  236. Sharon Kowalsky, Department Head of History, Texas A&M University-Commerce
  237. Simon Ertz, PhD, Centennial Scholar & Librarian, Hoover Institution Library & Archives, Stanford University
  238. Stephen M. Dickey, Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Kansas
  239. Chloe Moreno
  240. Maria Hristova, Assistant Professor of Russian, Lewis & Clark College
  241. Ekaterina Babintseva, Visiting Assistant Professor and Hixon Riggs Early Career Fellow, Harvey Mudd College
  242. Julia Chadaga, Associate Professor and Chair of Russian Studies, Macalester College
  243. Aaron Schwartzbaum, Eurasia Program Fellow, Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI)
  244. Kathleen Scollins, Associate Professor of Russian, University of Vermont
  245. Olga Klimova, University of Pittsburgh
  246. Sara Ruiz, graduate student, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Michigan
  247. Mykah Jones, JD candidate, Mitchell Hamline School of Law
  248. Masha Shpolberg, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, Wellesley College
  249. Luz Forero, Adjunct Faculty, Department of Modern Languages, University of La Verne
  250. Yana Zlochistaya, PhD student, UC Berkeley
  251. Alexandra Hidalgo, Assistant Professor of Writing, Rhetoric, and American Cultures, Michigan State University
  252. Olga Savchenko, PhD student, University of Kansas
  253. John O’Neill, Russian Studies Major, Lawrence University
  254. Nikki Lohr, M.A. Student, Middlebury College School of Russian
  255. Roman Ivashkiv, Lecturer in Slavic Lang and Lit & Translation Studies / Director of the Ukrainian Studies Program, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  256. Lidia Tripiccione, Ph.D. student, Slavic Department, Princeton
  257. Alyssa Park, Associate Professor, University of Iowa
  258. Gretchen Aiyangar, Language Program Coordinator, the Less-Commonly-Taught Languages (LCTL) Center, University of Pittsburgh
  259. Skyler Slater, graduate of the University of Kentucky Russian Studies Program
  260. Senior faculty member, Brandeis University
  261. Olga Kolomeitsev
  262. Dr. Natalia Aleksiun, Professor of Modern Jewish History, Touro College
  263. Stephanie L.Merkel, Associate Professor of Comparative Literature, Ohio Wesleyan University
  264. Caroline Murray, Former Fulbright ETA to Uzbekistan and B.A. in Russian 
  265. Nicole Harry, PhD candidate UNC Chapel Hill, Russian History
  266. Jeanmarie Rouhier-Willoughby, Professor of Russian, Folklore and Linguistics, University of Kentucky
  267. Victoria Juharyan, Visiting Assistant Professor, Middlebury College  
  268. Katya Burvikova, Lecturer, University of New Hampshire
  269. Martha Dage, Former Russian Student, Former ESL Instructor Schoolcraft College
  270. Kate Holland, Associate Professor of Russian Literature, University of Toronto
  271. Benjamin D. Allen, attorney.
  272. Instructor, Wayne State University
  273. Erik McDonald, Lecturer of Russian, University of Minnesota
  274. Georgii Martirosian, M.A. student, Comparative Literature Department, Russian State University for Humanities
  275. Albert Ulwelling: Russian Student at Lawrence University and recipient of State Department NSLY award for intensive Russian study in Chisinau, Moldova 
  276. Denise Hoppess, CEO, American English Language Services 
  277. Dr. Brittany R. Roberts, Independent Scholar (formerly of University of California, Riverside)
  278. Nadja Berkovich,Teaching Assistant Prof., Univ. of Arkansas
  279. Nathaniel Wood, Associate Director, Orthodox Christian Studies Center, Fordham University
  280. Walker Griggs, Ohio native and PhD student in Russian Literature, University of Southern California
  281. 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
  282. Christine Evans, Associate Professor of History, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
  283. Maddy Brotherton, Lawrence University alum, Russian language minor
  284. Eric Naiman, Departments of Slavic Languages and Comparative Literature, University of California, Berkeley
  285. Christina Manetti, Ph.D., independent scholar, language teacher and translator
  286. Amelia Glaser, Associate Professor of Russian and Comparative Literature, UC San Diego
  287. D. Brian Kim, Assistant Professor of Russian and East European Studies, University of Pennsylvania
  288. Diana Kravchenko, Russian Language Professor and Lead Faculty at College of Southern Nevada
  289. Lynne deBenedette, Senior Lecturer in Slavic Studies, Brown University
  290. Laura Olson Osterman, Professor of Slavic Studies, University of Colorado, Boulder
  291. Zach Rewinski, Instructor of Russian, Colorado State University
  292. Dr Connor Doak, Lecturer in Russian, University of Bristol
  293. Joey Cherney, J.D., Harvard Law School
  294. Carol Apollonio, Professor of the Practice of Slavic And Eurasian Studies, Duke University, Alumna,  Ohio University Honors Tutorial College, 1977
  295. Irina Kogel, Lecturer in Russian, Davidson College 
  296. prof. dr. Milena Mileva BLAZIC, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
  297. Dr Maria Belova, Russian Teaching Fellow, Warwick University, UK
  298. Dr Elwira Grossman, Stepek Lecturer in Polish Studies and Comparative Literature, University of Glasgow, UK
  299. Dr. Irene Ivantcheva, Asst. Professor in French, U of Cincinnati 
  300. Lecturer in Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian, Columbia University
  301. Angela MacDougall, M.S. Global Studies & International Affairs, Northeastern University
  302. Andrea Gullotta, Lecturer in Russian, University of Glasgow
