Heather Rice has a long history of traveling, living, and working abroad. Now the Russian language coordinator and an assistant professor of instruction of Russian for the Department of Slavic and Eurasian Studies, she recently took a trip to Uzbekistan to explore the possibilities for her students to study there. In the 47-minute conversation below,… Read More
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SRAS in Conversation with David Galloway: Faculty Led Programming to Georgia
David Galloway, Associate Professor of Russian Area Studies at Hobart and William Smith Colleges, has run multiple faculty-led programs with SRAS. He’s also often chosen more adventurous locations. For his very first faculty-led tour with SRAS, he eschewed the capitals to take his students to Irkutsk, Russia, in 2006. In 2023, he chose to take… Read More
SRAS in Conversation with Walter Denz of Liden & Denz Language Schools
Walter Denz founded Liden & Denz in St. Petersburg in 1992. He then expanded his language schools to Moscow, Irkutsk, and, most recently, Riga, Latvia. SRAS has, as of summer 2023, partnered with Liden & Denz in Riga to offer our students a unique new location for studying Russian. In the half-hour conversation below, Walter… Read More
SRAS Publishes Updated Materials for 2024
SRAS is pleased to announce the publication of our new materials, showing our lineup of 2024 programs abroad. You may download these below. If you would like to request copies of these for your university/college department or study abroad office, you may use this form. SRAS Study Abroad Poster – A beautiful 8.5 x 11″… Read More
SRAS on Tour, Fall 2023
Would you like to get to know more about SRAS programs? SRAS is on the road (and online!), participating in study abroad fairs, hosting info sessions, and presenting in classes. We will be updating the schedule as our plans evolve so please check back here regularly to see if and when we will be visting… Read More
SRAS in Conversation with Student Nathan Renard: For the Love of Languages
Nathan Renard is a recent high school graduate of Friends School of Baltimore. As part of his senior year there, he participated in a faculty led study abroad experience to Kyrgyzstan organized by his Russian Instructor, Lee Roby, and SRAS. Nathan plans on intensively studying Korean for a year abroad before moving on to linguistics… Read More
Faculty Led Programs to the Caucasus
This spring I joined the SRAS team and in my new position, I will be developing faculty-led programming throughout our region (Central and Eastern Europe, Central Asia, the Baltics, the Balkans, and the Caucasus). The Caucasus – Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan – have become increasingly popular destinations for faculty-led programming in the absence of Russia… Read More
SRAS 2023 Photo Contest
The SRAS calendar has been a long-standing SRAS tradition. Each year, we have asked our students to send in the pictures that they believe best tell the story of their time abroad. We then assembled these pictures into an annual calendar with brief narratives from the student describing what they saw, what they learned, and… Read More
SRAS Debrief with Student Kat Lytkowski: Security and Society in the Information Age
Kat Lytkowski is currently majoring in STIA at Georgetown University in the US. STIA stands for “Science, Technology and International Affairs” and is a new major that “applies cutting-edge science to the world’s most pressing political, social and ethical issues.” It takes into account the multiple forces affecting international affairs today – from social media… Read More
SRAS Debrief with Friends School of Baltimore: Spring Break in Kyrgyzstan
Lee Roby of the Friends School of Baltimore led a group of her high school students to St. Petersburg, Russia every other year for 18 years. This faculty-led travel was, as she says, “a well-oiled machine” in introducing her students to Russian culture and immersing them into the Russian language. For the past three years,… Read More