HWS Students Explore Rural Russia

In a remote village six hours west of Moscow, a group from HWS on an expedition to explore Russia's folklore heritage was welcomed to join a local family at their home for an unforgettable cultural experience. It was Christmas Eve in the Smolensk region, and the team of students, alums and Department Chair and Associate Professor of Russian Area Studies David Galloway, humbly accepted the offer t...  More >>

McKinney Receives Fulbright

Associate Professor of Economics Judith McKinney has been awarded a Fulbright Scholar grant to conduct research in Russia this semester. Currently in Yaroslavl, a city northeast of Moscow, McKinney is focusing on the experiences of women who worked in the provincial Soviet city in the late 1980s and early 1990s. McKinney is particularly interested in the ways in which the women navigated their ro...  More >>

Littlefield ’12 in South Korea

For someone who loves to learn different languages, there really is no better way to do so than to go to a place where that language is spoken and immerse yourself in it. That is exactly what Belinda Littlefield '12 is doing. Littlefield is currently an English teacher at a school in South Korea, where she is helping young students learn English while at the same time learning her third language....  More >>

Shils '13 Awarded Russian Scholarship

Nathaniel Shils '13 has been awarded the Critical Languages Scholarship to study Russian in Ufa in the Republic of Bashkortostan of Russia. One of the most competitive scholarship competitions in the United States, the scholarship, granted through the Intensive Summer Institutes program, seeks to help students develop critical listening, reading, speaking and writing skills. While abroad in Ufa, ...  More >>

Warner '12 Interns With The RAF

Melissa Warner '12 is spending her summer in New York City providing support for the Russian American Foundation's (RAF) 10th Annual Russian Heritage Festival, the Bolshoi Ballet Academy Summer Intensive program and the National Security Language Initiative for Youth language program. "I really enjoy working with RAF because I think the work they are doing to promote understanding between America...  More >>