Scholars@Duke

• Background
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  Education, Training, & Certifications

  • Ph.D., Indiana University at Bloomington 1984
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  Duke Appointment History

  • Director of the FOCUS Program, FOCUS Program, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2014 - 2017
  • Chair in the Department of Slavic and Eurasian Studies, Slavic and Eurasian Studies, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2015 - 2016
  • Director of Undergraduate Studies in the Linguistics Program, Linguistics, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2015 - 2016
  • Director of the Linguistics Program, Linguistics, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2013 - 2015
  • Director, Undergraduate Studies, Slavic and Eurasian Studies, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2009 - 2012
  • Acting Chair, Slavic and Eurasian Studies, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2009
  • Chair, Department of Slavic Languages and Literature, Slavic and Eurasian Studies, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 1999 - 2006
  • Director, Linguistics Program, Slavic and Eurasian Studies, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 1996 - 1999
  • Associate Professor with Tenure, Slavic and Eurasian Studies, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 1990 - 1998
  • Associate Professor of Cultural Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 1996 - 1998
  • Associate Professor with Tenure, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences, Duke University 1993 - 1996
  • Acting Chair, Slavic and Eurasian Studies, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 1993
  • Assistant Professor, Slavic and Eurasian Studies, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 1984 - 1990
• Recognition
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  In the News

  • SEP 28, 2017

    Two Decades Later, FOCUS Remains a Staple of Duke's First-Year Program

  • JAN 9, 2017

    The Neuroscience of Language Learning: Why Most Humans Are Bilingual

  • MAY 9, 2016

    FactCheck

    Edna Andrews: Putin did not call Trump a ‘genius’

  • MAR 10, 2014

    Duke Research Blog

    My Brain and Your Brain Speak Different Languages

  • NOV 18, 2013

    Faculty Council Raises Linguistics to Program Status

  • SEP 20, 2013

    Language & the Brain, in Research and the Classroom

  • MAY 9, 2013

    Civil Rights Tour Brings History to Life
• Expertise
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  Global Scholarship

  • Expertise

    • Russian Federation (Country) 

  • Research

    • Russian Federation (Country) 

  • Teaching

    • Russian Federation (Country) 
• Research
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  Selected Grants

  • Dept. of Ed. LRC Grant awarded by Department of Education 2018 - 2022
  • Research and Writing on Russia awarded by Carnegie Corporation of New York 2017 - 2019
  • 2014-2018 LRC Proposal awarded by Department of Education 2014 - 2019
  • Research and Writing on Russia awarded by Carnegie Corporation of New York 2015 - 2017
  • Language Resource Centers awarded by Department of Education 2010 - 2015
  • Slavic & Eurasian Language Resource Center NRC awarded by Department of Education 2010 - 2014
  • National Resource Center awarded by Department of Education 2006 - 2011
  • National Resource Centers awarded by Department of Education 2006 - 2010
  • National Resource Center/Foreign Language & Area Studies Fellowships awarded by Department of Education 2006 - 2007
  • Slavic & East European Language Resource Center awarded by Department of Education 2002 - 2007
  • National Resource Centers awarded by Department of Education 2003 - 2007
  • Title VI National Resource Center/Foreign Language & Area Studies Fellowships awarded by Department of Education 2003 - 2006
  • Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowships awarded by Department of Education 2000 - 2003
  • Slavic & East European Language Resource Center awarded by Department of Education 1999 - 2003
  • (97-0299) National Resource Center for Undergraduate Studies awarded by Department of Education 1997 - 2000
  • National Resource Centers and Foreign Language and Area Studies Programs awarded by Department of Education 1998 - 2000
  • National Resource Centers and Foreign Language and Area Studies Programs awarded by Department of Education 1997 - 2000
  • (95-0281) Joint Undergraduate National Resource Center for Slavic Studies awarded by Department of Education 1994 - 1997
  • (96-1074) Joint Undergraduate National Resource Center for Slavic Studies awarded by Department of Education 1994 - 1997
  • (94-0275) The Duke-UNC Center for Slavic, Eurasian and East European Studies awarded by Department of Education 1994 - 1995
  • (90-0408) Russian Language Instruction awarded by Josiah Charles Trent Memorial Foundation 1989 - 1990
  • (87-0408) Acquisition of Russian Language Material for Classroom and Language Lab USe awarded by Josiah Charles Trent Memorial Foundation 1986 - 1987
• Publications & Artistic Works
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  Selected Publications

