Dear Friends, Colleagues, Partners, and Students, Happy Holidays from SRAS! This year, we are excited to announce the return of the SRAS calendar! After three turbulent years, we have new images coming from the bright students now on the ground in our exciting new destinations. See what our students are seeing in the Baltics, the… Read More
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Introduction to Karakalpakstan as a Study Destination
When I first arrived in Nukus, the capital of the Autonomous Republic of Karakalpakstan, my immediate impression was that everything was salty. I mean this literally. As my friends and I exited the back seat of the taxi that had delivered us the three hours from Khiva, the first sensation I experienced was a distinct… Read More
SRAS in Conversation with Lee Sullivan: Studying Across Eurasia
Lee Sullivan has studied with SRAS in nearly all our locations – many of them new. Back home at Stetson University in Florida, she’s majoring in Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies while also taking extensive coursework in computer science and cybersecurity. She has won multiple scholarships that have allowed her to study in, travel… Read More
SRAS in Conversation with Dr. Katarzyna Maniszewska: Security Studies in Poland
Katarzyna Maniszewska is the long-time director of SRAS’ Security and Society in the Information Age program in Warsaw. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Warsaw and her research focuses on the history and development of political extremism and terrorism with particular emphasis on media coverage of terrorism. She completed postgraduate studies in Issues… Read More
SRAS in Conversation with Heather Rice: Traveling Uzbekistan
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
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 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 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