# Alumni ## expand\_more [### Justyna Beinek ](/people/justyna-beinek)Researcher & Translator. Previously: Assistant Director of Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies, University of Kansas. PhD, June 2001 Contact: ![a picture of Justyna](/sites/g/files/omnuum2186/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/2025-08/Screenshot%202025-08-04%20at%2010.45.24%E2%80%AFAM.png?itok=gkP6Ha24) [### Aleksey Berg ](/people/aleksey-berg)Lecturer in Foreign Languages, Department of Russian and East European Studies, University of Pennsylvania PhD, May 2013 Contact: ![a picture of Aleksey ](/sites/g/files/omnuum2186/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/2025-08/Screenshot%202025-08-04%20at%2010.47.41%E2%80%AFAM.png?itok=fPZD8KzG) [### Edyta Bojanowska ](/people/edyta-bojanowska)Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures/Affiliated Faculty, Department of History, Yale University PhD, November 2002 Contact: ![a picture of Edyta ](/sites/g/files/omnuum2186/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/2025-08/Screenshot%202025-08-04%20at%2011.01.40%E2%80%AFAM.png?itok=UiyWu7ae) [### Olga Breininger-Umetayeva ](/people/olga-breininger-umetayeva)Teacher, Moscow Creative Writing School/Columnist, Druzhba Narodov PhD, May 2019 Provisional Dissertation Title: «Wonderland, Terrorland, Sonderland: Northern Caucasus as Liminal Timespace». Education: M.Phil. In Modern Languages (Russian & German), University of Oxford (distinction) B.A. in Literature and Creative Writing, Gorky... ![olga.jpeg](/sites/g/files/omnuum2186/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/slavic/files/olga.jpeg?itok=dc4NOMwc) [### Julie Buckler ](/people/julie-buckler)Samuel Hazard Cross Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures and of Comparative Literature, Harvard University PhD, May 1996 Contact: ![a photo of Julie ](/sites/g/files/omnuum2186/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/2025-08/Screenshot%202025-08-08%20at%202.23.15%E2%80%AFPM.png?itok=Cz-s5sVF) [### Julia Bekman Chadaga ](/people/julia-chadaga)Associate Professor and Chair, Department of Russian Studies, Macalester College PhD, November 2003 Contact: ![headshot of Julia ](/sites/g/files/omnuum2186/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/2025-08/Screenshot%202025-08-04%20at%2012.09.50%E2%80%AFPM.png?itok=R6j1w5PA) [### Ian Chesley ](/people/ian-chesley)Independent Researcher, Washington, DC PhD, November 2007 person [### Raymond DeLuca ](/people/raymond-deluca)Assistant Professor of Russian Studies, Department of Russian and East Asian Languages and Cultures, Emory University PhD, May 2022 Contact: ![a picture of Raymond ](/sites/g/files/omnuum2186/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/2025-08/Screenshot%202025-08-04%20at%2012.13.08%E2%80%AFPM.png?h=8e392fdf&itok=eB438pzX) [### Sara Dickinson ](/people/sara-dickinson-0)Associate Professor, Department of Modern Languages and Cultures, University of Genoa; President, Association of Women in Slavic Studies PhD, November 1995 Contact: ![a photo of Sarah ](/sites/g/files/omnuum2186/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/2025-08/Screenshot%202025-08-04%20at%203.24.47%E2%80%AFPM.png?h=247172a6&itok=iNC2ziT2) [### Giorgio DiMauro ](/people/giorgio-dimauro)Associate Provost, International Initiatives and Special Projects, Barnard College PhD, June 2002 Contact: ![a photo of Giorgio ](/sites/g/files/omnuum2186/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/2025-08/Screenshot%202025-08-04%20at%203.37.59%E2%80%AFPM.png?h=9e4fba49&itok=HCK6wwT5) [### Brett Donohoe ](/people/brett-donohoe)Visiting Assistant Professor of Russian, Amherst College PhD, May 2024 Contact: Brett Donohoe received his B.A in linguistics and Russian, East European, and Eurasian studies at the University of Texas in 2016 and his M.A. in Slavic linguistics from Indiana University in 2018. He has studied and worked... ![a picture of Brett](/sites/g/files/omnuum2186/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/2025-08/Screenshot%202025-08-05%20at%2012.00.09%E2%80%AFPM.png?h=63966715&itok=3tEPYt_V) [### Giulia Dossi ](/people/giulia-dossi)Visiting Assistant Professor of Russian Language and Area Studies/Russian Section Head, St. Olaf's College PhD, November 2022 Contact: Giulia Dossi's research focuses broadly on