Georg Michels, a professor of history at UC Riverside, has won the 2026 Richard F. Gustafson Guggenheim Fellowship in Slavic Studies, one of only three named fellowships awarded by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. “I am overjoyed and deeply honored to receive this award,” said Michels, a historian of early modern Russia and Ukraine...
Nathan Ayala, a fourth-year student double majoring in History and Russian Studies, has been awarded a Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship in Kyrgyzstan. The Fulbright Program is a major flagship international exchange initiative of the U.S. government. As an English Teaching Assistant, Nathan will teach English at a Kyrgyz university. During his four years at UCR...
