As SRAS’s Program Manager in Bishkek, Taylor assists students and helps enhance and develop academic programming in Central Asia. She received her BA in Russian from Vanderbilt University and her MA in Slavic Languages and Literature from the University of Washington. She studied in St. Petersburg in 2016 and taught EFL in Vladimir, Russia for two years. Before joining SRAS, Taylor… Read More

The son of parents with international careers, TJ first moved to Eastern Europe in 2000 and then Western Europe in 2009. He often joked with his peers at Baylor University that moving to America was his “study abroad” experience. At Baylor, he double majored in Russian Language and Digital Media Studies. TJ, an SRAS graduate… Read More

A native of St. Petersburg, Elena holds a BAs in English Pedagogy and Humanities from St. Petersburg State Pedagogical University. As SRAS’ Administrative Specialist, Elena is responsible for providing overall support to our organization and its various programs and services. In her free time, Elena likes traveling and exploring new places, meeting with friends, and… Read More

Alex holds a BA in Teaching Russian as a Foreign Language (RFL) and an MA in Translation. He is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in philology. He came to Moscow from Tolyatti to study at Lomonosov Moscow State University in 2013 and has been in love with the city ever since. For SRAS, Alex assists in… Read More

Andrei leads our archive research services, performing remote archive research and consultations for researchers around the globe. Andrei has MA degree from West Virginia University in Morgantown, USA. His personal interests are history and literature and research methods in social science. He has years of archival research experience.

Molly first went to Russia in 1991, landing in Moscow as Yeltsin was speaking on a tank outside the parliament. Molly graduated from The University of Texas at Austin with a degree in Slavic and Eurasian Studies. She worked for MIR Corporation in 1994 and 1997, having great adventures riding the Trans-Siberian and searching Tuva… Read More

April first traveled to Russia in 1996 when she was a student at Georgetown University. A few months turned into a few years and several cities in Russia before she returned to the US and and completed her B.S. and M.S. in Communications at Northwestern University. April has worked with several international organizations in both… Read More

Lisa, to the perplexity of her German-rooted North Dakotan family, graduated from Reed College with a BA in Russian Literature. After attending SRAS’s Translation Abroad Program (now part of our Home and Abroad Programs), she worked in Moscow for two years as an in-house translator and as the SRAS Moscow Student Coordinator. Lisa was then… Read More

Josh has lived in Moscow since 2003, when he first arrived to study Russian with SRAS. He holds an M.A. in Theatre and a B.A. in History from Idaho State University, where his masters thesis was written on the political economy of Soviet-era censorship organs affecting the stage. At SRAS, Josh assists in program development… Read More

Renee first visited the Soviet Union in 1990 to study at MGU after graduating from Boston University with a BS in Biomedical Engineering. After working at a technical translation company in Boston, she returned to Moscow in 1992 for permanent residence until 1998. During that time she worked in the Russian financial markets and eventually… Read More