Students who have concentrated in Slavic Languages and Literatures have gone on to careers in a variety of fields: academics, journalism, finance, medicine, and film, among others. Below you will find a list of our recent undergraduate alumni, and the various paths they have taken since concentrating in Slavic.
Whitney Williams, Slavic/English, 2010: Assistant District Attorney, Middlesex District Attorney's Office. Senior Thesis/Capstone Project: "The Demon Chase."
Jordan Bryant, Classics/Slavic, 2011: Associate, Jones Day.
Charlotte Austin, Slavic/History, 2011
Alexander Lindsay, Slavic, 2011: Founder, Baxter Inc. Senior Thesis/Capstone Project: "Imbued Sense: The Use of Movement in Tarkovsky's Stalker."
Alice Underwood, Slavic, 2011: Research Scholar, Project on Russian Power and Purpose in the 21st Century, Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, Stanford University. Senior Thesis/Capstone Project: "Rights on Parade: The Russian LGBT Community's Divided March Toward Equality."
Paul Sawyier, Slavic, 2011: Executive Director of Federally Assisted Portfolio Loan Programs, NYC Department of Housing Preservation & Development.
Danielle Guillette, Slavic, 2011
Danielle Kijewski, Slavic, 2011
Jacob Viramontes, Slavic, 2012: Content & Curriculum Operations Lead, Voxy.
Jasper Nighthawk, Slavic, 2012: Manager of Communications, Antioch University/Writer. Senior Thesis/Capstone Project: "Spiritual Imagination: The Literary Icons of Vladimir Nabokov."
Lenora Murphy, Slavic, 2012: Assistant Teaching Professor of Russian Studies, Bucknell University.
Devon Dunn, Slavic, 2012: Vice President of Sales, Book Culture.
John Lechner, Slavic, 2012: Freelance Journalist and Researcher.
Jesse Nee-Vogelman, Slavic, 2013: Writer. Senior Thesis/Capstone Project: "Power Adapters: Dmitry Krymov and Kamas Glinka on the Moscow Stage."
Christine Hughes, Slavic/Psychology, 2013: Investor Relations Associate, Oasis Management Company Ltd.
Eli Kahn, Slavic, 2013: Research Assistant (Urbanity Project), Mercatus Center, George Mason University.
Marina Bolotnikova, Slavic, 2014: Deputy Editor (Future Perfect), Vox.
Michael Goncalves, Linguistics/Slavic, 2014: Director of Technology Product Management, SAGE Publications. Senior Thesis/Capstone Project: "Art Without Iambs: The Free Verse Poetics of Kirill Medvedev."
George Pocheptsov, Slavic/Statistics, 2014: Private Equity Principal, Apollo Global Management.
William Harrington, Slavic, 2016: Graduate Teaching Assistant, BU Questrom School of Business. Senior Thesis/Capstone Project: "Poles in Napoleon's Service in Żeromski's Ashes."
Mercedes Flowers, Slavic, 2016: Project Leader, Boston Consulting Group.
Claire Atwood, Slavic, 2016: Senior HRIS Analyst, Crowdstrike. Senior Thesis/Capstone Project: "Transfiguring History: Two Epic Poems About Peter the Great, 1803-1810."
Emma Santelmann, Slavic, 2017: Ph.D. Student in Linguistics, University of Michigan. Senior Thesis/Capstone Project: "'I'm Not The People?': The Fate of the Cross-cultural Self in Soviet Village Prose and Indigenous Literatures of Siberia and the Far East."
Andy Troska, Slavic, 2017: Student, Institute of Culinary Education. Senior Thesis/Capstone Project: "'Верю: несовместны гений и смерть.': Making a Singing Translation of Дети Розенталя."
Lee Hittner-Cunningham, Hist & Lit/Slavic, 2018: Writer/Poet.
Alexander Deshuk, Hist & Lit/Slavic, 2018: J.D. Candidate, Harvard Law School. Senior Thesis/Capstone Project: "Movement and Dissent: How Andrei Amalrik Wrote Himself into the Soviet Dissident Movement."
Eric Kim, Slavic, 2018: Ph.D. Student in Slavic Languages & Literatures, Stanford University. Senior Thesis/Capstone Project: "Dining with Drama: How Pushkin and Gogol Created a New Tradition."
Sierra Nota, History/Slavic, 2019: Doctoral candidate (ABD) in Russian and East European History, Stanford University. Senior Thesis/Capstone Project: "Make Way for the Railway: Transit-Oriented Development in the City of Irkutsk.:
Sebastian Reyes, Government/Slavic, 2019: Analytics Manager, Medallia. Senior Thesis/Capstone Project: "Benefit Yourself, Your Family, Your Country: Youth Politics in Putin's Russia, 2000 to Today."
Alexandra Shpitalnik, Government/Slavic, 2019: Program Administrator, NYU Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia. Senior Thesis/Capstone Project: "Civil Society in the Shadow of Leviathan: The Development and Role of Socially-Oriented Non-Governmental Organizations in the Russian Federation."
Luke Jackmaugh, Slavic, 2019: Ph.D. Student in Comparative Literature, University of Massachussetts Amherst.
Claire Flintoff, Slavic, 2020: Translator.
Jeremiah Blacklow, Slavic, 2020: Founding Second Violin, Renaissance String Quartet/Principal Second Violin, Glimmerglass Opera Orchestra.
Nataliya Palinchak, Slavic, 2020. Senior Thesis/Capstone Project: "Through Eastern European Eyes and Under the Western Gaze: The (Un)Feminist Face of the Russo-Ukrainian War."
Lydia Lavrova, AFVS/Slavic, 2020. Senior Thesis/Capstone Project: "С Новым Годом= Happy New Year (SNGHNY)."
Olivia Blanchard, Slavic, 2020: Medical Student, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. Senior Thesis/Capstone Project: "Kharms's Incidences: Inviting Participation in a Theater of Prose."
Alyssa Turner, Slavic, 2021: Faculty Support Coordinator, USC Gould School of Law. Senior Thesis/Capstone Project: "'Our Pushkin Was Always a Revolutionist': Alexsandr Pushkin in the Imagination of the Russian Diaspora."
Georgiy Kent, SOCS/Slavic, 2022: M.A. Student in International Relations, John Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. Senior Thesis/Capstone Project: "Homeland Lost? Crimean Tatar Civil Society Responses to Russia's Occupation of Crimea."
Alexander Lee, History/Slavic, 2023: Investment Banking Analyst, Citigroup. Senior Thesis/Capstone Project: "'We the Soviet People': Civic Belonging, Sovetskii Narod Discourse, and Soviet Identity under the Conditions of Late Socialism."
Cade Williams, Slavic, 2023: Agency Coordinator, The Weis Agency.
Lucy Poulson, Slavic, 2023: Peace Corps Volunteer, Republic of Moldova.
Paige Lee, CS/Slavic, 2023: Data Scientist, Nomic AI. Senior Thesis/Capstone Project: "Scorched Wordscapes: A Multidisciplinary Study of the Transformations in Russophone Poetry Before and After the Invasion of Ukraine."
Yaraslau Slavikouski, Slavic, 2023: M.A. Student in Supply Chain Analytics, Rutgers Business School.