News & Events

'Pussy Riot: A Punk Prayer' Premieres in NYC

June 05, 2013

The documentary Pussy Riot: A Punk Prayer, co-directed by Harvard Slavic Department recent PhD Maxim Pozdorovkin, had its New York premiere on Wednesday night. The documentary, which is currently showing on the HBO’s 2013 Summer Documentary Series, won...

Sasha Senderovich appointed Assistant Professor at University of Colorado Boulder

April 10, 2013

Sasha Senderovich, PhD 2010, was appointed Assistant Professor, Germanic and Slavic Languages & Literatures, University of Colorado Boulder. Congratulations, Sasha!

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Congratulations to our new PhDs

May 30, 2013

Congratulations to Scarlet Marquette, Maxim Pozdorovkin, and Aleksey Berg - our new PhDs, who received their diplomas at the 2013 commencement in May 2013! We wish you well in your future endeavors.

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Prof. Stephanie Sandler wins the AATSEEL Award for Outstanding Achievement in Scholarship

January 30, 2013

Prof. Stephanie Sandler, Ernest E. Monrad Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures, and Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, received the 2013 AATSEEL Award for Outstanding Achievement in Scholarship...

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Fourteenth Annual ACTR National Post-Secondary Russian Essay Contest

April 19, 2013

Congratulations to Ed Hicks, winner of the Fourteenth Annual ACTR National Post-Secondary Russian Essay Contest in the Non-Heritage Learners, Level 4 category! Congratulations as well to the following students of Russian who placed second Christian...

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BA Degrees

June 11, 2012

Five seniors graduated in May 2012 with their BA degrees in Slavic Languages and Literatures: Devon Dunn, Jasper Henderson, John Lechner, Nora Murphy, and Jacob Viramontes.

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ACTR 2012 Post Secondary Russian Scholar Laureate Award

June 03, 2012

Graduate senior Jacob Viramontes was the winner of the ACTR 2012 Post Secondary Russian Scholar Laureate Award for his remarkable accomplishments as a student of Russian.

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Slavic Literatures and Cultures Award

June 03, 2013

Jasper Henderson received the Slavic Literatures and Cultures Award for a superior senior thesis written in the Department for his thesis “Spiritual Imagination: The Literary Icons of Vladimir Nabokov.”

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2012 Setchkarev Prize

June 03, 2012

Two graduate students, Iaroslava Strikha and Taylor Walsh, received the 2012 Setchkarev Prize for the best essays on a topic in Russian literature written at Harvard in the year 2011. Iaroslava Strikha's essay was entitled “Pale Fire: Further Adventures...

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Elena Bonner honored at human rights memorial symposium

April 11, 2013

by Rebekah Judson On April 6, 2013, scholars of the Soviet Union and modern-day Russia gathered with former participants in the Soviet human rights movement for a symposium dedicated to the memory of human rights activist Elena Bonner (1923–2011)...