by Ben Hooyman | May 20, 2026 | News, Read, Russia
The Robert Jervis International Security Studies Forum has published a roundtable review of Michael David-Fox’s “Crucibles of Power: Smolensk under Stalinist and Nazi Rule” (Harvard University Press, 2025). Harvard University Press describes...
by Ben Hooyman | May 18, 2026 | News, Read
The Goethe-Institut announced that Max Lawton has been awarded the 2026 Helen & Kurt Wolff Translator’s Prize for his rendering of the mammoth, thousand-plus-page German novel “Schattenfroh” by Michael Lentz. The jury statement accompanying the...
by Ben Hooyman | May 11, 2026 | News, Read, Russia
The Sundial has published an article celebrating the extraordinary teaching of Tatiana Mikhailova (Lecturer in Russian). While extolling the “rewarding, challenging, and borderline cathartic experience” of her class, the article also provides a...
by Ben Hooyman | Apr 25, 2026 | News, Read, Russia
The Robert Jervis International Security Studies Forum has published its “Tribute to the Life and Legacy of Marshall D. Shulman.” The tribute features ten articles about Shulman’s body of research, the man beyond the work, and the legacy he left...
by Ben Hooyman | Apr 16, 2026 | ECEC, Humanities, News, Read, Russia
Updated April 20th at 11:19AM Barnard College will be pausing the operations of its Slavic Department after failing to renew its sole remaining faculty position held by John Wright (GSAS ’05, GSAS ’08, GSAS ’11) since 2023. An article in the Columbia Spectator by...
