THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS DEPARTMENT OF SLAVIC LANGUAGES & LITERATURES THE LAWRENCIAN CHRONICLE Vol. XXX no. 1 Fall 2019 IN THIS ISSUE Chair’s Corner...... 3 Message from the Director of Graduate Studies...... 5 Message from the Director of Undergraduate Studies...... 6 “Postcards Lviv”...... 8 Faculty News...... 9 Alumni News...... 13

2 Lawrencían Chronicle, Fall 2019 various levels, as well as become familiar with different CHAIR’S CORNER aspects of Central Asian culture and politics. For the depart- by Ani Kokobobo ment’s larger mission, this expansion leads us to be more inclusive and consider the region in broader and less Euro- centric terms. Dear friends –

Colleagues travel throughout the country and abroad to present The academic year is their impressive research. Stephen Dickey presented a keynote running at full steam lecture at the Slavic Cognitive Linguistics Association confer- here in Lawrence and ence at Harvard. Marc Greenberg participated in the Language I’m thrilled to share Contact Commission, Congress of Slavists in Germany, while some of what we are do- Vitaly Chernetsky attended the ALTA translation conference in ing at KU Slavic with Rochester, NY. Finally, with the help of the Conrad fund, gen- you. erously sustained over the years by the family of Prof. Joseph Conrad, we were able to fund three graduate students (Oksana We had our “Balancing Husieva, Devin McFadden, and Ekaterina Chelpanova) to Work and Life in Aca- present papers at the national ASEEES conference in San demia” graduate student Francisco. We are deeply grateful for this support. workshop in early September with Andy Denning (History) and Alesha Doan (WGSS/SPAA), which was attended by Finally, our Slavic, Eastern European, and Eurasian Studies students in History, Spanish, and Slavic. This October we Club (SEEES) (former Russian Club), which assumed its new followed up with a workshop (by Kokobobo, Wallo, Dickey) name last year under the leadership of our graduate student, about how to write conference abstracts in literature, linguis- Molly Godwin-Jones, is continuing this year under the lead- tics, and second language acquisition. In November, we will ership of another graduate student, Olga Savchenko. Many look forward to a workshop about conference networking with of our undergraduate SEEES Club officers have assumed an Chernetsky, Greenberg, and Kokobobo. If you attended KU active role in the club. I want to make special mention of: Slavic, either as a graduate or undergraduate student, what Nicole Konopelko, communications coordinator, who runs kinds of professional development events did you enjoy? What the facebook, instagram, and twitter pages; Mason Hussong, events did you wish we had? If you have strong feelings, get treasurer, who helped prepare a special club event about Soviet in touch and let us know. cartoons; and Jacob Springer, outreach coordinator, who is dedicated and responsive on all club matters. I am also deeply As fall classes are more than halfway through, we are already grateful to Olga for her time and dedication to the club and anticipating our spring semester lineup. With Soviet and Post- to the Russian conversation table. SEEES Club makes the Soviet Russian Cinema (Chernetsky), South Slavic Cinema broader campus community aware of the important work we (Dickey), and courses on Turkey (Predolac) and Iran (Ahmad) do, so we are thrilled to have these dedicated and energetic through cinema and film, KU Slavic will be in a cinematic students around. frame of mind this Spring 2020. For those who love theater, Olesia Wallo is reviving our Russian theater course for the first Best wishes, time in a few years. We also have an exciting lineup of two linguistics seminars, as well as lower level courses in (Perelmutter), graphic novels (Vassileva-Karagyozova) and culture (Kokobobo). Prof. Six continues our business Russian offerings, and this spring Prof. Pirnat-Greenberg will be teach- Ani Kokobobo ing an intro to Slovene (language and culture) for KU Business Associate Professor and Chair School students attending a study abroad program to Slovenia. [email protected] (m) 646-416-1879 We are also working on getting our new Kazakhstan program up and running for this coming summer of 2020. Students will go to Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan to study Russian at

3 Spring 2020 DEPARTMENT OF SLAVIC SLAV 320 LANGUAGES & LITERATURES GRAPHIC NOVELS AS MEMORY: REPRESENTATIONS OF AND

In this course we will examine the interaction between literature and memory, in particular how authors have responded to major historical events and have contributed to the shaping of the collective memory of those events. Using several graphic novels as prompts, you will be writing for a variety of academic and non-academic audiences. Throughout the semester, you will produce writing in the following genres: journal entry, article summary, synthetic and analytical essay, and reflection essay/creative writing.

