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Dear members:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<u><span style="color:#0563C1"><o:p><span style="text-decoration:none"> </span></o:p></span></u></p>
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<b><u><span style="color:#0563C1">2019 ASEEES BOARD ELECTION</span></u></b><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="color:black">We are pleased to announce the slate of candidates for the 2019 election for positions on the ASEEES Board of Directors: Vice President/President-Elect and two Members-at-Large, serves three-year terms from January 1, 2020 to December
31, 2022. We thank them for their willingness to stand as candidates to serve on the ASEEES Board.
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<span style="color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="color:black">Candidates for Vice President / President Elect<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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Sibelan Forrester, Professor of Russian, Swarthmore College<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="color:black;margin-right:10.0pt;margin-left:0in;text-align:justify;line-height:120%;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo1;text-autospace:none;vertical-align:middle">
Irina Shevelenko, Professor in German, Nordic, and Slavic Department at U of Wisconsin - Madison<o:p></o:p></li></ul>
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<b><span style="color:black">Candidates for Members-at-Large </span></b><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Michael Kunichika, Associate Professor of Russian; Director of the Center for Russian Culture, Amherst College<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="color:black;margin-right:10.0pt;margin-left:0in;text-align:justify;line-height:120%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2;text-autospace:none;vertical-align:middle">
Karen Petrone, Professor of History and Chair of Department of History, U of Kentucky
<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="color:black;margin-right:10.0pt;margin-left:0in;text-align:justify;line-height:120%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2;text-autospace:none;vertical-align:middle">
Kimberly St. Julian-Varnon, History Instructor, Lee College<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="color:black;margin-right:10.0pt;margin-left:0in;text-align:justify;line-height:120%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2;text-autospace:none;vertical-align:middle">
Emily Wang, Assistant Professor of Russian, U of Notre Dame<o:p></o:p></li></ul>
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<b><span style="color:black">Candidates for Graduate Student Representative<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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Christina Novakov-Ritchey, Teaching Fellow in Dept of World Arts and Cultures and Ph.D. candidate in Culture and Performance, UCLA<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="color:black;margin-right:10.0pt;margin-left:0in;text-align:justify;line-height:120%;mso-list:l3 level1 lfo3;text-autospace:none;vertical-align:middle">
Mina Magda, PhD candidate in Dept of Slavic Langauges and Literatures, Yale U<o:p></o:p></li></ul>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">For more information on the election including the candidate bios, visit our
</span><span style="color:blue">website</span><span style="color:#0563C1">.</span><span style="color:black"> Information on how to vote will be distributed by email to current members of ASEEES by early July.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="text-transform:uppercase"><a href="https://nam05.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.aseees.org%2Fsites%2Fdefault%2Ffiles%2Fdownloads%2FJune%25202019%2520NewsNet.pdf&data=02%7C01%7C%7C5569ea47b07f4a2ae5f508d6f68a5605%7C9ef9f489e0a04eeb87cc3a526112fd0d%7C1%7C0%7C636967471338044079&sdata=QGHfMzgBKTwWG2gcarCeX4OIeGxsjVO456rcsCAkjAE%3D&reserved=0" originalsrc="https://www.aseees.org/sites/default/files/downloads/June%202019%20NewsNet.pdf" shash="CTNx6g8NdVDLHqbWyNAZiVcaQ6J5qynNCG+WwJUiKIEQZGIKWjx+sStEElwbDZfJ6tINPPyxgZsw8O4IzYc0YTJP45TZ8iip7vYfSz6ob9M5DlQiNX0TwZ1wZ6x8VVm3+knNpuSZCYjaptlcbOYEXpjkHYPw5PeX9OFo1pHx6JA=">June
2019 NewsNet</a><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#312F30;background:white">The<b> <a href="https://nam05.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.aseees.org%2Fsites%2Fdefault%2Ffiles%2Fdownloads%2FJune%25202019%2520NewsNet.pdf&data=02%7C01%7C%7C5569ea47b07f4a2ae5f508d6f68a5605%7C9ef9f489e0a04eeb87cc3a526112fd0d%7C1%7C0%7C636967471338044079&sdata=QGHfMzgBKTwWG2gcarCeX4OIeGxsjVO456rcsCAkjAE%3D&reserved=0" originalsrc="https://www.aseees.org/sites/default/files/downloads/June%202019%20NewsNet.pdf" shash="CTNx6g8NdVDLHqbWyNAZiVcaQ6J5qynNCG+WwJUiKIEQZGIKWjx+sStEElwbDZfJ6tINPPyxgZsw8O4IzYc0YTJP45TZ8iip7vYfSz6ob9M5DlQiNX0TwZ1wZ6x8VVm3+knNpuSZCYjaptlcbOYEXpjkHYPw5PeX9OFo1pHx6JA="><span style="color:#0B7097">June</span></a> </b>2019
issue of NewsNet is now available online and includes:<b> <o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
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<span style="background:white">“Who’s Laughing Now?: What Volodymyr Zelensky’s Presidential Win May Mean for Ukraine Studies,” by William Jay Risch (Georgia College);<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="color:#312F30;margin-left:0in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo4">
<span style="background:white">“War on the Academy: The Hungarian Government’s Crackdown on Research Freedom,” by Stefano Bottoni (Hungarian Academy of Sciences);
<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="color:#312F30;margin-left:0in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo4">
<span style="background:white">2019 Research Grant Recipients and Cohen-Tucker Dissertation Research Fellowship Recipients; and
<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="color:#312F30;margin-left:0in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo4">
<span style="background:white">“21st-Century Approaches to Copyright Law,” by Janice T. Pilch (Rutgers University, The State University of New Jersey).
<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="text-transform:uppercase"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">As always, please send along news of book publications, job changes or promotions, fellowship/grants received for inclusion in the August NewsNet. Email your news to
<a href="mailto:newsnet@pitt.edu">newsnet@pitt.edu</a>.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Mary Arnstein<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">ASEEES Communications Coordinator<o:p></o:p></p>
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