As  Russian Studies is an interdisciplinary program, faculty from across campus (and abroad) provide courses for our students.

Dr. Andrea Beckendorf, Library and Information Studies

Joy Conrad, Modern Languages/Russian Studies. 

Dr. Laurie Iudin-Nelson, Modern Languages/Russian

Learn more about Laurie Iudin-Nelson

Dr. Marvin Slind, History

Dr. Andrei Zainouldinov, specialist in teaching Russian as a foreign language.  Native Russian assistant in the Luther January term abroad in Russia

Luther students experience a Russian "banya" (sauna) in St. Petersburg during January term, complete with a dip in the lake afterwards.