View all Russian Studies Newsletter articles > As another eventful academic year comes to an end, let’s take pause to congratulate our stellar majors and minors who finish their degrees this spring. One major, Julia Zuercher (featured below) walked in May, and a dozen or so others (some featured in photos below) successfully completed the […]
Our recent star graduate, Julia Zuercher, completed her degree this spring with a double major in Russian and international studies. Having successfully completed UF’s AFROTC program, she has been commissioned into the U.S. Air Force as a second lieutenant, where she will commence work as an intelligence officer. Julia also completed an outstanding honors thesis […]
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What have you been up to since leaving UF? After graduating with a Russian language and literature degree, and double minors in Spanish and English, I worked for over two years in humanitarian aid. Beginning on the heels of Kabul’s collapse in 2021, I worked in the heightened-risk department of Intensive Case Management (ICM) at […]
The fall of 2023 found Mikhail Mikhaylov growingly frustrated by a sense of helplessness with the ongoing war in Ukraine, so he decided to channel his energy into something more constructive. Months later, he had co-founded the Ukrainian Rebuilding Initiative, a project-based non-profit working to help Ukrainians in five areas: civil engineering, public health, prosthetics, […]
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Julia Zuercher joins Hannah Bogard (neé Harris) as the recipient of the Russian Major and author of a successfully completed honors thesis (profiled above). Hannah’s thesis, completed in December 2024, won her the prestigious Undergraduate Essay Contest of the Southern Conference on Slavic Studies, the largest regional chapter of our national organization, covering a territory […]
View all Russian Studies Newsletter articles > Winter traditionally finds students thinking of summer study abroad, which for obvious reasons has become challenging for students of Russia and Russian. Fortunately, Drs. Ingrid Kleespies and Natalia Sletova—have worked hard to set up a four-week program in the beautiful and eminently hospitable Georgian capital of Tbilisi. As […]
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View all Russian Studies Newsletter articles > Background: Grace Tovkach graduated in 2023 with a combined degree in International Studies and Dual Languages: French and Russian Specialization. She currently works as Alumni Outreach Engagement Specialist, U.S. Department of Defense, Washington, D.C., after completing a diplomatic fellowship at the Department of State, which took her first […]
View all Russian Studies Newsletter articles > Background: Eric Nayman graduated from UF in 2019 with a major in Russian studies, completed his MD at Florida International University in 2024, and is currently a resident physician in anatomic and clinical pathology at the McGaw Medical Center of Northwestern University, Chicago, IL. What are one or […]
View all Russian Studies Newsletter articles > Background: Hannah graduated in fall 2024 with majors in Russian and international studies, successfully completed UF’s AFROTC program, and has been commissioned into the U.S. Air Force. She also wrote a senior thesis, “Language Policy in Education: A Comparative Evaluation of Russian-Speaker Integration in Estonia and Latvia,” which […]
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View all Russian Studies Newsletter articles > True to form, the UF Russian Culture Club hosted another wonderful Fall Fest in November, featuring the usual song, dance, entertainment, and tasty cuisine that we have grown to love. Club President, Grace Wright, notes, “We had a wonderful Fall Festival 2024 filled with lots of laughter, talented […]