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George Rapall Noyes (April 2, 1873 – May 5, 1952) was Professor of Slavic Languages at University of California, Berkeley. Noyes was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1873, and attended Harvard University, graduating at the top of his class in 1894. After receiving his M.A. he completed his PhD dissertation, Dryden as Critic in 1898.
Zhivov was a professor at the Russian Language Institute of Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow and at the Department of Slavic and Languages and Literatures at the University of California, Berkeley. [1] [2] Viktor Zhivov was born in 1945 in Moscow in a Jewish family. His father was Mark Zhivov, an author and a translator.
The following is a list of academic research centers devoted to Russian studies, or Slavic studies, encompassing the area of the former Soviet Union, sometimes referred to as Eurasia: Arizona State University - The Melikian Center: Russian, Eurasian and East European Studies; Carleton University - Institute of European, Russian, and Eurasian ...
Johanna Nichols (born 1945, Iowa City, Iowa) [1] is an American linguist and professor emerita in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of California, Berkeley. Career [ edit ]
1982, the Vucinich Book Prize was established in his honor by the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies. The Wayne S. Vucinich Book Prize is awarded annually for the most important contribution to Russian, Eurasian, and East European studies in any discipline of the humanities or social sciences published in English in the ...
In 1997, he was awarded the Distinguished Teaching Award of the Social Sciences Division of UC Berkeley. In 1998, he was appointed chancellor's professor at UC Berkeley for “combining distinguished achievement at the highest level in research, teaching, and service.” [4] In 2014 he was elected Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
With stable employment as a tenured professor of Slavic languages and literatures, Miłosz was able to secure American citizenship and purchase a home in Berkeley. [67] [f] Miłosz began to publish scholarly articles in English and Polish on a variety of authors, including Fyodor Dostoevsky. But despite his successful transition to the U.S., he ...
Alexei Vladimirovich Yurchak (Russian: Алексей Владимирович Юрчак; born July 21, 1960) is a Russian-born American anthropologist and professor of anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley. [1] His research concerns the history of the Soviet Union and post-Soviet transformations in Russia and the post-Soviet ...