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Yana Hashamova and Angela Brintlinger promoted

Slavic Department faculty members Yana Hashamova and Angela Brintlinger have been promoted to Full Professor! Their promotions received final approval from the…

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Slavic Spring Tea and End-of-Year Awards

The annual Slavic Spring Tea was an opportunity to relax with colleagues, eat good food, and enjoy some beautiful weather. A big "Thanks!" to the Slavic Center staff for organizing the event, and…

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Mike Furman awarded OIA grant

Michael Furman has been awarded an International Affairs Grant from the Office of International Affairs at Ohio State. He will use the money to conduct pre-dissertation research in St. Petersburg,…

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Anastasia Kostetskaya defends dissertation

Congratulations to Anastasia Kostetskaya on her successful defense of her dissertation on May 2, 2013! The Water of Life and the Life of Water: The Metaphor of World Liquescence in the Poetry,…

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Michael Furman publishes on (mock-)impoliteness in Russian

Congratulations to graduate student Mike Furman, who has recently had his paper "Impoliteness and mock-impoliteness: A descriptive analysis" accepted for publication in the forthcoming edited…

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Peter Marzalik wins third place at Denman

Congratulations to Peter Marzalik, an undergraduate majoring in Russian and International Studies, who recently took third place (Humanities division) at the Denman Undergraduate Research Forum!…

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Anastasia Kostetskaya accepts job at the University of Hawai'i!

Congratulations to DSEELC graduate student Anastasia Kostetskaya, who has accepted a tenure-track position as Assistant Professor of Russian at the University of Hawai'i!

Before settling in…

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Jeff Parker receives LSA Institute fellowship

Congratulations to Jeff Parker, who was recently awarded a fellowship to attend the 2013 Linguistic Institute! The Institute is put on by the Linguistic Society of America every other summer and…

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Exhibit on Czech puppet theatre to open at the CMA

An exhibit at the CMA, "Strings Attached: The Living Tradition of Czech Puppets," will be opening at the Columbus Museum of Art this Friday, and will run through August 4. It is a collaboration of…