American Studies Week: Meet Svetlana Shamanaeva
November 25, 2013
"I received a Specialist degree in English Language and Literature and Masters degree in Philology from the Arabaev Kyrgyz State ÃÛÌÒÖ±²¥ and started my career as an English language teacher in 2002. My participation in the American Studies Project at the ÃÛÌÒÖ±²¥ of Kentucky in 2004 and in Junior Faculty Development Program at the ÃÛÌÒÖ±²¥ of Wyoming in 2008 shifted my career to teaching American history, government and politics. I am grateful to Bill McRae, then an American Studies Chair, who invited me to work at AUCA in 2006. Since then this university became my second family. I always enjoy academic freedom existing here and industrious, motivated students, who make my work at AUCA a real pleasure. I have taught such courses as “Survey of American History,” “American Government and Politics,” “American Political Parties,” “American Presidency,” “American Foreign Policy,” “20th Century Political History,” and “Contemporary American Issues.”
