Undergraduate Student News
Congratulations to our 2012 graduating majors -- Christina Rosivack, Matthew Roy, Nicholas Setterberg, Chloe Gargiulo, Pierce Pandolph, Milen Antov, Farzan Beroz, Thomas Burr, Anne Dietterich, and Katherine Thomas!
Christina Rosivack (BA 2012) is graduating this May with highest distinction. She presented papers based on her honors thesis, "From Pushkin to Politkovskaya: Russian Representations of the Caucasus in Conflict" at the University of Virginia Slavic Forum, Charlottesville, Virginia, March 17, 2012; and the Southern Conference on Slavic Studies, Savannah, Georgia,, March 30, 2012. She has been admitted to the master's program in Nationalism Studies at Central European University (Budapest) in 2012-2013.
Tyler Adkins (BA 2013) presented a paper based on his honors thesis, "Prisoner of the Heavens: The Vertical-Directional Text in Stanislaw Wyspianski's DramaWyzwolenie (Liberation)" at the Southern Conference on Slavic Studies, Savannah, Georgia, March 31, 2012. This summer he will be conducting research in Poland for a second honors thesis focused on
Poland's institutional representation of ethnic minorities.
Graduate Student News
Will Evans is receiving his master's degree from Slavic and Eurasian Studies this May. He presented papers on his master's thesis, "The Anomaly of Ekho Moskvy: Adaptation Strategies for Survival of Diversity of Viewpoints in Russian Media in the Putin Era" at the University of Virginia Slavic Forum, Charlottesville, Virginia, March 17, 2012; the Southern Conference on Slavic Studies, Savannah, Georgia,, March 30, 2012; and the American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages (AATSEEL) of the Carolinas Conference, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, April 14, 2012. He will spend summer of 2012 working with Open Letter Books in Rochester, New York.
Hillary Richards is receiving her master's degree from Slavic and Eurasian Studies this May. She presented papers on her master's thesis, "Analyzing the 'Chechen Syndrome': Disadaptation of Veterans with War Trauma in Contemporary Russian Literature" at the University of Virginia Slavic Forum, Charlottesville, Virginia, March 17, 2012; and the Southern Conference on Slavic Studies, Savannah, Georgia,, March 30,2012. Over the summer she will be working to attain certification to teach English in Russia for a year or two before pursuing a dual degree program in Public
Health and Social Work (focusing on public health issues in Russia and
Central Asia).
Katherine Mohrig (MA, 2013) is working as a Project Development Intern at the non-profit organization Citizen Effect during summer 2012. Her current research projects focus on the effects of social media in collective action and social movements.