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CORE FACULTY
Dr. Victoria Hasko
Director, Russian Flagship Program
Associate Professor of World Language Education
Department of Language and Literacy Education
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Dr. Olga Thomason
Associate Director, Russian Flagship Program
Senior Lecturer in the Russian Program
Department of Germanic and Slavic Studies
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Dr. Charles Byrd
K-12 Outreach Coordinator, Russian Flagship Program
Senior Lecturer in the Russian Program
Department of Germanic and Slavic Studies
AFFILIATED FACULTY
Dr. David Haas
Affiliated Faculty, Russian Flagship Program
Professor, Hugh Hodgson School of Music
Musicology & Ethnomusicology Area Chair
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Dr. Joseph Kellner
Affiliated Faculty, Russian Flagship Program
Assistant Professor of History
Department of History
Dr. Asen Kirin
Affiliated Faculty, Russian Flagship Program
Professor of Art History
Lamar Dodd School of Art
Dr. Sergiy Minko
Affiliated Faculty, Russian Flagship Program
Georgia Power Professor of Fiber and Polymer Science
Department of Textiles, Merchandising and Interiors and Department of Chemistry
Dr. Vladimir Reukov
Affiliated Faculty, Russian Flagship Program
Assistant Professor
Department of Textiles, Merchandising and Interiors
Dr. Sofya Zaytseva
Affiliated Faculty, Russian Flagship Program
Limited Term Assistant Professor
Department of Mathematics
OTHER AFFILIATES
Dr. Albina Khabibulina
Online Content Designer, Instructor, Russian Flagship Program
Assistant Professor of the Practice in Russian, Russian Language Program Coordinator, Vanderbilt University
Dr. Susanna Nazarova
Tutor, Russian Flagship Program
Director, Panorama Language School
Specialist in Russian language teaching, language learning materials design, intercultural communication, language testing, remote teaching, course development and design.
GTA INSTRUCTORS & TUTORS
Anastasiya Smith, M.Ed.
Instructor, Russian Flagship Program
Instructor in the Russian Program
Department of Germanic and Slavic Studies
Gulim Batyrgaliyeva
Tutor in Russian and Kazakh, Russian Flagship Program
Master’s student in TESOL & World Language Education, Department of Language and Literacy Education
Amanzhol
Bekmagambetov, M.A.
Tutor in Russian and Kazakh, Russian Flagship Program
Doctoral Candidate in Political Science
School of Public and International Affairs
Doina Grecu, M.Ed.
Instructor and Tutor in Russian,
Russian Flagship Program
Doctoral Student in TESOL and World Language Education, Department of Language and Literacy Education
Fulbright Scholar
Ulbossyn Parmanova
Instructor and Tutor in Russian and Kazakh,
Russian Flagship Program
MA, Linguistics, Al-Farabi Kazakh National University
TESOL, KIMEP University
Doctoral Student in TESOL and World Language Education, Department of Language and Literacy Education, UGA
Maira Serikkyzy
Instructor in Russian, Tutor in Russian and Kazakh, Russian Flagship Program
Graduate Teaching Assistant
Franklin-Germanic & Slavic
Alisa Sherbakova
Tutor in Russian, Russian Flagship Program
Doctoral Candidate in Gifted and Creative Education
Department of Educational Psychology
FULBRIGHT FLTAs
Olga Kuvshinova
Fulbright Foreign Language Teaching Assistant in Russian, Russian Flagship Program 2019-2020
Specialist in Linguistics, Novosibirsk State University
Ulbossyn Parmanova
Fulbright Foreign Language Teaching Assistant in Kazakh, Russian Flagship Program 2020-2021
MA, Linguistics, Al-Farabi Kazakh National University
TESOL, KIMEP University
Doctoral Student in TESOL and World Language Education, Department of Language and Literacy Education, UGA
Aigerim Aktas
Fulbright Foreign Language Teaching Assistant in Kazakh, Russian Flagship Program 2021-2022
BA, Foreign Language, Kostanay State Pedagogical Institute
MA, International Relations, Institute Sorbonne Kazakhstan
Sona Akhmedova
Fulbright Foreign Language Teaching Assistant in Kyrgyz, Russian Flagship Program 2022-2023
BA, English Teaching, Osh State University, Kyrgyzstan
Translations & Interpretation, Hacettepe University, Turkey
Azhar Chakibayeva
Fulbright Foreign Language Teaching Assistant in Kazakh, Russian Flagship Program 2022-2023
BA, Education, Kazakh National Women's Teacher Training University, Kazakhstan
MA, Foreign Language, Kazakh Ablai Khan University of International Relations and World Languages, Kazakhstan
Ibragim Khatsiev
Fulbright Foreign Language Teaching Assistant in Russian, Russian Flagship Program 2023-2024
BA, Translation, L.N. Gumilyov Eurasian National University, Kazakhstan
MA, Pedagogy Education, Higher School of Economics, Russia
CULTURAL STAFF
Svetlana Morgan
Cultural Staff, Russian Flagship Program
Svetlana is from Tallinn, Estonia. She has been working in the fitness industry for over 10 years, helping people get moving. When she is not teaching yoga, she is chasing her two kids and animals on their tiny farm in the Atlanta area.
Olga Kuznetsova
Cultural Staff, Russian Flagship Program
Originally educated as a teacher of English language and literature, Olga Kuznetsova worked for 15 years as a supply chain manager at Moscow branches of Italian wine companies, Campari and Mondo del Vino. In 2019, she followed her husband to the USA, where she decided to dedicate herself to teaching Russian language to bilingual children. Olga's hobbies are cooking and family history.
Alina Sidaruk
Russian Academic Immersion and Cultural Enrichment Specialist, Russian Flagship Program
M.A. History, Belarusian State University (Belarus)
M.B.A. Belarusian State University (Belarus)