Project Team
The RAILS lessons were created in 2003-06. The original project team, and their roles at the time were:
Principal investigator
Benjamin Rifkin, formerly on the faculty of UW-Madison, now Dean of the Maxwell Becton College of Arts and Sciences, Fairleigh Dickinson. University
Project manager
Dianna Murphy, now director of the UW-Madison Language Institute and co-director, Russian Flagship Program
Project assistant
Shannon Donnally Quinn, now Associate Professor of Russian and Technology Specialist, Michigan State University
Project assistant
Nina Familiant, now Lecturer in Russian University of of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Project assistant
Victoria Thorstensson, now Lecturer in Russian, Carleton College
Project assistant
Daria Vassina
2022 RAILS lessons updates
The RAILS lessons were updated in 2021-22 by Shannon Donnally Quinn, Michigan State University, with University of Wisconsin-Madison graduate students Lidia Gault and Isabella Palange.
Karen Evans-Romaine (UW-Madison), Dianna Murphy (UW-Madison), Benjamin Rifkin (Fairleigh Dickinson University), Victoria Thorstensson (Carleton College), and Anna Tumarkin (UW-Madison) consulted on the updates.