Alumni

Lily Scott, Ph.D., 2023 – Dissertation: The Struggle with Nature: Socialist Realism in the Soviet Countryside
Lily has taught for the McNair Scholars Program at Central Washington University. She is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor of History at the University of Montana specializing in the cultural history of Russia, the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. 

Christina Schwartz, Ph.D. Candidate, 2023

Maria Whittle, Ph.D. 2023 - Dissertation: Writing the Frontier from Inside: the Frontier from Inside: The Geopoetics of Experience in Soviet Siberian Literature, 1953-1983
Assistant Professor of English at the College of San Mateo

Dominick Lawton, Ph.D., 2022 – Dissertation: Revolts of Things: The Poetics of Materialism in Russian Revolutionary Literature
Dominick Lawton is Assistant Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures at Stanford University.

Kathryn Pribble, Ph.D., 2022 – Dissertation: Multiplicity and Metaform: Late Russian Romanticism as Literary Laboratory
Kit Pribble is Assistant Professor of Russian at Wake Forest University.

Brian Egdorf, Ph.D., 2021 – Dissertation: The Psychological Novel and Science of the Brain: Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, and the Narrative of Consciousness
Brian teaches literature and Jewish studies at Kehillah Jewish High School in Palo Alto, CA.

Helena Kernan, M.A., 2021

Emily Laskin, Ph.D., 2021
After receiving her Ph.D. in Comparative Literature, Emily was a postdoctoral fellow at NYU. She currently works as an English edition news editor at Meduza.

David Parker, Ph.D., 2021 – Dissertation: Writing Living People: The Promise and Inadequacy of Mimetic Characterization in Late Soviet Literature
Assistant Teaching Professor of Russian Studies, Carnegie Mellon University.

Emma Santelmann, M.A., 2021

Caroline Lemak Brickman, Ph.D., 2020 – Dissertation: The Modernist Russian Lyric Thinks Through Classical Myth
Organizer for the United Steel Workers

Nihal Shetty, M.A. 2020 
Copywriter and editor in Mexico City

Thomas H.J. Dyne, Ph.D., 2019 – Dissertation: Bog znaet: The Ethics of Omniscience in Russian Narrative, 1845-1870
Assistant Professor at the University of Pittsburgh

Jennifer Flaherty, Ph.D., 2019 – Dissertation: Forms of the Peasant: Aesthetics and Social Thought in Russian Realism, 1847-1877
Assistant Professor of the Practice at Duke

Brendan Hamilton, M.A., 2019

Matthew Kendall, Ph.D., 2019 – Dissertation: Sound Works: Model Listeners in Soviet Art, 1929-1941
Matthew is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Polish, Russian, and Lithuanian Studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

Isobel Palmer, Ph.D., 2018 – Dissertation: Vital Signs: Rhythm, Image, and Voice in Russian Modernist Poetry and Theory 1905-1924
After graduation, Isobel Palmer was appointed Lecturer in Russian in the Department of Modern Languages at the University of Birmingham.

Josefina Lundblad-Janjic, Ph.D., 2017 – Dissertation: Writer or Witness: Problems of Varlam Shalamov’s Late Prose and Dramaturgy
She is currently a Lecturer [Assistant Professor] at Uppsala University, Sweden.

Cammeron Girvin, Ph.D., 2016 – Dissertation: How to Build a 'Folk' Song: Socialist Song Texts and Folkloric Language in Bulgarian and South Slavic
He is a staff member at the Library of Congress in its Germanic & Slavic Division, where he is responsible for the acquisitions and cataloging of resources from the South Slavic countries

Zachary Johnson, Ph.D., 2016 – Dissertation: Desire, Event, Vision: Forms of Intersubjectivity in the 19th-Century Russian Novel
Zach teaches Reading and Composition courses as a Lecturer at UC Berkeley.

Chloe Kitzinger, Ph.D., 2016 – Dissertation: Illusion and Instrument: Problems of Mimetic Characterization in Dostoevsky and Tolstoy
Assistant Professor of Russian and East European Languages and Literatures at Rutgers University

Megan Barickman, M.A., 2015
Development Writer at Global Greengrants Fund in Denver, Colorado

Daniel Brooks, Ph.D., 2015 – Dissertation: Russian Literary Portraiture in the Twentieth Century: Collecting and Re-Collecting Lichnosti in Criticism and Memoir
Visiting Assistant Professor of Russian and Eurasian Studies at Mount Holyoke College and Smith College

Malgorzata Szajbel-Keck, Ph.D., 2015 – Dissertation: Secondary Predication in Polish
Gosia Szajbel-Keck is at Europa-Universität Viadrina in Frankfur (Oder) in Germany, at the Center for Interdisciplinary Polish Studies. She teaches courses in Polish linguistics and coordinates the MA Program in Polish Studies.

