Michael A Lavery Author

Anna S. Kudyma is Senior Lecturer and Russian Flagship Academic Coordinator in the Department of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Languages and Cultures at UCLA. Frank J. Miller was Professor of Slavic Languages and the Director of the Russian Language Program at Columbia University and Barnard College for thirty years. He served as president of AATSEEL in 1999-2000, and was the recipient of the Hettleman Award for Distinguished Teaching and Service at Columbia University in 1988 and the AATSEEL Award for Excellence in Teaching in 1996. Olga Kagan was Professor of Russian at University of California, Los Angeles for over 35 years. She was also Director of the National Heritage Language Resource Center at UCLA and the UCLA Russian Flagship Program. She saw the unique difficulties facing heritage speakers of languages other than English, and was a leader in designing curriculum specifically for heritage speakers with little to no literacy in their native language. Michael A. Lavery holds a Ph.D. in Slavic Languages and Literatures from UCLA, where he has taught Russian language at multiple levels.