Between 2006 and 2008, Maria Fedorova was an undergraduate student in Moscow studying American history, and regularly visited the American Center in Moscow to attend lectures and watch movies in English. Now, 15 years later, Maria has earned her PhD in History and is an Assistant Professor at Macalester College, a small Liberal Arts College in Saint Paul, Minnesota. Join Maria as she shares the story of her journey and the critical role the American Center played in launching her academic career.

About the guest speaker:

Maria Fedorova is an Assistant Professor at Macalester College. She arrived at Macalester in the fall of 2019 as a Wallin Postdoctoral Fellow in Russian and Modern European History and then got a tenure-track position in the Russian Studies Department. A Moscow native, she came to the United States as a Fulbright Fellow, receiving an MA degree in History at Washington State University and a Ph.D. at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Her research focuses on the transnational circulation of knowledge and technologies between Russia and the world during the twentieth century.

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