Maria Hristova and David Campion

Maria (Masha) Hristova joined the Lewis & Clark community as Assistant Professor of Russian in 2017. A Bulgarian native, she received her PhD in Slavic Languages and Literatures from Yale University in 2015 with a concentration in post-Soviet Russian Culture and South Slavic languages and cultures. Currently, she teaches Beginning and Intermediate Russian, as well as a wide range of Russian, Soviet, and post-Soviet culture seminars in English, as well as in Russian. Additionally, she is the faculty coordinator for the Critical Language Scholarship Program.

Professor Campion is Lewis & Clark’s historian of Modern Britain and Ireland, the British Empire, and Modern South Asia. In addition to his teaching and research, he is the faculty advisor for Academic Awards and Fellowships and the faculty coordinator for Army ROTC. Prof. Campion has been at Lewis & Clark since 2002 and has led overseas programs in East Africa, Australia and London.