In March 2022, the UAF Faculty Senate Committee on Teaching and Learning hosted Yelena Mazour-Matusevich for a conversation about her teaching.

Yelena Mazour-Matusevich has been a French professor at UAF since 1998. In 2007 she received the Usibelli award for teaching but has been nominated for this award many more times, including last year when she was nominated by 25 students. Since 2015, Yelena has been teaching at the History department as well, and in 2018 defended her second dissertation and obtained a second doctorate in History from the most prestigious French institution in Paris. She has published widely and regularly teaches as a visiting faculty in Europe.