Shishkin Connects Russian Themes

Award-winning Russian author Mikhail Shishkin treated the audience to his interpretation of Russian society, literature, language, and politics in his recent talk on campus titled "In a Boat Scratched on the Wall: Language and Politics in Russia." Shishkin demonstrated how all of these elements are interconnected. He also read an excerpt from his novel "Maidenhair" and led a discussion. Visitin...  More >>

Shishkin to Discuss Russian Society

Award-winning Russian author Mikhail Shishkin will join the HWS community for a talk titled, "In a Boat Scratched on the Wall: Language and Politics in Russia," followed by a short reading from his novel "Maidenhair" and a discussion. The event will take place from 7-9 p.m. on Monday, April 15, in the Hirshson Ballroom. Shiskin, an outspoken and compelling author, will talk about contemporary Rus...  More >>

HWS Students Explore Rural Russia

In a remote village six hours west of Moscow, a group from HWS on an expedition to explore Russia's folklore heritage was welcomed to join a local family at their home for an unforgettable cultural experience. It was Christmas Eve in the Smolensk region, and the team of students, alums and Department Chair and Associate Professor of Russian Area Studies David Galloway, humbly accepted the offer t...  More >>

McKinney Receives Fulbright

Associate Professor of Economics Judith McKinney has been awarded a Fulbright Scholar grant to conduct research in Russia this semester. Currently in Yaroslavl, a city northeast of Moscow, McKinney is focusing on the experiences of women who worked in the provincial Soviet city in the late 1980s and early 1990s. McKinney is particularly interested in the ways in which the women navigated their ro...  More >>

Littlefield ’12 in South Korea

For someone who loves to learn different languages, there really is no better way to do so than to go to a place where that language is spoken and immerse yourself in it. That is exactly what Belinda Littlefield '12 is doing. Littlefield is currently an English teacher at a school in South Korea, where she is helping young students learn English while at the same time learning her third language....  More >>

Shils '13 Awarded Russian Scholarship

Nathaniel Shils '13 has been awarded the Critical Languages Scholarship to study Russian in Ufa in the Republic of Bashkortostan of Russia. One of the most competitive scholarship competitions in the United States, the scholarship, granted through the Intensive Summer Institutes program, seeks to help students develop critical listening, reading, speaking and writing skills. While abroad in Ufa, ...  More >>

Warner '12 Interns With The RAF

Melissa Warner '12 is spending her summer in New York City providing support for the Russian American Foundation's (RAF) 10th Annual Russian Heritage Festival, the Bolshoi Ballet Academy Summer Intensive program and the National Security Language Initiative for Youth language program. "I really enjoy working with RAF because I think the work they are doing to promote understanding between America...  More >>

Artist Ilya Lerner:Visiting Prof

Russian-born artist Ilya Lerner is currently serving as a visiting professor in the art department, where he is teaching Introduction to Drawing during the spring 2012 semester. "I really enjoy the atmosphere on campus, because the small student to faculty ratio helps to create a familial atmosphere and allows me to connect with my students on a more personal level," explains Lerner, who is the o...  More >>

Exploring the Russian Culture

Thomas Luly '12 and Melissa Warner '12 quickly realized the broad scope of Russian academic pursuits as they walked into the conference center of the Omni Shoreham Hotel in Washington, D.C., to attend one of the largest Russian studies meetings in North America. Even for Luly, who spent this past summer in Moscow working at the Carnegie Moscow Center as the recipient of the Charles H. Salisbury S...  More >>

Faculty Promotions

Six members of Hobart and William Smith faculty, experts and active members of their respective fields, have received promotions. Jeffrey Anderson, of the anthropology department, has been made a full professor, and Michelle Iklé, of the dance department, Matthew Kadane, of the history department, Feisal Khan, of the economics department, Kristen Welsh, of the Russian Area Studies program, and Vi...  More >>