EDUCATION

2nd Ph.D. Oriental Languages. Russian State University for the Humanities, October 2009.
Ph.D. (with honors). Linguistics and Near Eastern Studies. University of Chicago, June 2008.
M.A. Near Eastern Studies. University of California in Berkeley, May 1999.
B.A. (with excellence). Linguistics. Russian State University for the Humanities, May 1996.

PRINCIPAL RESEARCH AREAS

Language Contact in Ancient Societies.
Socio-Historical and Indo-European Linguistics.
Anatolian and Iranian Philology.