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As the spring semester wound down, there were many student accomplishments remaining to applaud. Check out what some of our students achieved in the last few months.
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Visiting Assistant Professor of Russian Studies Yelena Severina published an article, “Crimean Tableaux of CatherineII’s Court as the Visual Record of the Russian Empire’s Southern Expansion,” in December in E-Journal of Eighteenth-Century Russian Studies.
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President David Wippman recently announced the appointment of seven Hamilton faculty members to endowed chairs. All were effective July 1.
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When Wyn Pennybacker '19 was evacuated from Ukraine to Poland by her Fulbright program because of the Russia-Ukraine war, she continued to engage the students she had been teaching and took every opportunity to volunteer locally to help Ukrainian refugees.
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Journalist — and now Fulbright researcher — Katie Jickling ’15 will travel to Chennai in Southern India to study the efforts of two Protestant churches to build gender-inclusive leadership. Jickling is a recipient of a 2021 Fulbright Research/Study Award.
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Last semester I took Professor Jason Cieply’s Literature and Revolution course (Russian 227), which culminated in the publication of a class literary magazine. I had never been involved with a final project of this nature and hope it’s illuminating to share some insights from the production of In Medias Rus.
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Lucille Kline ’22 has been awarded a Critical Language Scholarship to study Russian through a virtual program offered by the University of Nizhny Novgorod. The Critical Language Scholarship is a program run by the U.S. Department of State for intensive language study in 15 critical languages.
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Assistant Professor of German & Russian Jason Cieply published an article, "The Enthusiastic Objectifications of Skaz: Mikhail Zoshchenko and the 'Simple-Souled' Soviet Reception of Jazz," in the Summer 2020 issue of Russian Review.
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Emma Belanger ’20 knew that she wanted to explore pursue her interests in Chinese and Russian language and culture after graduation, but wasn't sure how. Then, while studying abroad, she learned of Harbin, a town in China on the border of Russia.
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When he assigned a Russian role-playing and survival game to his students last semester, little did Assistant Professor of Russian Studies Jason Cieply know that a few months later, the game would inspire him to try making his own batch of hand sanitizer.
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