International Studies Student Travels to Siberia
By Jennifer T. Allen
Growing up in a small Appalachian town, Blake Dilynn Donithan dreamt of exploring the world. Looking at the mountains out of her bedroom window in Pikeville, Kentucky, she envisioned traveling first to Russia. She never thought that a few years later she would be in a small village near the Russian-Mongolian border in the Sayan Mountains.

Motivated by his passion for writing studies and rhetoric, as well as his interest in Chinese culture,
Deborah Crooks, emerita associate professor of