REEEC would like to congratulate the following student award winners:
2015 Yaro Skalnik Prize for the Best Student Essay
Graduate Student – Alana Holland (REEEC) – “Writing the Holocaust where ‘Things’re a little diffrent’: Jáchym Topol and the Merits of the Postmodernist Style to Presenting the Holocaust in Eastern Europe”

Prof. Carol Leff (Assoc. Professor of Political Science) announcing the graduate student winner of the Yaro Skalnik Prize – Alana Holland.
Undergraduate Student – Lucy Pakhnyuk (REEEC and Political Science) – “From Hybrid Regime to Holy Regime: An Analysis of Putin’s Discursive Politics Since 2011”

Prof. Carol Leff announcing the undergraduate student winner of the Yaro Skalnik Prize – Lucy Pakhnyuk.
Summer 2015 FLAS Fellows
Graduate Students:
- Anna Harbaugh (History) – Georgian
- Nadia Hoppe (Slavic Languages and Literatures) – Russian
- Sabrina Jaszi (Library and Information Science) – Russian
- Emily Lipira (REEEC) – Russian
- Mitchell Margolis (Urban and Regional Planning) – Turkish
- Matthew McWilliams (REEEC) – Russian
- Alejandra Pires (Slavic Languages and Literatures) – Russian
- Bethany Wages (REEEC) – Turkish
- Austin Yost (History) – Russian
Undergraduate Students:
- Anthony Pearce (Slavic Languages and Literatures) – Russian
- Gabriella Repala (REEEC) – Russian