Dr. Anna M. Cienciala, History, has received the first Distinguished Achievement Award from the Polish Institute of Arts & Sciences of America for her editorial work on the book [italics]Katyn: A Crime Without Punishment[end italics] (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2007). She will be recognized in a special ceremony at the Consulate General of the Republic of Poland in New York City on 18 November 2007.

Brian Rosenbloom, Librarian, Scholarly Digital Initiatives, traveled to the Czech Republic in June 2006 where he gave two presentations on the topics:

"Institutional Repositories and KU ScholarWorks" - a guest presentation at the State Technical Library in Prague on June 20.

"Recent Trends in Scholarly Publishing", at the World Congress of the Czechoslovak Society of Arts and Sciences, held at the University of South Bohemia in Ceske Budejovice, Czech Republic, June 25-June 30, 2006.

In addition to the presentations, he also received support from the KU Libraries' Library Research Fund (LRF) to visit librarians at several Czech institutions to learn more about their digital library efforts, and purchased a lot of new Czech materials for KU Libraries (and for the EGARC lab).

Dr. Norman Saul, History, was very busy this past semester, and among a host of other projects published Friends or Foes? The United States and Soviet Russia, 1921-1941, by University Press of Kansas, the fourth in a series on Russian-American Relations. His article on "Bernhard Warkentin and the Making of the Wheat State" appeared this year in John Brown to Bob Dole: Movers and Shakers in Kansas History, edited by Virgil Dean (University Press of Kansas, 2006).

Dr. Saul was the keynote speaker for a special program on Russia and America in April at Oklahoma State University, "The Program that Ended the Cold War: The Lacy-Zarubin Cultural Exchange Agreement of 1958", soon to be published in the proceedings of the conference. He also presented "The Program that Won the War: American Lend-Lease to the Soviet Union, 1941-45," to the Kansas Association of Historians at Bethany College in Lindsborg in April.

Shannon O'Lear (Geography, KU) and Robert Whiting, have had their article accepted for forthcoming publication by National Identities, titled: "Which Comes First, The Nation or The State? An analysis of the Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict in the Caucasus"

Marc L. Greenberg (Chair, SLL) gave a day of lectures on the topic of "Language and Identity" in Slovenia at the University of Maribor's International Summer School on 26 June and two days of lectures on "Language in the Balkans" at the Inter-University Centre in Dubrovnik, Croatia sponsored by the Northwestern University Summer School in Croatia on 29-30 June.

Dale Herspring, visiting professor from KSU recently published the following timely articles:

"Dedovshchina: The Problem That Won't Go Away," Journal of Slavic Military Studies," December 2005.

"Undermining Combat Readiness in the Russian Military, 1992-2005, Armed Forces and Society, Vol. 32, #4, 2006

The Kremlin and the High Command: Presidential Impact on the Russian Military from Gorbachev to Putin, Lawrence, University Press of Kansas, 2006.

Dr. Edith Clowes, Dept. of Slavic Languages and Literatures, received the Phi Beta Delta Faculty Award for Outstanding Contributions to International Education for 2006. She attended the International Studies Conference in San Diego, March 23-24, 2006, to receive the award.

Dr. Clowes also received a Fellowship for AY 2006-2007 from the American Council of Learned Societies to work on a book, currently entitled, "The Center at the Periphery: Eccentric Identities in Contemporary Russian Writing Culture."

John T. (Jay) Alexander, (Prof., KU-History), presented A Russian American Citizen of the Universe: The Adventures of Fedor Karzhavin (1745-1812) at the VII International Conference of the Study Group on Eighteenth-Century Russia at Lutherstadt, Germany in late July 2004. The meeting honored the retirement of its founder, Anthony Cross (prof., of Slav studies, Cambridge Univ) with a collection of essays titled Russian Society and Culture in the Long Eighteenth Century. Alexander contributed the essay Catherine the Great and the Theatre.

from The University of Kansas Oread, Sept 3, 2004

Anna Cienciala (Professor Emerita), had a review essay on the Polish version of Norman Davies' book on the Warsaw Uprising of 1944 published in Poland; Anna M. Cienciala, "Polityka Mocarstw Zachodnich wobec Polski i Powstania Warszawskiego. Dyskusja nad Dzielem Normana Daviesa," (The Policy of the Western Powers toward Poland and the Warsaw Uprising. A Discussion of Norman Davies's Work), Bialostockie Teki Historyczne, tom 3/2005, pp. 261-89.

It was published by Bialystok University, Poland. No3/2005 and appeared in early 2006.

Edith W. Clowes (Professor, KU Slavic Lang & Lit) published Fiction's Overcoat - Russian Literary Culture and the Question of Philosophy (April 7, 2004), from Cornell Univ. Press.

Norman Saul (Prof., KU-History) presented the paper Documenting Non-Russian Immigrants From the Russian Empire in early August 2004 at the annual meeting of the Society of American Archivists in Boston.

-from The University of Kansas Oread, Sept 3, 2004

Edith W. Clowes, professor of Slavic languages and literatures, has received a research grant from the Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst (German Academic Exchange Service) to go to the University of Heidelberg in June-July 2004 to complete her project, Remembering the Holocaust: Babii Iar in Soviet and Post-Soviet Culture.

from The University of Kansas Oread, Jan 23, 2004

William J. Comer, associate professor of Slavic languages and literatures, was named a co-recipient of the annual book prize in language pedagogy awarded Dec. 28 by the American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages. His contribution is a major portion of the book The Russian Context: The Culture behind the Language, edited by Genevra Gerhart and Eloise Boyle.

from The University of Kansas Oread, Jan 23, 2004

John T. “Jay” Alexander recently published “Catherine the Great and the Rats,” an essay in the collection Adventures in Russian Historical Research, edited by Samuel Baron and Cathy Frierson, published by M.E. Sharpe, New York. His contribution details the genesis of his book, Bubonic Plague in Early Modern Russia (Johns Hopkins, 1980), reissued by Oxford University Press this year.

from The University of Kansas Oread, Sept. 19, 2003

Two articles by KU Slavic department faculty recently were featured in a special publication for the 13th International Congress of Slavists in Ljubljana, Slovenia, Aug. 15-21: Stephen M. Dickey, asst. prof., Verbal Aspect in Slovene,and Marc L. Greenberg, prof., Word Prosody in Slovene from a Typological Perspective in Sprachtypologie und Universalienforschung/ Language Typology and Universals, vol. 56/3 (2003): Focus on: Slovenian from a Typological Perspective, published by Akademie Verlag, Berlin.