Online Course March 23– May 15, 2020 Satisfies Goal 2.1 and Elective Requirement for Slavic-Jewish and Slavic-Polish Minor and Polish BA

Get in Touch! Prof. Vassileva-Karagyozova [email protected] slavic.ku.edu

4 Lawrencían Chronicle, Fall 2019 In Spring 2019, MA student Chul Hyun successfully passed MESSAGE FROM his MA/PhD Qualifying exams and advanced into our PhD program, while doctoral student Ekaterina Chelpanova suc- THE DIRECTOR OF cessfully defended her professional portfolio. Ekaterina was GRADUATE STUDIES awarded the 2019 Summer Research Scholarship from KU by Oleksandra Wallo Graduate Studies in support of her dissertation project. Her research took her to the Laboratory of Native Cinema of It has been a very busy VGIK in , an institution famous for its film archives. year for students in our Frane Karabatić spent his summer at the University of Slavic Languages and Pittsburgh, teaching intensive elementary and intermediate Literatures graduate pro- Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian at the Summer Language Institute. gram, with many accom- Frane received a Language Teaching and Learning Research plishments to celebrate. Grant from the University of Pittsburgh to develop and pi- lot the first few modules At the end of 2018, of what will be his open- the program conferred access online resource for another PhD degree: teaching elementary Bos- Megan Luttrell defend- nian/Croatian/Serbian. In ed with honors her dis- July 2019, Frane accepted sertation, “Color, Line, a Lecturer position at the and Narrative: Visual Art Techniques in Lev Tolstoy’s University of Texas at Aus- Fiction.” In the spring, advanced doctoral student Anna tin where he now teaches Karpusheva was awarded a prestigious national grant—a Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowship—for and Russian. her dissertation, “In Search of a Form for Soviet Trauma: ’s Prose between History and Literature.” The University of Pitts- Oksana Husieva giving a talk burgh benefited from high- The fellowship provides a year of support to advanced gradu- about East Slavic witches and ate students in the humanities and social sciences to help them quality summer language sorcerers at the Haunting Hu- complete dissertation projects. Another advanced doctoral instruction by two more manities event, organized by the student, Krzysztof Borowski, presented research related to of our graduate students: Hall Center for the Humanities his dissertation at three international conferences in Europe Oksana Husieva taught in 2018-2019 and gave an invited presentation, titled “Rural beginner’s intensive Russian at the Summer Language Voices in Urban Setting: Silesian as a Troublesome Dialect Institute and Olga Savchenko worked there as the instruc- of Polish,” at the “Language in Its Settings” workshop at tor of Russian for STARTALK. Meanwhile, back at KU, Columbia University. Molly Godwin-Jones and Devin McFadden team-taught our department’s intensive summer Russian-language course and Chul Hyun worked as the Project GO Russian- language tutor. Graduate students were and continue to be actively involved in curriculum development for our Rus- sian courses: in 2019, teams of Slavic faculty and gradu- ate students Molly Godwin-Jones, Cecilia King, and Olga Savchenko received two Course Transformation grants from the Center for Teaching Excellence to redesign our advanced Russian sequence.

Anna Karpusheva giving a Brownbag talk on Svetlana Alexievich’s Last Witnesses at CREES

