Faculty News

Natasha Karageorgos, in collaboration with Tetiana Liubchenko and other Ukrainian scholars and supported by an Allbritton Center Faculty Grant, launched the website for their digital project, "The Preservation of the Legacy of the Mariupol Greeks."  https://mariupolgreeks.com/en (2025)

Susanne Fusso was interviewed by Colin McEnroe on his WNPR show, "An Unusually Strange Event: Nikolai Gogol, 'The Inspector,' and 'The Nose."  (2025)

Katja Kolcio published, “Feasibility of implementing and collecting data on somatic methods during wartime Donbas, Ukraine.”  (2025)

Peter Rutland published a dozen opeds, such as ‘I watched the Kremlin’s new documentary (so you don’t have to)’, The Conversation.  (2025)

An interview with Victoria Smolkin was featured on The World public radio program episode called, "Russia celebrates Victory Day." (2025)

Katja Kolcio contributed a chapter, "Ukraine. Vitality Project Donbas: Intermixing individual and interpersonal well-being," to UN Inter-Agency Standing Committee Guidance, Integrating MHPSS and peacebuilding: a mapping and recommendations for practitioners.  The project was recognized by the UN Inter-Agency Standing Committee as one of 12 examples of global peacebuilding projects. (2024)

Natasha Karageorgos received an Innovation Grant from the Modern Greek Studies Association. It supports the digital project, “The Preservation of the Legacy of the Mariupol Greeks,” in collaboration with Ukrainian scholars https://www.mgsa.org/Initiatives/innovation.html (2024).

Peter Rutland moderated  the roundtable "Teaching Nationalism in Turbulent Times,"  hosted by the Association for the Study of Nationalities (2024).

Saida Daukeyeva founded Wesleyan’s first ever Central Asian Music Ensemble, offering instruction in Kazakh and Kyrgyz musical instruments and vocal techniques. “Music of Central Asia: Kazakh Songs and Instrumental Tunes” (2023).

Roman Utkin's book Charlottengrad: Russian Culture in Russian Berlin was published by the University of Wisconsin Press. (2023)

Victoria Smolkin received the 2022 Binswanger Prize for Excellence in Teaching. (2022)
 
Natasha Karageorgos received the Best 2020 Slavic and East European Journal Article Award by the American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages (AATSEEL). (2021)
 
Roman Utkin edited a thematic cluster of articles on the impact of Russia's "gay propaganda" law, published in the Russian Review. (2021)

Quijada’s book on Post-Soviet Buryatia wins prize from Society for the Anthropology of Religion. (2021)

Duffield White's translation of Yuz Aleshkovsky and Susanne Fusso's translation of Sergei Gandlevsky were on the Read Russia Prize 2020 longlist. (2020)

Victoria Smolkin’s book, A Sacred Space is Never Empty: A History of Soviet Atheism was a finalist for the ASEEES Wayne S. Vucinich prize. (2019)

New York Review of Books  featured an essay by Gary Saul Morson on Susanne Fusso's translation of "The Nose and Other Stories." (2019) and a review of the translation appeared in The Nation. (2021)