  303. Linda J. Speck, Ph.D., retired faculty from Wayne State University
  304. James Rann, Lecturer in Russian, University of Glasgow
  305. Rossen Djagalov, Assistant Professor, New York University
  306. Ksenia Radchenko, Ph.D., Slavic Languages and Literatures, USC
  307. Siobhan Hearne, Leverhulme Early Career Fellow, Durham University (UK)
  308. Mariya Ivancheva, Lecturer, University of Liverpool
  309. Shamil Khairov, Lecturer in Russian, University of Glasgow
  310. Enrique Santos, Associate Professor of Russian Language and Culture, Complutense University of Madrid (Spain)
  311. Jan Surman, Research Fellow, National Research University Higher School of Economics 
  312. Assistant Professor of English, Lingnan University, Hong Kong
  313. Scout Mills, PhD student, Department of Slavic Languages, Columbia University 
  314. Neil Robinson, Professor of Comparative Politics, University of Limerick
  315. John Bates, Lecturer in Polish, SMLC, University of Glasgow 
  316. Dr Adelina Angusheva-Tihanov, Russian and East European Studies, University of Manchester, UK
  317. Anita Hrnjak, senior lecturer of Russian language at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb, Croatia
  318. Pavel Khazanov, Assistant Professor of Russian, Rutgers University
  319. Professor Galin Tihanov, Queen Mary University of London
  320. Victoria Dearman, Vice President, Dearman Systems Inc
  321. Dominic Leppla, Dept. of Film, Television & Media Arts, Quinnipiac University
  322. Daniel Green, Teaching Associate in Russian, University of Cambridge
  323. Justin Wilmes, Assistant Professor of Russian, East Carolina University
  324. Dr Margarita Vaysman (MPhil, DPhil, Oxon), Lecturer in Russian, University of St Andrews
  325. Thomas P. Hodge, Professor of Russian, Wellesley College
  326. Robert Crane, PhD, Valdosta, Georgia
  327. Natalia Vygovskaia, PhD student, Brown University 
  328. Cynthia Ruder, Professor of Russian Studies, University of Kentucky
  329. Jennifer Tishler, Associate Director of CREECA, UW-Madison
  330. Thomas Feerick, PhD student, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Northwestern University
  331. Stephanie Richards, Adjunct Professor, Department of English, John Cabot University, Rome
  332. Vladimir Alexandrov, B. E. Bensinger Professor Emeritus of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Yale University
  333. Kevin Corrigan, Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Interdisciplinary Humanities, Middle Eastern and South Asian Studies Department, Emory UniversityDepart
  334. Chas Cassidy, M.A. in Slavic from Northwestern University, MLIS candidate at University of Illinois
  335. Abigail Luddy-Dunn, McGill University 
  336. Leta Nikulshina
  337. John Stachelski, Graduate Student, Yale University
  338. Kevin Clark, USA (Retired)
  339. Maggie L, Grant Writer, Welcome Project PA
  340. Jokubas Salyga, Lecturer in Politics, Nottingham Trent University
  341. Besnik Pula, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Virginia Tech
  342. Philippa Hetherington, Lecturer in Modern Eurasian History, University College London
  343. Michele A Berdy, Arts Editor, The Moscow Times
  344. Ingrid Kleespies, Associate Professor, Russian Studies, University of Florida
  345. Jasmine Trinks, PhD Candidate, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Northwestern University
  346. Lyndsay Miller, Tutor, University of Glasgow
  347. Sean Guillory, Digital Scholarship Curator, REEES University of Pittsburgh, SRB Podcast host
  348. Ainsley Morse, Assistant Professor of Russian, Dartmouth College
  349. Chulhyun Hwang, Ph.D. student, Department of Slavic and Eurasian languages and literatures, University of Kansas
  350. Gina Peirce, Center for Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies, University of Pittsburgh
  351. Maya Vinokour, Department of Russian & Slavic Studies, New York University
  352. Sean Griffin, Postdoctoral Fellow, Dartmouth College
  353. Emily Walton, B.A. Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies, Miami University (’16), M.A. Eurasian, Russian, and East European Studies, Georgetown University (’19)
  354. Regina Kazyulina, Lecturer, Bates College
  355. Dr Nari Shelekpayev, Associate Professor in History, European University at St. Petersburg, Russia
  356. Victoria Somoff, Associate Professor of Russian, Dartmouth College
  357. Kimberly Sirb
  358. Elizaveta Mankovskaya, PhD student, Slavic Department, Princeton University
  359. Melissa Porterfield, Lecturer in Theatre History and Directing, Valdosta State University
  360. Emma Claire Foley, disarmament policy specialist
  361. Lindsay Ceballos, Assistant Professor of Russian and East European Studies, Lafayette College
  362. Lisa C. Hayden, literary translator
  363. Angelina Ilieva, Instructional Professor, University of Chicago
  364. Mary Grayson Brook, PhD student, Princeton University Department of German
  365. Rachel A. Sims, PhD Candidate English Literature, The University of Arizona
  366. Nova Kaplun, recent graduate
  367. Dr Rachel Morley, Associate Professor of Russian Cinema & Culture, University College London, School of Slavonic & East European Studies, UK
  368. Orchestral Librarian, Indiana University
  369. Florence Helbing, PhD student, Department of Slavic Languages & Literatures, University of Pittsburgh
  370. Yuliya Ilchuk, Assistant Professor, Stanford University
  371. Larisa Fialkova, Associate Professor of Russian and Comparative Literature, University of Haifa, Israel
  372. Klara Buda, PhD candidate, the European Graduate School, Division of Philosophy, Art & Critical Thought Alter Kehr 20, CH-3953 Leuk-Stadt.
