Principal Lecturer in Russian Associate Director, The UGA Russian Flagship Program Director and Lead Instructor, UGA field study summer program "Russian for Global Professionals" Russian Placement Advisor Russian Club Advisor Dr. Thomason's research explores prepositional semantics in IE languages, Historical Slavic linguistics, and teaching Russian language and culture to heritage and non-heritage learners. Her recent work focuses on Russian language pedagogy, computer-assisted and project-based language learning. Dr. Thomason is the Associate Director of the Russian Flagship Program at UGA. She created and directs the UGA field study summer program "Russian for Global Professionals" in Honolulu, HI. Dr. Thomason teaches diverse courses covering Russian language at various proficiency levels. She also offers module courses on Contemporary Russian Culture, History of Russian Culture, Russian through Films, and Slavic Folklore. Her teaching methodology integrates intercultural communication tasks, experiential learning, and project-based language acquisition strategies. Dr. Thomason actively mentors undergraduate students engaged in research on Russian studies and graduate students who investigate issues in Russian language pedagogy. She is a certified ACTFL OPI Tester in Russian and was the lead instructor for the UGA STARTALK program in 2022/2023. Dr. Thomason received the 2022 ACTR Teaching Excellence Award for Post-Secondary Instructors. Education Ph.D., University of Georgia Courses Taught Courses Regularly Taught: SLAV 2100 RUSS 2011 RUSS 2012 RUSS 2001 RUSS 3011 RUSS 3012 RUSS 3200 RUSS 3911 RUSS 4510 RUSS 4520