5 Slavic graduate students have also been very active represent- MESSAGE FROM ing KU at a variety of international, national, and regional conferences. Several of them (Anna, Molly, Oksana) orga- THE DIRECTOR OF nized panels and roundtables for the ASEEES convention; others presented their research at ASEEES (Anna, Molly, UNDERGRADUATE Oksana, Devin, Frane, Ekaterina), the meeting of the Slavic STUDIES Linguistics Society (Molly), the Midwest Slavic Conference at by Stephen M. Dickey Ohio State University (Frane), the Languages, Literatures, and Cultures Conference at the University of Kentucky (Frane), Undergraduates in the the conference of the Midwest Association for Language Department of Slavic Learning Technology (Molly), the STARTALK conference Languages & Litera- (Olga), and the conference on gender in Russian realism, or- tures have always been ganized by Slavic faculty and held at KU (Devin). All of this high achievers, and last in addition to giving Brownbag talks at CREES, speaking on year they continued work in progress in the reformatted departmental colloquium, their tradition of excel- completing graduate certificates in Second Language Studies lence. Several of our and in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, and engaging students studied abroad in a dizzying array of outreach and extracurricular activities! in the summer of 2019: Congratulations to our dedicated and hard-working graduate Jacob Springer spent five students on a productive academic year! Truly, you make us weeks studying Russian very proud. in Moscow through the Pittsburgh University’s Summer Language Institute, for which Finally, let me welcome this year’s cohort of incoming gradu- he received the 2019 Joseph L. Conrad Undergraduate Travel ate students: Diana Chilton, Jakob Johnson, and Pavlo Popov. Scholarship; Mason Hussong spent nine weeks studying They come to us from places as near as KU itself and as Russian in Riga, Latvia through Project GO (hosted by Geor- distant as the University of Munich. Diana, Jakob, and Pavlo gia Tech and the Baltic School of Professional Development); – Ласкаво просимо! Matthew Pyskir spent six weeks studying Ukrainian through KU’s own Language Institute in Lviv, .

Slavic GTAs Chul Hyun Hwang (left), Krzysztof E. Borowski (middle), and Olga Savchenko (right).

This year’s Joseph L. Conrad Undergraduate Russian Scholarship was shared by Amanda Birger, who is majoring in Journalism with a minor in Russian Business and Professional Culture, and Alaina DeLeo, who has a Russian Emphasis as her major.

6 Lawrencían Chronicle, Fall 2019 One final note: since we introduced OPI exams to assess our majors’ speaking ability in the last semester of study and began keeping records in 2017, our undergraduate majors have been meeting or exceeding our BA language outcomes benchmark (Intermediate Mid, which is standard across US Russian programs for those without a study-abroad experi- ence) almost without exception. One final congratulations, to our majors on making the mark!

GTAs Olga Savchenko (far left) and Anna Karpusheva (far right) with a group of their students.

Elizabeth Wenger was selected as the 2019 Russian Scholar Laureate for the American Council of Teachers of Russian. This multi-talented senior also received the Brosseau Creativ- ity Award for Writing, for her essay “Still Frame.” Congratula- tions to Elizabeth!

Russian major, Eric Allen, graduated with Honors, complet- Dr. Renee Perelmutter (right) with a group of award-winning ing two independent projects in his last semester: one, on the undergraduate students. variation v/na Ukraine in the Russian press for his Capstone Seminar, and the other for his Honors Thesis, on changes in Putin’s rhetoric in his annual policy addresses. Either one of these would have been an achievement on its own, and it therefore makes sense that Mr. Allen was recognized as the outstanding graduating major in the department in 2019. Congratulations to Eric!

Ani Kokobobo (right) congratulating GTA Molly Godwin-Jones.