  373. Kevin Rothrock, Meduza, Managing Editor
  374. Mera Cronbaugh, Undergraduate Student, Department of Slavic and East European Languages and Cultures, Ohio State University
  375. Adam E. Leeds, Assistant Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Columbia University
  376. Monica McGough, Undergraduate Student, Sociology and Criminology, Ohio University
  377. David L Cooper, Associate Professor of Slavic, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
  378. President and CEO, Dianamic Abrasive Products, Inc.
  379. Lisa Ellering Horner, SRAS
  380. Katherine E. Young, Poet/Translator from Russian
  381. Shawna Lucey, Opera Director
  382. Student at Ohio State University 
  383. Anika Walke, Associate Professor of History, Washington University in St. Louis
  384. Charlotte Rottiers, PhD student, KULeuven
  385. Joe Crescente, media literacy specialist at American Center, Moscow, Russia
  386. Monica Popescu, Associate Professor of English and William Dawson Scholar of African Literatures, McGill University 
  387. Thomas Jesús Garza, Associate Professor of Slavic and Eurasian Studies, University of Texas at Austin
  388. Benjamin Jens, Assistant Professor of Russian & Slavic Studies, University of Arizona
  389. Anand Dibble, graduate student, Stanford University
  390. Irina Dubinina, Associate Professor of Russian, Brandeis University
  391. Dragana Obradovic, Associate Professor, University of Toronto, 
  392. Alan Maričić, independent historian
  393. Dr. Laura Shear Urbaszewski, Instructor of Russian, DePaul University 
  394. Elena Monastireva-Ansdell, Assistant Professor of Russian, Colby College
  395. James McGavran, Associate Professor of Russian, Kenyon College
  396. Danko Šipka, Professor of Slavic Langauges 
  397. Megan Kennedy, PhD Candidate, University of Madison Wisconsin 
  398. Megan Luttrell, PhD in Slavic languages and literature from the University of Kansas 
  399. Teaching Assistant Professor of Russian, UNC-Chapel Hill
  400. Anastasiia Gordiienko, Visiting Assistant Professor of Russian, University of Arizona
  401. Ryan Rowe, M.M.student, University of Minnesota. B.A. Slavic Languages & Cultures, UNC-Chapel Hill
  402. Susanne Fusso, Professor of Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies, Wesleyan University
  403. David Powelstock, Assoc. Prof. of Russian & Comparative Literature, Brandeis University
  404. Diana Sacilowski, PhD Candidate, UIUC
  405. Alexander Burry, Associate Professor of Slavic and East European Languages and Cultures, The Ohio State University
  406. Elena Mariakhina, student, M.A. in Slavic Languages and Literatures, Russian State University for the Humanities (Moscow, Russia)
  407. Michael Furman
  408. Edward Tyerman, Assistant Professor, University of California, Berkeley
  409. Katherine Bowers, Assistant Professor of Slavic Studies, University of British Columbia
  410. Yuri Corrigan, Associate Professor, Boston University
  411. Natalya Kuznetsova, Lecturer of Russian, University of Utah
  412. Valeria Sobol, Associate Professor and Head, Dept of Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
  413. Bonnie Krejci, PhD student, Department of Linguistics, Stanford University
  414. Laura Loth, Associate Professor of French, Rhodes College
  415. Lachlan Bebout, Alumnus, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of California, Berkeley
  416. Jessie Labov, Director of Academic and Institutional Development, McDaniel College Budapest
  417. Amy Jones, PhD Candidate, Carolina-Duke German Program
  418. Aleksandra Marciniak, PhD Student, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Michigan
  419. Nancy Condee, Director, Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies, University of Pittsburgh
  420. Aglaya Glebova, Assistant Professor, History of Art, UC Berkeley
  421. Kathryn Cook, B.A. History and Russian, Tulane University 2019
  422. Giulia Dossi, Ph.D. Candidate, Slavic Department, Harvard University
  423. Sidney Dement, Associate Professor of Russian Studies, Binghamton University
  424. Sumanth Gopinath, Associate Professor of Music Theory, University of Minnesota Twin Cities
  425. Nadezhda Braun, BA in Russian, University of Notre Dame