Erin Coyne, Ph.D., 2014 – Dissertation: Coming Down From the Mountain: Dialect Contact and Convergence in Contemporary Hutsulshchyna
Institutional Giving Officer at Seacology

Ian David, M.A., 2014
 Associate at Roberts & Holland LLP

Tony H. Lin, Ph.D., 2014 – Dissertation: Myth and Appropriation: Fryderyk Chopin in the Context of Russian and Polish Literature and Culture
Assistant Professor of the Practice and Russian/Slavic Coordinator at Boston College

Irina Kogel, Ph.D. Candidate, 2013
Russian Language Program Coordinator at Boston University

Katy Sosnak, Ph.D., 2013 – Dissertation: Unmasking the Invisible: Russian and Japanese Cultural Exchanges from 1890 to 1917
Paralegal at a family law firm in Corvallis, Oregon

Piper Wheeler, M.A., 2013
Law clerk with Alameda County Public Defender

Laura Mieka Erley, Ph.D., 2012 – Dissertation: Reclaiming Native Soil: Cultural Mythologies of Soil in Russia and Its Eastern Borderlands from the 1840s to the 1930s
Associate Professor of Russian and Eurasian Studies at Colgate University

Anastasia Kayiatos, Ph.D., 2012 – Dissertation: Silence and Alterity in Russia after Stalin, 1955-1975
Provost’s Postdoctoral Scholar in the Humanities at the University of Southern California

Sarah Ruth Lorenz, Ph.D., 2012 – Dissertation: Visionary Mimesis: Imitation and Transformation in the German Enlightenment and Russian Realism
Visiting Assistant Professor of Russian at Tulane University

Jessica Merrill, Ph.D., 2012 – Dissertation: The Role of Folkloristics in the Development of Russian Formalist and Czech Structuralist Literary Theory
Assistant Professor at Columbia University

Susanna Merrill, M.A., 2012
Training as Montessori teacher

Katya Balter, Ph.D. Candidate, 2011
Teaches Russian a the Defense Language Institute’s Foreign Language School in Monterey, California

Traci Lindsey, Ph.D., 2011 – Dissertation: Bulgarian Verbs of Motion: Slavic Verbs in a Balkan Context
Assistant Professor at Sofia University Sv. Kliment Ohridski and Bulgarian lector at Szeged University

Julia McAnallen, Ph.D., 2011 – Dissertation: The History of Predicative Possession in Slavic: Internal Development vs. Language Contact
She is currently with Microsoft in Seattle.

Elena Nelson, Ph.D., 2011 – Dissertation: Tradition and Innovation in Russian Church Slavonic Hymnography
Assistant Professor of Slavic Languages at Holy Trinity Orthodox Seminary in Jordanville, NY

Jillian Porter, Ph.D., 2011 – Dissertation: Money and Mad Ambition: Economies of Russian Literature 1830-1850
Visiting Associate Professor of Slavic and Comparative Literature at NYU

Kathryn Schild, Ph.D., 2011 – Dissertation: Between Moscow and Baku: National Literatures at the 1934 Congress of Soviet Writers
Lead Instructional Designer, University of Alaska Anchorage

Alyson Tapp, Ph.D., 2011 – Dissertation: From the Elegy to the End of the Novel: Literary Experiences of Emotion
pursued a career in horticulture

Cameron Wiggins, Ph.D., 2011 – Dissertation: The Drama in Disguise: Dramatic Modes of Narration and Textual Structure in the Mid-Nineteenth-Century Russian Novel
works as a writer and translator

Polina Dimova, Ph.D., 2010 – Dissertation: "Beautiful Colored, Musical Things": Metaphors and Strategies for Interartistic Exchange in Early European Modernism
Associate Professor of Russian Language, Literature & Culture at the University of Denver

Lucas (Luke) Stratton, Ph.D. Candidate, 2010
Project Innovation Lead on the Global Innovation Team at Meg Languages (Los Angeles)

Christine Trychin (neé Schick), 2010
After M.A., Christine Schick entered the Ph.D. program in the Department of Art History, completing her degree in 2010

