Honors and Awards

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)
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"Faculty/staff honors: Field research grant, staffer’s play streams, cartoon remembrance UW News staff"
(March 8, 2021)
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"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)
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Otilia Baraboi and Ileana Marin Awarded Order of Merit in Education by Romanian President Klaus Iohannis!
(December 3, 2019)
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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)
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 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)
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Veronica Muskheli selected as the first recipient of the Míċeál F. Vaughan Endowed Fund for Manuscript and Textual Studies 
(February 23, 2017)
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Congrats to Veronica Muskheli!
(April 27, 2016)
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Congratulations to Veronica Muskheli
(June 12, 2015)
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Diment awarded Hanauer Distinguished Professorship
(May 27, 2015)
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Congratulations to Katherine Schroeder!
(May 15, 2015)
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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)
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Dziwirek nominated for David B. Thorud Leadership Award
(January 5, 2015)
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Dziwirek named Alumna VIP by University of Łódź
(May 28, 2014)
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Congratulations to Veronica Muskheli
(April 24, 2014)
Congratulations to Connor Lynch!
(January 27, 2014)
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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)
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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)
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Book prize for outstanding monograph
(October 19, 2010)