Graduate Accomplishments

Congratulations to our outstanding graduate students

Slavic Departmental Awards

IRWIN WEIL AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE IN TEACHING - LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT

Daniel Lee

Ryan Serrano

IRWIN WEIL AWARD FOR RUSSIAN LANGUAGE TEACHING

Nadia Vinogradova

IRWIN WEIL AWARD FOR FIRST TIME TEACHING ASSISTANT

Elena Poiata

External Graduate Student Awards

Anastasiia Simferovska on the receipt of the Crown Graduate fellowship and the Northwestern Holocaust Educational Foundation Teaching Grant to teach her own course "Document-Image-Text:The Holocaust in East European Art and Literatures." She plans to teach this course at the Ukrainian Catholic University (Lviv, Ukraine) in the academic year 2022-2023.

During the academic year 2021-2022 Anastasiia gave presentations at the Lessons and Legacies conference (NU, October, 2021) and at the graduate conference "When They Became Pests: Human and Non-Human Species and Vermin in History'' (Chabraja Center for Historical Studies, NU, April 2022) (link: https://www.northwestern.edu/tgs/documents/about/news/cfp-pest-conference.pdf). On May 18, 2022 she gave a zoom-seminar "Art and Survival and Resistance: Jewish Artists in the Nazi Occupied Lviv 1941-44" as part of the scholarly seminar series "Conversations in the Time of War" (Department of Cultural Stududies, Ukrainian Catholic University, Lviv, Ukraine) (link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3J0qXpKRkg0)

On June 8, 2022 Anastasiia gave a presentation at the International conference "Art of the Holocaust Before 1989: Beyond the East West Divide" link: https://jewishstudies.ceu.edu/artoftheholocaust

Adam Willson on the receipt of a scholarship to Middlebury's language program

Adam received a scholarship to offset tuition and fees for his first summer with Middlebury's Master of Arts in Russian. The program will last for four summers, and Adam hopes have the option to go abroad to Irkutsk for a year, in lieu of two of the summers.

He is currently at a high-level of intermediate Russian, and took Natalia Malinina's 3rd year Russian this year.

Graduate Student Milestones

Congratulations to these students on reaching these amazing milestones

MA Thesis Completion

Mattingly Gerasimovich

Elena Poiata

Veronika Andrianova Schmitt

PhD Exam Completion

Jillian Pignataro