by Ronald Meyer | Oct 25, 2021 | Faculty, Humanities, News
Rebecca Kobrin (Russell and Bettina Knapp Associate Professor of American Jewish History; Director, Institute for Jewish Studies) delivered the keynote address at a recent virtual conference at Oxford University on the topic “Jews, Gender and Economies in History.”...
by Ronald Meyer | Oct 8, 2021 | News, Read, Russia
Journalists Maria Ressa of the Philippines and Dmitri A. Muratov of Russia were recognized with the Nobel Peace Prize for “their courageous fight for freedom of expression, which is a precondition for democracy and lasting peace.” Muratov, one of the founders of...
by Ronald Meyer | Oct 7, 2021 | Alumni, News, Watch
Mark Pomar (Russian Institute ’76; Ph.D. Slavic Languages ’78) was interviewed by UkrLife, an independent TV station in Ukraine, about the early policies of the Biden administration. In Russian. Pomar, a member of the Harriman National Advisory Council,...
by Ronald Meyer | Sep 29, 2021 | Awards, ECEC, Humanities, News, Read
Anna Frajlich’s The Ghost of Shakespeare: Collected Essays, edited by Ronald Meyer (Academic Studies Press, 2020) will be awarded the Polish American Historical Association’s Oskar Halecki Prize at their annual convention in January 2022. Established in...
by Ronald Meyer | Sep 27, 2021 | Faculty, News, Read
David Stark (Arthur Lehman Professor of Sociology), together with adjunct research scholar of sociology Sheen S. Levine and Charlotte Reypens of the University of Warwick, published a major study in Science Advances that found that white Americans pay less attention...
