Marianna Tax Choldin

Marianna Tax Choldin is Mortenson Distinguished Professor Emerita, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She was on the faculty during 1969–2002. Her research interests include censorship in Russia, the Soviet Union, and the post-Communist states.

She received he bachelor's (1962) and Ph.D. (1979) from the University of Chicago.

She was the founding director of the Mortenson Center for International Library Programs from 1991 until her retirement in 2002. In 1995 she was served as President of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies. From 1997 to 2000 she chaired the library program of the Soros Foundation.

Her interests in the study of censorship originated in an incident with the customs officer who confiscated books and magazines from passengers entering the Soviet Union. Provided by Wikipedia