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The Jane Burbank Fellowship

Made possible by the generous gift of the distinguished Russian historian Jane Burbank’67, this fellowship helps fund, fully or partially, Reed students' summer study of Russian and other languages of the former USSR. More information about the fellowship.

Funded Research Projects

Misha Lerner ’21
Ruby-Lankford grant for faculty-student collaborative research (Associate Prof. Grinberg, principle investigator)
Summer 2021
Project: “From Harlem to Moscow and from Moscow to New York: Paul Robeson, Langston Hughes, Ilf and Petrov and the Ties Between African American and Soviet Cultures”

Isabelle Sinclair ’22
Ruby-Lankford grant for faculty-student collaborative research (Assistant Prof. Caffee, principle investigator)
Summer 2021
Project: A Poet’s Perspective on a Painter’s Art: Marina Tsvetaeva’s Essay, "Natalia Goncharova: Life and Art," Translation and Commentary

Alex Fallow ’21
Ruby-Lankford grant for faculty-student collaborative research (Prof. Bershtein, principle investigator)
Summer 2019.
Project: Sergei Eisenstein’s “A “Shift” to the Biological Level”: Translation and Commentary.

Alex Fallow ’21
Opportunity Grant
October 2019
Project: Participating in and presenting at the first conference of the Eisenstein International Network in Paris, France.

Nick Joseph ’22
Russian department’s travel grant
Summer 2019
Project: Internship as a Summer Camp Counselor in Vladivostok, Russia

Fiona Rockwell ’18
Russian department’s research grant
Winter 2018
Project: Research in Postwar Russian Periodicals, the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

Brandon Marrow ’18
Ruby-Lankford grant for faculty-student collaborative research (Prof. Bershtein, principle investigator)
Summer 2017
Project: Constructing “Realms of Memory”: Russian Historical Film under Putin

Brandon Marrow '18
Russian Department Research Grant
Winter 2018
Project: Research at Russian State Archive for Literature and the Arts (РГАЛИ) for Thesis on Olga Bergolts

Fiona Battistoni
Russian Department Research Grant
2020
Project: Presentation of research on Soviet conceptualizations of race at UC undergraduate Conference on Slavic and East/Central European Studies.

At the Russian House

Visit the Russian House page to see current activities and events.