Adi Raz Selected as Co-Director of the Middlebury School of Hebrew
Middlebury has named Adi Raz as the new co-director of the School of Hebrew. She will begin her position on September 1, succeeding Yaron Peleg.
Middlebury has named Adi Raz as the new co-director of the School of Hebrew. She will begin her position on September 1, succeeding Yaron Peleg.
Sydney Armor (German School ‘21), Demetra (Alex) Evangelidis (German School ‘22), and Kenta Togo (School of Spanish ‘21) receive Fulbright Awards.
Margaret Sullivan, an alumna of our Betty Ashbury Jones MA ‘86 School of French MA program (2004), published a book: “Following the Sun: Tales (and Fails) From a Year Around the World With Our Kids,” about her family’s 2019 gap year. She has relied on the gift of her Middlebury French for two decades now, and credits the program with giving her the confidence to see the world this way.
Students from Hebrew College in Newton, Massachusetts, will attend the School of Hebrew at Middlebury to hone language skills for rabbinical school.
The C.V. Starr Professor of Russian and East European Studies will start in September as director of the Kathryn Wasserman Davis School of Russian.
Chinese School graduate student Ying Zhang awarded CLTA Distinguished K-12 Chinese Program award.
The Language Schools are excited to welcome Matthew Guiffré, Assistant Director at the Arabic School.
Academic Year Position: University of Chicago
Hometown: Pescara, Italy
Program/Level: 7-week Italian Immersion Program/Level 1
Summers Taught at the LS: 1
I hope that my students leave my classes not only with a deeper understanding of the Italian language itself, but also with a newfound confidence in their ability to communicate effectively.
| by Noor Shater
Learning Arabic has really opened up opportunities that I would not have had otherwise.
Jason Merrill (Director), Evgeny Dengub (Associate Director), and Irina Dubinina (Instructor, STARTALK program), of the Kathryn Wasserman Davis School of Russian, received the AATSEEL 2023 Book Award for Best Contribution to the Study of Slavic Linguistics or Second Language Acquisition for their collection 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘈𝘳𝘵 𝘰𝘧 𝘛𝘦𝘢𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘙𝘶𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘢𝘯.