Department of Slavic and East European Languages and Cultures

We are very happy to announce that Dr. Maria (Manya) Carlson, who received her Ph.D. in Slavic Languages and Literatures at Indiana University in 1982, has provided a generous donation to establish “The Maria Carlson Graduate Student Enhancement Fund” in the Department of Slavic and East European Languages and Cultures. Dr. Carlson, who wrote a dissertation entitled, The Conquest of Chaos: Esoteric Philosophy and the Development of Andrei Belyi’s Theory of Symbolism as a World View (1901-1910), is Professor emerita of Slavic Languages & Literatures and Director emerita of the Center for Russian & East European Studies at the University of Kansas. Since her retirement in 2014, she has continued to write and publish, and she is currently working on a survey of East Slavic mythology and folklore. The Carlson Fund will support conference travel expenses for graduate students pursuing their masters or Ph.D. degrees within our department.