Oct 6, 2022
Prize-winning author Dara Horn to discuss her book People Love Dead Jews Oct. 12 at Lafayette College
Prof. Monika Rice will discuss with Horn why she wrote the book and the provocative nature of the topic.
Russian and East European studies
Jul 19, 2016
Game-Changing Gifts
Ever since volunteering in Belarus for 10 days before her senior year in high school, Hannah Smock Estifanos ’10 was looking for a way to return to the…
Jul 16, 2015
“Sweighing” Public Opinion
Admit it. You’ve experienced road rage, right? So, what’s the most annoying driving technique? A “slow-moving left-laner” or a “cut off artist”?…
Mar 31, 2013
19 Students Invited to Present at National Conference on Undergraduate Research
Nineteen students have been invited to present their research at the 27th National Conference on Undergraduate Research (NCUR) April 11-13 at University…
Jan 29, 2013
Students Present Research at National Conference on Medieval and Early Modern Studies
Last month, Isabel Connolly ’14 (Westport, Conn.), an art major; Monika Krumova ’13 (Sofia, Bulgaria), a film & media studies major; and Michael Viteritto…
Dec 27, 2012
Students Will Spend Winter Break Learning All Over the Globe
More than 130 students will be studying in the Czech Republic, Ecuador, the Galapagos Islands, Germany, Indonesia, Italy, Kenya, Mexico, and Turkey during…
Jan 30, 2012
Students Explore the Culture and History of Russia
“Taking this trip to Russia was enlightening and it was awesome to be engulfed in another culture,” says Casey Schmalacker ’12 (Great Neck, N.Y.)…
Oct 5, 2011
Video: History Professor Joshua Sanborn Provides Preview of Mikhail Gorbachev’s Oct. 19 Talk
Joshua Sanborn, professor of history and chair of Russian and East European Studies, presented a lecture Oct. 3 entitled “Mikhail Gorbachev and the End…
May 10, 2011
Delivering Aid to Belarus — ‘My Adopted Homeland’ — on the 25th Anniversary of Chernobyl
By Hannah Smock ’10 On April 26, 2011 – the 25th anniversary of the world’s largest nuclear disaster at Chernobyl – I joined a delegation of Belarusians…
Apr 28, 2011
Brian Carey ’11, Jessica Counihan ’10, Mildred Gonzalez ’11, and Susan Grunewald ’11 Receive Fulbright Scholarships
Three students have won Fulbright Scholarships that will allow them to live, work, and study in foreign countries this fall. Jessica Counihan ’10, Susan…