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Recent Grads & Placement

Mahoney, Grace, Ph.D. [2024] Areas of Speciality: (De)Constructing Memorials to National Writers in Ukraine and Russia

Marko, McKenna, Ph.D. [2023] Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Leeds. Areas of Speciality: Spatial Mediations of Holocaust Memory in Yugoslav and Post-Yugoslav Art

Jason Wagner, Ph.D. [2023] Adjunct Professor, University of Florida. Areas of Speciality: Yiddish Ruthenias: Home Landscapes in the Modernist Poetry of Moyshe Kulbak and Dovid Hofshteyn in the Age of Revolutions and National Revivals in Eastern Europe.

Haley Laurila, Ph.D. [2021] Reference Librarian, Macomb Community College. Areas of Speciality: Chernobyl''s Radioactive Memory.

Alena Aniskiewicz, Ph.D. [2020] Assistant Professor, Michigan State University. Areas of Speciality: Polish Hip-Hop

Christopher Fort, Ph.D. [2020] Lecturer, University of Michigan. Areas of Speciality: Russian and Uzbek literature of the 20th century, postcolonialism, literature of empire, and socialist realist literature of the non-Russian peoples of the USSR. 

Natalie McCauley, Ph.D. [2018] Director of Russian Studies, University of Richmond. Areas of Speciality: contemporary women's writing in Russia and feminist theory.

Paulina Duda, Ph.D. [2017] Visiting Assistant Professor of Polish Cinema and Culture, Brown University. 

Meghan Forbes, Ph. D. [2017] Writer and Curator. Areas of Specialty: Czech Literature and Visual Culture, German Modernism, Interwar Avant-Garde, Epistolary Theory, Periodical Studies, Typography, Network Mapping, and Data Visualization

Eric Ford, Ph.D. [2017]  Areas of Speciality: Post-Revolutionary Russian Literature.

Jodi Greig, Ph.D. [2017] Trainer, EPIC Systems. Areas of Speciality: Nationality, Sexuality, and the Historical Impulse in Contemporary Polish LGBTQ Culture.

Sarah Moncada, Ph.D. [2017] Translator. Areas of Speciality: Instructor Development, Educational Technology, Supporting People of Underrepresented Identities in Higher Ed. 

Jessica Zychowicz, Ph. D. [2016] Head, U.S. Fulbright Program in Ukraine and IIE: Institute of International Education. Areas of Speciality: 20th and 21st c. Ukraine, Poland, Russia; Comparative Political Theory, Gender & Feminism, Visual Culture, Histories of Visual and Social Surveillance, New Media.

Mariya Lomakina, Ph.D. [2015] Assistant Teaching Professor, Honors College, Montana State University. Areas of Speciality: Vladimir Nabokov, Women Writers in Russia and abroad, Literary Multilingualism, Gender in the Classroom, Literary Theory, Feminism.

Yanina Quintana (Arnold), Ph.D. [2014] Senior Instructional Systems Designer, Appian Corporation. Areas of Speciality: Late Imperial Russia, 1864-1900.

Vladislav Beronja, Ph. D. [2014] Assistant Professor, University of Texas, Austin. Areas of Speciality: Bosnian, Croatian, & Serbian Literature and Visual Arts, Memory & Trauma Studies, Heritage Industry & Exhibition Culture, Balkan Popular Culture, Queer Theory

Aleksandar Boskovic, Ph.D. [2013] Lecturer in Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian, Columbia University. Areas of Speciality: Modernism, Avant-Garde, Russian, Czech and Yugoslav literature and visual culture.

Mila Shevchenko, Ph.D. [2009] Areas of Speciality: 19th-century Russian literature and drama, theories of space and spatial form, Slavic literatures and cultures (Bulgarian, Polish, Ukrainian, and Slovenian).

Joe Peschio, Ph.D. [2004] Assistant Professor of Russian, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Areas of Speciality: Russian Golden Age, Russian language, literature, film, and cultural history.

Ewa Wampuszyc, Ph.D. [2004] Assistant Professor of Polish Language and Literature. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Areas of Speciality: Polish Language and Literature, 19th and 20th century Literature and Culture, Contemporary Polish Fiction, Cultural and Economic Capital in Literature.

Margarita Nafpaktitis, Ph.D. [2003] Associate Librarian for Slavic and East European Studies, University of California, Los Angeles. Areas of Speciality: Russian and East Central European Film, Representations of America(ns) in Russian Literature and Culture, Russian Modernism, Contemporary Polish Prose, Translation and Translation Theory, Digital Humanities.

John Hope, Ph.D. [2003] Assistant Professor in Russian, Purdue University. Areas of Speciality: 19th century Russian literature, Russian Orientalism, travel literature, Russian popular culture, Russian Romanticism, and Russian language.

Kelly Miller, Ph.D. [2002] Director, Teaching and Learning Services and Head of the College Library, UCLA Library.

Jonathan Bolton, Ph.D. [2001] Associate Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Harvard University. Areas of Speciality: Czech literature, history, and culture.