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Resume:
James Murray Slater
**** **** ** **, **********, DC 20011
abh6tw@r.postjobfree.com
Accomplished, industrious post-grad, Russian-language instructor,
translator, editor & researcher interested in international and human
rights law focusing on the post-Soviet sphere.
Education
American Councils for Teachers of Russian (ACTR) - St. Petersburg, Russia
ACTR Russian Overseas Flagship Program, Aug. 2009 - May 2010
Near-native language training funded by the US Department of State
Civil Society Development and Human Rights Protection coursework completed
at Smolny Institute
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill - Chapel Hill, NC
M.A. in Slavic Languages and Literatures, May 2009
US Department of Education Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellow, Aug.
2007 - July 2008
Senator on the Graduate and Professional Student Federation, Aug. 2007 -
May 2009
Summer Study at St. Petersburg State University sponsored by Duke
University/US Department of Education - St. Petersburg, Russia, May 2008 -
July 2008
University of Florida - Gainesville, FL
B.A. in Russian, Minor in History & Economics, Certificate in East-Central
European Studies, May 2007
Summer Study at Russian State University for the Humanities - Moscow,
Russia, May 2006 - July 2006
Dean's List, 2006-2007
Student Honors Society
Florida Bright Futures Scholar
Work History
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum - Washington, DC
Research Intern and Translator (Russian-English/Polish-English) for Jewish
Responses to Persecution, Nov. 2010 - Present
The Bellona Foundation - St. Petersburg, Russia
Intern & Special Liaison to the United Nations Human Rights Committee and
Nordic Council, Oct. 2009 - May 2010
Program Development for COP15 on "The Effect of Black Carbon Emissions on
the Arctic"
Project Work on the "Eko-yurist / Enviro-Lawyer" Competition for 2009-
Promotion of Environmental Law in Russia
Research in Environmental and Human Rights Issues
Translating and Editing Articles for Publication (English-Russian/Russian-
English)
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill - Chapel Hill, NC
Instructor of Russian Language Courses (RUSS 101 & 102), Aug. 2008 - May
2009
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill - Chapel Hill, NC
RUSS 101/102 - Instructor of Russian by Correspondence, Sept. 2008 - April
2009
Research/Papers
M.A. Thesis - University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
"Chess as a Key to Solving Nabokov's Korol', dama, valet", May 2009
B.A. Thesis - University of Florida
"Nabokov on Nabokov: Nabokov's Commentary to Pushkin's Eugene Onegin", Nov.
2006
Language Qualifications (Shown upon request)
TORFL/TRKI Level 3-4, Near-native proficiency in Russian
OPI Level 4, Near-native proficiency in Russian
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