sentences:  He is not only renowned among Russian Folklore scholars, he is a well-respected educator at the University of Missouri in Columbia, Missouri where he presently teaches, and has been the Chair of Romance Languages and Literatures in the College of Arts and Sciences, Department of History.He received an award for his outstanding teaching efforts from the University in 1990.Zguta, with his vast education and life experience in Ukraine has devoted his life to the study of historical oral tradition in the region.