Elena Duzs Scholarship Fund
Professor Elena Duzs
From 1996 to 2026, Elena Borisovna Duzs taught Russian language, literature, and culture at Dickinson College, including chairing the Russian Department for over two decades. Among her signature classes was RUSS 100: Russia and the West, the gateway course to the Russian major and minor, where she challenged students to question their assumptions about Russia and Russian-American relations. Her advanced-level courses included intensive seminars on food culture, poetry, and drama, where her students brought the plays they studied to the stage. She was also instrumental in directing the Dickinson in Moscow program, which ran from 1991 to 2022 and offered many generations of Dickinsonians an immersion in Russian life.
In recognition of Professor Duzs’s decades of devotion to teaching and study abroad, the Elena Duzs Scholarship Fund awards small grants to students participating in Russian-language immersion programs. These grants are intended to help offset the cost of tuition and airfare.
In order to be considered for an Elena Duzs Scholarship, please fill out the application form. Applications will be considered on a rolling basis, with up to two awards granted each academic year.
Marianna Bogojavlensky Prize in Russian
Marianna Bogojavlensky
The Marianna Bogojavlensky Prize in Russian is awarded to a graduating student exemplifying excellence in Russian studies.
Marianna von Ungern-Sternberg Bogojavlensky taught German and Russian language and literature at Dickinson College from 1963 to 1981. She was born to Russian parents on September 1, 1915, in Helsinki, Finland and earned her master’s degree from the University of Helsinki. In 1950, she immigrated to the United States and earned her Ph.D. in Baltic and Slavic studies from the University of Pennsylvania. Bogojavlensky wrote and published Reflections on Nikolai Gogol (1969) and Russian Review Grammar (1981). She also translated Russian works into English. She published Three New Soviet Poets: Evgeny, Evtushenko, Leonid Martynov, Evgeny Vinokurov (1967) and Russia in Ilya Glazunov’s Art (1984). Bogojavlensky received multiple awards for excellent teaching. She died on July 10, 1993.
The most recent recipients of the Marianna Bogojavlensky Prize in Russian:
- 2026: Jessica Terese Hartley-Lowe
- 2025: Dorian Wren McElrone
- 2024: Peter George Guma
- 2023: Helen Marhoul
- 2022: Alyssa Martin
- 2021: Clara Giorgis
- 2020: Grace Ingle
- 2019: Curtis Martin
- 2018: Miray Kaplangi
- 2017: Austen Dowell
- 2016: Mackenzie Holland Stricklin
- 2015: Alexandra Shapiro
- 2014: David Cochrane
- 2013: Caitlin Elizabeth Moriarty
- 2012: Andrei Nikolas Vernon
- 2011: Kara Lynn Elder & Kimberly A. Ferington
- 2010: Eric Matthew Souder