Where are our graduate alumni now?
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Our M.A. and Ph.D. graduates find employment in academia, government, non-governmental organizations, and the private sector. They teach in Slavic programs at major universities around the country. They serve as language- and area-studies experts for the U.S. government and other organizations with a policy interest in Eastern Europe. And they serve as translators and regional experts for international businesses. In short, our graduates find many ways to put their degrees to work. Our recent graduates, and where they have gone after leaving us, are listed below.
Are you a recent M.A. or Ph.D. graduate who is not listed here? Or is your employment information outdated? Contact us! We'd love to hear from you.
2013
Andrew Kier, Ph.D.
Dissertation title: The semantics of Russian 'about' prepositions: A corpus-based study
Dissertation advisor: Daniel Collins
Current position: Metadata specialist and cataloguer, Online Computer Library Center (OCLC)
Anastasia Kostetskaya, Ph.D. (to be officially conferred at Summer 2013 commencement)
Dissertation title: The water of life and the life of water: The metaphor of world liquescence in the poetry, painting and film of the Russian Silver Age
Dissertation advisors: Irene Delic and Helena Goscilo
Current position: Assistant Professor, University of Hawai'i Manoa (starting Fall 2013)
Olha Rudich, Ph.D.
Dissertation title: Freed by ideology, imprisoned by reality: The representation of women in the cinemas of the thaw and perestroika
Dissertation advisor: Yana Hashamova
Current position: Russian language instructor, NASA
2012
Matthew Curtis, Ph.D.
Dissertation title: Slavic-Albanian Language Contact, Convergence, and Coexistence
Dissertation advisor: Brian Joseph
Current position: Albanian-English interpreter and translator, on contract to the U.S. State Department in Brussels, Belgium
Ljiljana Đurašković, Ph.D.
Dissertation title: The Expression of Possession in Medieval Russian Legal Language: Contextual Factors in the Selection of Alternatives
Dissertation advisor: Daniel Collins
Current position: Lecturer, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Pittsburgh
2011
Maria Alley, Ph.D.
Dissertation title: Investigating processing in processing instruction
Dissertation advisors: Daniel Collins and Wynne Wong (French & Italian)
Current position: Senior Lecturer and Foreign Language Coordinator, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Pennsylvania
Živojin Jakovljević, Ph.D.
Dissertation title: Editing in a sixteenth-century Serbian manuscript (HM.SMS.280): A lexical analysis with comparison to the Russian original
Dissertation advisor: Daniel Collins
Current position: Priest, Serbian Orthodox Church / Lecturer for Serbian Language and Literature, Cleveland State University
Jasmine Lin, M.A.
Advisor: Helena Goscilo
Current position:
Kathleen Manukyan, Ph.D.
Dissertation title: The Russian word in song: Cultural and linguistic issues of classical singing in the Russian language
Dissertation advisor: Irene Delic
Current position: Visiting Lecturer, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Pittsburgh
Galina Naumenko, Ph.D.
Dissertation title:
Dissertation advisor: Irene Delic
Current position: Freelance translator
Marina Pashkova, M.A.
Advisor: Andrea Sims
Current position: Lecturer, Department of Slavic and East European Languages and Cultures, Ohio State University
James Joshua Pennington, Ph.D.
Dissertation title: The synchrony and diachrony of Bosnian-Croatian-Serbian adjectival long-form allomorphy (ALFA)
Dissertation advisor: Brian Joseph
Current position: Russian teacher, Western High School, Baltimore
Allison Potvin, Ph.D.
Dissertation title: The body in transition: Physical transformation in postmodern Russian literary and visual culture
Dissertation advisor: Angela Brintlinger
Current position:
Robert Reynolds, M.A.
Advisor: Andrea Sims
Current position: Ph.D. student, University of Tromsø, Norway
Susan Vdovichenko, Ph.D.
Dissertation title: The beholder's eye: How self-identification and linguistic ideology affect shifting language attitudes and language maintenance in Ukraine
Dissertation advisor: Ludmila Isurin
Current position: Visiting Assistant Professor of Russian, Washington & Jefferson College
2010
Elizabeth Angerman, Ph.D.