  • Books

    • Andrews, E. Neuroscience and multilingualism. January 1, 2014.
    • Andrews, E, and Dickey, S. Slavic Linguistics: In Honor of Ronald Feldstein. 2011.
    • Andrews, E, and Maksimova, E. Russian Translation: Theory and Practice (2 volumes). Routledge Publishers, 2010.
    • Andrews, E. Slavic Linguistics 2K: A Retrospective Volume. Edited by E Andrews, S Franks, R Feldstein, and F G. Slavika Publishers, 2006.
    • Andrews, E. Conversations with lotman: Cultural semiotics in language, literature, and cognition. January 1, 2003.
    • Andrews, E. Contemporary Russian Studies: Language, Culture, Text. GLOSSOS, 2002.
    • Andrews, E. Russian: A Grammar of Contemporary Russian. Lincom Europa, Munchen, 2001.
    • Andrews, E, Averyanova, G, and Pyadusova, G. Russian Verb: Forms and Functions. Russkij jazyk: Moscow, 1997.
    • Andrews, E. The semantics of suffixation in Russian. Munchen, Germany: Lincom Europa, 1996.
    • Benjamins, J. A Calculus of Meaning: Studies in Markedness, Distinctive Features and Deixis. Edited by E Andrews and Y Tobin. 1996.
    • Andrews, E. Markedness theory: The union of asymmetry and semiosis in language. Durham, NC: Duke Univeristy Press, 1990.
    • Andrews, E. A first year Supplementary Russian grammar. 1987.
    • Andrews, E. A second year grammar and one-stem dictionary. 1987.
    • Andrews, E, McLaws, G, and Rogers, A. A handbook of Russian verbal prefixes. Bloomington: Physsardt, 1983.

