People

Faculty

Olga Blackledge
Visiting Assistant Professor
Nancy Condee
Professor; Director, Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies
412-624-5706
Ljiljana Duraskovic
Teaching Professor, Director of Undergraduate Studies and Advisor for Bosnian/Croatian/Montenegrin/Serbian Studies minor
412-624-5908
Thomas Dyne
Visiting Teaching Assistant Professor, Russian Major Undergraduate Advisor
Bella Grigoryan
Associate Professor and Chair
412-624-9958
Renáta Kamenárová
Teaching Assistant Professor, Director of Slovak Studies Program
Anna Karpusheva
Teaching Assistant Professor
Olga Klimova
Teaching Associate Professor, Director of Russian Program
Anna Kovalova
Visiting Assistant Professor
Kathleen Manukyan
Teaching Associate Professor, Executive Director, The Slavic, East European, and Near Eastern Summer Language Institute (SLI)
412-624-5711
Irina Roldugina
UCIS Postdoctoral Fellow in Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies
Oscar E. Swan
Professor and Advisor for Polish Studies minor
412-624-5707

Staff

Sara Abbott
Senior Faculty Actions Coordinator
412-624-2842
Kelly Britcher
Faculty Actions Coordinator
412-383-1692
Laura Brooks
Business Coordinator
412-624-8041
Erin Delaney
Department Coordinator Hispanic, Classics, and German
412-624-5226
Andrew Gray
Assistant Business Coordinator/Website Coordinator
412-383-0256
Stephen Lander
Payroll/Personnel Coordinator
412-624-2695
Michael Orbin
Graduate Administrator
412-624-5227
Anthony Payne
Administrative Officer
Alexandra Rodwick
Events Coordinator
412-638-3564
Briar Somerville
Academic Coordinator
412-624-5906
Agnieszka Sornek
SLI Program Coordinator
Matthew Spinneweber
Fiscal Administrator
412-383-2972

Part-Time Faculty

Erin Alpert Holmes
Training Specialist in English for Speakers of Other Languages, Cuyahoga Community College
Eleni Anastasiou
Part-time faculty
412-624-6506
Jonathan Lincoln Auxier
Part-time instructor
Aleksey Berg
Part-time faculty
Oksana Lernatovych
Part-time instructor
Jolanta Lion
Part-time instructor
Sabrina Robinson
Part-time instructor
412-624-5711
Marc Wisnosky
Part-time instructor
J. D. Wright
Part-time instructor

Graduate Students

Eve Barden
Samantha Bodamer
Zhanna Budenkova
Felix Helbing
Mikhail Itkin
Eva Ivanilova
Dasha Prokhorova
Jacob Richey
Emma Schwarz
Elizaveta Volkovskaia
Daniel Witkin

Alumni

Erin Alpert Holmes
Training Specialist in English for Speakers of Other Languages, Cuyahoga Community College
Irina Anisimova
Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Foreign Languages, University of Bergen
Andrew Chapman
Director of Nationally Competitive Awards, University of Texas at San Antonio
Annalisa Czeczulin
Assistant Professor, Goucher College
Alyssa DeBlasio
Associate Professor, Dickinson College
Seth Graham
Associate Professor, University College London
Richard Beach Gray
Media Analyst, Novetta Advanced Analytics
Kiun Hwang
Olga Kim
Olga Klimova
Teaching Associate Professor, Director of Russian Program
Irina Makoveeva
Center Director, CIEE (Council on International Educational Exchange), St. Petersburg and Moscow, Russia
Gerald McCausland
Associate Professor, Defense Language Institute, Washington DC
Theodora Kelly McGee (Trimble)
Deputy Director, Graduate Initiative in Russian Studies, Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey
Olga Mukhortova
Assistant Professor, Defense Language Institute, Monterey
Alla Nedashkivska
Professor, University of Alberta
Petre Petrov
Alexander Prokhorov
Associate Professor, College of William and Mary
Elena Prokhorova
Associate Professor, College of William and Mary
Natalie Ryabchikova
Ellina Sattarova
Tetyana Shlikhar
Benjamin Sutcliffe
Professor of Russian, Department of German, Russian, Asian, Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures, Miami University, Oxford, OH
Elise Thorsen
Open Source Analyst, Novetta Advanced Analytics
Trevor Wilson
Julie Zigoris (Draskoczy)
Writer and Independent Scholar, The Ruby of San Francisco

In Memoriam

Vladimir Padunov
Associate Professor
Denis Saltykov
Martin Votruba

Emeritus Faculty

Mark Altshuller
Professor Emeritus
David J. Birnbaum
Professor Emeritus