  426. Anastasiya Osipova, Assistant Professor of Russian, Department of Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Colorado Boulder
  427. Jason Cieply, Assistant Professor, Hamilton College
  428. Iryna Hniadzko, lecturer in Russian, Johns Hopkins University
  429. Peter Weisensel, Emeritus Professor of History, Macalester College
  430. Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Comparative Literature, NYU
  431. Katya Jordan, Assistant Professor of Russian, Brigham Young University
  432. Anne Lounsbery, Professor and Chair, Department of Russian & Slavic Studies, New York University
  433. Jillian Porter, Assistant Professor of Russian, University of Colorado, Boulder
  434. Professor of Sociology, Williams College
  435. Jordan Gans-Morse, Associate Professor of Political Science, Northwestern University
  436. Erin Hutchinson, Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard University Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies
  437. George Gasyna, Associate Professor, Slavic Langs and Lits, Univ. of Illinois
  438. Allison Leigh, SLEMCO/LEQSF Regents Endowed Professor in Art & Architecture, University of Louisiana at Lafayette
  439. Evan Alterman, PhD Candidate, Slavic Languages and Literatures, Stanford University
  440. Jenifer Presto, Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and Russian /Director of Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies, University of Oregon
  441. Jenny Barrier
  442. Susan Smith-Peter, Professor of History and Director of the History MA Program, College of Staten Island/CUNY (OU grad)
  443. Tim Harte, Professor of Russian, Bryn Mawr College
  444. Jessica Ginocchio, PhD student, Comparative Literature (Russian), UNC-Chapel Hill
  445. Franklin Sciacca, Associate Professor of Russian (emeritus), Hamilton College
  446. David A. Goldfarb, Ph.D., Independent Scholar, Polish Literature
  447. Peter Thomas, Associate Professor of Russian, Lawrence University
  448. Judith Record McKinney, Associate Professor of Economics Emerita, Hobart and William Smith Colleges
  449. Edythe C. Haber, Professor Emerita of Russian, University of Massachusetts Boston
  450. MayaLisa Holzman, PhD, Independent Scholar
  451. Alice Nakhimovsky, Distinguished Professor of Jewish Studies and Russian and Eurasian Studies, Colgate University 
  452. Ania Aizman, Michigan Society of Fellows and University of Michigan Slavic Department
  453. Oleksandra Wallo, Assistant Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Kansas
  454. Nicole Möller Gonzalez, PhD Student, Syracuse University
  455. Sara Dickinson, Associate Professor of Russian Literature and Culture, Università di Genova
  456. Svetlana Vassileva-Karagyozova, Associate Professor of Polish Language and Literature, University of Kansas
  457. Cris Martin, Davis Center for Russia and Eurasian Studies, Harvard University
  458. Alaina DeLeo, MA Student, KU, Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies
  459. Yuliya Komska, Associate Prof. of German, Dartmouth College
  460. Prof Eliot Borenstein, Russian & Slavic Studies, NYU
  461. Sergei Bogatyrev, Associate Professor in Early Russian History, University College London
  462. Shoshana Keller, Professor of Russian and Eurasian History, Hamilton College
  463. Liz Ewaskio, Instructor of Russian, University of Utah
  464. Piotr Axer, PhD Candidate, Brown University
  465. Marie-Alice L’Heureux, Professor of Architecture, University of Kansas
  466. Kristine Shmakov, Instructor of Russian and Russian Department Chair, Portland Community College
  467. Ana Berdinskikh, PhD Candidate, Yale University 
  468. Kristen Welsh, Associate Professor of Russian Area Studies, Hobart & William Smith Colleges
  469. Joanna Kot, Professor of Russian and Polish, Northern Illinois University
  470. Holly Myers, Assistant Professor of Russian, University of Delaware
  471. Anastasia Kostetskaya, Associate Professor of Russian, University of Hawaii, Manoa
  472. Assel Almuratova, PhD student
  473. Robert Person, Associate Professor of International Relations, United States Military Academy
  474. Mark Eliot Nuckols, Ind. Scholar, translator for watchingamerica.com, Rights in Russia, Slavic Ph.D. from Ohio State U.
