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