PhD Graduates
2022
Ben Hooyman: Core Lecturer, Columbia University
Milica Ilicic: Director of Communications, Moonshots Capital
Alex Pekov: Lecturer, Columbia University
2021
Benjamin Lussier: Artist and Independent Scholar
Erica Drennan: Associate Director, Amherst Center for Russian Culture
Michael Gluck: Machine Learning Data Annotator, Quillbot
2020
Inna Kapilevich: Senior Data Analyst, Success Academies
Emily Traverse: Independent Scholar
Brittany Pfeiffer: Independent Scholar
Eliza Rose: Assistant Professor and Laszlo Birinyi Sr. Fellow in Central European Studies in the Department of Germanic & Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
2019
Robyn Jensen: Assistant Teaching Professor, UC Berkeley
Sophie Pinkham: Lecturer in Discipline (Core), Department of Slavic Languages, Columbia (term appointment); freelance writer
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: Independent scholar and artist
Michael Ossorgin: Advanced Lecturer of Russian Modern Languages and Literature, Director of the Russian Program, Fordham University
2016
Jill Roese: Freelance translator
2015
Jessika Aguilar: Independent scholar
Francisco Picon: Infrastructure Engineer at T. Rowe Price, Towson, Maryland
Timothy Williams: Adjunct at the CUNY Dominican Studies Institute, Freelance translator, proofreader, and editor
2014
Greta Matzner-Gore: Assistant Professor of Slavic Languages & Literature University of Southern California
Maksim Hanukai: Assistant 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: Research Director, IDC's EMEA Telecommunications
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: Adjunct Assistant Professor of Russian and Russian Studies, Assistant Director of Post-Graduate Scholarships
Marjetta Bozovic: Assistant 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: Associate Professor, Chair, Slavic Languages & Literatures; Interim Director of the Center for Russian, East European & Eurasian Studies (CREES), U. of Kansas
Emma Lieber: Psychoanalyst in private practice, a part-time lecturer in Literary Studies at the New School; adjunct lecturer at Barnard College and in the Slavic Department at Columbia
Margo Shohl (Rosen): a part-time Lecturer in Slavic Languages (Core), independent scholar
John Cal Wright: Adjunct lecture (Linguistics), Department of Slavic Languages, Columbia University
2010
Rory Finnin: Associate Professor of Ukrainian Studies, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
Rebecca Pyatkevich Mehr: Researcher, Writer, Translator, Innovator at RPM Content and Communications, Portland, Oregon
Erica Siegel: Associate Dean, Barnard College
Natalia Ermolaev
Assistant Director, Center for Digital Humanities
Princeton University
Project Archivist
Serge Prokofiev Archive
Columbia University
Peter Burzynski (MA)
Ph.D. student
Cretive Writing-Poetry
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Jack Faust Matlock, Jr.
Former Ambassador to the Soviet Union
Jacqueline Bertucci (MA)
Slavic Cultures
Jonathan Brooks Platt
Independent Scholar
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 Analyst
US Government
Russian Instructor
The George Washington Univeristy
Karin Beck
Executive Director
School of General Studies
Kean University, Germany
Brinton Tench Coxe
Independent Scholar
Colleen McQuillen
Associate Professor of Slavic
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
Associate 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
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
Associate Professor, Russian Studies
Graduate Program Director, Dept. of Russian and Slavic Studies
McGill University
Nina Gourianova
Associate 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
Lecturer in Czech Language and Literature
Columbia University
Emily D. Johnson
Associate Professor of Russian
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
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
I. Christina Weinberg (Sperrle)
Ksana Blank
Senior Lecturer, Princeton University
Hilary L. Fink
Lecturer, Yale University
Dean of Bradford College, Yale University
Hilde M. Hoogenboom
Assistant Professor
Arizona State University
Mary Laurita
Assistant Dean and Director of Peer Advising
College of Arts and Sciences
Washington University, St. Louis
Carol Ueland
Professor of Russian and Chair
Department. of German, Russian, Chinese and Arabic, 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
Coordinator and Adjunct Faculty
Dyson College of Arts and Sciences
Pace University
Adrian Wanner
Professor and Dept. Head
Penn. State University
Svetlana Grenier
Associate Professor
Georgetown University
Olga Meerson
Associate Professor
Georgetown University
Deborah Martinsen
Adjunct Associate Professor and Associate Dean
Columbia University
Natalia Lusin
Librarian, Info Specialist, MLA
Richard Chandler Borden
Independent Scholar, Translator
Marcia Morris
Professor
Georgetown University
Catharine Theimer Nepomnyashchy
Professor and Department Chair
Barnard College
Janina Kancewicz-Hoffman
Senior Science Officer and Head of Unit
Standing Committee for the Humanities
European Science Foundation
Ian C. Kelly
U.S. Department of State
Konstantin Kustanovich
Associate Professor
Vanderbilt University
John Spiegel
Associate Professor
Northeastern University
Judith Deutsch Kornblatt
Professor
University of Wisconsin, Madison
Liza A. Knapp
Associate Professor
Columbia University
Franklin A. Sciacca
Associate Professor
Hamilton College
Thomas P. Barran
Professor
CUNY (Brooklyn College)
Marcus C. Levitt
Professor
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
Peter Kussi
Lecturer in Czech
Columbia University (retired)
Mark Pomar
Administrator
IREX
William Todd III
Harvard College Professor
Harry Tuchman Levin Professor of Literature
Professor of Comparative Literature
MA Graduates
2021
Yevgen Gutman: Instructor of Russian at USMA, West Point
2020
Ryan Tintera: Russian instructor, West Point
2018
Hanna Miller: Director of Community Engagement and Organizing, Yaffed
Alfred Rosenbluth: Just Interpretations, LLC
Anna Pershikova: Assistant Buyer, Mercury, Moscow
2017
Elaine Wilson: PhD student, Department of Slavic Languages, Columbia
Jason Johnson: Major, US Army, Seoul, Korea
2016
Dominic Leach: Freelance translator
2015
Evgeny Shherbakov: Program Assistant, Carnegie Corporation
Clayton Merkley: Major, US Army
2014
Kristin Warbasse: Executive Assistant to Dean, Columbia School of Nursing
Serenity Stanton: PhD Candidate, Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
2013
Isaac Wheeler: Translator, Center for the Art of Translation
Peter Burzynski: PhD student in Creative Writing-Poetry at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Kendall Burns: Corporate Associate at Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP Westminster, England, United Kingdom
2012
Amelia Grossi: MA candidate, Department of Language and Linguistic Science, The University of York, England, United Kingdom
2011
Diana Sacilowski: Ph.D. Student Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Kristen Bresnahan
Marie Laustsen
2010
Michael Tobias
Alexandra Kotar-Weber: Literary translator
Meghan Forbes: Postdoctoral Fellow, Leonard A. Lauder Research Center for Modern Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York