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Research Interests

Collective memory

Museum studies

Cultural history

Central Asia

Indigenous peoples of Siberia

Language pedagogy

Education

M.A. SLAVIC LANGUAGES AND LITERATURES | 2023 - PRESENT

The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL

M.A. FUNDAMENTAL AND APPLIED LINGUISTICS | JUNE 2019

National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia

B.A. ARTS AND HUMANITIES | JUNE 2017

Dual Degree: Department of Liberal Arts and Sciences of Saint Petersburg State University (Smolny College) and Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY

Grants

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - Distinguished Graduate Fellowship | 2023-2026

Colorado College - Alexey Malyshev Russian and Eurasian Studies Award | 2022, 2023

Pomona College – Course Development Workshops: Cohort Model | Summer 2020

ORF – Oxford Russia Fund, United Kingdom | 2017-2019

Courses Taught

RUS 108: Beginners to Intermediate: Transitional Russian Language Course (Bard College, NY and the American University of Central Asia, Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan) | Summers 2022-2024

RUS 103, RUS 205, RUS 307: Russian Language Courses (Colorado College, CO) | 2021-2023

RUS 101: Elementary Russian 1 (NSLI-Y and Bolshoi Ballet Academy Summer Intensive programs) | Summer 2021 

RUSS011, RUSS013: Russian Conversation Courses (Pomona College, CA) | 2019-2021

RUS 101, 102: Beginning Russian, Intermediate Russian (National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia) | 2017-2019