Barbara Allen (MA, History, 1992; PhD, History, 2001) has authored "Gaming Russian and Soviet History," an article that appeared in the January, 2021 edition of NewsNet, the newsletter of the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies.
Suzanne Ament (PhD, History, 1996) is author of Sing to Victory! Song in Soviet Society During World War II (Academic Studies Press, 2019), the Russian translation of which will soon appear in the Academic Studies press series Contemporary Western Rusistika. She also very much appreciates the REEI outreach program and regularly uses items from its film collection in her Russian history courses at Radford University.
Dini Metro-Roland (MA, REEI, 2000; PhD, Philosophy of Education, 2008) is co-author (with Paul Farber) of the recently published Why Teaching Matters: A Philosophical Guide to the Elements of Practice (New York: Bloomsbury Academic Press, 2020).
Dr. Randal H. Munsen (MA, History 1983; REEI Certificate, 1989) is the Head of History for the five campuses of the Pima Community College District in Tucson, Arizona.
Maren Payne-Holmes (MA, REEI, 2008) and Richard Payne-Holmes (MA/MPA, REEI/SPEA, 2008) continue to serve with the U.S. Department of State. Maren is a planning and evaluation specialist for the Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs' Office of Press and Public Diplomacy, a position she fills remotely from Warsaw. Rich is the External Political Unit Chief and designated "Russia Watcher" at the U.S. embassy in Warsaw, Poland. Both traveled to Belarus in September 2020 for short-term assignments to support the U.S. embassy in Minsk following the Belarusian presidential elections.
Valery Perry (MA, REEI, 1994) has posted "The Myth of Incremental Education Reform in BiH" on the website of the Democratization Policy Council. She is editor of the recently published Extremism and Violent Extremism in Serbia: 21st Century Manifestations of an Historical Challenge (Ibidem Press/Columbia University Press, 2019). She also co-authored a report for the Democratization Policy Council and Eurothink under the title Sell Out, Tune Out, Get Out, or Freak Out? Understanding Corruption, State Capture, Radicalization, Pacification, Resilience, and Emigration in Bosnia and Herzegovina and North Macedonia. Her co-authored article “Is the US Doubling Down on Division in Bosnia and Herzegovina?” appeared on the Just Security website.
Michelle Schulte (MLS/MA, REEI. 2019) has taken up the position of Content Analysis at ProQuest, a collection of many databases that provide access to thousands of journals, magazines, newspapers, dissertations, and other publications.
Kathryn Yegorov-Crate (BA, Slavic/International Studies major with REEI/Anthropology minors, 2018) served as a student intern for the School of Russian and Asian Studies (SRAS) over the winter break, contributing to its Folkways site (https://folkways.today/) articles and images that explore Sakha traditional clothing, The Games of Dygyn, Sakha traditional housing, and Yhyakh, the Sakha summer New Year celebration, as well as a talking Sakha phrasebook.