In the News

Who's who in Izmir--National newspapers in Turkey, including Yeni Asir and Hurriyet, have printed front-page stories with color photos and other substantial coverage of the Who's Who among Students in American Colleges and Universities award to Ahu Resimcioglu '96.

More Moran in media--NPR commentator and MHC criminologist Richard Moran has had recent op-ed pieces published in the New York Times (on FBI crime statistics) and the Boston Globe (on new laws holding parents responsible for the actions of their children).

Back in the (former) USSR--Supported by an MHC faculty grant, Peter Scotto, associate professor of Russian language and literature, conducted research in St. Petersburg, Russia, this May at the invitation of the Institute of Anthropology and Ethnography of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Working at the Russian National Library and in the archives of the Institute of Russian Literature, he collected materials for an essay on the career of Osip Senkovsky, a prominent nineteenth-century Orientalist and literary figure. In addition, he gathered materials for a talk on "Egyptomania" in Imperial Russia, 1800-1830. Both topics fit his longstanding interest in the "culture of empire" in prerevolutionary Russia. During his stay, he had extensive discussions with scholars from the Institute of Russian Literature as well as the director of the Egyptology division of the State Hermitage Museum. An unexpected highlight of Scotto's stay in Russia's second largest city was a broadcast interview with the highly regarded radio magazine Nevsky Prospekt. In a wide ranging discussion, Scotto and host Leonid Dubshan discussed the late Joseph Brodsky's career as a professor at MHC. Scotto also represented the College at the unveiling of a memorial plaque on the building where Brodsky lived from 1955 until his departure from the Soviet Union.