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George Rapall Noyes (April 2, 1873 – May 5, 1952) was Professor of Slavic Languages at University of California, Berkeley. Noyes was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1873, and attended Harvard University, graduating at the top of his class in 1894. After receiving his M.A. he completed his PhD dissertation, Dryden as Critic in 1898.
Zhivov was a professor at the Russian Language Institute of Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow and at the Department of Slavic and Languages and Literatures at the University of California, Berkeley. [1] [2] Viktor Zhivov was born in 1945 in Moscow in a Jewish family. His father was Mark Zhivov, an author and a translator.
Mikhail Osipovich Gershenzon (Russian: Михаи́л О́сипович Гершензо́н) (Kishinev, July 13 [O.S. July 1] 1869 - Moscow, 19 February 1925) was a Russian scholar, essayist and editor.
Nikolai Marchenko was born in Birzula and graduated from secondary school in Odessa, but he always considered Kiev to be his hometown. In 1935–1941, the poet studied at the Taras Shevchenko State University of Kiev, which he graduated with a degree in physics, specializing in metals analysis by X-ray fluorescence.
1982, the Vucinich Book Prize was established in his honor by the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies. The Wayne S. Vucinich Book Prize is awarded annually for the most important contribution to Russian, Eurasian, and East European studies in any discipline of the humanities or social sciences published in English in the ...
Breslauer has held positions with the following organizations: At UC Berkeley: Chair of the Center for Slavic and East European Studies (1984–1994) Chair of the department of political science (1993–1996) Dean of the Division of Social Sciences (1999–2006) Executive dean of the College of Letters and Sciences (2005–2006)
The following is a list of academic research centers devoted to Russian studies, or Slavic studies, encompassing the area of the former Soviet Union, sometimes referred to as Eurasia: Arizona State University - The Melikian Center: Russian, Eurasian and East European Studies; Carleton University - Institute of European, Russian, and Eurasian ...
The focus of Timberlake's research is language. At Columbia University, he teaches courses on Slavic cultures and Russian linguistics. [4] Apart from that, he teaches several courses a year in general linguistics, including recently “Language and Society”, which included a discussion of language allegiance among diasporic communities in America.