Augustus Gilchrist

As Faculty Assistant, Augustus provides direct support to ladder faculty, as well as for other Department administrative functions as needed. Previously, he worked as a gallery attendant at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art and as a researcher and translator for the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany. He holds a B.A. in Russian Language, Literature and Culture from Bowdoin College. He also studied Russian in Moldova with NSLI-Y and Bard Smolny in St. Petersburg, as well as Ukrainian language with the Melikian Center at Arizona State University and at Harvard, and Yiddish language and literature at YIVO, the Worker's Circle, and Harvard. In his free time he enjoys reading, cinema, hiking, memorizing poetry, and the company of friends.