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Russian Major Featured in Arts and Sciences Student Profile!
Second year Honors student and Russian major Robin Smith was one of two students selected for a student profile by the College of Arts and Sciences from all of the language and cultural studies…
Marina Pashkova and Ana Kabakova awarded UCAT seed grant
This summer, lecturer and interim language coordinator Marina Pashkova and graduate student Ana Kabakova were awarded a $10,000 seed grant from the University Center for the Advancement of…
Yana Hashamova teaches course at Beijing Normal University
From May 17th through 25th, Chair of the Slavic Department Prof. Yana Hashamova taught a course on the cultural representation of minorities in Russian film for the Research Center of Russian…
Students document their study abroad experience in videos
During May Term 2014, undergraduate students traveled to Hungary, Poland, and Slovakia as part of the Global May Hungary program, led by Prof. Jessie Labov (Slavic).
Check out their…
Brian Joseph featured in USN&WR
Prof. Brian Joseph (Slavic and Linguistics Departments) was recently featured in the U.S. News & World Report story "How language changes, courtesy of Yelp and the Gray Lady". The article…
Jennifer Suchland promoted to Associate Professor
Congratulations to Prof. Jennifer Suchland, who has been promoted to Associate Professor with tenure!
Professor Suchland is joint appointed in the Department of Slavic & East European…
Ceilidh Orr defends dissertation
Congratulations to Sara Ceilidh Orr, who has successfully defended her dissertation, "The Scrivener De-Scribed: Logos and Originals in Nineteenth-Century Copyist Fiction." The dissertation…
David McVey accepts position at University of Kansas
The department is very happy to announce that former SEELC graduate student (Ph.D. 2013) and current lecturer David McVey has accepted a position as Visiting Assistant Professor at the University…
Back in the U**R: Russia's New Profanity Wars
Check out the blog post that Prof. Angela Brintlinger published recently on the website of the NYU Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia: http://jordanrussiacenter.org/news/back-ur-…