In November 2018, Angela Brintlinger and Thomas Feerick published Russian Cuisine in Exile, a collection of essays by Soviet émigrés Pyotr Vail and Alexander Genis. Professor Brintlinger received her PhD in Slavic Languages and Literature …
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CREECA Print Newsletter Has Shipped
Look for our fall 2018 print newsletter in your mailbox! Copies have shipped to CREECA alumni and donors. If you would like to be on the mailing list, update your mailing address, or request a …
CESSI Celebrates Eight Years of Learning and Exploration
Students socializing at a Dastarkhan-style meal organized by the Central Eurasian Studies Summer Institute (CESSI). In its eighth year of summer language instruction at UW-Madison, CESSI hosted an all-time high of 15 students. Yuan Gao …
Symposium Honors Bethea and Dolinin
Alumni, faculty, and current graduate students gathered at the University of Wisconsin-Madison on October 13-14 for a symposium honoring two recently retired professors and internationally renowned scholars: David Bethea and Alexander Dolinin. The Department of …
CREECA Welcomes Kirill Ospovat
In fall 2018, Kirill Ospovat joined the UW-Madison Department of German, Nordic, and Slavic as an assistant professor. CREECA sat down with Ospovat to discuss his current work and future projects. Where were you before …
CREECA Welcomes Maksim Hanukai
In fall 2018, Maksim Hanukai became an assistant professor of Russian in the Department of German, Nordic, and Slavic at UW-Madison. Hanukai received his BA from the University of California-San Diego, an MA in comparative …
Alumni Profile: John Riordan
Name: John Riordan Program Completed: MA in REECAS, 2003 Works as: USAID Development Advisor to U.S. Special Operations Command (Tampa, Florida); formerly Country Director, USAID Uzbekistan Program (Tashkent) 2014-2017, and Country Director, USAID Belarus Program …
Inaugural Young Scholars Conference Held in Madison
On July 27-28, 2018, more than fifty Russia experts from across Europe, Russia, and the United States gathered in Madison, Wisconsin for the Wisconsin Russia Project Young Scholars Conference. During the two-day conference, emerging social …
Wisconsin Russia Project Researchers Make Connections Across Campus
In 2016, the Carnegie Corporation of New York awarded UW-Madison a $1 million grant to fund the Wisconsin Russia Project (WRP), an initiative to strengthen Russian studies, to broaden the pool of Russia experts at …
Spring 2018 Alumni Profiles
We catch up with alumni Robert Cemovich and Tom Van Rooy about their accomplishments, careers, and how the CREECA experience shaped their direction in life. Name: Robert Cemovich Program Completed: Law degree and graduate certificate in Russian …