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Community Updates

Community Updates – May 2022

Posted on May 25, 2022

In Memoriam Sandra Arfa, Director of the UW-Madison English as a Second Language program, died on May 5, 2022. Sandy was a core member of the UW-Madison Partnership with Nazarbayev University, lending her expertise to …

Posted in May 2022 NewsletterTagged Community Updates, REECAS News, War on Ukraine

Commemorating the 1791 Ratification of Poland’s Constitution

Posted on May 7, 2022

At a May 2 event commemorating the 231st anniversary of the 1791 ratification of Poland’s Constitution at the Polish Center of Wisconsin, Don Pienkos (Professor Emeritus of Political Science, UW-Milwaukee) gave remarks on the historical …

Posted in May 2022 NewsletterTagged Community Updates

Madison community rallies in solidarity to condemn Russian invasion of Ukraine

Posted on March 4, 2022

CREECA affiliates–from students to Wisconsin Russia Project postdoctoral scholars to university faculty and staff–have been gathering to protest the Russian invasion of Ukraine and show support for the people of Ukraine. A student-led protest took …

Posted in March 2022 NewsletterTagged Community Updates, Featured Stories, War on Ukraine

UW faculty offer expertise on Putin’s war on Ukraine in media and outreach

Posted on March 2, 2022

Leading up to and amid Putin’s war on Ukraine, UW faculty members have been lending their expertise on Russia, Ukraine, and other post-Soviet states to various news outlets, including Paul Castañeda Dower (Agricultural and Applied …

Posted in April 2022 Newsletter, March 2022 Newsletter, May 2022 NewsletterTagged Community Updates, Featured Stories, Outreach, REECAS News, War on Ukraine

Community Updates – February 2022

Posted on January 27, 2022

Students Özlem Eren, Wisconsin Russia Project graduate assistant and art history PhD student, has been elected as the SHERA (Society of Historians of Eastern European, Eurasian, and Russian Art and Architecture) Graduate Student Communications Fellow …

Posted in February 2022 NewsletterTagged Community Updates, REECAS News

CREECA Community Updates – December 2021

Posted on December 20, 2021

Alumni In addition to a co-edited book out this fall, The Russian Medical Humanities: Past, Present, and Future, Melissa Miller (PhD in Slavic Languages and Literature) has started a new appointment this October as Affiliated …

Posted in December 2021 NewsletterTagged Community Updates

Community Updates – October 2021

Posted on October 20, 2021

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 …

Posted in October 2021 NewsletterTagged Community Updates

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

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