Instructor: ASYA PERELTSVAIG

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ASYA PERELTSVAIG

Asya Pereltsvaig received a Ph.D. in Linguistics from McGill University and taught at Yale and Stanford, and has been teaching in lifelong education programs since 2010. Her expertise is in language and history, and the relationship between them. Her most recent book, Languages of the World: An Introduction, 3rd edition (2020) was published by Cambridge University Press. Asya is a popular instructor for several Osher Lifelong Learning Institute programs around the country. She was the faculty host for a trip to the Baltic countries and St. Petersburg in July 2017.

ASYA PERELTSVAIG is currently teaching:

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ASYA PERELTSVAIG has previously taught:

  • Russia in the Early 20th Century: Belle Epoque or Revolutionary Crossroads?
  • Siberia: Russia's Frozen Wasteland or Its Economic Heartland?
  • Language Myths Debunked!
  • The Last of the Romanovs: Russia on the Eve of the Revolution
  • Putin's Russia: Two Years into the War