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Maria Bucur Professor Maria Bucur
Director of REEI and Associate Professor of History
E-mail username: mbucur

Biographical information forthcoming.

 

 


Mark TrotterMark Trotter
Assistant Director/Outreach Coordinator

E-mail username: martrott

Mark Trotter received his B.A. from McGill University and M.A. at the University of Michigan. He taught Russian language, literature, and culture, as well as general linguistics at Grinnell College from 1987 to 1993. From 1993 to 2004, Mark taught English language and linguistics at the Dániel Berzsenyi Teacher Training College in Szombathely, Hungary, returning to the United States in the summers to teach Russian, first at the University of Michigan and subsequently at Indiana University in the Summer Workshop in Slavic, East European, and Central Asian Languages (SWSEEL), where he has taught conversation and listening comprehension since 1998. From 2004 to 2007 Mark served as the Resident Director/Academic Coordinator of the newly initiated Flagship Program in Russian Language, based at Saint Petersburg State University. His publications include articles in the fields of Russian language teaching methodology and English linguistics, as well as translations from Hungarian and Russian.





Emily Liverman
Academic Advisor/Assistant Director
for Student Services
E-mail username: eliverma

Emily Liverman received her Bachelor’s degree from Rhodes College in Russian Studies. She then received her Master’s degree from the University of Texas at Austin, where her thesis was about issues with translating poetry. She was lucky enough to have participated in SWSEEL in 2007. Her interests focus mainly on literature, but she also enjoys history. She has also participated in conferences held by South Central Modern Languages Association, as audience, panelist, secretary and chair.










Marianne DavisMarianne Davis
Administrative Secretary

E-mail username: marwdavi

Prior to coming to IU Marianne worked for Teletron (a telecom analyst company).  She has worked at IU for a number of years, first in the Department of Religious Studies and more recently in the Inner Asian and Uralic National Resource Center before coming to REEI.  Marianne has three grown children, two of whom are currently attending IU. 






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Russian and East European Institute | College of Arts and Sciences
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