By Jamie Hendrickson (MA, REEES) We would like to highlight Sarah Phillips, a former FLAS fellow in Russian and Ukrainian at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign from 1994 to 1996. While a student at Illinois, Sarah earned her M.A. in Anthropology in 1997 and completed her Ph.D. in Anthropology with a minor in REEES in 2002 with her dissertation, “‘Civil’ Societies and...

By Jamie Hendrickson (MA, REEES) REEEC would like to highlight Deirdre Ruscitti Harshman, a former REEEC FLAS fellow in Russian from 2011 to 2013. Deirdre earned her M.A. in History from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in 2013 and her Ph.D. in History from Illinois in 2018 with her dissertation, “A Space Called Home: Housing and the Management of the Everyday in...

By Jamie Hendrickson (MA, REEES) We at REEEC would like to highlight Lucy Pakhnyuk, a REEES alumna and a former FLAS Fellow in Ukrainian. Lucy earned both her B.A. in Political Science and REEES in 2015, and her M.A. in REEES in 2018 from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. While at Illinois, she also served as a Program Associate at REEEC from 2017-2018. As a first-...

By Jamie Hendrickson (MA Student, REEES) We would like to highlight Morgan Shafter, a former REEEC FLAS Fellow in Russian who earned his Graduate Certificate in Translation Studies in 2018 and his M.A. in Slavic Languages and Literatures from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in 2016. Since earning his graduate degree and translation certificate at the University of...