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71 Millennium - A Marquis Who’s Who Magazine EDUCATION A ttracted to a multitude of languages and linguistics from a young age, Dr. Matthew Edward Feeney attended the University of Wyoming, where he obtained a BA in 1980. Receiving an MA from the State University of New York at Albany eight years later, he also studied intensive Russian language at Moscow State University in Russia for one year. After accruing numerous years in his field, he attained a PhD from the University of Kansas in 2003. Since 2004, Dr. Feeney has served as a linguist, educator and translator of Russian articles on literary criticism at the University of Wyoming in Laramie. Simultaneously, he had been a researcher in the Laboratory of Internationalization at the university in 2012, as well as an assistant professor of Russian language and Slavic studies at Our Lady of Corpus Christi from 2006 to 2007. Prior to these appointments, he was the director of the summer study abroad program to Croatia at the University of Kansas, for whom he also excelled as a teaching assistant in the department of Slavic language and literature between 1998 and 2003. Likewise, he served the State University of New York at Albany as a graduate assistant and director of the study abroad program to Moscow between 1991 and 1993. Throughout his career, Dr. Feeney was a participant at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D.C., and a researcher in Russian and Slavic languages, linguistics and literature and a member of The Smithsonian Institution. In 2018, he presented a scholarly paper at the 20th Annual Conference of the Central Association of Russian Teachers of America at the A. S. Pushkin Russian Language Institute in Moscow. Likewise, he has been a frequent presenter in the field and has sat on the readers’ panel for National Geographic Magazine. Impressively, Dr. Feeney speaks seven languages: English, Russian, German, Spanish, French, Serbian and Croatian. In his spare time, he enjoys mountaineering, having climbed the 12,956-foot Clarks Peak in the Rocky Mountains, as well as the 12,013-foot Medicine Bow Peak in Wyoming. In addition, he climbed to the summit of the highest mountain peak on the island of Mljet in Croatia. MATTHEW EDWARD FEENEY, PHD LINGUIST, EDUCATOR, TRANSLATOR University of Wyoming Laramie, WY