YURI I. SHEVCHUK holds a Ph.D. in Germanic Philology from Kyiv State University. Since 2004 he has taught Ukrainian at Columbia University, first as lecturer and now as senior lecturer. He also taught at Harvard, Yale, and Cornell. A leading authority on the Ukrainian language as foreign pedagogy, he is author of the popular textbook Beginner's Ukrainian with Interactive Online Workbook and Ukrainian-English Collocation Dictionary, both published by Hippocrene Books. He resides in New York City.