He received his BA in History and Russian from the University of South Alabama, and both his MA in Russian, Eastern European, and Eurasian studies and his PhD in Applied Slavic Linguistics from The University of Texas at Austin. Besides Russian language and culture, Nick is a specialist in both formative and summative assessment. Nick is also on the Alabama State Board of Education Course of Study Committee for World Languages as well as the IALLT representative to ACTFL. Languages: Russian, BCS, Czech, and English.