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Amidst the bustling crowds at Commons and McEwen dining halls, language faculty and students sit around a table to enjoy a meal while conversing in their chosen studied language. Hamilton’s “language tables,” as they are known, provide both valuable speaking experience and community building opportunities.
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Lucille Kline ’22 has been awarded a Critical Language Scholarship to study Russian through a virtual program offered by the University of Nizhny Novgorod. The Critical Language Scholarship is a program run by the U.S. Department of State for intensive language study in 15 critical languages.
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Associate Professor of German and Russian Languages and Literatures John Bartle recently stepped down as associate editor for reviews for the Slavic and East European Journal, a position he held since the journal’s fall 2001 issue.
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Associate Professor of German and Russian Languages and Literatures John Bartle made two presentations about the Digital Humanities Initiative’s (DHi) Refugee Project at Smith College on March 23.
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Professors Erol Balkan and John Bartle and Britt Hysell, director of the English for Speakers of Other Languages Program, presented “Refugees Welcome Here" at a conference at Vassar College on Feb. 25.
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Associate Professor of Anthropology Chaise LaDousa published an article, “Subject to Address in a Digital Literacy Initiative: Neoliberal Agency and the Promises and Predicaments of Participation,” in the current issue of the journal Signs and Society.
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Isabella Schoning ’16 has been chosen as a recipient of the Gilman International Scholarship Program award. The award will fund Schoning’s fall 2014 semester abroad in St. Petersburg, Russia, through the Bard-Smolny Program.
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Hamilton College’s highest awards for teaching were presented to four faculty members during the annual Class & Charter Day ceremony on May 12. Associate Professor of Russian Franklin Sciacca, Associate Professor of Music Rob Hopkins, Assistant Professor of Chemistry Adam Van Wynsberghe and Nathan Goodale, assistant professor of anthropology, received awards. Professor of History Doug Ambrose was named recipient of Student Assembly’s Sidney Wertimer Award.
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Grace Lee, a candidate for May graduation from Hamilton, has been awarded a Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship to Russia. A Russian studies major, she spent the 2011-12 academic year studying at Bard-Smolny College in St. Petersburg, Russia, where she served as an English tutor.
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Erin Sullivan ’13 has been awarded a Fulbright Teaching Assistantship to Russia. A Russian studies major, she spent the spring 2012 semester studying at Bard-Smolny College in St. Petersburg, Russia. Sullivan is a Dean’s List student at Hamilton, and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa in February.