MARGARET H. BEISSINGER (Ph.D., Harvard University) is Assistant Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She specializes in the Balkans.

NEIL BERMEL (Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley) is Lecturer in Czech Language and Linguistics at the University of Sheffield (England), where he teaches Czech, Russian and Slavic linguistics.

THOMAS R. BEYER, JR. (Ph.D., University of Kansas) is Professor of Russian at Middlebury College (Middlebury, VT).

PETR A. BÍLEK (Ph.D., Charles University) is an Associate Professor at the Department of Czech Literature and Literary theory at Charles University, Prague.

NATHAN BOND (Ph. D, University of Texas at Austin) is Assistant Professor of Russian at Southwest University, Texas and was a high-school and middle school Russian teacher.

HEIDI BYRNES (Ph.D., Georgetown University) is Professor of German at Georgetown University.

PATRICIA CHAPUT (Ph.D., Harvard University) is Professor of the Practice of Slavic Languages and Director of the Language Program in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at Harvard University, also Faculty Supervisor for foreign languages in the Harvard Summer School.

WILLIAM J. COMER (Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley) is Associate Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures and the Director of the Ermal Garinger Academic Resource Center at the University of Kansas.

LEE B. CROFT (Ph.D., Cornell University) is Professor and Coordinator of Slavic Languages and Literatures at Arizona State University and is a founder of the ASU-Russian and East European Studies Consortium Summer Critical Languages Institute.

DAVID DANAHER (Ph.D., Brown University) is Assistant Professor of Slavic Languages at the University of Wisconsin-Madison where he teaches Russian and Czech.

ROBERT DE LOSSA (M.A., Harvard University) is Director of Publications at the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute.

MADELINE EHRMAN (Ph.D., The Union Institute) is Director of Research, Evaluation, and Development, at the School of Language Studies, Foreign Service Institute, U.S. Department of State.

MASAKO U. FIDLER (Ph.D., UCLA) is Associate Professor of Slavic Languages and Slavic Linguistics at Brown University and is executive officer of the North American Association of Teachers of Czech.

THOMAS J. GARZA (Ed.D., Harvard University) is Associate Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of Texas at Austin and Coordinator of Russian Language Instruction.

KIRA GOR (Ph.D. in Phonetics and Linguistics, Saint Petersburg State University, Ph.D. in Russian and Second Language Acquisition, Bryn Mawr College) is Associate Professor of Russian at the University of Maryland, College Park.

OLGA KAGAN (Ph.D., Pushkin Institute, Moscow, Russia) is Senior Lecturer and Coordinator of the Russian Language Program at the University of California, Los Angeles.

DAVID KANIG (M.A., Harvard University) is the Technology Specialist at the Language Resource Center at Brown University.

LEANN M. KEEFE (M.A., University of Kansas) is a doctoral candidate in Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of Kansas.

CAROL A. KLEE (Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin) is Associate Professor of Hispanic Linguistics and Chair of the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Minnesota, where she directed the Spanish and Portuguese Language Programs from l985 to l995.

SUSAN C. KRESIN (Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley) is a Lecturer of Russian and Czech at the University of California, Los Angeles.

MARK R. LAUERSDORF (Ph.D., University of Kansas) is a Research Associate in the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures at Luther College and Co-Director of the Slavic and East European Less Commonly Taught Languages Project www.slavic.ohio-state.edu/people/holdeman/seelproj or faculty.luther.edu/~lauersma/seelproj/.

BETTY LOU LEAVER (Ph.D., Pushkin Institute, Moscow, Russia) is currently an international consultant in Second Language Acquisition and General Education

JUDITH E. LISKIN-GASPARRO (Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin) is Associate Professor of Spanish and Director of the General Education Program in Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Iowa and Co-Director of the Foreign Language Acquisition Research and Education (FLARE) program at the University of Iowa.

MARY ANN LYMAN-HAGER (Ph.D., University of Idaho) is Professor of French at San Diego State University and Director of the National Language Resource Center (LARC).

GEORGE MITREVSKI (Ph.D., Ohio State University) is Associate Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures and Director of the language lab at Auburn University. He specializes in instructional technology.

ZENA MOORE (Ph.D. Purdue University) is Associate Professor of Foreign Language Education at the University of Texas at Austin.

CHRISTOPHER OTT (B.A., Brown University), a multimedia specialist and writer, is the author of Global Solutions for Multilingual Applications: Real World Techniques for Developers and Designers (John Wiley & Sons, 1999).

PETER C. PATRIKIS (Ph.D., Harvard University) is the Executive Director of the Consortium for Language Teaching and Learning (New Haven, Connecticut), an assembly of ten private research universities.

LEONARD A. POLAKIEWICZ (Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison) is Horace Morse Distinguished Associate Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures and Chair of the Department. of Slavic and Central Asian Languages and literatures at the University of Minnesota.

MARIA POLINSKY (Ph.D., Russian Academy of Sciences) is Professor of Linguistics at the University of California, San Diego.

BENJAMIN RIFKIN (Ph.D., University of Michigan) is an Associate Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures and Coordinator of Russian Language Instruction at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is also Director of the Russian School of Middlebury College (Middlebury, VT).

TIMOTHY G. RILEY (Ph.D., University of Washington) is an independent scholar. He was a Fulbright fellow at Jagiellonian University in Krakow in 1997—98.

RICHARD ROBIN (Ph.D., University of Michigan) is Associate Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures and International Affairs at the George Washington University (Washington, D.C.)

KAREN ROBBLEE (Ph.D., University of California at Los Angeles) is a Foreign Service officer with the U.S. Department of State. Prior to joining the foreign service, she taught Russian for fifteen years.

ARTEMI ROMANOV (Ph.D., St. Petersburg State University) is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of Colorado at Boulder.

SANDRA ROSENGRANT (Ph.D., Stanford University) is Professor of Russian at Portland State University.

IRENE THOMPSON (Ph.D., The George Washington University) is Professor Emerita at the George Washington University, where she taught for many years and served as Chair of the Department of German and Slavic Languages. She is currently Senior Consultant at the University of Hawaii National Foreign Language Resource Center and the Co-editor of Language Learning & Technology.

MATTHEW TITTLE (Ph.D. Candidate in Educational Psychology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) is Assistant Director for International Affairs of the Campus Honors Program at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

GUADALUPE VALDÉS (Ph.D. Florida State University) is Professor of Spanish & Portuguese and Professor of Education at Stanford University.

OLGA T. YOKOYAMA (Ph.D. Harvard University) is Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of California, Los Angeles.