  475. Gregory Freidin, Professor Emeritus, Slavic, DLCL, Stanford University
  476. Liudmila Klimanova, Assistant Professor, University of Arizona
  477. Professor Russell E. Martin, Westminster College, New Wilmington, PA
  478. Frederick Corney, Professor of History, William & Mary
  479. Erik R. Scott, Associate Professor of History, University of Kansas
  480. Justine Buck Quijada, Associate Professor, Religious Studies, Wesleyan University
  481. Hans J. Rindisbacher, Professor of German and Russian, Pomona College
  482. Jon Giullian. Librarian for Slavic & Eurasian Studies., University of Kansas
  483. Anastasia Pease, Senior Lecturer, Union College
  484. Tom Roberts, Assistant Professor of Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies, Smith College
  485. Natalia Forrat, Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Michigan
  486. Sarah Ampolsk, graduate student, School of International Service, American University
  487. Ilona Sotnikova, PhD candidate at UW-Madison 
  488. Alex Averbuch, PhD Candidate, the University of Toronto
  489. Dr Sam Beaton, PhD in Czech Studies, University of Glasgow
  490. Joan Neuberger, Professor of History, The University of Texas at Austin
  491. Matthew Pyskir, B.A. Student Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies, University of Kansas
  492. Alec Wood, M.A. student, Comparative and Regional Studies, American University
  493. Boris Stepanov, Leading research fellow, Higher school of economics (Moscow)
  494. John G. Garrard, Professor Emeritus of Russian Studies, University of Arizona
  495. Abigail Robson
  496. Erika Haber, Professor of Russian, Syracuse University
  497. Riley Ossorgin, Director of Russian Program in Modern Languages and Literatures, Fordham University
  498. Dr. Inna Tigountsova, Lecturer in Russian, Queen Mary University of London
  499. Alexis Mrachek, M.A. Student, Center for Eurasian, Russian, and East European Studies, Georgetown University
  500. Karen Auerbach, Associate Professor of History, University of North Carolina
  501. Genese Grill, PhD in Germanic Literatures & Languages
  502. Erica Camisa Morale, PhD candidate, USC
  503. Katherine Antonova, Associate Professor of History, Queens College, City University of New York
  504. Paula Michaels, Associate Professor of History, Monash University
  505. Anna Borovskaya-Ellis, Assistant Professor, University of Virginia
  506. David H. Mould. Professor Emeritus, Media Arts & Studies, Ohio University
  507. Marjorie Mandelstam Balzer, Editor Anthropology and Archeology of Eurasia
  508. Ilya Kliger, Associate Prof, Russian Studies, NYU
  509. Dr. Beth Holmgren, Professor of Polish and Russian Studies, Department of Slavic and Eurasian Studies, Duke University
  510. Daniel W. Pratt, Assistant Professor of Slavic Languages and Culture, McGill University
  511. Wilson Bell, Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy, History, and Politics, Thompson Rivers University 
  512. Daria Ezerova, Postdoctoral Research Scholar, Harriman Institute at Columbia University
  513. Inés García de la Puente, Research Assistant Professor, Boston University
  514. Samantha Hentschke, University of Missouri Russian Program alumni
  515. John Romero, Postdoctoral Fellow, Russian Studies Workshop, Indiana University – Bloomington
  516. Tatyana Gershkovich, Carnegie Mellon University
  517. James Nealy, PhD Candidate, History, Duke University
  518. Andrew Chapman, University of Texas at San Antonio
  519. Kenzy Seifert, A.M. Candidate in Russian, Eastern European, and Central Asian Studies at Harvard University
  520. Margaret Godwin-Jones, Ph.D. student, Department of Slavic and Eurasian languages, University of Kansas 
  521. David Herman, Associate Professor and Chair, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Virginia
  522. Realtor
  523. Andrew, a concerned Ohioan
  524. Sydney Shiller, B.A. student, Russian Studies, McGill University
  525. Lisa Wakamiya, Associate Professor of Slavic
  526. Timothy Model, Havighurst Fellow, Miami University
  527. Benjamin Lussier, Ph.D. Candidate, Dept. of Slavic Languages, Columbia University
  528. Stone Sudyk, B.A. student, Global Studies: War & Peace, Ohio University
  529. Jennifer Marston William, Head of the School of Languages and Cultures, Purdue University 
  530. Rebecca Kay, Professor of Russian Gender Studies, University of Glasgow
  531. Miriam Neirick, Professor of History, California State University, Northridge
  532. Iverson Long, Diplomat and Attorney 
  533. Amanda Murphy,  Assistant Professor,  Nazarbayev University 
  534. Amb. (ret.) Carey Cavanaugh, Professor of Diplomacy and Conflict Resolution, Patterson School of Diplomacy, University of Kentucky
  535. Sarah J. Young, Associate Professor of Russian, School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London 
  536. Daniel Nexon, Department of Government and School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University
