Patrick Greaney

Professor Greaney receives Faculty Fellowship from the Center for the Humanities and the Arts

April 21, 2023

Congratulations to Professor Patrick Greaney on receiving a Faculty Fellowship from the Center for the Humanities and the Arts (CHA). The CHA Faculty Fellowship program welcomes ten fellows a year, who meet regularly to discuss their research in progress. Professor Greaney will be working on a book about German industrial...

Galina Nicoll

Galina Siergiejczyk-Nicoll receives teaching award.

April 19, 2023

Galina Siergiejczyk-Nicoll has been selected as an award recipient for the 2023 Marinus Smith Award at CU Boulder! She was nominated by student Martha Geering. The award provides an opportunity for students to recognize CU Boulder faculty, staff, coaches and administrators who have made a significant impact in their lives...

Benjamin Lourie, CU Boulder alum

CU Russian alum features on Colorado Arts and Sciences Magazine

March 7, 2023

CU Russian alum Benjamin Lourie tells his story about learning Russian, moving to Russia, and leaving after the Russian invasion of Ukraine in this article in the C olorado Arts and Sciences magazine .

Mathias Nordvig

Nordic Program Head Mathias Nordvig featured in Colorado Arts and Sciences Magazine

March 6, 2023

Nordic Program head Professor Mathais Nordvig was featured in Colorado Arts and Sciences Magazine ! Check out the story to learn more about Prof. Nordvig's research interests in witchraft, magic, and understandings of volcanoes; his podcasts Nordic Mythology (cofounder) and The Sacred Flame ; and more.

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Russian Program Statement on the War in Ukraine

Feb. 25, 2022

Faculty in the Russian program of GSLL unequivocally condemn the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Among us are faculty from Ukraine as well as from Russia, Belarus, and the United States, and this unprovoked war represents not only a flagrant disregard of international law, but an imminent threat to family members...

Vicki Grove

Congratulations to Vicki Grove for receiving the honorary title of Teaching Professor of Distinction!

Dec. 10, 2021

Professor Vicki Grove, a member of our Russian and Nordic Programs, is one of only two faculty members in the College of Arts and Sciences to receive the honorary title of “Teaching Professor of Distinction” this year. The title recognizes faculty members for their outstanding record in the areas of...

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Roundtable discussion of Professor Weber’s new book

Sept. 9, 2021

The CES Cinema Studies Network will host an online roundtable discussion of Professor Beverly Weber’s new co-authored book: Maria Stehle and Beverly Weber, Precarious Intimacies: The Politics of Touch in Contemporary Western European Cinema (Northwestern University Press, 2020). The roundtable will take place on October 8, 2021 at 10AM PST...

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Mathias Nordvig publishes new book: Volcanoes in Old Norse Mythology

Aug. 9, 2021

Volcanoes in Old Norse Mythology details how Viking Age Icelanders, migrating from Scandinavia to a new and volcanically active environment, used Old Norse mythology to understand and negotiate the hazards of the island. These pre-Christian myths recorded in medieval Iceland expound an indigenous Icelandic theory on volcanism that revolves around...

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GSLL Welcomes Assistant Professor Adrienne Merritt

June 9, 2021

The Department of Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures is delighted to announce that Dr. Adrienne Merritt will be joining our faculty as an assistant professor of German Studies in August. Dr. Merritt is an interdisciplinary scholar with research and teaching concentrations in medieval studies and Black and Afro-German cultural...

Karen Hawley

Congratulations to Karen Hawley for her Employee of the Year Award from the College of Arts and Sciences!

May 4, 2021

Congratulations to Karen Hawley, who received an Employee of the Year Award from the Dean’s Staff Advisory Committee and the College of Arts and Sciences! The award citation celebrated Karen’s “leadership, innovative drive, and unfailing devotion to students and staff” as well as her “administrative, leadership, and communications skills, which...

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