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Campus Life
May 11, 2018 | 01:13 pm

A local polyglot prepares to globe-trot

Rochester native Cherish Blackman has always had a knack for languages. “I wanted to study languages that weren’t very close to English,” she recalls. The double major in Russian and East Asian studies is heading to China next year, but is bringing her Spanish books with her.

topics: Class of 2018, Department of Modern Languages and Cultures, East Asian Studies, Russian Studies, School of Arts and Sciences,
Society & Culture
April 13, 2018 | 01:36 pm

Learning the lessons of Red October

Ronald Grigor Suny, one of the preeminent historians of the Soviet Union, ethnic conflict, and nationalism, will speak as part of the Russian Studies program’s commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the Russian Revolution.

topics: Department of History, events, Russian Studies, School of Arts and Sciences, Skalny Center for Polish and Central European Studies,
Society & Culture
December 11, 2013 | 09:38 pm

Prof Wins Translation Book Award

Kathleen Parthé’s book A Herzen Reader features one hundred essays and editorials by Russian radical thinker Alexander Herzen.

topics: awards, Kathleen Parthé, literature, Russian Studies, Three Percent, translation,