Molly Brunson, Ph.D., 2009
Associate Professor in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at Yale University, with a secondary appointment in the Department of the History of Art

Roy Chan, Ph.D., 2009 – Dissertation: The Edge of Knowing: Dreams and Realism in Modern Chinese Literature
Currently completing a manuscript titled The Edge of Knowing: Dreams, History, and Realism in Modern Chinese Literature

Boris Maslov, Ph.D., 2009 – Dissertation: Pindaric Epinikion and the Evolution of Poetic Genres in Archaic Greece
Associate Professor at the Department of Philosophy, Classics, History of Art and Ideas at the University of Oslo

Edgar Luis Castillo, M.A., 2008 – Thesis: Tolstoyism and the Peasant Question

Renee Perelmutter, Ph.D., 2008 – Dissertation: Referential Negation: Syntax/Semantics of Negative Constructions and Their Interaction with Narrative Structures in Modern Russian
Associate Professor in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures and Jewish Studies Program at the University of Kansas, Lawrence

Anne Dwyer, Ph.D., 2007 – Dissertation: Improvising Empire: Literary Accounts from the Russian and Austrian Borderlands, 1862-1923
Anne Dwyer assumed a teaching position in the Department of German and Russian at Pomona College

Magdalena Kay, Ph.D., 2007 – Dissertation: Knowing One’s Place: Negotiating Belonging and Identity in the Poetry of Adam Zagajewski, Derek Mahon, Seamus Heaney and Julia Hartwig
Professor at the Department of English at University of Victoria, Canada

Michael Kunichika, Ph.D., 2007 – Dissertation: The Penchant for the Primitive: Archaeology, Ethnography, and the Aesthetics of Russian Modernism
Professor of Russian and Film and Media Studies at Amherst and the Director of Amherst’s Center for Russian Culture

Stiliana Milkova, Ph.D., 2007 – Dissertation: Sightseeing: Writing Vision in Slavic Travel Narratives
Tenure-track position in Comparative Literature at Oberlin College

Victoria Somoff, Ph.D., 2007 – Dissertation: From Authority to Author: Russian Prose on the Eve of the Novel, 1820-1850
Associate Professor at Dartmouth College

Jon Stone, Ph.D., 2007 – Dissertation: Conceptualizing “Symbolism”: Institutions, Publications, Readers, and the Russian Propagation of an Idea
Professor of Russian and Russian Studies at Franklin & Marshall College

Polina Barskova, Ph.D., 2006 – Dissertation: Enchanted by the Spectacle of Death: Forms of the End in Leningrad Culture (1917-1934)
Associate Professor in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at UC Berkeley

Patrick Henry, Ph.D., 2006 – Dissertation: Metarealism and the Question of Russian Postmodernism
After serving as the political editor at the Moscow Bureau of Bloomberg news service, Patrick Henry moved to a European bureau, where he covers both Russia and the European Union.

Matthew Kiser, M.A. 2006Working in the circulation department Library College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia

Michelle Viise, Ph.D., 2006 – Dissertation: The Culture of the Christian Orthodox Printing House in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-century Poland-Lithuania
Monograph Editor in the Ukrainian Research Institute at Harvard University

Anzhelika Khyzhnya, M.A., 2005

Christopher Caes, Ph.D., 2004 – Dissertation: Historical Contingency and Conceptions of the Self in Stalinist-era and Post-Stalinist Polish Literature and Film, 1950-1960
Lecturer in Polish in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at Columbia University

Ingrid Kleespies, Ph.D., 2004 – Dissertation: Nomad Nation, Wandering Writer: Writing, Travel, and National Identity in Russian and Polish Literature (From the Late Eighteenth Century to the End of the Nineteenth Century)
Teaches in the Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures at the University of Florida

Ann Marsh-Flores, Ph.D., 2004 – Dissertation: Literary Collaboration and the Rise of the Russian Woman Writer: Or, How Zinaida Volkonskaia Learned To Write in Tsarist Russia
Works at Agile Mind 

Jane Shamaeva, M.A., 2004
Currently a therapist at the First Hope Program in Contra Costa County.