Dissertation title: "The idea of eternal return": Palimpsests and national narratives in Czechoslovak New Wave literary adaptations
Dissertation advisor: Yana Hashamova
Current position: Study Abroad Coordinator, Ohio State University
Daniel Davidson, M.A.
Advisors: Daniel Collins and Andrea Sims
Current position: Analyst (Russian language specialist), Department of Defense
Magdalena Gruszczynska-Harrison, Ph.D.
Dissertation title: Language transfer and beyond: Pro-drop, code switching, and acquisition milestones in bilingual Polish-English children
Dissertation advisor: Ludmila Isurin
Current position: Visiting Instructor, Brown University
Marcela Michalkova, Ph.D.
Dissertation title: Gender asymmetries in Slovak personal nouns
Dissertation advisor: Daniel Collins
Current position:
Zoran Panjak, M.A.
Advisor: Irene Delic
Current position: Media Manager, St. Peterburg's International Economic Forum
Shelley Price Cade, M.A.
Advisor: Daniel Collins
Current position:
Sunnie Rucker-Chang, Ph.D.
Dissertation title: Cultural formation in post-Yugoslav Serbia: Divides, debates, and dialogues
Dissertation advisor: Yana Hashamova
Current position: Assistant Professor, Florida State University
Larysa Stepanova, Ph.D.
Dissertation title: Representation of national identity on Ukrainian business websites
Dissertation advisors: Daniel Collins and Charles Gribble
Current position:
2009
Xinran Dong, Ph.D.
Dissertation title: Requests in academic settings in American English, Russian and Chinese
Dissertation advisor: Daniel Collins and Marjorie Chan (East Asian Languages and Literatures)
Current position:
Kirk Jorgensen, M.A.
Advisor: Ludmila Isurin
Current position: Sycamore Street Press
Miriam Whiting, Ph.D.
Dissertation title: Globalism vs. nationalism: The pragmatics of business naming in Tomsk, Russia
Dissertation advisor: Daniel Collins
Current position:
2008
Jason Algood, M.A.
Advisor: Charles Gribble
Andrei Cretu, Ph.D.
Dissertation title: Modelling the text: Lurii Lotman's information-theoretic approach revisited
Dissertation advisor: Irene Delic
Current position: Senior Lecturer, Department of Slavic and East European Languages and Cultures, Ohio State University
Yevgeniya Tyurikova, Ph.D.
Dissertation title: Expression of politeness/impoliteness via the aspectual forms in the imperative in Russian
Dissertation advisors: Daniel Collins and Charles Gribble
Current position:
2007
Teresa Kuruc, M.A.
Advisor: Alexander Burry
Current position: Russian instructor, Foreign Language Department, Grossmont College (El Cajon, CA)
Mark Nuckols, Ph.D.
Dissertation title: Case variation in Czech and Russian: Implications for the transitivity hypothesis
Dissertation advisor: Daniel Collins
Current position: Translator, Watching America
2006
Oxana Skorniakova, M.A.
Advisor: Brian Joseph
Current position: Russian Lecturer, Pace University
2005
Bojan Belić, Ph.D.
Dissertation title: Complement verb variation in present-day Serbian
Dissertation advisor: Brian Joseph
Current position: Senior Lecturer and Languages Coordinator, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Washington
Tania Ivanova-Sullivan, Ph.D.
Dissertation title: Lexical variation in the Slavonic Thekara texts: Semantic and pragmatic factors in medieval translation praxis
Dissertation advisor: Daniel Collins
Current position: Assistant Professor, Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, University of New Mexico
Julia Mikhailova, Ph.D.
Dissertation title: Comparison of interpersonal and presentational description in Russian oral proficiency testing
Dissertation advisor: Brian Joseph
Current position: Senior Lecturer in Russian and Russian Language Program Coordinator, University of Toronto
Anastasia Smirnova, M.A.
Advisor: Brian Joseph
Current position: Postdoctoral Researcher, Tufts University
