Alumni
Dariusz Tolczyk
Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Department of Slavic Languages & Literatures, University of Virginia
PhD, June 1994
Contact: dt8n@virginia.edu
Alexander Tullock
Senior Program Manager, Russian Overseas Flagship Program and Turkish Flagship Language Initiative, American Councils for International Education
PhD, November 2019
Julia Vaingurt
Professor and Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Polish, Russian, and Lithuanian Studies, University of Illinois Chicago
PhD, March 2005
Contact: vaingurt@uic.edu
Cynthia M. Vakareliyska
Professor Emeritus of Linguistics, Schnitzer School of Global Studies and Languages, University of Oregon
PhD, November 1990
Contact: vakarel@uoregon.edu
Emily Van Buskirk
Associate Professor, Russian and East European Languages & Literatures, Rutgers University
PhD, November 2008
Contact: emily.vanbuskirk@rutgers.edu
Maria Vassileva
Literary Translator
PhD, November 2019
Phd, November 2019 Education: B.A. Literature, Harvard College, 2010. Interests: 20th century Russian literature Bulgarian literature Serbian/Croatian/Bosnian literature (esp. Danilo Kiš) Translation, Twitter, Turkish borrowings in Slavic languages...
Anna Vichkitova
PhD, November 2025
Anna Vichkitova is a scholar of Russian, Soviet, and post-Soviet culture. Her research interests are broad and interconnected: she has published and presented on post-Soviet memory, Soviet and post-Soviet gender representation, eco-writing and...
Aida Vidan
Associate Curator, Milman Parry Collection of Oral Literature, Harvard University; Director of Studies, Department of International Literary and Cultural Studies, Tufts University; Part-Time Lecturer in Cinema and Media Studies, Boston University
PhD, June 2000
Contact: avidan@fas.harvard.edu Aida Vidan is Associate Curator of the Milman Parry Collection of Oral Literature at Harvard University and Director of Studies in the Department of International Literary and Cultural Studies at Tufts University where she...
Sarah Vitali
Literary Translator; Affiliated Lecturer, Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages and Linguistics, University of Cambridge
PhD, November 2019
Contact: scv27@cam.ac.uk Education AB, Slavic Languages and Literatures, Princeton University Certificates in Eurasian Studies and French Language and Culture Interests Russian Silver Age poetry Mak Dizdar and Bosnian identity Literary translation Awards...
Olga Voronina
Assistant Professor of Russian; Director, Russian and Eurasian Studies Program, Bard College
PhD, June 2010
Contact: ovoronin@bard.edu
Abigail Weil
Research & Instruction Outreach Librarian/Library Subject Specialist, Modern Languages and Literatures , Swarthmore College
PhD, November 2019
Contact: aweil1@swarthmore.edu
Timothy Westphalen
Associate Professor of Russian Studies, Department of Languages and Cultural Studies, Stony Brook University
PhD, March 1991
Contact: timothy.westphalen@stonybrook.edu
Valentina Zaitseva
Associate Teaching Professor (Slavic Languages & Literatures), University of Washington
PhD, June 1992
Contact: vaz2@uw.edu
