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Caroline Johnston

Spend a year in Austria as a U.S. Teaching Assistant with Fulbright

University of Georgia German minor Caroline Johnston may be missing out on the electric football season in Athens.

The German filmmaker İlker Çatak is 2022 Max Kade Foundation Artist-in-Residence at the Department of Germanic and Slavic Studies

German filmmaker İlker Çatak is 2022 Max Kade Foundation Artist-in-Residence

Dr. Ryan Carroll has joined the German faculty at the University of Georgia

Department welcomes new German faculty

Dr. Ryan Carroll has joined the faculty of the Department of Germanic and Slavic Studies at the University of Georgia as Lecturer and German Language Coordinator. Dr.

Phaidra Buchanan, a UGA student, was named a 2021 Rhodes Scholar.

UGA German student named Rhodes Scholar

The Department of Germanic & Slavic Studies at the University of Georgia congratulates Phaidra Buchanan, a German minor and Social Studies Education major, who was named as a 2021 Rhodes Scholar.

A scene from the film On Second Glance (2012), directed by Nigerian-German filmmaker and actress Sheri Hagen.

Filmmaker and Distinguished Visiting Artist Sheri Hagen discusses "At Second Glance" (Auf den zweiten Blick)

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Cooper Sunderland SPARK Award
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SPARK Fellowship Awarded to German Studies Student

German & English Double Major, Cooper Sunderland, has been chosen for the 2024 SPARK Award in Creative Writing for his project proposal titled, "Art-A Refuge Abroad."

In his own summary of the project Sunderland shared, "Through this project, Dr. Uelzmann and I intend to document how… Read full article

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