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Roaming Academics: An Immigrant Story
People ask me all the time where I will, or want to live when I finish my PhD, as if I am supposed to be able to answer that question.
“Those crazy Americans, of course Pushkin’s not black!”
Last Friday, a group of scholars gathered in the wonderful space of NYU’s newly established Africa house to discuss connections of various forms between Russian and Africa. We were a...
The Mediterranean as movement: Greeks and Russians in a contested space
On Friday, March 29, the Jordan Center was pleased to welcome a number of speakers to participate in a lively discussion on movements of Greeks and Russians of various sorts...
Women Soldiers: Anna Krylova and Soviet Gender Categories
Elizabeth Banks is a Graduate Student in NYU's History Department. “God blessed Vasilisa with the greatest courage of all” Last Friday the Jordan Center joined with the NYU History Department’s...