  537. Maximilian Hess, Eurasia Fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute
  538. Catriona Kelly, Professor of Russian, University of Oxford, UK, Past President, Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies
  539. Christopher Hagan, MPA feature
  540. Professor – Alec Nove Chair in Russian and East European Studies
  541. Manu, PhD student in History, Cornell University 
  542. Anoushka Alexander-Rose
  543. Ellen Rutten, Professor of Literature, University of Amsterdam
  544. Anne O. Fisher, Translator, Senior Lecturer in Translation and Interpreting Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
  545. Vadim Shkolnikov, Dotsent, Department of Philology, NRU Higher School of Economics, St. Petersburg, Russia
  546. Katerina Pavlidi, PhD candidate in Slavonic Studies, University of Cambridge
  547. Artemy Kalinovsy, Senior Lecturer, University of Amsterdam 
  548. Stefan Lacny, PhD student, University of Cambridge
  549. Vanessa Prolow, translator
  550. John Narins, Writer
  551. Jonathan Flatley, Professor, English Department, Wayne State University
  552. Gustaf Schwen, previous student of Russian
  553. Brendan Mooney, Visiting Assistant Professor, Miami University
  554. Benjamin Sigelman, English Teacher, Williamsburg Charter High School
  555. Mark Conliffe, Professor of Russian, University of Calgary
  556. Christine D. Worobec, Distinguished Research Professor, Northern Illinois University
  557. Zsuzsanna Magdo, Associate Director, Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies, University of Pittsburgh
  558. John Bartle, Associate Professor of Russian, Hamilton College
  559. Irina A. Dolgova, Slavic Languages Program Coordinator, Yale University
  560. Zachary Kelly, Assistant Director, ISEEES, UC Berkeley
  561. Terri Peterson, Russian Area Studies Alumna, Wellesley College
  562. Renee Stillings, Director, The School of Russian and Asian Studies
  563. Svitlana Rogovyk, Slavic Language Program Director, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
  564. Ali khaledi Nasab, post doc 
  565. Mikhail Krutikov, Professor and Chair, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Michigan
  566. Julie Hemment, Professor of Anthropology, UMass Amherst
  567. Benjamin Paloff, Associate Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures and of Comparative Literature, University of Michigan
  568. Russian language for business respecting languages/cultures/histories of all North Caucasus nationalities and geographies
  569. Jean Peterson, Associate Professor of English, Bucknell University
  570. Donald J. Raleigh, J. R. Judson Distinguished Professor of History, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
  571. Alisa Lin, Assistant Professor of Slavic and East European Languages and Cultures, The Ohio State University
  572. Elizabeth Morrow Clark, Professor of History, West Texas A&M University 
  573. Stephen Badalyan Riegg, Assistant Professor, Texas A&M University
  574. Piotr Westwalewicz PhD, Polish Language and Culture Lecturer IV and Undergraduate Advisor, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor 
  575. Nadia Vinogradova, PhD Candidate, Slavic Languages and Literatures, Northwestern University
  576. Jillian Costello, PhD Student, Stanford University
  577. Virginia Olmsted McGraw, PhD Candidate, Russian and East European History, UNC-Chapel Hill
  578. Pennsylvania State University
  579. Betsy Jones Hemenway, Director and Senior Lecturer in Women’s/Gender Studies and History, Loyola University Chicago
  580. Lidia Levkovitch, PhD Candidate, Comparative Literature, Rutgers University
  581. Robyn Jensen, Visiting Assistant Professor, Dept. of German and Russian, Pomona College
  582. Alex Braslavsky, M.Phil. Candidate, University of Oxford
  583. Robert Gibb, Lecturer in Sociology, University of Glasgow
  584. Mariya Lomakina, Ph.D, Instructor, Honors College, Montana State University
  585. Veronika Egorova, Senior Preceptor in Slavic Languages, Harvard Univeristy
  586. Emily Laskin, PhD student, UC Berkeley Dept. of Comparative Literature
  587. Dr. Jessica Gerschultz, Associate Professor of African and African-American Studies, University of Kansas
  588. David Rivera, Visiting Assistant Professor, Hamilton College
  589. Anna Shkireva, PhD student, University of New Mexico
  590. Andrew Ringlee, Department of Defense
  591. Martha M. F. Kelly, Associate Professor of Russian, University of Missouri
  592. Jaroslaw Piekalkiewicz, Professor Emeritus Of Political Sciecne anmd Russian and East European Studies 
  593. Elena Vasileva, PhD student, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Toronto
  594. Kirsten Rutsala, Department of Modern and Classical Languages and Literatures, Virginia Tech
  595. Chad Kahanek, Border patrol 
  596. Charles Springer, Russian Major, Dartmouth College
  597. Chris Pike, Visiting Assistant Professor of Russian
  598. Jonathan Brown Moscow Correspondent Agence France Presse 