7 POSTCARDS “This past summer I attended the Summer Language Institute in Lviv, Ukraine. For six weeks we took classes in Ukrainian FROM LVIV along with occasional lectures in Ukrainian history and litera- ture and local excursions. We also drank a lot of coffee! Lviv Last summer three KU is the coffee capital of Ukraine and coffee shops are located students and one stu- everywhere. One excursion took us through an underground dent from the Universi- café (designed to look like a mine) where they would torch ty of Illinois at Urbana- your coffee right in front of you. We toured castles in the re- Champaign took part gion and also went on trips to the capital Kyiv, where we rode in a six-week Summer the world’s deepest subway system, and Yaremche, a small, Language Institute, or- beautiful town in the Carpathian Mountains. I also got the ganized jointly by KU opportunity to visit my hometown, Rivne, on one of our free and the Ivan Franko weekends. One of my favorite places during my time abroad National University in was Rivne’s central park lake, known for its swans.” Lviv. All KU partici- pants benefited from -Diana Chilton, Lviv SLI the CREES-adminis- tered Jarosewycz Fam- ily Scholarship, which Rivne Lake made the program much more affordable for them. Dedicated language instruc- tors from the Ivan Franko University made daily intensive study of Ukrainian very effective and highly enjoyable. This year’s area studies classes often went beyond the usual lecture format and included, for example, a literary walking tour of Lviv and a Ukrainian pysanky workshop. Students and I also explored local culture through numerous excursions inside the city and weekend trips to other parts of Ukraine. We walked up many flights of stairs to catch a bird’s-eye view of Lviv from Ukrainian Study Abroad Students in Kyiv the top of High Castle Hill and the rooftop of the city hall in the heart of medieval downtown. We descended into the cel- lars and basements of churches and museums to learn about “The trip to Lviv was the most rewarding experience of my the eventful history of the city. We attended an opera at Lviv’s life. It is one thing to study a language at university, but go- beautiful opera house and caught a local circus show. Whether ing to the place where it is spoken reminds you why you even touring the castles around Lviv, hiking and souvenir-shopping chose to begin that adventure in the first place. Walking the in the Carpathian Mountains, or exploring the ancient architec- beautiful streets of downtown Lviv and hearing Ukrainian ture and contemporary politics of Ukraine’s capital city, Kyiv, all around you reminds you that it is all real. Being able to students took in Ukrainian culture together with the language use what is drilled into your head during class immediately and thoroughly enjoyed doing so. A couple of them did not after your lesson only gets you more excited for the next day even want to go back home! and fosters an environment of progress. Although we were in Ukraine for over a month, I couldn’t help but think that it -Oleksandra Wallo, Lviv SLI 2019 Director wasn’t enough time. How I wanted to come back as soon as possible to soak in every bit of the country! After this trip, I realized that I had made the right choice in studying Slavic languages and I can’t wait to take my next trip abroad.”

-Matthew Pyskir, Lviv SLI

8 Lawrencían Chronicle, Fall 2019 final touches on vol. XXX of theTolstoy Studies Journal that FACULTY NEWS should be coming out any day now, while also continuing to make progress on her monograph on Tolstoy and gender/ sexuality, which she hopes to conclude by the end of 2020. Stephen M. Dickey She is giving a keynote talk at an undergraduate conference presented two keynote at Dartmouth College in November. lectures: “An Epistemic Approach to Russian Aspect” (at Aspect in the Arctic, Tromsø Uni- versity, 5 September 2019) and “Slavic As- pectology: Structuralist Legacies and Cognitive Approaches” (Slavic Cognitive Linguistics Conference, Harvard University, 14 October 2019). He was also an instructor at a PhD course at Tromsø University, “Aspect Across Languages and Linguistic Schools” (2–4 September 2019). He published two articles on aspectual usage in the imperative, “Subjectiv- ity, Intersubjectivity, and the Aspect of Imperatives in Slavic Languages,” in a special issue of Cahiers Chronos; the second is forthcoming in Journal of Linguistics. He is now working This summer Prof. Kokobobo went back to visit her native with Dr. Astrid De Wit of Antwerp University on a new gen- and got to meet the famous world writer, eral-linguistic typology of aspectual systems, and has started (pictured with Kokobobo, above). examining parallels between aspect in Russian and Mandarin Chinese. He is currently on a research-intensive semester, and became Director of Undergraduate Studies in August.

Prof. Ani Kokobobo gave an invited talk at Cambridge University in January 2019, sharing the honors with Anna Berman (McGill U). During her time in Albania, Prof. Kokobobo also gave several She organized a “Russia interviews on Albanian TV on Russian and . and the Right” round- Including ReportTV above. table last spring which was attended by over 60 people, as well as a conference on gender and Russian realism. She wrote an op-ed for the Washington Post “How Alabama’s New Abortion Law Echoes Communist Albania’s Extreme Abortion Ban” and an article on teaching Crime and Punishment and ethics. She has multiple articles under review and is preparing two other articles for submission. Prof. Kokobobo is putting

