The department is honored to congratulate the following recipients of major annual awards to faculty and graduate students:
Jerzy Kolodziej award (for excellence in teaching by a graduate student): Natalia Matskevich-Levin.
Neatrour-Edgerton awards (provides a one-semester fellowship for uninterrupted research by an advanced graduate student): Jordan Hussey-Andersen & Natalia Matskevich-Levin.
Mentor of the Year award (to a faculty member, selected by the graduate students): Jacob Emery.
We are also proud to congratulate the following faculty for their achievements this past year:
The inaugural Michael Henry Heim Chair in Central and East European Letters at Indiana University will be Bill Johnston, Professor of Comparative Literature.
Chair Russell Valentino was granted a Fulbright Scholar Award for 2023-24.
Senior Lecturer and Director of Undergraduate Studies Jeff Holdeman was awarded a 2023 Trustees’ Teaching Award.
Senior Lecturer Svitlana Melnyk secured an Office of the Vice President for International Affairs (OVPIA) Global Classroom Fellowship grant.
Lastly, the department would like to congratulate the 2023 inductees to the Dobro Slovo National Slavic Honor Society:
Julia M. Becker
Monika Cecilia Franaszczuk
Lillie Frick
Savannah Rose Lee
Aidan Patrick Olson
Elizabeth M. Smith
Jill Stafford
John Szczuka
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