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From the FLAS Fellows: Devon Rancourt’s Experience with the Balkan Language Initiative in Belgrade

By Devon Rancourt

Last summer I took intensive Serbian language classes in Belgrade, Serbia through the American Councils Balkan Language Initiative (BLI) Program with the help of a FLAS fellowship and a Title VIII…

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From the FLAS Fellows: Emma Clute's Summer at Middlebury College's School of Russian

By Cody Allen

Alongside opportunities for students to study abroad, there are also numerous options within the United States that enable students to learn a foreign language within an…

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Linguistic Immersion and Cultural Insight: Ryan Scharff’s Summer in Poland

By Ryan Scharff, Senior in Data Analytics and Slavic Studies (minor)

While never being my main area of study, language and linguistics have always been a secondary…

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From the FLAS Fellows: Sarah Hohman’s Path to Polish Proficiency

By Sarah Hohman

When I began work on my master’s degree in August 2024, I had just returned from a Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship in Moldova. As part of my coursework, I began studying Polish and…

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From the FLAS Fellows: Angelo Juarez's Summer at Middlebury College's School of Russian

By Luis Angelo Juarez

Last year, I spent ten weeks of my summer learning Russian in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan through SRAS. It was quite an amazing experience for me. There, I largely learned the…

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Unearthing the Past: My Summer Studying Mortuary Archaeology in Poland

Written by Amelia Webster, Senior in Forensic Anthropology and Forensic Biology with a minor in Mycology on the pre-med track.

This past summer, I had the…

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Prepare for Your Next Academic Workshop with CSEEES' First Graduate Student's Guide

The Center for Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies (CSEEES) is proud to share the first resource in our new Graduate Student’s Guide—resources made by graduate students for graduate…