Washington, DC— Keely Stauter-Halsted, Professor of History and Hejna Family Chair in Polish Studies, has been selected as the winner of the 2016 Joan Kelly Memorial Prize for her book The Devil’s Chain: Prostitution and…
Professor and Head Michał Paweł Markowski‘s most recent collection of essays Kiwka [The Dribble], which premiered at the Conrad Festival this past October, has been shortlisted (with 4 other titles) for “Nagroda Gdynia” [The Gdynia…
Congratulations to Russian minor Sarah Lee for receiving this year’s Riddle Prize! The Riddle Prize, named for a former Chancellor and his wife, is awarded each year at Commencement to an outstanding graduating senior…
Russian major Jillian Pignataro received a Post-Secondary Russian Scholar Laureate Award from the American Council of Teacher’s of Russian. The PSRSLA seeks to provide national recognition for outstanding junior and senior university-level students — those students who best…
In this year’s American Council of Teachers of Russian (ACTR) National Post-Secondary Russian Essay Contest, there were 1,415 essays submitted from 79 universities, colleges, and institutions across the nation. Congratulations to UIC’s three award winners! Diana Helwink:…
Russian major John Stachelski won First Place in the “Art/Design/Humanities” category at UIC’s 2016 Student Research Forum. John heads to graduate school at Yale in Fall 2016. His research project is entitled “The Meek…
The Conrad Festival in Kraków, organized by Professor Michał Paweł Markowski, has been shortlisted for the prestigious International Excellence Award at the London Book Fair in the category “literary festival”.
We invite all students of Polish language and heritage to participate in the second annual Polish poetry translation contest. Translation is of utmost importance for minor literatures such as that of Poland and…
Anna Szawara, Lecturer in the Department of Slavic and Baltic Languages and Literatures, has been appointed as a Teaching Scholar for UIC’s Center for the Advancement of Teaching-Learning Communities. She will be part of…