  599. Yelena Zotova, Associate Teaching Professor of Russian
  600. Megan Benka
  601. Beth, OU Alumna and National Security Education Program Scholarship Awardee for Russian Language Study
  602. Nurlan Kabylkhak, PhD Student, UNC-Chapel Hill
  603. Angela Brintlinger, Professor and Director of Center for Slavic and East European Studies, Ohio State University
  604. Bryan Matte, student at Hamilton College 
  605. Anthony Pearce, Graduate Student, National Research University Higher School of Economics
  606. Emma Belanger, Hamilton College Class of 2020, BA in Russian Studies
  607. Anika Tullos, B.A. Student, Russian Language, Hamilton College
  608. Rachel Hutchison, B.A. Russian, The Ohio State University 
  609. Nick Lyon, Student at Hamilton College
  610. Hamilton College Student
  611. Sarah Sandison, student, Hamilton College
  612. Cooper Lynn, M.A. student, Department of Slavic, East European, Eurasian Languages and Cultures, UCLA
  613. Agnia Ivanov, Russian Studies Minor, Hamilton College 
  614. Max Roder, Account Executive, Ogilvy
  615. Martin Ponti, Assistant Professor of Hispanic Studies, Washington College
  616. Alexander I. Pereswetoff-Morath, Ph.D., Reader in Slavonic Studies, Stockholm University, Sweden 
  617. John Pendergast, Associate Professor and Russian Program Director, Department of Foreign Languages, West Point – United States Military Academy
  618. Miriam Finkelstein, Assistant Professor, University of Graz, Austria
  619. Sara Orr, Visiting Assistant Professor of Russian, Willamette University
  620. Cierra Jay, Russian Minor, Trinity University
  621. Karina McCorkle, PhD candidate in Slavic Languages and Literatures, UC Berkeley
  622. Alla Nedashkivska, Professor of Slavic Applied Linguistics, Associate Chair Undergraduate, Dept. of Modern Languages and Cultural Studies, University of Alberta (Canada)
  623. Jeanne Willcoxon, Assistant Professor of Theatre, Hamilton College
  624. Marie Shelley, Teacher
  625. Lynne Ikach, Professor of Russian, Cornell College
  626. Mieka Erley, Asst. Professor of Russian and Eurasian Studies, Colgate University
  627. Desislava Lilova, Associate Professor of Cultural History, Sofia University, Bulgaria
  628. Jenifer Parks, Associate Professor of History, Rocky Mountain College
  629. Marko Dumančić, Associate Professor, Director CITL, Western Kentucky University
  630. Anonymous Student 
  631. Vadim Shneyder, Assistant Professor of Russian, UCLA
  632. Zachary J. Deming, PhD student, Department of Slavic Languages, Columbia University
  633. Max Gordon, PhD candidate, Northwestern University
  634. Dr. Victoria Legkikh , University of Vienna
  635. Ramona Kappelman Kline, B.A. Russian Language, Portland State University
  636. Anna Karpusheva, PhD Candidate, The University of Kansas
  637. Natalya Sukhonos, PhD, Independent Scholar
  638. Henryk Baran, O’Leary Professor of Russian Studies, Emeritus, University at Albany
  639. Ben Sutcliffe, Professor of Russian, Miami University
  640. William Mills Todd III, Research Professor, Harvard University
  641. Sergei Sychov, Instructor of Russian, Portland State Univeristy
  642. K. Maya Larson, M.A. in REEES and Ph.D. candidate, University of Oregon
  643. Dr. Zakhar Ishov, post-doctoral research fellow, IRES Institute for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Uppsala University
  644. Jeanette Owen, Ph.D.; Director, Critical Language Scholarship Program, American Councils for International Education
  645. Natalie McCauley, Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Richmond
  646. Grace Mitchell (BA in Russian Studies, University of Chicago)
  647. Valeria Sajez, Lecturer of Russian, Lafayette College
  648. Michael Coates, Ohio native and Ph.D. candidate, University of California, Berkeley
  649. Irina Denischenko, Mellon Assistant Professor of Russian Culture, Vanderbilt U
  650. Yves Wienecke, Russian Flagship Student, Portland State University
  651. Michael F. Meyer, PhD Candidate of Environmental Sciences, Washington State University
  652. Victoria Thorstensson, Assistant Professor, Nazarbayev University, Kazakhstan
  653. Danielle Covolo, PhD Student, Indiana University of Pennsylvania 
  654. Lara Ravitch, Dean, Russian Language Village, Concordia Language Villages
  655. 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
  656. Eva Thomas, Alumna, UC Berkeley Department of Slavic Languages & Literatures
  657. Soelve I. Curdts, Professor of Comparative Literature, Heinrich Heine University Duesseldorf
  658. Robert H. Greene, Associate Professor of History and Co-Director of Russian Studies, University of Montana
  659. Nick Gossett, Assistant Professor of Russian, University of South Alabama
  660. Polina Dimova, Assistant Professor of Russian, University of Denver
  661. Betsy Prytup (2001 graduate of Ohio University with a B.A. in history, Russian minor) now a resident of Karelia, Russia 
