Research
Slavic Studies faculty and students are actively engaged in scholarly research.
Recent faculty books and student research projects include:
- Eva Eckert, Stones on the Prairie: Acculturation in America (Slavica, 2007)
- Andrea Lanoux and Helena Goscilo, eds. Gender and National Identity in Twentieth-Century Russian Culture (DeKalb, Illinois: Northern Illinois University Press, 2006)
- Katherine Avgerinos, "From Vixen to Victim: The Sensationalization and Normalization of Prostitution in Post-Soviet Russia," The School of Russian and Asian Studies online journal (fall 2006). http://www.sras.org/normalization_of_prostitutionin_post-soviet_russia
- Susana Hancock, "Gravestone Carvings: A Venerated Medium of the Intellectual and Spiritual Life of Seventeenth-Century New England." (Honors Thesis, Connecticut College, 2007).
The department also fields questions from the larger outside community about Slavic languages and cultures and the cyrillic alphabet. We welcome the interest and curiosity! Professor Andrea Lanoux responded to a recent query from fisherman Tom Carpenter who wanted to know how to spell "clear leader" and "dark leader" - two types of fishing lures - in Russian! You can see the results on the fishermen's shirts in the above photo.
Last Modified: Tuesday, October 30, 2007 17:35