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 …
News & Opportunities
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
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.
Race In Focus Series Available Online
Our fall Race in Focus series events are now available to view online. The series is designed to elevate conversations about teaching on race and continued disparities in our field while also bringing research by …
New CREECA Associates Talk Outreach, Interdisciplinarity, and Language Studies
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 …
REECAS alumna Caroline Savage’s storied career as a Foreign Service Officer and advice to future graduates
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, …
Grant awarded to UW–Madison to study language proficiency gains in virtual and in-person instruction
Among the many lessons highlighted by the current pandemic is the need to be able to understand and reimagine instruction, especially as many educators and students grapple with questions about the benefits and challenges of …
The Bridge: Connecting Past and Present Through Archival Research on Russia
The goal of The Bridge is to illuminate archival sources and disseminate information about collections that are available (in-person and online) for use by students and young experts in the field. Research based on original …
New Podcast Series: “Geopolitics on the Move”
Geopolitics on the Move is a podcast series hosted by Fyodor Lukyanov and Sean Guillory. It is produced by the Graduate Initiative in Russian Studies at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey, Russia in …
NSLI-Y students maintain motivation to advance Russian proficiency in the digital classroom, imagine Russian as part of a career
As North Carolina high school student Graham Shunk was wrapping up a virtual Russian course in August 2020, a journalist from the Russian-language television channel NTV-America reached out to invite him to give an interview–in …
CESSI celebrates Title VIII grant renewal and successful record-breaking, virtual summer
As summer 2020 started to wind down, CESSI (Central Eurasian Studies Summer Institute) received the good news that it is once again the recipient of a Title VIII grant that will enable CREECA to award …