  • Academic Articles

    • Andrews, E. "The importance of Lotmanian semiotics to sign theory and the cognitive neurosciences." Sign Systems Studies 43, no. 2-3 (January 1, 2015): 347-364.  Full Text
    • Thompson, RJ, Walther, I, Tufts, C, Lee, KC, Paredes, L, Fellin, L, Andrews, E, Serra, M, Hill, JL, Tate, EB, and Schlosberg, L. "Development and Assessment of the Effectiveness of an Undergraduate General Education Foreign Language Requirement." Foreign Language Annals 47, no. 4 (January 1, 2014): 653-668.  Full Text
    • Andrews, E, Frigau, L, Voyvodic-Casabo, C, Voyvodic, J, and Wright, J. "Multilingualism and fMRI: Longitudinal Study of Second Language Acquisition." Brain Sciences 3, no. 2 (January 2013): 849-876.  Full Text
    • Andrews, E. "Language and brain: Recasting meaning in the definition of human language." Semiotica 2011, no. 184 (April 1, 2011): 11-32. (Review)  Full Text
    • Andrews, E, Bae, C, Davis, N, Kang, P, Mehta, N, and Hausburg, T. "Speech and Sung Phoneme Perception." (2011). (Academic Article)
    • Andrews, E. "Markedness Theory: Tense and Aspect in the Russian Verb." Edited by R Binnick. (2010).
    • Andrews, E. "Series of articles on semiotic topics." Edited by P Cobley. (2009).
    • Andrews, E. "Redefining Discontinuity in Cultural Space: Principles of Semiospheric Explosion." (2009).
    • Andrews, E. "Lotman and the Cognitive Sciences: The Role of Autocommunication in the Language of Memory." (2009).
    • Andrews, E, and Maksimova, E. "Semiospheric Transitions: A Key to Modelling Translation." (2008).
    • Andrews, E. "“The Semiotics of Jurij Lotman.”." (2008).
    • Skotko, BG, Andrews, E, and Einstein, G. "Corrigendum to "Language and the medial temporal lobe: Evidence from H.M.'s spontaneous discourse" [Journal of Memory and Language 53 (2005) 397-415] (DOI:10.1016/j.jml.2005.05.003)." Journal of Memory and Language 54, no. 4 (May 1, 2006): 635-null.  Full Text
    • Andrews, E. "Zamyatin and the circle of colors." (2006).
    • Skotko, BG, Andrews, E, and Einstein, G. "Language and the medial temporal lobe: Evidence from H.M.'s spontaneous discourse." Journal of Memory and Language 53, no. 3 (September 1, 2005): 397-415.  Full Text
    • Andrews, E, and Skotko, B. "H.M.’s Language Skills: Clues About Language and the Medial Temporal Lobe." Journal of Memory and Language (2005). (Academic Article)
    • Andrews, E. "Slavic Languages in the Context of Languages of the Worl. Review of Comrie/Corbett The Slavonic Languages." SEEJ (2005). (Review)
    • Andrews, E. "Neurolinguistic perspectives on Second Language Acquisition." Language (Journal of the Linguistic Society of America) (2005). (Academic Article)
    • Andrews, E. "Medial Temporal Lobes and Languages: The Case of HM." Journal of Memory and Language (2005). (Academic Article)
    • Andrews, E. "Redefining textual boundaries: Torop and the Tartu school of semiotics." Semiotica 144 (December 1, 2003): 377-380. (Review)  Full Text
    • Andrews, E, and Maksimova, E. "Zamjatinkskij Puskin." Russkaja Literatura, Journal of the Institute of Russian Literature of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Puskinskij Dom (2003). (Academic Article)
    • Andrews, E. "Teorija postroenie xudozhestvennogo prostranstva: Lotman i Florenskij." (2003). (Academic Article)
    • Andrews, E. "Viktor Shklovskij: proza 20-x godov." (2003).
    • Andrews, E. "Peterburg Axmatovoj i Bloka." (2003).
    • Andrews, E. "Gender Roles and Perception: Russian Diminutives in Discourse." Edited by M Mills. (2003).
