Shevchuk, Yuri I.: - Yuri I. Shevchuk, a native of Volodymyrets, Ukraine, received his PhD in Germanic Philology from Kyiv State University in 1987. He has taught Ukrainian at Harvard University Summer School since 1990 and at Columbia University since 2004. He also teaches courses in Soviet and post-Soviet film and directs the Ukrainian Film Club at Columbia University. Shevchuk is also author of the groundbreaking Ukrainian-English Collocation Dictionary (Hippocrene Books, 2021). He resides in New York City.