9 For the past five years Shaping the largest reference work of Slavic languages and Marta Pirnat-Greenberg linguistics to date”; the opening paper at the conference has been providing a brief Cetinjski filološki dani II in Cetinje, Montenegro, 10 Sept language and cultural 2019: „Former Yugoslavia as a Crossroads of Sprachbünde“ preparation for the KU (in Montenegrin); the paper „Language Contact as Reflected Self & Business Leader- in the Brill Encyclopedia of Slavic Languages and Linguistics“ ship Program in Slovenia presented at the first meeting of the Commission on Language study abroad, which she Contact under the auspices of the Congress of Slavists, held developed into a new, one- at Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany. He con- credit course, Introduction tinues his work as Editor-in-Chief of the Brill Encyclopedia to Slovene. The course and recently brought on Professor Stephen M. Dickey as an will be offered in spring Associate Editor. 2020 and will provide a structured introduction to Slovene language and culture. Last spring, Marta and her Slovene students were featured in the Slovene daily Večer; more recently she contributed an essay on the history of Slovene studies at KU to a volume celebrating 100th anniversary of the University of Ljubljana. Her online Beginning BCMS course has been fully implemented this fall and is providing the framework for the development of the online version of the BCMS sequence courses (Elementary BCMS 1 and 2), to be offered in 2020/21. During the summer, she met with her Slovene colleagues, Professors Eva Sicherl and Andreja Žele at the University of Ljubljana Faculty of Arts, with whom Prof. Greenberg giving his inaugural lecture at the Slovene she is collaborating on a project titled “Compilation and Academy of Arts and Sciences, 28 June 2019 Comparison of Slovene and English Linguistic Terminology.”

Marta Pirnat-Greenberg with her student Amy Millet in Ljubljana. Amy spent the month of July in Ljubljana, studying Slovene at the Seminar of Slovene Language, Literature, and Culture and doing archival work for her PhD dissertation dealing with the Habsburg culinary history.

Prof. Greenberg presenting in Cetinje, Montenegro. Prof. Marc L. Greenberg recently published “Notes on a New Dialectology of Montenegrin” in a Fest- schrift for Brian D. Joseph. Recent activity includes: his inaugural lecture (in Slovene) for his position as Corresponding Member of the Slovene Academy Prof. Greenberg with the Commission on of Sciences and Arts “The Language Contact in agony and the ecstasy: Mainz, October 2019.

10 Lawrencían Chronicle, Fall 2019 Prof. Svetlana Vassileva- Karagyozova gave a talk “Post-German Objects in Contemporary Polish Migrant Prose,” on Octo- ber 1, 2019 at the CREES Brownbag series. She at- tended the German Studies Association’s annual con- ference in Portland, OR, October 5, 2019 where she presented a paper titled Prof. Chernetsky with Dr. Iryna Shuvalova and Dr. Uilleam “Post-German Objects in Blacker at Cambridge. Stefan Chwin and Joanna Bator’s Prose.” In late October Prof. Vassileva-Karagyozova participated in the World Language Fair organized by the KU Open Language Resource Center where she gave two presentations on the Polish Language and Cultural Assumptions. She served as reviewer for two fellowship programs of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. She continues to make progress on her book manuscript The Body and the City: The Post-1989 Reimagining of the City of Wałbrzych in Contemporary Polish Prose, Drama and Film.

This has been a busy year for Vitaly Chernetsky. Prof. Chernestsky He published two articles, and Ukrainian writer “Russophone Writing in Yuri Andrukhovych at Ukraine: Historical Con- Knyzhkovyi Arsenal texts and Post-Euroma Literary festival in Kyiv. idan Changes,” in the volume Global Russian Cultures (University of Wisconsin Press) edited In 2019, Dr. Renee by Kevin Platt, and “So- Perelmutter’s research fiia Andrukhovych’s Felix continued to focus on Is- Austria: The Postcolonial raeli Russian Online: Con- Neo-Gothic and Ukraine’s Search for Itself” in Canadian Slavonic Papers. His transla- testing Jewish Identities tions from Ukrainian of poetry by Iryna Tsilyk and of an through an Immigrant ver- excerpt from a novel by Yuri Andrukhovych were published nacular, a monograph that in the journal Apofenie. His book Перетини і прориви: examines multilingual- українська література та кіно поміж ґлобальним і ism and code-switching локальним (in Ukrainian), is forthcoming from Krytyka. In in an online community February, Prof. Chernetsky was elected a member of PEN Ukraine. In April, he delivered the keynote address at the of ex-Soviet Jews living Midwest Slavic Conference. Later in July, he traveled to Cam- in Israel. Dr. Perelmutter bridge University where he served as an external examiner at enjoyed teaching courses in Slavic Folklore (both the under- two Ph.D. dissertation defenses, and in August he delivered graduate SLAV 148 in the summer, and the graduate SLAV several presentations at a conference focused on Russia and 630 this semester), and Languages of the Jews. This May, at Ft. Riley. Dr. Perelmutter was honored with the Grant Goodman Un- dergraduate Mentor Award from the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. Last but not least, Dr. Perelmutter became the new Director of the Jewish Studies program – an exciting and personally meaningful opportunity!

