Graduate Student Abbie Weil has recently been published on the front page of the popular Serious Eats culinary website. Click the link below to read her article, "How a 1920s Novel Started an International Restaurant Craze."

 

https://www.seriouseats.com/2019/02/restaurants-inspired-by-the-good-soldier-svejk.html

Read more about Graduate student Abigail Weil: "How a 1920s Novel Started an International Restaurant Craze" (published in Serious Eats)

Preceptor in Czech Veronika Tuckerova was interviewed in a documentary about Franz Kafka and Prague for ARTE channel: 

 

https://www.arte.tv/de/videos/084422-001-A/prag-und-kafka/

Read more about Czech Preceptor Veronika Tuckerova Interviewed on arte.de

Congratulations to Scarlet Marquette, who received her PhD from the Slavic Department in 2013, on her new position as Director, Strategic Relations at Singularity University, a Silicon Valley think tank. We wish her well in this move to a whole new academic and business environment, and look forward to learning from her experiences in academic and entrepreneurial leadership.

 

Setchkarev Prizes

Graduate Essay Prize

Julian Pokay

Essay title: “The Holy Fool as The Other: Appearance, Disappearance, Return”

 

Bayara Aroutunova Prize

Emily Kanner

Essay title: “Poetics of the Flesh in Simeon Polotsky’s Vertograd Mnogosvetnyi”

Note: This is a new prize inaugurated by the Setchkarev Prize committee in AY 2017-18 in honor of...

Read more about Congratulations to Slavic Department Fellowship and Award winners this year!