Lasting impacts in Language Studies: how a FLAS fellowship shaped a career in Russian Studies
When Benjamin Sutcliffe studied Bulgarian at the University of Pittsburgh in the summer of 1999, he couldn't have known that the experience would one day contribute to his first book.
PITTWIRE: Pitt hosted an Irish delegation ahead of Aer Lingus College Football Classic
The University is deepening its ties to Ireland — through sports diplomacy.
PITTWIRE: World-expanding stories from Pitt’s Nationality and Heritage Rooms
Kati Csoman was still an undergraduate at the University of Pittsburgh when she lived in Hungary for the first time.
Pitt’s G. Paolo Galdi elected a Foreign Member of the Learned Society of the Czech Republic
The Learned Society of the Czech Republic is the successor of the Royal Bohemian Society of Sciences (established in 1784) and is a body of leading scientists and scholars from a wide range of fields and countries. Galdi will be formally welcomed into the Society on September 15, 2026, in Prague.
‘It brings more liveliness to the building’: Students praise new art installation in Hillman Library
Hillman Library’s ground floor looks a lot livelier than last year, according to students.
This art installation turns a century of Nationality Rooms history into poetry and pattern
Before reaching Hillman Library’s front doors, passersby can look through the windows and see a phrase in bold blue letters running the length of the grand staircase inside. It reads: “I am made to leave I am made again to return.”
UTIMES: Film festival aims to create awareness of Asian and Asian-American experiences
Screenshot: Asia, the annual film festival from Pitt’s Film and Media Studies Program and the Asian Studies Center, gets underway Sept. 16 with 2026 BAFTA best children’s and family film winner “Boong,” from Indian director Lakshmipriya Dev.
UTIMES: Indigenous Cultural Festival returns to Pitt campus
For the fifth year in a row, the University of Pittsburgh and the Council of Three Rivers American Indian Center (COTRAIC) will partner to bring the Indigenous Cultural Festival to the Pittsburgh campus from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Sept. 24 on the William Pitt Union patio and lawn.
UTIMES: Pitt in the Making: High-flying plan for Cathedral had its supporters and skeptics
When Chancellor John Gabbert Bowman announced a new skyscraper classroom building at a dinner in the University Club on Nov. 6, 1924, he gave it the name of Cathedral of Learning, but he twice called it the Cathedral of Inspiration.
UTIMES: Working group explores potential for Native American studies at Pitt
Pitt’s Native American Studies Working Group began meeting again this week after forming last year to explore how Native American scholarship and support should and could take place at the University.
UTIMES: Multi-element installation in Hillman atrium celebrates Nationality Rooms, treasures of archives
The multifaceted, four-element “I am made to leave I am made to return” exhibit — a collaboration by Bielak and Schmalz with Henderson — draws its inspiration from Pitt’s Nationality Rooms in the Cathedral of Learning and University Library System (ULS) Archives and Special Collections in an effort to offer “dynamic and speculative reflections on nationality, heritage,
PITTWIRE: This Pitt sophomore’s passion for community health won her a Newman Civic Fellowship
Khandelwal earned the honor for her dedicated service in youth leadership, health advocacy and community health research. In 2021, she founded curingwithCARE, a youth-led cancer awareness, research and education nonprofit that under her leadership has grown into an international organization with more than 50 chapters and 1,000 volunteers.
The Eurasian Knot announces new series on Eastern European immigration
Over the last century, tens of millions of people quit Eastern Europe for the United States. The push-pull factors were many—war, poverty, instability, persecution at home and opportunity, refuge, and liberty abroad. But manna didn’t simply fall from the sky in America.
PITTWIRE: Undergrad Ashley Mason was named to the Hillel International Student Cabinet
Ashley Mason, a senior in the School of Education, was selected to serve on the Hillel International Student Cabinet for the 2026-27 academic year. Hillel International is the world’s largest Jewish campus organization supporting Jewish life, learning and community for college students.
New Book Releases from REEES Faculty!
Check out the following new publications from our Affiliated Faculty in the Department of History: