People

Julia Alekseyeva

Assistant Professor of English and Cinema and Media Studies

jaleksey@upenn.edu

Maria Alley

Senior Lecturer in Foreign Languages

malley@sas.upenn.edu

Veronica Aplenc

Program Manager/Adjunct Assistant Professor, Graduate School of Education

vaplenc@upenn.edu

Aleksey Berg

Lecturer in Foreign Languages

aleksey@sas.upenn.edu

Maria Bourlatskaya

Lecturer in Foreign Languages

mbourlat@sas.upenn.edu

Michael Brinley

Graduate Student in History

michaelbrinley@gmail.com

Allison Brooks-Conrad

Graduate Student in Musicology

abrooksc@sas.upenn.edu

William W. Burke-White

Richard Perry Professor and Inaugural Director, Perry World House; Professor of Law

wburkewh@law.upenn.edu

Griffin Creech

Graduate Student in History

gbcreech@sas.upenn.edu

Kateryna Derysheva

Artist Protection Fund Fellow

Poet in Residence and At-Risk Scholar

de.ka1394@gmail.com

Ivan Drpić

Associate Professor of History of Art

drpic@sas.upenn.edu

Agnieszka Dziedzic

Lecturer in Polish

adzie@upenn.edu

Sam Finkelman

Graduate Student in History

sfink@sas.upenn.edu

Kristen R. Ghodsee

Professor and Chair of Russian and East European Studies

Member of the Graduate Group in Anthropology

Peter Holquist

Ronald S. Lauder Endowed Term Associate Professor of History

History Graduate Group Chair

holquist@sas.upenn.edu

D. Brian Kim

Assistant Professor of Russian and East European Studies

Undergraduate Chair

dbkim@sas.upenn.edu

Hilah Kohen

Graduate Student in Comparative Literature

Anna Linetskaya

Graduate Student in Comparative Literature

linetsky@sas.upenn.edu

Ecaterina Locoman

Senior Lecturer of International Studies at the Lauder Institute

Senior Lecturer, Department of Political Science

elocoman@wharton.upenn.edu

Asher Maria

Graduate Student in Comparative Literature

Meta Mazaj

Senior Lecturer in Cinema Studies

mmazaj@sas.upenn.edu

Anna Mikulska

Nonresident fellow in Energy Studies at the Baker Institute

amikulsk@upenn.edu

Adrienn Mizsei

Lecturer in Hungarian

amizsei@sas.upenn.edu

Benjamin Nathans

Associate Professor of History

bnathans@history.upenn.edu

Mila Nazyrova

Lecturer in Foreign Languages

Language Program Director

nazyrova@sas.upenn.edu

Olga Nechaeva

Graduate Student in Comparative Literature

nechaeva@sas.upenn.edu

Philip M. Nichols

Joseph Kolodny Professor of Social Responsibility in Business and Professor of Legal Studies and Business Ethics

nicholsp@wharton.upenn.edu

Mitchell A. Orenstein

Professor of Russian and East European Studies

more@sas.upenn.edu

Kirsten Painter

Slavic and East European Studies Librarian

kpaint@upenn.edu

Molly Peeney

Lecturer in Foreign Languages

mpeeney@sas.upenn.edu

Adriana Petryna

Edmund J. and Louise W. Kahn Term Professor of Anthropology

petryna@sas.upenn.edu

Kevin M.F. Platt

Professor of Russian and East European Studies

Graduate Chair

kmfplatt@sas.upenn.edu

Alex Royt

Graduate Student in History

alexroyt@sas.upenn.edu

Leonid Rudnytzky

Professor Emeritus of Ukrainian Language and Literature

rudnytzky@yahoo.com

Daniel Shapiro

Graduate Student in Political Science

dfshapir@sas.upenn.edu

Rudra Sil

Professor of Political Science

rudysil@sas.upenn.edu

Kimberly St. Julian Varnon

Graduate Student in History

Timmy Straw

Graduate Student in Comparative Literature

timstraw@sas.upenn.edu

Mikhail A. Strokan

Graduate Student in Political Science

mstrokan@sas.upenn.edu

De’Vonte Tinsley

Graduate Student in History

tinsleyd@sas.upenn.edu

Vladislav Todorov

Senior Lecturer Emeritus

vtodorov@sas.upenn.edu

Eugenia Ulanova

Graduate Student in Comparative Literature

eulanova@sas.upenn.edu

Julia Verkholantsev

Associate Professor of Russian and East European Studies

Founder and Director, Program in Global Medieval and Renaissance Studies; Undergraduate Humanities Forum Director (2024-2025) & Topic Director (2025-2026), Wolf Humanities Center

juliaver@sas.upenn.edu

Alexandra Zborovsky

Graduate Student in History

azbor@sas.upenn.edu