Spencer Hazeslip, an honors senior student majoring in biochemistry and Spanish, B.A. class of 2023, has been awarded the Fulbright English Teaching Assistant Award. Spencer will spend a year teaching English in Kazakhstan, where people speak both Russian and Kazakh. Hazeslip has completed four semesters of Russian language and was actively involved in the Russian program. Currently, he is serving as a tresurer of the Russian Eurasian Student Association, a registered student organization.

In 2021, he received the highly competitive Critical Language Scholarship funded by the Department of State to study intensive Russian. Due to COVID, the program was online with the host institution of Central Asian University in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan.

 After the Fulbright Program in Kazakhstan, he will begin his studies at the medical school of the University of Arkansas in Little Rock.

Hazeslip is the third student in the Russian Program who has received the Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship. Sunny Day B.A.'22 received a Fulbright ETA last year to teach English in Ukraine; because of the war, she went to Poland. She had taken one semester of Russian. Philip Purifoy B.A.'19, who graduated with honors in history and international studies, received the Fulbright ETA for 2022-23 to teach English in Batumi, Georgia. He had completed three semesters of Russian, and he also studied for one semester in St. Petersburg, Russia.

Learn more about the Russian studies minor.