News

Two awarded Provost’s Graduate Research Award

Lidia Aguilera Lora and Megan Marshall, both PhD students in Hispanic Linguistics, have been awarded the Provost’s Graduate Research Award. This annual “seed funding” competition helps students to develop stronger applications for funding…

Russian major named Rhodes Scholar finalist

Congratulations to Sonya Gupta, a senior majoring in Russian and biological sciences, on being a finalist for the Rhodes Scholarship, the oldest and one of the most prestigious international scholarships in the world!…

2021 Sweetser Prize awarded to Degooyer, Liberius, and Perez

The Department of French and Francophone Studies is delighted to announce the winners of this year’s Marie-Odile Sweetser Prize for excellence in French Studies: David Degooyer, Laurie Liberius, and Leila Perez. The Sweetser…

Burns blogs about her Calliope's Library project for the SCS

Krishni Burns, Lecturer of Latin, recently blogged about her new project Calliope’s Library: Books for Young Readers for the Society for Classical Studies. In the post, Burns details the project’s genesis as well…

Erin Gizewski elected to ASA executive board

Germanic Studies Ph.D. student Erin Gizewski has been elected to a 3-year term as graduate student representative to the executive board of the Austrian Studies Association.

New book by Patrick Fortmann - "Kristallisationen von Liebe"

Patrick Fortmann, Associate Professor of Germanic Studies, has recently published Kristallisationen von Liebe with Wilhelm Fink. Publishers Description: In the German context, the notion of romantic love, characterized by ambiguity, uncertainty, and elusiveness, emerges…

Julia Vaingurt recognized by AATSEEL for teaching excellence

Julia Vaingurt, Associate Professor of Russian, was recognized by the American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages (AATSEEL) with the 2020 Award for Excellence in Post-Secondary Teaching. This major award…