Alex Braslavsky Selected as Harvard Horizons Scholar!

Congratulations to Alex Braslavsky, a fifth year Ph.D. candidate in the Slavic Department, on being appointed a 2025 Harvard Horizons Scholar! Alex joins the twelfth class of the Society of Horizons Scholars, a fellowship cohort that offers opportunities for community, mentorship, and professional and academic development. You can find the full announcement here. 

Alex's innovative dissertation project, in her own words, "explore[s] how the creative process evolves with age. My work pulls together three aged women poets from across the Slavic world, who find themselves beyond the traditional canon, and who are radical practitioners of their art: Polish poet Krystyna Miłobędzka, Czech poet Bohumila Grögerová, and Russian poet Elizaveta Mnatsakanova. For each of them, poetic experimentation in their late careers leads to aesthetic breakthroughs. Their work stands in defiance of the traditional narrative of aging as decline."

We are very proud of Alex, and look forward to her talk, The Connection Between Aging and Artmaking, at the campus-wide Harvard Horizons symposium on April 8!