Alumni

2019

Robyn Jensen: Assistant Teaching Professor, UC Berkeley

Sophie Pinkham: Professor or Practice, Department of Comparative Literature, Cornell University, author

2018

Holly Myers: Assistant Professor of Russian, University of Delaware

Brendan Nieubuurt: Librarian for Slavic, Eastern European, and Eurasian Studies, University of Michigan

Irina Denischenko: Assistant Professor, Department of Slavic Languages & Women and Gender Studies Program, Georgetown University

2017

Bradley Gorski: Assistant Professor, Department of Slavic Languages, Georgetown University

Maria Doubrovskaia: Executive Function Coach and Academic Tutor, Frankenberger Associates, LLC

Michael Ossorgin: Russian Program Director and Senior Lecturer, Fordham University

2016

Jill Roese: Freelance translator

2015

Jessika Aguilar: Independent scholar

Francisco Picon: Infrastructure Engineer at T. Rowe Price, Towson, Maryland

Timothy Williams: Senior Lecturer, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan

2014

Greta Matzner-Gore: Independent Scholar

Maksim Hanukai: Associate Professor German, Nordic, Slavic, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Edward Tyerman: Associate Professor Department of Slavic Languages University of California, Berkeley

Anita Ta’rnai: Educator, Researcher, Curriculum and Program Developer; Voices of Women (VOW); New York City College of Technology, CUNY

2013

Alison Annunziata: Research Programs Manager, University of California Humanities Research Institute

Andrew Hicks: Sr. Principal Analyst, Global Data Plc. 

Katharine Holt: Independent scholar

Steven Shaklan: Vice President and Senior Instructional Designer, Socratic Arts

2012

Anna Dvigubski: Head Russian Teacher, Russian Language Programme, United Nations

Marysia Dzieduszycka: Executive director The Zbigniew Herbert Foundation, Warsaw, Poland

Elizabeth Kosakowska: Independent translator / researcher

2011

Nina Bond: Visiting Assistant Professor, Flanklin and Marshall

Marjetta Bozovic: Professor of Slavic Languages & Literatures; Film and Media Studies; Women’s, Gender, & Sexuality Studies, Yale University

Bella Grigoryan: Associate Professor and Chair, Department of Slavic Languages and Literature, U. of Pittsburgh

Ani Kokobobo: Dean, UL Lafayette’s College of Liberal Arts

Emma Lieber: Psychoanalyst in private practice, a part-time lecturer in Literary Studies at the New School

Margo Shohl (Rosen): Independent scholar

John Cal Wright: Term Assistant Professor, Slavic Department, Barnard

2010

Rory Finnin: Professor of Ukrainian Studies, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom

Rebecca Pyatkevich: Visiting Assistant Professor, Williamette University 

Erica Siegel: Associate Dean, Barnard College

Natalia Ermolaev
Executive Director, Center for Digital Humanities
Princeton University

Jack Faust Matlock, Jr.
Former Ambassador to the Soviet Union

Joan Brooks
Independent Scholar, Literary and Academic Translator

Thomas Kitson
Translator

Paola Castagna
Independent Scholar

Vadim Shkolnikov
Independent Scholar

Judith Wermuth-Atkinson
Independent Scholar

Jamie Bennett
Assistant Director of Academic Affairs
Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Lecturer in Slavic Languages
Department of Slavic Languages
Columbia University

Jason Galie
Russian Language Analyst, Instructor
American university

Karin Beck
Interim Associate Provist
Lehman College

Brinton Tench Coxe
Independent Scholar

Colleen McQuillen
Associate Professor of Slavic, Chair
University of Southern California

John Isham
Director, Western Heritage Program
Associate Professor of Communication and Digital Media, Modern Languages and Great Ideas
Carthage College, Wisconsin

Kirsten Lodge
Professor of Humanities and English
Midwestern State University

Marta Deyrup
Professor and Head of Technical Services
Seton Hall University

Irina Kronrod
Senior Director
International Business Development
Sotheby's Private Client Group, Sotheby's, London

Jefferson J. A. Gatrall
Associate Professor and Coordinator of the Russian Program
Modern Languages and Literatures
Montclair State University

David Cooper
Associate Professor
Head Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Douglas Greenfield
Associate Professor, Associate Director
Intellectual Heritage Program
Temple University

Adrienne Kim Bird
Affiliated Faculty, Slavic Languages and Literatures
International Student and Scholars Coordinator
University of Virginia

Molly Rose Avila
HIP Teacher
Avenues Open

Rebecca Stanton
Independent Scholar

Valeria Sobol
Associate Professor
Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Ellen Scaruffi
Adjunct Assistant Professor
U.S. Naval Academy

