The Russian Studies program is suspended according to ODHE and HLC standards.
Luce Residential Hall houses five language suites (Chinese, French, German, Spanish & Russian), which provide students with a living/learning environment focused on developing foreign language skills.
The Global Cafe, located in the lower level of Luce, is a place for socializing, learning about other cultures, and enjoying the company of other language learners.
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Academic Administrative Coordinator for Chinese Studies, Classical Studies, English, French & Francophone Studies, German Studies, Russian Studies, and Spanish
Professor and Department Chair of German and Russian Studies (On leave Fall 2025)
Professor of German Studies; Department Chair of German and Russian Studies
Michael O. Fisher Professor of History, Global and International Studies; Russian Studies
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Students who major in Russian Studies complete 11 courses, including courses on the Russian language, literature, culture, and history. Students interested in Russian and East Central European literature and culture can take advantage of several interdepartmental programs in which the Department of Russian Studies cooperates: Global & International Studies, Comparative Literature, and Global Media & Digital Studies.
We encourage our majors to study in Russia or other Russophone country for the duration of a semester or summer program, or to attend a summer intensive program in one of the US-based institutions. Our majors have received full scholarships to pursue the study of Russian at programs like the Indiana University Summer Language Workshop and the Critical Language Scholarship program in Moscow, Russia.
View CoursesStudents who minor in Russian Studies complete six language, history, literature and culture courses focused on Russia and Eastern Europe. Students interested in Russian and East Central European literature and culture can take advantage of several interdepartmental programs in which the Department of Russian Studies cooperates: Global & International Studies, Comparative Literature, and Global Media & Digital Studies.
View CoursesAll majors complete a one-semester Independent Study project in the junior year and a two-semester senior I.S. thesis. Working closely with a faculty advisor, each senior has the opportunity to develop his or her interests through the process of writing an undergraduate capstone thesis then defending it in an oral exam with the advisor and a second faculty member.
For their junior and senior I.S. projects, majors have worked on topics as diverse as the environmental movement in Siberia, feminine literary perceptions of Stalin’s purges, and Dostoevsky’s novels and the literary theory of Bakhtin, Fashion & Femininity in Soviet Union, and the Space Race.
Previous I.S. projects from Russian Studies students include:
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After a year of fully-funded research in Irkutsk, Siberia with a Fulbright grant (cut short by the Covid-19 pandemic), Erin Tumpan ‘19 is working toward a doctorate in Slavic Languages and Literatures at Princeton University.
Gillian Gregory ‘19, a Mathematics and Russian Studies double major, is enthusiastically starting a graduate program in Computational Linguistics at Stony Brook University.
Graduating in the middle of the pandemic, Daphne Letherer ‘20, a double major in Russian and Global and International Studies, served with AmeriCorps, working at the non-profit Ascend Indiana as Operations and Research Coordinator and subsequently stayed with the organization full-time.
Russian minor and Global and International Studies major Maureen Hanes ‘21 is excited about a year of teaching English in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan through a Fulbright fellowship.
Sydney (Maureen) Hanes ’21 will teach English in Kyrgyzstan during the next academic year.
Recent graduate’s Independent Study on Lithuanian-Americans receives recognition