Slavic Studies Undergraduate Awards for Spring 2022 Slavic Studies is pleased to announce the following winners of undergraduate awards in Polish Studies and Russian Studies. Polish Awards Lapinski Fellowships for AY 2022-23Victoria ChowaniakJulia Paciorek Zawacki FellowshipMonika Juras Russian Awards J. Thomas Shaw Prize for Undergraduate ExcellenceGrace Johnson J. Thomas Shaw Prize for Outstanding …
You’ve studied widely in Slavic Studies during your four years here. What drew you to the field as a first-year student? It was interesting — I thoroughly liked learning languages and initially came to UW–Madison expecting to major in linguistics and journalism. Having moved from Poland to America in 2006, I started out somewhat familiar …
Three books from PhD alums nominated for awards! Slavic Studies congratulates three recent PhD alums—Molly Thomasy Blasing, Colleen Lucey, and José Vergara—whose first books, all published by Cornell University Press in 2021, have been nominated simultaneously for two awards given by the American Association of Teachers of Slavic and Eastern European Languages (AATSEEL): Best First …