Honors and Awards

Aidan Ruppert in front of bookcase
A Look into the Journey of the Oleg Fomin Scholarship Recipient
July 17, 2025
2025 Slavic Convocation Podium
Congratulations to the Best Russian Language Student Award Winners
July 17, 2025
Anthony Veneziani standing in front of bookcase
Outstanding Undergraduate Student Awardee Furthers Russian Knowledge with the Vadim Pahn Scholarship
July 17, 2025
A Farewell to PhD Completionist Taylor Eftimov, our Outstanding Graduate Student Award Winner
July 17, 2025
Seats at the 2025 Slavic Department Convocation
A Conversation with the First Graduating Cohort of the Global Literary Studies Program
July 17, 2025
Letter from the Chair, Gordana Crnković
July 16, 2025
Public park and apartment building in Fužine, Slovenia
Taylor Eftimov Receives 2024 Alexander Dunkel Graduate Student Essay Prize
May 19, 2025
Stefana with her award
Stefana Vukadinovich Awarded UW Libraries Student Employee Scholarship
March 18, 2024
Sasha Senderovich and Harriet Murav
NEH Grant Awarded to Prof. Sasha Senderovich and Co-Translator Harriet Murav
August 17, 2023
Photo of Svetlana Ostroverkhova
Svetlana Ostroverkhova Awarded 2023 Distinguished Thesis Award
August 11, 2023
Michael Biggins Receiving SAZU Diploma
Double honors to UW for Slovene studies achievements
July 17, 2023
Book Cover Image
Senderovich's “How the Soviet Jew Was Made" Named Finalist for National Jewish Book Award 2022
January 20, 2023
Photo of Melinda Whalen
Melinda Whalen, Russian and History Major, Awarded a Beinecke Scholarship!
April 15, 2022
"Faculty/staff honors: Field research grant, staffer’s play streams, cartoon remembrance UW News staff"
March 8, 2021
"Faculty/staff honors: Field research grant, staffer’s play streams, cartoon remembrance UW News staff"
March 2, 2021
Drawing of Trubar
Dr. Michael Biggins Receives Trubar Award
January 12, 2021
Photo of Sasha Senderovich
Dr. Sasha Senderovich Receives 2020-21 Frankel Institute Fellowship!
September 9, 2020
Photo of Romanian President
Otilia Baraboi and Ileana Marin Awarded Order of Merit in Education by Romanian President Klaus Iohannis!
December 3, 2019
Photo of Bud Bard
Slavic Department Alum Awarded the Imperial Decoration "Order of the Rising Sun, Gold and Silver Rays"!
December 3, 2019
Photo of cover of Book Ukraine's Quest for Identity
Affiliate faculty member Maria Rewakowicz wins the 2019 Omeljan Pritsak Book Prize in Ukrainian Studies! 
October 14, 2019
Galya
Galya Diment named as the Byron W and Alice Lockwood Professor in the Humanities
May 13, 2019
 José Alaniz selected to be recognized at the Latinx Faculty Recognition Event
April 13, 2018
Ania in Warsaw
UW Polish Studies Award Winner Ania Wahler-Edwards describes her studies in Cracow this Winter Quarter
March 22, 2017
Nathan
UW Polish Studies Award Winner Nathan Marks describes his studies in Poland this Summer
March 22, 2017
Veronica Muskheli selected as the first recipient of the Míċeál F. Vaughan Endowed Fund for Manuscript and Textual Studies 
February 23, 2017
Congrats to Veronica Muskheli!
April 27, 2016
Congratulations to Veronica Muskheli
June 12, 2015
Diment awarded Hanauer Distinguished Professorship
May 27, 2015
Congratulations to Katherine Schroeder!
May 15, 2015
Michael Biggins named 2015 Janko Lavrin laureate
February 27, 2015
Cyrus Rodgers wins 2014 Lenček award for Slovene research
February 27, 2015
Gregory Chapman awarded 2014 Velikonja prize for undergraduate writing
February 27, 2015
Dziwirek nominated for David B. Thorud Leadership Award
January 5, 2015
Dziwirek named Alumna VIP by University of Łódź
May 28, 2014
Congratulations to Veronica Muskheli
April 24, 2014
Congratulations to Connor Lynch!
January 27, 2014
Muskheli wins Society for Slovene Studies prize
December 16, 2013
Danielle Noble awarded FLAS Fellowship and Gross Undergraduate Scholarship
October 7, 2013
Wayne Jehlik installed as Honorary Czech Consul
August 6, 2013
Anatoliy Klots awarded this year's best Polish language student.
Language Students Honored
June 17, 2013
Moore awarded Gilman International Scholarship
June 5, 2013
Michelle Lie awarded Vadim Pahn Scholarship
May 6, 2013
Graduate Student Matt Boyd
Grad student Matt Boyd awarded Fulbright
May 2, 2013
Karolina Lamb
Karolina Lamb awarded UW PSEC Scholarship
April 23, 2013
Andrej Markovčič
Andrej Markovčič wins 2012 Joseph Velikonja Undergraduate Prize
April 12, 2013
Diment’s book gets starred review on Booklist
June 6, 2012
James West
West awarded NEH Digital Humanities Grant
June 6, 2012
Mary Sherhart
Mary Sherhart honored
March 5, 2012
Graduate student wins top national award for Slovene studies
December 14, 2010
Senior Lecturer Bojan Belić
Belić honored at Huskies volleyball game
December 6, 2010