Tim Scholl Will Spend Fulbright Year in Finland By Marci Janas
	Tim Scholl PHOTOGRAPH BY NATASHA RAZIN		APRIL 11, 2000--Associate Professor of Russian Tim Scholl has put aside Pushkin, tossed away Tolstoy, and dispensed with Dostoevsky--at least temporarily. These days he's reading Michelin's Guide to Scandinavia. Scholl will spend the next academic year in Finland under the auspices of the Fulbright Scholars Program, which has awarded him a lecturing and research grant. The award will fund his own research, which, Scholl says, "will mainly be carried on in the incomparable Slavonic Collection of the library of the University of Helsinki." It will also allow him each semester to teach a graduate seminar in Russian dance history in the Department of Theatre Research the university's Institute for Art Research. "Having an American scholar who specializes in dance research, especially in Russian ballet," says Pirkko Koski, a professor in the Department of Theatre Research at the university, "will help us create links with current American dance research and positively influence the level and methods of dance research in Finland." The arrangement has obvious benefits for Scholl as well. "Since Russia is just a few hours away by train," he says, "it will mean that I'll be able to do some more 'hands on' theater research at the Maryinsky Theater in St. Petersburg." Scholl has written extensively about the Maryinsky Ballet; his feature article in the New York Times on the occasion of its Metropolitan debut appeared June 27, 1999. Routledge published his book, From Petipa to Balanchine: Classical Revival and the Modernization of Ballet, in 1994. He has written numerous articles, book reviews, encyclopedia articles, performance reviews, translations, and program notes. http://www.oberlin.edu/~tscholl/FPTB.html In notifying him of the award, Alan Schecter, chair of the Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board, wrote that Scholl's "impressive academic accomplishments" made his selection possible. "As a Fulbrighter, you will be joining the ranks of some 225,000 distinguished scholars and professionals worldwide who are leaders in the educational, political, economic, social and cultural lives of their countries." According to the Office of Sponsored Programs, Scholl is the third Oberlin professor in the last four years to receive a Fulbright award. The others are Viktoria Skrupskelis, emeritus professor of French, who received a Fulbright in 1996 to lecture at Vytautas Magnus University in Lithuania, and Joseph Lubben, assistant professor of music theory, who researched the rhythmic structure of Venezuelan folk music at the Universidad Simon Bolivar in Caracas under a 1998 Fulbright. Scholl received his B.A. degree in Russian from Vanderbilt University and his doctorate in Slavic languages and literatures from Yale University. He the director of the Oberlin Center for Russian, East European and Central Asian Studies. His teaching interests include Russian Language, 19th- and 20th-century Russian literature, and the history of Russian dance.
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