Holland Smith, M.A., 2004
After receiving his MA in Slavic, he ended up getting three more degrees from Berkeley – a B.S. with Honors in Engineering Physics (2009), and a M.S (2011) and Ph.D (2013) in Materials Science and Engineering with a minor in Solid State Physics

Lillian Vallee, Ph.D., 2004 – Dissertation: Bear with a Cross: Primordial Tradition in the Work of Czeslaw Milosz
Instructor of English at Modesto Junior College

Boris Wolfson (1975-2024), Ph.D., 2004 – Dissertation: Staging the Soviet Self: Literature, Theater, and Stalinist Culture, 1929-1939
Boris Wolfson taught as Associate Professor of Russian at Amherst College

Mariusz Wroblewski, Ph.D. Candidate, 2004 Manages Wild Salmon Center Conservation programs in the Russian Far East (Kamchatka Peninsula, Sakhalin Island, and Khabarovsk region). He lives in Portland, Oregon

José Alaniz, Ph.D., 2003
Associate Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures and Adjunct Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at University of Washington

Konstantine Klioutchkine, Ph.D., 2002 – Dissertation: Russian Literature and the Press, 1860-1914
Associate Professor of Russian, Pomona College

Karin Larsen, Ph.D., 2002 – Dissertation: The Evolution of the System of Long and Short Adjectives in Medieval Slavic and Old Russian
Her dissertation was reworked and published as a book

Eugenia Teytelman, M.A., 2002 Russian lexicographer at eBay and a freelance Russian translator and editor

Seung Yun Woo, M.A., 2002

Anne Hruska, Ph.D., 2001 – Dissertation: Infected Families: Outsider Figures in the Works of Leo Tolstoy
Anna Hruska teaches in the Continuing Studies Program at Stanford

Ellen Langer, Ph.D., 2001 – Dissertation: Individuality and Grammar: Instrumental Singular Variation in Nineteenth-Century Russian Literary Prose
For many years Ellen was a lecturer in Czech at the University of California, Berkeley, before retiring in 2022

Sabine Stoll, Ph.D., 2001 – Dissertation: The Acquisition of Russian Aspect
Professor of Psycholinguistics at the Institute for the Interdisciplinary Study of Language Evolution, University of Zurich

Lilya Kaganovsky, Ph.D., 2000
Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of California, Los Angeles

Ann Elizabeth McDevitt Miller, Ph.D., 2000 – Dissertation: The Struggle to Create the New Man: The Literary Criticism and Career of Vladimir FricheYouth services librarian in the Danville branch of the Contra Costa County Library

Sarah Shull, Ph.D., 2000 – Dissertation: The Experience of Space: The Privileged Role of Spatial Prefixation in Czech and Russian
Works as a database programmer for a company that manages clinical trial data

Hope Subak-Kaspar (Subak-Sharpe), Ph.D. Candidate, 2000 Hope Kaspar holds J.N. from the Berkeley Law School (Boalt Hall, 2002)

Gabriel White, M.A, 2000 Senior Appellate Court Attorney at California Court of Appeal, Fourth Dist., Div. 2, Greater Los Angeles Area

Matthew Baerman, Ph.D., 1999 – Dissertation: Free to Fixed Stress in Slavic
Research fellow in the Surrey Morphology Group at the University of Surrey (UK)

Margherita DiCeglie, Ph.D., 1999 – Dissertation: The Fate of Humanism in Fin-de-siècle Russia: Viacheslav Ivanov’s Philosophical Speculations and Poetic Vision. The Dialogue of Poetry and Philosophy

Abigail Evans, M.A., 1999
High school teacher at New Horizon School in Santa Rosa

Laura Gibbs, Ph.D., 1999 Instructor at the University of Oklahoma

Jeff Karlsen, Ph.D Candidate., 1999 Technical Services Librarian, Sacramento City College

Melissa Grace Levy, M.A., 1999 

Rob Wessling, Ph.D., 1999 – Dissertation: Semyon Nadson and the Cult of the Tubercular Poet
Associate Master and Chief of Students at University of Macau

Evgenii Bershtein, Ph.D., 1998 – Dissertation: Western Models of Sexuality in Russian Modernism
Professor of Russian at Reed College in Portland, Oregon

Avram Brown, Ph.D., 1998 – Dissertation: Modernist Apocrypha: Contexts of the Gospel Plot in Russian Modernism
free lance translator, editor and researcher

Keith Goeringer, Ph.D., 1998 – Dissertation: The Syntax and Semantics of Adverbs in Russian: Scope, Orientation, and Word Order
Keith works for the U.S. Department of Defense

Jean Rachel Lutwack, M.A., 1998 Instructor for the PLUS program at the Golden Gate University

