CEERES

Assistant Professor William Nickell (Slavic) was recently interviewed for a Washington Post article on the history and contemporary state of sanatoriums in Sochi, Russia—site of the 2014 Winter Olympics. The article highlights one of Nickell's current projects, a digital map of Sochi sanatoriums.

The Association for Women in Slavic Studies has announced that UChicago Slavic librarian, June Pachuta Farris, is the winner of its Outstanding Achievement Award for 2012.

The AHA has awarded Tara Zahra the 2012 Beer Book Prize.  The George Louis Beer Prize is offered in recognition of outstanding historical writing on any phase of European international history since 1895.  Awarded annually since its inception in 1923, this prize was established in accordance with the terms of a bequest by George Louis Beer (1872 - 1920), a historian of the British colonial system before 1765.

The American Friends of the Documentation Center of Austrian Resistance has named Tara Zahra's book The Lost Children: Reconstructing Europe´s Families after World War II as co-winner of this year´s Radomir Luza prize. The official announcement will be made during the Austrian Cultural Forum reception of the German Studies Association Conference on Saturday, October 6, 2012. Professor Zahra is the first winner of the newly created annual prize.

Recently the U.S. Department of Education announced the winners of this year's Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad (DDRA) grants, which funds international research in non-Western modern languages and area studies. CEERES is thrilled to report that two of our graduate students have won the prestigious grant in this year's competition—Natalja Czarnecki (Anthropology) and Michelle Maydanchik (Art History), both of whom are past recipients of FLAS fellowships. Please join us in congratulationing Czarnecki and Maydanchik on their accomplishment.