nineteenth-century Russian literature and affect theory. In her dissertation she examines the use of grotesque affectivity in the texts of early psychopathology and literary Realism in... ![a photo of Giulia ](/sites/g/files/omnuum2186/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/2025-08/Screenshot%202025-08-05%20at%2011.53.52%E2%80%AFAM.png?itok=ftHwUdxC) [### Alexander Droznin ](/people/alexander-droznin)Medical Student, University of Minnesota Medical School AM, May 2019 person [### Jacob Emery ](/people/jacob-emery)Chair, Department of Comparative Literature; Professor, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Indiana University Bloomington PhD, 2006 Contact: Interests: Russian, Balkan, and Scandinavian literature. Comparative literature. Materialism and aesthetics. Rhetoric and figure. Theory. Science fiction. Utopian thought. Metafiction. Technologies of transcription. Kinship... ![Jacob Emery](/sites/g/files/omnuum2186/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/slavic/files/jemery.jpg?itok=aZ0CxAip) [### Maya Garcia ](/people/maya-garcia)Freelance Russian-English Interpreter, San Francisco Bay Area PhD, November 2023 Contact: Maya Garcia received her B.A. in Slavic Languages and Literatures and Comparative Literature from the University of California, Berkeley in 2014. Her undergraduate honors thesis explored the... ![a photo of Maya ](/sites/g/files/omnuum2186/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/2025-08/Screenshot%202025-08-05%20at%202.55.44%E2%80%AFPM.png?h=824c5a33&itok=7Tkg3YrP) [### Tatyana Gershkovich ](/people/tatyana-gershkovich)William S. Dietrich II Associate Professor of Russian Studies, Department of Languages, Cultures & Applied Linguistics, Carnegie Mellon University PhD, May 2016 Contact: ![a photo of Tatyana ](/sites/g/files/omnuum2186/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/2025-08/Screenshot%202025-08-05%20at%203.01.19%E2%80%AFPM.png?itok=f3iX6Ms_) [### Roy Ginsberg ](/people/roy-ginsberg)Jonah Goldrich Postdoctoral Fellow in Yiddish Studies, Tel Aviv University PhD, May 2024 Contact: Roy Ginsberg's research focuses on 20th century avant-garde movements across Eastern Europe and Jewish identities in the late-Russian Empire and Soviet Union. His other research interests include the 19th century Russian... ![Roy, with a beard, wearing a purple shirt](/sites/g/files/omnuum2186/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/slavic/files/image001-3.jpg?itok=0cYBO0cg) [### Daniel Green ](/people/daniel-green)Affiliated Lecturer in Slavonic Studies, Faculty of Medieval & Modern Languages and Linguistics, University of Cambridge, Selwyn College PhD, August 2018 Contact: Dissertation Title “Dressing the Golden Age: The Symbolism of Clothing in Russian Literature in the Era of Nicholas I” Education: M.Phil. Russian Studies, University of Cambridge B.A. Modern and Medieval Languages (Russian and... ![a photo of Daniel ](/sites/g/files/omnuum2186/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/2025-08/Screenshot%202025-08-05%20at%2012.42.29%E2%80%AFPM.png?h=bcf2f8a0&itok=pp5w-WHt) [### Alexander Groce ](/people/alexander-groce)Academic Director, Russian Overseas Flagship Program, American Councils for International Education PhD, June 2016 Contact: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexander-groce-b04154a/?originalSubdomain=…](https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexander-groce-b04154a/?originalSubdomain=lt) Dissertation Title: "The Tsar's Scriveners" - Writing Bureaucrats in Nineteenth-century Russia Education: MA in Linguistics from University of Maryland - College Park BA in... ![a photo of Alexander](/sites/g/files/omnuum2186/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/2025-08/Screenshot%202025-08-05%20at%203.05.30%E2%80%AFPM.png?h=c3fe6351&itok=lsxayV46) [### Tim Harte ](/people/timothy-harte)Provost; Professor of Russian, Department of Russian, Bryn Mawr College PhD, June 2001 Contact: ![a photo of Timothy ](/sites/g/files/omnuum2186/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/2025-08/Screenshot%202025-08-05%20at%203.07.07%E2%80%AFPM.png?itok=QSoliwia) - Previous page chevron\_left - [1](?page=0 "Current page") - [2](?page=1 "Go to page 2") - [3](?page=2 "Go to page 3") - [4](?page=3 "Go to page 4") - [ Next page chevron\_right ](?page=1 "Go to next page")