EGR News

Pythagoras’s Veil 2.0   “Thousands of college instructors, after doing their job for the last year primarily from home and via video, are back to teach in real classrooms and lecture halls this fall. Instead of seeing their students locked into separate Zoom tiles on screen, they finally face them… Read More

During summer 2021 two Vanderbilt Russian Program students spent several weeks immersed in two different language experiences.  Junior Jasmine Ding worked as a counselor at the Concordia Language Villages Russian Camp – Lesnoe Ozero.       Sophomore Nathan West continued his Russian language studies in Kyrgyzstan in Central… Read More

Congratulations to Joel Harrington! His 2018 book Dangerous Mystic: Meister Eckhart’s Path to the God Within (Penguin Press) recently appeared in German translation, as Meister Eckhart: Der Mönch, der die Kirche herausforderte und seinen eigenen Weg zu Gott fand (Siedler Verlag). Here’s a description of the translated book in German:… Read More

Emily Greble published the essay, “Conflict in Post-War Yugoslavia: The Search for a Narrative”, for the National World War II Museum this week. It is part of a series of essays rethinking the end of World War II in Europe. [September 2021]    … Read More

  Emily Greble’s new book, Muslims and the Making of Modern Europe (Oxford University Press, 2021), was selected as an editor’s choice by The Bookseller.            … Read More

[The original feature appeared on A&S’s Instagram account]   Q: What is something interesting about you?⁠ A: When I was seven, my family and I moved to Sweden for six months because of my dad’s sabbatical. Even though I was young, living in a different country afforded me with… Read More

Meike G. Werner published Ein Gipfel für Morgen. Kontroversen 1917/18 um die Neuordnung Deutschlands auf Burg Lauenstein [A Summit for Tomorrow. Controversies 1917/18 about the Reorganisation of Germany on Burg Lauenstein].   In the Spring of 1917, the German publisher Eugen Diederichs initiated two conferences at the Lauenstein Castle, the… Read More

Read Lutz Koepnick’s recent blog post on “Perfect Pitch? The Sounds of Post-Pandemic Soccer”        … Read More

Yining Ding ’22 in Liverpool soccer stadium Yining Ding ‘22, a cognitive studies major, a minor in German studies and computer science, and a resident of the German Hall at McTyeire International House,  traveled to England with her professors and classmates in spring 2021… Read More

Dominic Cruz Bustillos, ’21 Dominic Cruz Bustillos, from San Rafael, California, is the Class of 2021 Founder’s Medalist for the College of Arts and Science. He graduated with a bachelor of arts in history and Russian language. He attributes his success to the work ethic instilled by his… Read More

Jacquelyn Olson, BA’20, at one of Europe’s famous nighttime Christmas markets. Jacquelyn Olson–a German Studies and Law, History, and Society double major–began studying German her first year at Vanderbilt and lived on the German hall at McTyeire International House. Now a… Read More

Kathryn David, Mellon Assistant Professor of Russian and East European Studies Leading humanities and social sciences website H-Net recently interviewed Kathryn David, Mellon Assistant Professor of Russian and East European Studies, for a spotlight series on scholars of Ukrainian studies. David specializes in Soviet Ukrainian and… Read More

Senior Software Engineer, Capital One Devon Akers ’15 A Russian and Philosophy major, Devon is now a Washington, D.C.-based software engineer for one of the nation’s biggest banks. “Studying Russian at Vanderbilt gave me so many more skills than just the language. I learned to think… Read More

Mark Pettus ’00 in Moscow Lecturer, Princeton University As a first-year Vanderbilt undergraduate, Mark signed up for a seminar on the Russian novelist Fyodor Dostoevsky out of sheer curiosity. He was so impressed by this first encounter with Russian literature that he was determined to read it one day in… Read More