MATTHEW BLACK (Russian). ...

ELISABETH BORG-BOWMAN (Russian). Aided by a Russian Study Award, Elisabeth returned to Krasnodar, Russia, where she had studied as an undergraduate. She taught English at Kuban State University and at a middle-school, and she renewed warm relations with her host-family during her earlier stay in Krasnodar, reminding us of the contributions which host-families have made to our students' experiences in Krasnodar, Moscow and St. Petersburg.

JILL CETINA (Russian and Political Science). Aided by a Russian Study Award, Jill spent the summer following graduation in St. Petersburg, where she carried out an internship with the international accounting firm of Deloitte and Touche. This was the first of several business-connected sojourns by Jill in the former Soviet Union, including employment in Almaty, Kazakhstan, and Minsk, Belarus. In the latter city, Jill worked for the World Bank Group during 1995-96, and she returned to Grinnell in February of 1997 to give a talk entitled "Making the Public Private: A Grinnellian's Experiences Working on Privatization for the World Bank Group in Belarus." Jill completed her MPA in international development at Princeton Universityin 1998. Since graduating from Princeton, Jill has worked in several different positions in the international division of the U.S. Treasury Department.

JENEL CHANG (REES and History and Education). ...

ADAM DOTY (Russian and REES). ...

STEPHANIE HARVES (Russian and Linguistics). Following graduation, Stephanie began graduate work in Slavic Linguistics at the University of Michigan. After completing an M.A. there, Stephanie entered the Ph.D. program in General and Slavic Linguistics at Princeton University, where she received her doctorate in 2002. Her dissertation was entitled "Unaccusative Syntax in Russian." From 2000-2002 Stephanie was a Visiting Scholar in the Department of Linguistics and Philosophy at MIT in Cambridge, MA and taught Russian and Linguistics in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at Harvard University from 2001-2003. In 2003 she joined Pomona College as an assistant professor in the Department of Linguistics and Cognitive Science. She recently returned to Russia in the summers of 2005 and 2006 as a visiting professor at the NYI-St. Petersburg Institute for Cognitive and Cultural Studies at St. Petersburg State University.

ALICE OSTDIEK (Russian and Gender & Women's Studies). ...

JONATHAN OWEN (Russian and Political Science). Aided by a Russian Study Award, Jonathan spent his first year after graduation in St. Petersburg, working as a volunteer for the Lutheran Church. Jonathan duties included providing food and clothing for orphanages, refurbishing churches long used for non-religious purposes, and distributing large-print and Braille publications to organizations which serve the visually impaired. Returning home after his year in Russia, Jonathan entered law school at the University of Pittsburgh. Upon completing law school, Jon returned to Russia, and is now working for Chadbourne & Parke, LLP, a New York-based international law firm. Jon got married in January of 1998 to Julia, a Russian native who is also an international lawyer in Moscow.

TONI SIRAGUSA (Russian and Business Administration and French). A Russian Study Award enabled Toni to study in St. Petersburg for a semester following graduation. Trained in French as well as Russian, Toni worked as an international representative at the Radisson Reservation Center in Omaha, Nebraska. She is now attending the Thunderbird Institute of International Business Studies in Tucson, Arizona.