Lyudmila Parts
Professor
McGill University

Nina Gourianova  
Professor
Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Comparative Literary Studies
Northwestern University

Grigory Kruzhkov
Adjunct Professor
RGGU (Russian State University for the Humanities)

Charity Scribner  
Associate Professor
LaGuardia Community College

Clark Troy
DWM Advisors, LLC
Financial Advisor

Christopher Harwood
Senior Lecturer in Czech Language and Literature
Columbia University

Emily D. Johnson  
Co-director of the Romanoff Center for Russian Studies, Professor of Russian Affiliate Faculty in women & Gender Studies, Brian and Sandra O'Brien Presidential Professor , Department of Modern Languages, Literatures & Linguistics, University of Oklahoma

Kirsten Blythe Painter
Independent Scholar

Nicole Svobodny
Assistant Dean, College of Arts & Sciences
Senior Lecturer, International and Area Studies
Coordinator, Eurasian Studies concentration
Washington University, St. Louis

Gina Pacht Kovarsky
Assistant Professor, VCU School of World Studies (retired)

Pavel V. Lyssakov
Director, International Programs
European University, St. Petersburg, Russia

Ludmilla A. Trigos
Independent Scholar

Nancy Workman
Advising Dean
Columbia College/ SEAS
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Columbia University

Olga L. Briker
Director of Development, Silver Springs--Martin Luther School

Mallika Urvashi Ramdas
Instructor, United World College of South East Asia, Singapore

Christina Weinberg (Sperrle)
Independent Scholar
 
Nicole Svobodny
Senior Lecturer in Global Studies, Global Studies Abroad Advisor, Coordinator, Eurasian Studies concetration 

Ksana Blank  
Senior Lecturer
Department of Slavic Languages and Lietratures
Coordinator of the Russian Language Program
Director of Princeton-in-Petersburg Program

Hilary L. Fink
Lecturer
Commonwealth Honors College
U. of Massachusetts, Amherst

Hilde M. Hoogenboom
Associate Professor, Russian
School of Inernational Letters and Cultures
Affiliate, Melikan Center

Mary Laurita
Assistant Dean for Transfer Students
Sophmore Class Dean
Barnard

Carol Ueland
Professor Emerita of Russian
Drew University

Paul Milan Foster Jr.
Senior Lecturer and Director
Center for Languages of the Central Asian Region (CeLCAR)
Indiana University

Thomas S. Newlin  
Associate Professor
Oberlin College

Thomas S. Popovich
Professor
Nassau Community College

Maude F. Meisel
Advising Dean
CC/SEAS Student Advising
Core Lecturer
Columbia University 

Adrian Wanner  
Professor and Dept. Head
Penn. State University

Svetlana Grenier  
Associate Professor
Georgetown University
 
Olga Meerson
Professor
Georgetown University
 

Natalia Lusin
Librarian, Info Specialist, MLA

Richard Chandler Borden
Independent Scholar, Translator

Marcia Morris
Emerita Professor
Georgetown University

Janina Kancewicz-Hoffman
Senior Science Officer and Head of Unit
Standing Committee for the Humanities
European Science Foundation

Ian C. Kelly (retired)
Ambassador
U.S. Department of State

Konstantin Kustanovich
Emeritus Professor of Russian
Vanderbilt University
 
John Spiegel
Associate Professor
Northeastern University

Judith Deutsch Kornblatt
Emerita
University of Wisconsin, Madison

Liza A. Knapp  
Professor
Columbia University
 
Franklin A. Sciacca  
Emeritus Associate Professor of German and Russian Languages and Literatures (Russian)
Hamilton College

Thomas P. Barran
Emeritus
CUNY (Brooklyn College)

Marcus C. Levitt
Emeritus
USC

Michael M. Naydan
Professor
Penn. State University

Sarah Pratt
Professor
USC

Robin Feuer Miller
Professor
Brandeis University

Patricia Krafcik
Professor
Evergreen State College

Irwin Rad
Professor
Fairleigh Dickinson University

Sharon M. Carnicke
Professor
USC

Anne Frydman
Professor
John Hopkins University

Diana Greene
Slavic Librarian
NYU
 
Lesley S. Herrmann
Executive Director, Gilder Lehrmann Institute of American History

Gary Cox
Associate Professor
Southern Methodist University

Mark Pomar
Senior Fellow
Clements Center for National Security at University of Texas
Harriman Institute’s National Advisory Council

William Todd III
Emeritus
Harry Tuchman Levin Professor of Literature
Professor of Comparative Literature