    • Andrews, E. "Memory, Language and Brain." Prague School Linguistics (2003).
    • Andrews, E. "Tartu School Contributions to the Study of Literary Texts: The Work of Peeter Torop." Semiotica 144 (2003): 377-380.
    • Andrews, E. "Russian Contributions to Cognitive Science: Vygotsky, Luria, Jakobson and Lotman." (2002).
    • Andrews, E. "Russian Derivational Morphology and Shifting Reference." Townsend Memorial Volume (2002).
    • Andrews, E. "Text and Culture: Continuous Discontinuity in Lotman and Zamjatin." (May 2001): 347-370.
    • Andrews, E. "The Tartu school at the end of the twentieth century." Semiotica 131, no. 3-4 (December 1, 2000): 267-271. (Review)
    • Andrews, E. "Recasting Animacy: The Codification of Perceptual Distinctions in Language." Edited by E Contini-Morava and Y Tobin. (2000): 205-223.
    • Andrews, E. "Jakobson between East and West: 1915-1939." SEEJ (The Slavic and East European Journal) (2000). (Review)
    • Andrews, E. "The Role of Semiotics in Modern Linguistic Theory." Edited by G Fowler. (2000).
    • Andrews, E. "Nine short articles on major figures and central theoretical constructs in semiotic and linguistic theory." Edited by P Cobley. (2000).
    • Andrews, E. "K opredeleniju semioticheskogo prostranstva." (2000).
    • Andrews, E. "The Tartu School at the End of the Twentieth Century." Semiotica 131 (2000): 267-71.
    • Andrews, E. "The Memory of Language in the Language of Memory." The Peirce Seminar Papers (An Annual of Semiotic Analysis) 4 (1999): 623-637.
    • Andrews, E. "The Jakobsonian Legacy in Contemporary Poetics." Semiotica 123 (1999).
    • Andrews, E. "Lotman's communication act and semiosis." Semiotica 126, no. 1-4 (January 1, 1999): 1-16.  Full Text
    • Andrews, E. "Einstein: Selected Works (vols III & IV) by Richard Taylor & William Powell." Europe-Asia Studies (1997). (Review)
    • Andrews, E. "The semiotics of catastrophe: Interpretants and linguistic change." Edited by I Rauch. (1997): 179-182.
    • Andrews, E. "Peirce and Jakobson Revisited: The Relation of Visual and Auditory Signs in Human Language." The Peirce Papers III 12 (1997): 11-27.
    • Andrews, E. "Interpretants and linguistic change: The case of -x- in modern standard colloquial Russian." Journal of Slavic Linguistics 1 (1997): 199-218.
    • Andrews, E. "Sovremennaja zizn’ i vopros o tabu." (1996).
    • Andrews, E. "The shift of ’shame’ in Slavic." IJSLP XXXIX-XL (1996): 299-312. (Academic Article)
    • Andrews, E. "Political correctness and cultural sensitivity: The linguistic problem of taboo." American Speech 71 (1996): 389-404. (Academic Article)
    • Andrews, E. "Cultural sensitivity and political correctness: The linguistic problem of naming." American Speech 71, no. 4 (January 1, 1996): 389-404.  Full Text
    • Andrews, E. "Upotreblenie laskatel’nyx form v razgovore s det’mi." (July 1995).
    • Andrews, E. "Osobennosti razvitija russkoj leksiki v novejsij period (na materiale gazet)." The Slavic and East European Journal 39 (1995). (Review)
    • Andrews, E. "Evaluation in ELT by Cyril Weir & Jon Robers." American Speech (1995). (Review)
    • Andrews, E. "Seeing is believing: Categories of visual perception in Russian." Edited by E Contini-Moraga and RS Goldberg. (1995): 361-380.
    • Andrews, E. "Adult speaker and child addressee: Usage and perception of Russian diminutives." Russian Language Journal XLIX (1995). (Academic Article)
    • Andrews, E. "The Port-Royal Grammar." SECOL Review (1994). (Review)
