November 11, 2019 Cross Section Essay, Non-Fiction No Comments By Ellen Robison University of Wisconsin–Madison Author and scholar Reza Aslan argues that “literature offers not just a window into the culture of diverse regions, but also the society, the politics; it’s the only place where we can keep track of ideas.”[1] Though Aslan lives and writes in …
Professor Thomas DuBois, Professor of Scandinavian Studies, Folklore, and Religious Studies, has published an article in The Conversation: “Scandinavia has its own dark history of assimilating Indigenous people, and churches played a role – but are apologizing”. The article is available to read here.
As she wraps up her senior year at UW–Madison, Cat Carroll is preparing for a journey unlike any other: a year-long global trek across seven countries to explore the human stories behind migration. Cat, a Pulitzer Center Reporting Fellow and IRIS NRC FLAS awardee, was recently named as the College of Letters & Science Wolff Fellow for 2025. The Wolff …
Graduating senior Catherine “Cat” Carroll (majors in journalism and mass communication, international studies and German with certificates in public policy, European studies, Middle East studies and Arabic language and culture) has been awarded a 2025 Reporting Fellowship by the Pulitzer Center. Carroll’s project “Critical Care: Two Nations, One Crisis, and the Race for Healthcare Workers” …
Following the 2025 Wisconsin Slavic Conference, the University of Wisconsin–Madison campus hosted another major Slavic event: a symposium on Polish literature and culture under the theme Beyond the Horizon. The symposium brought together Polish cultural scholars from across the United States and Canada—at various stages of their careers—who both engaged with established cultural models and …
Slavic is delighted to congratulate Anna Tumarkin and her co-author Shannon Donnally Quinn (a UW–Madison Slavic PhD alum) for receiving the 2025 MAFLT LCTL Innovation Award for their textbook Diverse Russian. For more on this award and the textbook it honors, see this profile by Michigan State University’s College of Arts & Letters.
The UW–Madison Polish Program is pleased to announce that three students in our Polish language program: Sydney Kurszewski, Gavrielle Lent, and Ryan Rowe were awarded the 2025 Polanki College Achievement Awards. Congratulations and gratulacje! Polanki’s College Achievement Awards are conferred to students who “have demonstrated high achievement and who are committed to understanding, preserving, or disseminating …
The UW–Madison Polish Program is pleased to announce the winners of the Lapinski and Gąsiorowska awards for the academic year 2025-2026. Among the awardees are undergraduate and graduate students who will receive financial support for their continued study of the Polish language, literature, and culture at UW–Madison and beyond. Congratulations and gratulacje! The Michael and …
Lac du Flambeau Snow Snake championship, March 1, 2025. Introduced by Wayne Valliere, Mino Giizhig. Video by Tom Dubois.
Two members of our Polish Studies program, Krzysztof Borowski and Łukasz Wodzyński, were recently elected to serve on the Executive Board of the North American Association of Teachers of Polish. The election results were announced at the NAATPl General Meeting, which took place in conjunction with the 2025 American Association of Teachers of Slavic and …