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CREECA Community Updates – March 2021

Posted on March 9, 2021

Community Updates Welcome to CREECA! Özlem Eren is the new Wisconsin Russia Project graduate assistant. As a PhD student in the Department of Art History, she studies Byzantine and Medieval Art, focusing on Medieval Russia. …

Posted in March 2021 NewsletterTagged Community Updates, REECAS News

From a Fulbright in Kazakhstan to Teach For America: Catching up with REECAS Alumnus Joshua Dufour ’15

Posted on March 2, 2021

UW-Madison REECAS MA alumnus Joshua Dufour ’15 shared the news with CREECA that he has accepted a new opportunity with Teach For America, his next professional move after completing a Fulbright Teaching Assistantship in Kazakhstan …

Posted in March 2021 NewsletterTagged Alumni Spotlights, Featured Stories, REECAS News

CREECA’s Francine Hirsch wins award for Soviet Judgment at Nuremberg, shares insights into research process at book launch

Posted on February 24, 2021

The American Society of International Law (ASIL) has awarded UW-Madison Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor of History Francine Hirsch the 2021 Certificate of Merit for a Preeminent Contribution to Creative Scholarship for her recently published book …

Posted in March 2021 NewsletterTagged Featured Stories, REECAS News

Amanda Gatewood (Population Health Institute) is the newest CREECA associate!

Posted on January 15, 2021

Amanda Gatewood (Population Health Institute) is the newest CREECA associate! Dr. Gatewood is a public health epidemiologist and academic staff in the UW School of Medicine and Public Health where she researches health equity, especially …

Posted in March 2021 NewsletterTagged REECAS News

Wisconsin Russia Project receives grant renewal from Carnegie Corporation

Posted on December 16, 2020

The Wisconsin Russia Project received a 24-month grant renewal of $700,000 this fall from Carnegie Corporation of New York. UW-Madison was one of three U.S. universities awarded this competitive grant as part of Carnegie Corporation’s …

Posted in December 2020 NewsletterTagged REECAS News

CREECA’s Yoshiko Herrera takes the virtual stage this fall to discuss race and jazz in Russia, U.S.-Russian relations

Posted on December 14, 2020

While 2020 has been the year of social distancing, mask-wearing, and remote meetings, the necessity of moving lectures and seminars online has also opened up opportunities to reach new audiences. One of several CREECA faculty …

Posted in December 2020 NewsletterTagged Featured Stories, REECAS News

Winter Break Novel Recommendation: CREECA assistant director Sarah Linkert reviews The Mountain and the Wall by Alisa Ganieva, translated from Russian by Carol Apollonio

Posted on December 9, 2020

Looking to round out your reading list for winter break? CREECA has a “novel” recommendation just in time for the holiday season, and assistant director and outreach coordinator Sarah Linkert has reviewed The Mountain and …

Posted in December 2020 NewsletterTagged Book Recommendations

Not your ‘Borat’ joke: UW-Madison’s Center for Russia, East Europe and Central Asia charts a path to cultural understanding in the face of troublesome Hollywood stereotypes

Posted on November 16, 2020

Gulnara Glowacki, a UW-Madison senior lecturer in Kazakh Language and Culture, was recently featured in a College of Letters & Science news piece about teaching Kazakh language, literature, and culture. Read the full article here.

Posted in December 2020 NewsletterTagged REECAS News

New CREECA associates talk outreach, interdisciplinarity, and language studies

Posted on November 2, 2020

Three new CREECA associates, Krzysztof Borowski, Melissa Sheedy, and Liina-Ly Roos, have joined the Department of German, Nordic, and Slavic (GNS+) this fall and have settled into new academic appointments at the start of this …

Posted in November 2020 NewsletterTagged Featured Stories, REECAS News

REECAS alumna Caroline Savage’s storied career as a Foreign Service Officer and advice to future REECAS graduates

Posted on October 29, 2020

Since REECAS alumna Caroline Savage joined the Foreign Service 16 years ago, she has done work in DC and overseas in four of the five specialties of the Foreign Service within the State Department: Consular, …

Posted in November 2020 NewsletterTagged Alumni Spotlights, Featured Stories, REECAS News
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