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Meet Our Board
Meredith Clason, M.A. Minimize
Ms. Clason is the associate director of the Center for East European and Russian/Eurasian Studies at the University of Chicago. She has a Master’s degree in Slavic Languages and Literature from the University of North Carolina and was previously the project coordinator of the Duke-UNC Slavic and East European Languages Resource Center. She has studied Macedonian, Russian, Serbian/Croatian, and Bulgarian.

Elisabeth Elliott, Ph.D. Minimize
Dr. Elisabeth ElliottDr. Elliott is a Senior Lecturer and Director of Slavic Languages in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at Northwestern University. She earned her PhD from the University of Toronto. She currently teaches Russian, courses in linguistics, and has taught Macedonian at the University of Chicago and Gustavus Adolphus College in Minnesota. Her research interests include second language acquisition and language and culture.

Robert Greenberg, Ph.D. Minimize
Dr. Greenberg is an adjunct professor in the Slavic Languages and Literatures department at Yale University and acting dean of the school of arts and sciences at Hunter College. He earned his PhD at Yale University. He has taught Macedonian and various other Slavic languages for over two decades. His research interests include language, identity, nationalism, and politics in the Balkans.

Marija Kusevska, MTESL Minimize

Ms. Kusevska received her MTESL from Arizona State University. She currently teaches Business English and English Language Teaching Methodology and has taught Macedonian at the Critical Languages Institute, Arizona State University. She is a co-author of Do You Speak Macedonian, the first book for teaching Macedonian to foreigners based on the communicative approach. Her research interest include pragmatics and second language acquisition.

George Mitrevski, Ph.D. Minimize
Dr. Mitrevski earned his PhD from the Ohio State University and is an Associate Professor in the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures at Auburn University. He was born in Macedonia and currently teaches Russian language and culture on site and through distance education. His research interests are focused on Macedonian literature and folklore, computational linguistics and corpus linguistics. He is compiling an electronic corpus of Macedonian texts and has other online resources for Macedonian literature.

Katerina Vasileska, M.A. Minimize

Ms. Vasileska holds a European Master's Degree in Human Rights and Democracy and a B.A. in Turkish and Italian language and literature. She was born in Ohrid, Macedonia and founded a company for promoting responsible tourism. Her previous experience includes work as teacher, translator and interpreter. In the Local Development Agency in Struga, Macedonia, she is coordinating the program for social inclusion. Her great desire is to help promote Macedonia and the Macedonian language abroad, as well as to motivate more people to visit Macedonia and recognize the beauty of Macedonian culture and its traditions.

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