    • Andrews, E. "Markedness theory: An explication of its theoretical basis and applicability in semantic analysis." Edited by C Gribble, CHV Schooneveld, and C Townsend. (1994).
    • Andrews, E. "Gender and declension shifts in contemporary standard Russian: Markedness as a semiotic principle." (1994).
    • Andrews, E. "The interface of iconicity and interpretants." 2 (1994): 9-28.
    • Andrews, E, Johns, MS, and Borchardt, F. "Gender signalling in Russian: A contrastive analysis of native speakers and artificial neural networks." Language Quarterly 31 (1993): 1-40.
    • Andrews, E. "The iconicity of gender shifts in contemporary Russian." (1993): 202-213.
    • Andrews, E. "Contemporary Morphology." Studies in Second Language Acquisition (1992). (Review)
    • Andrews, E. "’Vzaimosvjaz’ tvorcestva Bulgakova i Zamjatina." Vestnik SPBU (January 1992). (Academic Article)
    • Andrews, E. "Language: A Theory of its Stucture and Use by Pers Saugstad." Language 67 (March 1991). (Review)
    • Andrews, E. "Markedness Theory by Ed Batistella." American Speech (1991). (Review)
    • Andrews, E. "The boundaries of sense: Cvetaeva’s extension of the morpheme." (1991).
    • Andrews, E. "Pierce’s emotional interpretant: A key to bilingualism." International Review of Applied Linguistics (IRAL) (August 1990). (Academic Article)
    • Andrews, E. "Cognitive Science." SECOL Review (1990). (Review)
    • Andrews, E. "Semanticeskij analiz russkix glagol’nyx pristavok i predlogov o i ob." (January 1990).
    • Andrews, E. "Grammar and pragmatics: The two axes of language and deixis." (1990).
    • Andrews, E. "A dialogue on the sign: Can Peirce and Jakobson be reconciled?." Semiotica 82, no. 1-2 (January 1, 1990): 1-14.  Full Text
    • Andrews, E. "A semiotic revolution: Peirce and Jakobson on the nature of the sign." Secol Review 14 (1990).
    • Andrews, E. "Peirce's emotional interpretant: A key to bilingualism." Iral International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching 28, no. 3 (January 1, 1990): 185-200.  Full Text
    • Andrews, E. "Lingvistika i poetika i interpretacija teksta: Zimnaja noc Pasternaka." (October 1989).
    • Andrews, E. "A study in linguistic sign theory: The suffix -K-A/-KA in modern Russian." Edited by Y Tobin. (1989): 123-134.
    • Andrews, E. "Frontiers in Semiotics edited by J. Deely, B. Williams & F.E. Kruse." American Speech 62 (1987). (Review)
    • Andrews, E. "Jakobsonian markedness theory as mathematical principle." (1987): 177-197.
    • Andrews, E. "Gender shifts and myths about markedness." (1987).
    • Andrews, E. "An extention of the concept of shifter in verbal categories: Perceptual versus transmissional deixis." (1986): 73-80.
    • Andrews, E. "The prefixes DE- and UN- in modern American English." American Speech 61 (1986).
    • Andrews, E. "Markedness theory in morphology and semantics: The reconciliation of contextual versus general meaning." The SECOL Review X (1986). (Academic Article)
    • Andrews, E. "A reevaluation of the relationship between grammatical gender and declension in modern Greek and Russian." IJSLP XXXIV (1986). (Academic Article)
    • Andrews, E. "A synchronic semantic analysis of the preverbs O- and OB- in modern Serbo-Croatian." (1985): 7-18.
    • Andrews, E. "Markedness reversals in linguistic sign systems." (1985): 169-180.
    • Andrews, E. "A Semantic Analysis of the Russian Prepositions/Preverbs O(-) and OB(-)." The Slavic and East European Journal 28, no. 4 (1984): 477-477.  Full Text
    • Andrews, E. "An error analysis of modern Russian." 6 (1983).

