Expertise

Specialties/Research Interests:

  • Teaching of Russian and Czech, pedagogy training for Associate Instructors, sociolinguistics, language maintenance and shift.

Current project(s):

  • Materials and curriculum development for less commonly taught Slavic and East European languages, Russian Old Believer immigration to the eastern U.S., history and lexicon of the Russian Old Believers of Pennsylvania.
Past Affiliations

Professor, Department of Slavic and East European Languages and Cultures, College of Arts and Sciences, Indiana University Bloomington

Senior Lecturer, Department of Slavic and East European Languages and Cultures, College of Arts and Sciences, Indiana University Bloomington

Coordinator, Department of Slavic and East European Languages and Cultures, College of Arts and Sciences, Indiana University Bloomington

Director, Department of Slavic and East European Languages and Cultures, College of Arts and Sciences, Indiana University Bloomington

Assistant Professor, Department of Slavic and East European Languages and Cultures, College of Arts and Sciences, Indiana University Bloomington

Affiliate Faculty, Russian and East European Institute, Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies, Indiana University Bloomington

Lecturer, Russian and East European Institute, Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies, Indiana University Bloomington

Communities
Literature, Language Studies, Russian
Degrees
PhD, Ohio State University, Slavic Linguistics, 2002
BA, University of Tennessee, Russian Language, Literature and Russian Area Studies
MA, Ohio State University, Russian Language and Russian Literature