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When he assigned a Russian role-playing and survival game to his students last semester, little did Assistant Professor of Russian Studies Jason Cieply know that a few months later, the game would inspire him to try making his own batch of hand sanitizer.
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'Teaching a language is really exciting in that you get these raw, unmolded people who don’t understand any of the language, and within a few months they’re already understanding quite a lot.'
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Students in Hamilton’s Russian Studies Program visited Holy Trinity Monastery, a Russian Orthodox church, museum, and seminary in Jordanville, N.Y., on Oct. 12. Michael Perekrestov, director of the museum, led a private tour of the exhibit “Revealing the Divine: Treasures of Russian Sacred Art.” The exhibit on Russian religious imagery features icons, architecture, and symbols of ecclesiastical life in Russia from the medieval period to the present.
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Suzanne Keen, vice president for academic affairs and dean of faculty, announced the appointment of new faculty for the 2019-20 academic year, including nine tenure-track appointments.
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Sheridan Cordova ’20 studied Russian in high school but had no intention of continuing with the language until she took a Russian film course. Her are three of her favorite things about Russian studies.
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“Ivan the Terrible murdered his heir, and left Russia to face economic collapse and mass hunger without a stable government. Then things got really bad.” So begins the description of the course, built around an opera. It inspired Wynston Pennybacker ’19's fascination with Russia.
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As a resettlement case manager Erin Sullivan ’13 helps Russian speaking refugees from the former Soviet Union establish new lives.
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