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On Saturday, May 4 the Slavic Department hosted Foss High School students at the annual ACTR Olympiada of Spoken Russian. After the competition, students, teacher (and alumnus) Daniel Erickson, and judges (alumnus Dimitri Kotlyar, lecturer Valentina Zaitseva and administrator Shosh … Continue reading →

Michelle Lie is the latest recipient of the Vadim Pahn Scholarship. She will be using it to study intensive fourth-year Russian this summer.

Slavic Department graduate student Matt Boyd was recently awarded a Fulbright through ACTR for the summer intensive ACTR Russian Teacher Training Program at Moscow State University.

An article about the Academic Challenge and Engagement Study conceived of by the Office of Educational Assessment quotes undergraduate adviser Megan Styles on her experience interviewing graduating seniors about their experiences in the major.

Grad student Lena Doubivko’s latest film review of Avdot’ia Smirnova’s “Kokoko” appears in Kinokultura.

UW PSEC has awarded its 2013 Polish Studies Scholarship to Karolina Lamb. Karolina is a graduate student in REECAS and will use the scholarship to travel to Poland this summer in order to conduct research for her MA thesis. Her … Continue reading →

Andrej Markovčič, a UW double major in Philosophy and History (BA 2013) and student of Slovene, is the winner of the 2012 Joseph Velikonja Undergraduate Prize, awarded by the Society for Slovene Studies for the year’s best essay or research … Continue reading →

Two of Galya Diment’s books are out as paperbacks as of spring 2013: A Russian Jew of Bloomsbury (McGill-Queens UP) and Pniniad (UW Press). In addition, effective April 1, 2013, she has been appointed to the Thomas L. & Margo … Continue reading →

Grad student Veronica Muskheli’s research on Russian Jewish folklore was recently featured in the Stroum Jewish Studies Program’s fall 2012 newsletter. A link is also provided to her blog post, “St. Petersburg: New Pride, Old Prejudice?”

An interview of Senior Lecturer Bojan Belić appears in the latest edition of “Bunjevačke novine.” Belić was conducting fieldwork among the Bunyevs in the city of Subotica, Serbia in mid-September. The Bunyevs are a national (ethnic) community working to have … Continue reading →