  662. Rósa Magnúsdóttir, Associate Professor of History, Aarhus University, Denmark
  663. Dr Helena Duffy, Collegium Researcher, University of Turku
  664. Kevin Bartig, Professor, Michigan State University
  665. Anna Alsufieva, Assistant Professor of Russian, Portland State University
  666. Reed Johnson, Lecturer, Russian Department, Bowdoin College
  667. Todd Armstrong, Professor, Grinnell College
  668. Toni Cross, JD Candidate, Vanderbilt University Law School
  669. Dr. Hannah Chapman, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Miami University
  670. A. Kate White, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Western Michigan University
  671. Student, University of Wisconsin-Madison
  672. Alina Klin, Senior Lecturer, WSU, Detroit
  673. Boris Wolfson, Associate Professor and Chair of Russian, Amherst College
  674. Anna Bloom, Graduate Student, Russian and East European Institute and Department of Slavic and East European Languages and Cultures, Indiana University
  675. Chloë Kitzinger, Asst. Professor of Russian, Rutgers University
  676. Neil Bermel, Professor of Russian and Slavonic Studies, University of Sheffield (UK)
  677. Irina Erman, Assistant Professor of Russian, College of Charleston
  678. Ms. Cynthia Rennolds, Master of Science of International Business
  679. Basil Lvoff, alumnus of the CUNY Graduate Center Comparative Literature Program
  680. Jess Jensen Mitchell, PhD Candidate Slavic Languages and Literatures, Harvard University 
  681. Naomi Caffee, Assistant Professor of Russian and Humanities, Reed College
  682. Jenya Mironava, PhD Candidate, Harvard University
  683. Grace E. Fielder, Professor Emerita, Russian & Slavic Studies University of Arizona
  684. Sara Shedroff, Hamilton College
  685. Valentina Iepuri, Associate Professor of Modern Languages, University of Mississippi
  686. Megan Blackwell, BA Russian Literature, Culture, and Translation student, Kent State University
  687. Alexander Perpeliev, PhD candidate, Sofia University 
  688. Melissa Bokovoy, Professor of History, Councilor, Research Division of the American Historical Association and President-Elect, Association for Women in Slavic Studies
  689. Valerie Sperling, Professor of Political Science, Clark University (Worcester, MA)
  690. Laurie Stoff, Principal Lecturer, Barrett, the Honors College, Arizona State University
  691. Hilde Hoogenboom, Associate Professor, Russian, School of International Letters & Cultures, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ
  692. Helen Myers, PhD, Senior Lecturer in Russian Studies, Ohio State University
  693. Vincent Artman, Instructor of Peace & Conflict Studies, Wayne State University
  694. Valentina Gueorguieva, Associate professor of Cultural Studies, Sofia University
  695. Serenity Stanton Orengo, PhD Candidate and TA, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
  696. Aaron Hale-Dorrell, PhD, Historian
  697. Michaela Telfer, Doctoral Candidate/AL, University of Southern California
  698. Kelly E. Miller, Ph.D., Associate Dean for Learning and Research Services, University of Miami Libraries
  699. Nattanop Palahan, PhD student, St Petersburg University
  700. Kathryn Yegorov-Crate, M.A. student, Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies, University of Texas-Austin
  701. Andrew Smith
  702. Evgueni Zashev, Associate Professor of Medieval Studies
  703. Sara Feldman, Preceptor in Yiddish, Harvard University
  704. A.E. Instructor, UofSC
  705. Esra Predolac, Lecturer, Department of Slavic and Eurasian Languages and Literatures, University of Kansas
  706. Mel Huang (Central & East European analyst)
  707. Alexandra Clark, BA Slavic Languages and Literatures, Indiana University Bloomington
  708. Mila Saskova-Pierce University of Nebraska emerita
  709. Peter J. Rabinowitz, Professor of Comparative Literature, Hamilton College
  710. Isabel Jaén, Professor of Spanish, Portland State U
  711. Clare Griffin, Assistant Professor, Nazarbayev University 
  712. Dr. Kate Transchel, Professor Emeritus of Soviet History, California State University, Chico.
  713. Alessandro Achilli, Lecturer in Ukrainian Studies, Monash University, Melbourne
  714. Robert Romanchuk, Pribic Family Associate Professor of Slavic, Florida State University
  715. Daria Aleeva, Senior Instructor of Russian, Portland State University
  716. Olga Lyanda-Geller, PhD, Senior Lecturer, School of Languages and Cultures, Purdue University
  717. Max Gersch, Student, Hamilton College
  718. Matthew Schmidt, Assoc. Professor National Security, grad U. Kansas CREES
  719. Elena Razlogova, Concordia University, Montreal
  720. Natalie Zelensky, Associate Professor of Music, Colby College
  721. Karina Ross
  722. Andrew Sloin, Department of History, Baruch College, CUNY
  723. Ilya Vinitsky, Professor, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Princeton University

Published:
01-Jun-2020

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