Interested in a career in diplomacy, Foreign Service, or information management? Join us for a Q&A with David J. Hall about how his study of Russian impacted his professional career.
David J. Hall received his introduction to Russian through the university's language and literature courses in the late 70's, and continued that study upon leaving the university while an Army reservist at the Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center in Monterey, CA. He graduated with honors from the DLIFLC Basic Russian course in 1983, and went on to serve as a DOD civilian language analyst over the next decade. During that time, he acquired Greek language expertise (again from DLIFLC), and subsequently Arabic (including completion of the Middlebury Summer Arabic program). Also during this timeframe, David served with distinction at the US Embassy in Athens and the US Embassy in Manama, Bahrain (where he received the Desert Storm/Desert Shield Civilian Medal). In his last overseas assignment, David served as a non-traveling Information Management Specialist at the US Mission to NATO in Brussels. Since returning from overseas, David has served as a multi-lingual operations officer of the Nuclear Risk Reduction Center's Watch Office. In support of this assignment, he completed German language training at the Department of State's Foreign Service Institute, and returned to his Russian linguistic roots through completion of the FSI Russian program. As an operations officer in the NRRC, David handles and translates official messaging regarding nuclear and conventional forces between more than 40 partner nations across multiple arms control treaties in any of the six official languages (Russian, German, Spanish, Italian, French, and English).
This event is sponsored by the UA Russian Club and the Department of Russian and Slavic Studies.