William Nickell, Ph.D., 1998 – Dissertation: Tolstoy in the Public Domain: His Death as a National Narrative
William Nickel teaches in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of Chicago

Susan Ryan, Ph.D. Candidate, 1998Intern at the Mental Health and Wellness Department at Kaiser Santa Rosa as the last step toward a doctorate in clinical psychology at the Wright Institute (expected August 2022)

Molly W. Wesling, Ph.D., 1998 – Dissertation: The Russian Representation of Napoleon: A Cultural Mythology
Works in the University of Wisconsin Department of Surgery, where she assists surgeon-scientists with the writing of research grant proposals

Shawn Kate Elliott, Ph.D., 1997 – Dissertation: The Aesthetics of Russian Folk Religion and The Brothers Karamazov

David Matthews, Ph.D., 1997 – Dissertation: Case Variation in Contemporary Standard Russian
Senior Real Estate Analyst at NAV CANADA

Grace Morsberger, Ph.D., 1997 – Dissertation: The Russian Woman Writer in the Salon: Issues of Gender and Literary Space
Editor, International Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna (retired)

Jessica Sharzer, M.A., 1997Film Director

Charles Greer, M.A. 1996
Engineer specializing in search engines and data

Andreas Johns, Ph.D., 1996 – Dissertation: Baba Jaga, the Ambiguous Mother of Russian FolktaleSenior Administrative Analyst with the Office of the Secretary and Chief of Staff to the Regents of the University of California

Janeen Jones, Ph.D., 1996 – Dissertation: The Tale of Misery-Evil Fortune: The Transformation of Folklore

Christopher R. Putney, Ph.D., 1996 – Dissertation: Diabolic Conditionality: Nikolaj Gogol’’s Aesthetics of EvilAssociate Professor in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Melissa Frazier, Ph.D., 1995 – Dissertation: Frames of the Imagination: Gogol’s “Arabeski” and the Romantic Question of Genre
Professor of Russian language and Russian and Comparative Literature at Sarah Lawrence College

David Montgomery, Ph.D., 1995 – Dissertation: Ivan Bunin and the Persistence of Memory: Recurrence, Mutability, and Desire in Three Major Texts 

Jonathan Barnes, M.A., 1994 
Faculty member at the Department of Linguistics at Boston University

Neil Bermel, Ph.D., 1994 – Dissertation: Context and the Lexicon in the Development of Russian Aspect
Professor of Russian and Slavonic Studies at the University of Sheffield, England

Jennifer Foss, M.A., 1994 Head of Legal, EUROWAG (Prague, Czechia)

Ben Herman, M.A. 1994.
General Counsel of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty.

Susan C. Kresin, Ph.D., 1994 – Dissertation: Third Person Reference in Russian and Czech
Lecturer in Russian and Czech language at UCLA

Glen Layne-Worthey, Ph.D. Candidate, 1994 Associate Director for Research Support Services in the HathiTrust Research Center, based in the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign School of Information Sciences

Jill Minkus, M.A., 1994Consultant at Amplifier Strategies in San Francisco

David Powelstock, Ph.D., 1994 – Dissertation: Poet as Officer and Oracle: Mikhail Lermontov’s Aesthetic Mythology
David Powelstock teaches Russian Language and Literature in the Department of Comparative Literature at Brandeis University

Mary Rees, Ph.D., 1994 – Dissertation: Introductions of New Characters in Russian Memoirs: Discourse Constraints on Word Order
free-lance radio and print journalist

Jennifer G. Wilder, M.A., 1994  Freelance writer based in upstate New York

Matthew Zapruder, M.A., 1994 Editor for Wave Books and a member of the core faculty in the M.F.A. program at UC Riverside Palm Desert

David Herman, Ph.D., 1993 – Dissertation: Representing Otherness: Urban Poverty in Russian Literature from Karamzin to Nekrasov
Associate Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Virginia

Brian Horowitz, Ph.D., 1993 – Dissertation: M. O. Gershenzon and Intellectual Life of Russia’s Silver Age
Professor in Jewish Studies at Tulane University, Sizeler Family Chair Professor

Margaret Kabalin Leckey, Ph.D., 1993 – Dissertation: Vjekoslav Babukic: His Role as Linguist During the Illyrian Movement
Editor and translator affiliated with Alexandria Translations in Alexandria, Virginia

Torsten Martin Gustaf Lofstedt, Ph.D., 1993 – Dissertation: Russian Legends About Forest Spirits in the Context of Northern European Mythology

