Alumni Congratulations to former Mosse Fellow Chad Gibbs (PhD, History), who defended his dissertation, Against that Darkness: Perseverance, Resistance, and Revolt at Treblinka , and accepted an appointment at the College of Charleston as assistant professor of Jewish Studies …
October 2021 Newsletter
Welcome to CREECA, welcome to campus: Meet the next generation of REECAS specialists from UW
The CREECA student body looks different than it did when Ingraham Hall was abandoned in March 2020. As MA students in REECAS transition from one phase of professional life to another, the next generation of …
Grants—new and renewed—bolster CREECA’s language learning programs for summer 2022
The Pushkin Summer Institute (PSI) has been awarded a $150,000 grant from the U.S. Russia Foundation (USRF) to support its intensive, residential program for summer 2022 that will welcome its first in-person cohort since 2019. …
Baraboo H.S. teacher Becca Onken (UW ’13) uses Engaging Eurasia Fellowship to meet students’ emotional needs through Central Asian content
UW-Madison alumna Becca Onken ’13 learned how vital it was to balance her students’ emotional and social needs with academic skills and engaging content during the unpredictable school year that was 2020-21. “My students were …