Congratulations to our PhD recipients
The department is immensely proud to congratulate two of our students, Ani Abrahamyan and Rebecca Cravens, for successfully defending their dissertations and earning their doctoral degrees!
The department is immensely proud to congratulate two of our students, Ani Abrahamyan and Rebecca Cravens, for successfully defending their dissertations and earning their doctoral degrees!
The department is proud 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): Van Holthenrichs.
Mentor of the Year award (to a faculty member, selected by the graduate students): Nicoletta Rousseva.
Slavic graduate Kyle Tucker (B.A. 2023) has been selected as a 2024 Monterey Summer Symposium fellow.
Bora Chung (Ph.D. 2009) has received praise in the New York Times for her newest book Your Utopia (Algonquin Books), translated by Anton Hur.
Russell Valentino’s translation of Bosnian author Miljenko Jergović’s monumental family saga Kin, which was published by Archipelago Books in 2021, has been awarded the 2023 Best Literary/Scholarly Translation into English by the American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages.
Ukrainian scholars have been working with Indiana University students and faculty to host “Ukrainian Week at IU” events, as the anniversary of Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine approaches. The collaboration has created many opportunities for student learning.
Welcome to the exhilarating Slavic Soccer event organized by Pedram Aghaalikhani starting fall 2023, a weekly gathering that brings together faculties and students passionate about soccer and Slavic languages and culture.
Kyle Tucker, an IU Slavic Department and International Studies 2023 graduate, has been honored as a recipient of the prestigious Marshall Scholarship.
The department congratulates Ph.D. candidate Dan Medford on his promotion to the rank of lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Army on Nov. 1, 2023.
Russell Valentino’s translation of Bosnian author Miljenko Jergović’s monumental family saga Kin, which was published by Archipelago Books in 2021, has been shortlisted by the American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages for the Best Literary/Scholarly Translation into English.