A Tribute to Professor Robert Bird | It is with deep sadness and disbelief that we have faced the passing of our colleague Robert Bird on September 7, 2020. Robert was diagnosed with colon cancer at Christmas time, and in his characteristically stoic way, asked that his colleagues in the Slavic Department not be told until after the holidays....
Katherine M.H. Reischl's (PhD'13) book, Photographic Literacy: Cameras in the Hands of Russian Authors, received a fantastic review by Sven Spieker in the Slavic Review. Congratulations, Katherine!
Professor Bożena Shallcross recently published an article titled, “The Muselmann and the Necrotopography of a Ghetto" in The Journal of Holocaust Research (formerly Dapim), Dennis Bock and Michael Becker, eds., vol. 34, 2020: 3, 220-240. Learn more by reading “Behind the Issue," where Alexa Asher (University of Haifa) interviews Bożena Shallcross about the above article for The Journal of Holocaust Research. Congratulations, Bożena!
Congratulations to Professor Eleonora Gilburd, who has been awarded two prestigious prizes for her recent book, To See Paris and Die: The Soviet Lives of Western Culture by the Association for Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies: the Wayne S. Vucinich Book Prize and the Marshall Shulman Book Prize. Congratulations, Eleonora!
