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 …
News & Opportunities
Event Recording of “The Voice Over: Poems and Essays – A Reading and Conversation” Now Available
On May 1, 2021, the Center for Russia, East Europe, and Central Asia at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, in partnership with A Room of One’s Own Bookstore, hosted “The Voice Over: Poems and Essays – A Reading …
Spring 2021 CREECA Lectures Now Available Online
Many of the talks from the spring 2021 virtual lecture series are now available online. Miss a lecture? Want to rewatch a favorite lecture? The series includes: (2/11) Maria Snegoyava, Guns to Butter: Economic Perceptions and …
Cross-Unit Collaboration Brings “Cyber Capabilities and Accelerating Global Change” – a Workshop for K-14 Wisconsin Educators
One year ago, CREECA had no choice but to postpone a K-14 educator workshop on cyber warfare and accelerated global change—a topic that has increased in significance as our reliance on networks and videoconferencing has …
Crimean Tatar Identity Event Series (April 2021)
“Displaced from Home: A Series on Crimea” – An event series concerning Crimean Tatar human rights and representations of the Crimean annexation in film. Sponsored by University of Pittsburgh’s Center for Russian, East European & …
CREECA Community Updates – March 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. …
Karen Evans-Romaine Recognized by AATSEEL
Congratulations to CREECA’s Karen Evans-Romaine who received the award for Outstanding Contributions to the Profession from the Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages (AATSEEL). The citation for the award from AATSEEL reads: …
From a Fulbright in Kazakhstan to Teach For America: Catching up with REECAS Alumnus Joshua Dufour ’15
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 …
Moscow, Mushrooms, & Mars: The Research of One #ExchangeAlumni Could Change the Future of Space Travel
Graham Shunk, a high school senior from North Carolina and exchange alumnus of the National Security Languages Initiative for Youth (NLSI-Y) program, is currently a finalist for NASA’s Grow Beyond Earth competition and has designed one …
CREECA’s Francine Hirsch Wins Award for Soviet Judgment at Nuremberg, Shares Insights Into Research Process at Book Launch
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 …