Associate Director: Dr. Jennifer Tishler
Jennifer Tishler received her PhD in Slavic Languages at UW-Madison and has taught Russian language and literature at Dartmouth. Currently she is associate director of CREECA (the Center for Russian, East European, and Central Asian Studies) as well as a lecturer in Russian language, literature, and culture (including folklore) in the UW-Madison Department of German, Nordic, and Slavic.
Residential Director: Rachel Landau
Rachel Landau, from Boston, Massachusetts, started studying Russian during her freshman year of college in 2016. She was a poet-in-residence in Saint Petersburg, Russia in 2018 and spent a semester and summer in Moscow, Russia in 2019. Once she returned to the United States, she tutored fellow students at both beginner and intermediate levels of academic Russian; she also taught intermediate Russian during the pandemic. Most recently, Rachel earned a Master of Arts in Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies at Stanford University, where she specialized in literature and theory. Outside of language study, she loves to cook, work on fabric art, and translate poetry. She is an assistant editor of poetry for Asymptote Journal.
Residential Director: Luke Stoerger
Luke has always been interested in the history of Russia and the former Soviet Union, which led him to take an interest in learning the Russian language many years ago. He graduated from the University of Wisconsin in Madison, where he studied Russian as a member of the Russian Flagship Program. During his final year, he studied abroad in Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan, where he got an immersive experience taking classes, working an internship, taking trips and meeting a myriad of people, all in the Russian language.
Project Assistant: Anthony Gabriel Carreño
Anthony Gabriel Carreño received his Bachler's in Russian and International Studies at UW-Madison. He is an alum of PSI at UW-Madison in Summer 2017, PSI Abroad in the following summer, and Pritzker College Prep. During his undergrad, he had the opportunity to virtually study abroad in Almaty, Kazakhstan, where he took six weeks of Russian language courses. Currently, he is the project assistant for CREECA and works behind the scenes to support the associate director and NSLI-Y program. Furthermore, he is working towards his Masters' in Public Health and Public Affairs.