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Claudia Jensen, an affiliate in the Slavic Department, will be the project director for an NEH Collaborative Research Grant focusing on Muscovite theater and the communications revolution in the seventeenth century. The title of the project is “The Russian Court Theater in the Late 17th Century and Its Context in Trans-National Information Exchange” and it will include scholars from Sweden (Ingrid Maier and Heiko Droste), Russia (Stepan Shamin), and Estonia (Jürgen Beyer), who will be doing extensive archival research in Northern European and Russian archives. The grant will extend for three years, beginning in the fall of 2013.