Rachel Stauffer

Rachel Stauffer's research concerns Russian language instruction and education about Russia in the United States in critical historical and social perspectives. She is a co-creator of AATSEEL's Certificate in Diverse and Inclusive Pedagogies (CDIPS) and served on the Executive Council as the organization's Conference Manager from 2013 until 2022. In addition to several years of teaching at Virginia Tech, Rachel has taught courses about Russia at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, James Madison University, Randolph College, Ferrum College, and the University of Virginia. She is currently co-editing two forthcoming volumes, Diversity and Decolonization in Teaching Russian Studies from Palgrave Macmillan (with Thomas J. Garza, University of Texas at Austin), and Inclusive Strategies and Critical Pedagogies for East European and Eurasian Languages from Academic Studies Press (with Sunnie Rucker-Chang, Ohio State University).