Aleksey Berg, PhD

University of Pennsylvania

Dr. Berg was born in St. Petersburg, where he obtained a Bachelor’s Degree in Linguistics. He has lived and worked in the United States for almost twenty years, teaching Russian language and culture at Boston College, Middlebury College, MIT, and the University of South Carolina. After he received a Ph.D. from Harvard University in 2013, he served as a director of the Russian Studies program at the College of New Jersey for four years before accepting a lectureship at the University of Pennsylvania in 2021. He resides in Philadelphia, and likes to read and play with his cat in his free time.