Personages

The 92nd Street Y’s classes will feature William Brumfield: “20th-Century Russia: The Land and History of the Empire and Soviet Union Through Photography”

Karla Huebner has been promoted to full professor of Art History at Wright State University.

NEH awarded $28.4 million in grants for 239 Humanities Projects nationwide. These grants support the preservation of historic collections, humanities documentaries and exhibitions, scholarly books and research, and educational opportunities for teachers. Among this year’s recipients is Tricia Starks. Starks and Caree Banton’s project, “The Local and International Legacies of Nelson Hackett’s Flight from Slavery, 1841–1861,” is a two-week, residential institute for 30 K–12 teachers on the history of fugitives from slavery and the late-antebellum sectional crisis in response to the extradition from Canada of Nelson Hackett, an Arkansas man who fled slavery in 1841. Starks and Casey Kayser also received funding for “Pandemics in History, Literature, and Today,” which is a two-week, residential institute for middle and high school educators that would provide comparative perspectives on the 1918 and 2020 global pandemic.

Jelena Subotic was awarded the Georgia State University Sheth Distinguished Faculty Award for International Achievement, which recognizes outstanding faculty, staff, and students for their commitment to international education. Awards are given at the annual International Honorary Reception during International Education Week in November.

Olga Velikanova, University of North Texas, was awarded the Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship (Germany) to conduct her research in cooperation with German colleagues at Bielefeld University this fall. The project is “Soviet Surveillance in Comparative Perspective.”

José Vergara started a new position as Assistant Professor of Russian at Bryn Mawr College.