  • Book Sections

    • Andrews, E. "Markedness." In The Oxford Handbook of Tense and Aspect. September 18, 2012.  Full Text

  • Other Articles

    • Andrews, E, and Maksimova, EA. "Russian translation: Theory and practice." Russian Translation: Theory and Practice (August 4, 2009): 1-187.  Full Text
• Teaching & Mentoring
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  Recent Courses

  • BRAINSOC 395-1: Bass Connections in Brain and Society: Interdisciplinary Team Projects 2019
  • BRAINSOC 395: Bass Connections in Brain and Society: Interdisciplinary Team Projects 2019
  • BRAINSOC 396-1: Bass Connections in Brain and Society 2: Interdisciplinary Team Projects 2019
  • BRAINSOC 396: Bass Connections in Brain and Society 2: Interdisciplinary Team Projects 2019
  • BRAINSOC 397-1: Bass Connections in Brain and Society 3: Interdisciplinary Team Projects 2019
  • BRAINSOC 397: Bass Connections in Brain and Society 3: Interdisciplinary Team Projects 2019
  • BRAINSOC 398-1: Bass Connections in Brain and Society 4: Interdisciplinary Team Projects 2019
  • BRAINSOC 398: Bass Connections in Brain and Society 4: Interdisciplinary Team Projects 2019
  • CULANTH 232: Gender and Language 2019
  • GSF 232: Gender and Language 2019
  • ICS 207: Gender and Language 2019
  • LINGUIST 216FS: Neuroscience and Human Language 2019
  • LINGUIST 364: Gender and Language 2019
  • LINGUIST 510: Brain and Language 2019
  • LINGUIST 595: Language, Music and Dementia: Neuroscience Approaches 2019
  • MUSIC 595: Language, Music and Dementia: Neuroscience Approaches 2019
  • NEUROSCI 595: Language, Music and Dementia: Neuroscience Approaches 2019
  • RUSSIAN 112: Accelerated Russian Language and Culture I 2019
  • RUSSIAN 364: Gender and Language 2019
  • RUSSIAN 399: Global Russia 2019
  • CULANTH 399: Global Russia 2018
  • CULANTH 399A: Global Russia 2018
  • HISTORY 390A-06: Duke in Russia: Special Topics in History 2018
  • ICS 399: Global Russia 2018
  • ICS 399A: Global Russia 2018
  • LINGUIST 450S: Junior/Senior Seminar in Linguistics 2018
  • LINGUIST 473AS: Neuroscience and Multilingualism 2018
  • LINGUIST 494: Research Independent Study 2018
  • NEUROSCI 116FS: Neuroscience and Human Language 2018
  • NEUROSCI 438AS: Neuroscience and Multilingualism 2018
  • NEUROSCI 510: Brain and Language 2018
  • PSY 575: Brain and Language 2018
  • PUBPOL 223: Global Russia 2018
  • PUBPOL 399A: Global Russia 2018
  • RUSSIAN 101SA: Elementary Russian I 2018
  • RUSSIAN 102SA: Elementary Russian II 2018
  • RUSSIAN 112A: Accelerated Russian Language and Culture I 2018
  • RUSSIAN 207AS: Intermediate Russian Language and Culture 2018
  • RUSSIAN 208AS: Intermediate Russian Language and Culture 2018
  • RUSSIAN 216FS: Neuroscience and Human Language 2018
  • RUSSIAN 221A: Russian Language Studies in St. Petersburg 2018
  • RUSSIAN 222A: Language, Culture, and Myth: The Slavic Proverb 2018
  • RUSSIAN 223A: Contemporary Russian Media 2018
  • RUSSIAN 307AS: Studies in the Russian Language and Culture 2018
  • RUSSIAN 308AS: Studies in the Russian Language and Culture 2018
  • RUSSIAN 399A: Global Russia 2018
  • RUSSIAN 401A: Advanced Russian 2018
  • RUSSIAN 402A: Advanced Russian: Readings, Translation, and Syntax 2018
  • RUSSIAN 438AS: Neuroscience and Multilingualism 2018
  • RUSSIAN 493A: Research Independent Study in Russia 2018
  • RUSSIAN 494A: Research Independent Study in Russia 2018
  • HOUSECS 59: House Course 2017
  • LINGUIST 473S: Neuroscience and Multilingualism 2017
  • NEUROSCI 439S: Neuroscience and Multilingualism 2017
  • NEUROSCI 493: Research Independent Study 1 2017
  • RUSSIAN 101: Elementary Russian I 2017
  • RUSSIAN 102: Elementary Russian II 2017
  • RUSSIAN 401: Advanced Russian 2017
  • RUSSIAN 402: Advanced Russian: Readings, Translation, and Syntax 2017
  • RUSSIAN 439S: Neuroscience and Multilingualism 2017
  • RUSSIAN 705: Advanced Russian Conversation and Readings 2017
  • RUSSIAN 706: Advanced Russian Conversations and Readings 2017
  • RUSSIAN 707: Advanced Russian 2017
  • RUSSIAN 708: Advanced Russian: Readings, Translation, and Syntax 2017
  • RUSSIAN 709: Russian Stylistics and Conversation 2017
  • RUSSIAN 711AS: Advanced Russian Language and Culture 2017
  • RUSSIAN 712AS: Advanced Russian Language and Culture 2017
  • RUSSIAN 990: Directed Readings 2017
  • SCISOC 439S: Neuroscience and Multilingualism 2017
• Scholarly, Clinical, & Service Activities
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  Presentations & Appearances

  • V. Conferences and Invited Lectures A. Conferences organized: 1. JULY 2009: We won a bid from the U.S. Department of Defense to host their LEARN conference, devoted to Russian language and linguistics. I was one of the keynote speakers. Other participa. December 16, 2009  2009
  • Conferences and invited lectures. December 14, 2009  2009
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  Outreach & Engaged Scholarship

  • DukeEngage Program Leader . Serving men and women with disabilities in St. Petersburg. May 2017 - June 2017  2017
  • Bass Connections Faculty Team Member. Perception, Language, Memory. August 2014 - May 2015  2014 - 2015
  • Bass Connections Faculty Team Member. Perception, Language, Memory . August 2013 - May 2014  2013 - 2014
  • Instructor. DukeEngage in Russia. 2011  2011
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  Service to the Profession

  • Promotions and Journal reviews. December 14, 2009  2009

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