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Chappell Scholarship Summer 2010

Thoughts About Russia

Well, I’m back from my time in Russia and I want to spend some time just talking about my experiences there and how it was doing research in a foreign country.  Of course the language barrier was the most difficult to get passed, just figuring out how to get places was a challenge.  Even with […]

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CC International Summer 2010

Art and Oral History in Russia

  Me – in St. Petersburg Summer 2009 Hi, My name is Barry O’Keefe. I am a senior English and Russian Studies major. This summer I will be in Russia’s Tver region painting and recording interviews with a group of Russian painters. I will be living and working at the ‘Academic Dacha’of  The Surikov Institute of […]

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Chappell Scholarship Summer 2010

Oral Histories of Women Activists in Russia

Hello, I’m Jacob Lassin and I am a member of the Class of 2012 and Government and Russian and Post-Soviet Studies double major.  I am very excited to have the opportunity to spend my summer in St. Petersburg, Russia doing research on the Women’s Movement in Russia as a Chappell Fellow. . Over the course […]

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