Ruth Rischin, Ph.D., 1993 – Dissertation: Semën Iushkevich (1868-1927): The Man and His Art
Published author

Paul Eric Carlson, Ph.D., 1992 – Dissertation: Some Functions of Poetic Diction in A. K. Tolstoy’s “Smert’ Ioanna Groznogo”

William J. Comer, Ph.D., 1992 – Dissertation: The Russian Religious Dissenters and the Literary Culture of the Symbolist Generation
Director of the Russian Flagship Program at Portland State University

Celia Leckey, Ph.D., 1992 – Dissertation: Relative Clauses in Medieval Russian Texts
Editor and translator affiliated with Alexandria Translations in Alexandria, Virginia

Anne Nesbet, Ph.D., 1992 – Dissertation: The Aesthetics of Violence in Russian and East German Literature
Professor in Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures and Film Studies Program

Francis Butler, Ph.D., 1991 – Dissertation: Images of Missionaries and Innovative Rulers in East Slavic Literature from Early Times Through the Reign of Peter the Great
Teaches at the University of Illinois

Conor Anthony Daly, Ph.D., 1991 – Dissertation: Linguistic Change and Cultural Paradigms: The Development of Russian Scholarly Prose (18th-20th Centuries)
Visiting research fellow in the Department of Russian and Slavonic Studies at Trinity College Dublin

Allen James Kuharski, Ph.D., 1991 – Dissertation: The Theatre of Witold Gombrowicz 

Eric Naiman, Ph.D., 1991 – Dissertation: Sexuality and Utopia: The Debate in the Soviet 1920s
Professor in Departments of Slavic Languages and Literature and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Berkeley

Mary Foster Peabody, Ph.D., 1991 – Dissertation: Traditional and Individualistic Aspects of the Petitions of the Archpriest Avvakum
She teaches Latin in the Boston area

Alexis Eugene Emerson, Ph.D., 1990 – Dissertation: Alexandr Blok and the Mother-Figure

Jennifer Irene Hudin, Ph.D., 1990 – Dissertation: Passive Constructions in Russian

David Shengold, Ph.D. Candidate, 1990 
Freelance professional opera critic, based in Philadelphia

Anthony Vanchu, Ph.D., 1990 – Dissertation: Yurii Olesha’s Artistic Prose and Utopian Mythologies of the 1920s
Director, NASA Johnson Space Center Language Education Center

Irina Gutkin, Ph.D., 1989 – Dissertation: The Novel of Socialist Realism as a Phenomenon of Literary Evolution
Irina Gutkin is the author The cultural origins of the socialist realist aesthetic, 1890-1934 (Evanston, Ill. : Northwestern University Press, 1999). She has taught at UCLA and Los Angeles City College.

Peter Scotto, Ph.D., 1987 – Dissertation: The Image of Pushkin in the Works of Marina Tsvetaeva
Professor in the Department of Russian and Eurasian Studies at Mount Holyoke College

Andrew Baruch Wachtel, Ph.D., 1987 – Dissertation: The Russian Pseudo-autobiography and the Creation of Russian Childhood
Director of Compass College in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan

Lenore Grenoble, Ph.D., 1986 – Dissertation: A Contrastive Analysis of Verbs of Motion in Polish and Russian
John Matthews Manly Distinguished Service Professor Department of Linguistics and the College, University of Chicago

Anthony Anemone, Ph.D., 1985 – Dissertation: Konstantin Vaginov and the Leningrad Avant-Garde: 1921-1934
Associate Professor, Chair, and Associate Provost at Eugene Lang College, The New School for Liberal Arts, New York

Gregory Freidin, Ph.D. 1978  
Professor Emeritus of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Stanford University

William Craft Brumfield, Ph.D., 1973
 Professor of Slavic studies at Tulane University

Johanna Nichols, Ph.D., 1973 – Dissertation: The Balto-Slavic Predicate Instrumental: A Problem in Diachronic Syntax
Distinguished Professor Emerita of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Affiliate Professor Emerita of Linguistics in UC Berkeley

Robert P. Hughes, Ph.D., 1969
Professor Emeritus at UC Berkeley Department of Slavic Language and Literatures

Michael S. Flier, Ph.D., 1968
Oleksandr Potebnja Professor of Ukrainian Philology at the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at Harvard University

Helen S. Schulak, Ph.D., 1967
Retired Professor of Foreign Languages and Literatures, California State University, East Bay