Russian East European and Eurasian Studies

Lara Ravitch

Senior Instructor II
Russian Language Coordinator & Director of Undergraduate Studies
Russian East European and Eurasian Studies, School of Global Studies and Languages
Phone: 541-346-4077
Office: 427 Friendly Hall, 1262 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403
Office Hours: By appointment

Lisa Ross

Associate Director
African Studies, Asian Studies, Chinese, East Asian Languages, Food Studies, French, German & Scandinavian, Global Studies, Ichishkiin Language, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Middle East and North African Studies, Modern Hebrew Language, Northwest Indian Language Institute, OCIAS, Portuguese, Romance Languages, Romance Languages Major, Russian East European and Eurasian Studies, Spanish, Spanish Heritage Language Program, Yamada Language Center
Phone: 541-346-4005
Office: 107 Agate Hall
Office Hours: M-F 8-5

Stephen Shoemaker

Professor; Department Head, Religious Studies
History of Christianity
Humanities Program, Middle East and North African Studies, Medieval Studies, Religious Studies, Russian East European and Eurasian Studies
Phone: 541-346-4998
Office: 348 Susan Campbell Hall, 1294 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1294
Office Hours: By appointment only

Carol Silverman

Professor Emeritus
Anthropology, Comparative Literature, Folklore Program, Judaic Studies Program, Russian East European and Eurasian Studies
Office Hours:
Research Interests: Arts and human rights, music, Balkans, Roma, gender, ritual

Sherwin Simmons

Professor Emeritus
History Art & Arch, Russian East European and Eurasian Studies
Phone: 541-346-2080

Alina Turygina

GE Russian Instructor
Graduate student
Russian East European and Eurasian Studies, School of Global Studies and Languages
Office Hours: Mon & Wed 2-3 pm
Research Interests: Russian émigré literature, russophone literature of the 20th-21st centuries, cultural anthropology, myth studies, topos, autobiography/autofiction, Nina Berberova

Cynthia Vakareliyska

Professor Emerita
Linguistics, Medieval Studies, Russian East European and Eurasian Studies

Marci Viano-Davis

Operations Manager
ASU 1 - Schnitzer School of Global Studies and Languages
College of Arts and Sciences, East Asian Languages, Food Studies, German & Scandinavian, Global Studies, Ichishkiin Language, Italian, Japanese, Latin American Studies, Middle East and North African Studies, Northwest Indian Language Institute, OCIAS, Romance Languages, Russian East European and Eurasian Studies, School of Global Studies and Languages, Spanish, Spanish Heritage Language Program, Yamada Language Center
Phone: 541-346-4019
Office: 116 Friendly, University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403
Office Hours: 9-4 M-F