11 Esra Predolac presented Dr. Irina Six received a paper titled “Flipping the a Course Development Foreign Language Class- Grant from CTE to revamp room— What is it, How Advanced Russian I. She to Do it, and How Web 2.0 published a book review Tools can help” at the 5th of Benjamin Rifkin’s, Ev- International Congress of geni Dengub’s, and Su- Teaching Turkish as a For- zanna Nazarova’s textbook eign Language (ICOTFL) Panorama: Intermediate on June 27, 2019 in Ath- Russian Language and ens, Greece. She continues Culture (Washington DC: to work with AAAS on the Georgetown University Benchmarks project for Teaching Effectiveness in the Arabic Press, 2017) in Russian Language Program through a CTE grant. Through a grant from Language Journal. Dr. Six presented two conference papers: KU’s Open Language Resource Center (OLRC), Esra and her “Pohozhdeniia Totoshki v Kanzase: Kontekst v prepodavanii colleague S. Ebru Ergul (Stanford) continue to work on their glagolov dvizhenia” at the HSE’s annual conference in Mos- third-year Turkish language textbook. She serves an execu- cow on April 12, 2019 and “Hen or Egg? Vocabulary versus tive board member of the American Association of Teachers Syntax in Russian for the Professions” at the AATSEEL’s of Turkic (AATT). annual convention, New Orleans, LA, February 8, 2019. At the same conference, Dr. Six served as a discussant for the panel “Content-Based Russian Textbooks: Theory and Oleksandra Wallo com- Practice (dedicated to the memory of Professor Olga Kagan)” pleted all revisions on and a chair for the stream “Approaches to Teaching Slavic her monograph, Ukrai- Languages: Connecting Form and Function and Creating nian and Meaning: Lexico-Grammar.” the National Imaginary: From the Collapse of the USSR to the Euromaidan, in 2019. She received two grants to support the pub- lication of the book: an ASEEES First-Book Sub- vention as well as a grant from the Shevchenko Sci- entific Society, USA. The book is forthcoming in December of 2019 from the University of Toronto Press. In April she presented on her new pedagogical project about using au- thentic materials in lower-level language courses at the 2019 Chicago Language Symposium. She has also been working on her open-access online textbook in Ukrainian, Добра форма, supported by KU’s Open Language Resource Center, and will present on this project at the 2020 AATSEEL conference. In the summer she served as the on-site faculty director of KU’s Language Institute in Lviv, Ukraine, leading students in their intensive study of the and exploration of Ukrainian culture.

12 Lawrencían Chronicle, Fall 2019 ALUMNI NEWS

Upon earning a Master of Arts in Law and Diplomacy (MALD) from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy in 2017, John Bidwell (BA, 2002) moved to Camp Pendleton, CA, to lead a small team of Marines responsible for testing the Marine Corps’ new Amphibious Combat Vehicle. Earlier this year, however, he received a promotion to lieutenant colonel and a wonderful opportunity to be the next Marine Attaché in the U.S. Embassy, Muscat, Oman. To prepare for the job, he has been studying Modern Standard Arabic in Washington, D.C., since April. He will continue to study Arabic and also attend additional training next year. He expects to move to Oman in July 2020 and remain there for three years. During that time, he will represent the Department of Defense abroad, serve as military advisor to the U.S. ambassador, report on in-country and regional political-military activities, and sup- port U.S. military security cooperation activities in the region.

Johannah White (BA, 1992) is now the OER & Instruction Librarian at Baton Rouge Community College. She advocates for increasing faculty use of OER, offering help adapting or creating OER. She is also a member of the second cohort to complete the Open Education Leadership certificate from SPARC this June. Additionally, she presented at the OLC Innovate conference on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusiveness Goals Using OER in April.

Since September 2018, Howard Solomon (PhD, 1997) has been serving as Minister Counselor for Economic and Politi- cal Affairs and Acting Deputy Chief of Mission at the U.S. Mission to the UN and other International Organizations in Geneva, Switzerland.

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