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Prof. David Frick holds the Chair of Slavonic Languages and Literatures at the University of California in Berkeley. His research interests concentrate on Poland-Lithuania in the Age of Confessionalisation, Enlightenment in Poland, and urban history with particular focus on Vilnius. He is also respected for his research on Orthodox Slavonic Reform in the Ukraine and Belarus in the late 16th and early 17th centuries, Reformation and the Counter-Reformation in Poland, and textual criticism and cultural polemics in Muscovy in the 17th century.His many awards include fellowships from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation to conduct research at the Universities of Bochum and Bonn, a Guggenheim fellowship, and several Fulbright-Hays fellowships to conduct research in Poland and Lithuania. Prof. Frick has also received fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies and the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Prof. Frick has published extensively on the history of Eastern Europe and the Baltics. “Kith, Kin, and Neighbors: Communities and Confession in Seventeenth-Century Wilno” (Ithaca 2013) and “Rus’ Restored: Selected Writings of Meletij Smotryc’kyj” (Cambridge 2005) have reached a large international readership. Further important publications include “Wilnianie. Żywoty siedemnastowieczne” (Warsaw 2007) and “Polish Sacred Philology in the Reformation and in the Counter-Reformation” (Berkeley 1989).

Prof. Michelle Facos holds the Chair of History of Art at Indiana University in Bloomington, where she is also adjunct professor of Jewish studies as well as adjunct professor in the Russian and East European Institute. Her key areas of research comprise 19th century European painting and sculpture of Scandinavia, Romanticism, symbolism and issues of identity, and Jewish culture in the Swedish national identity around 1900. Furthermore, she has conducted research on artistic innovation at the Danish art academy in the late 18th century. Prof. Facos has received many awards and distinctions, including a visiting professorship at East China Normal University in Shanghai, fellowships from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, the Alfried Krupp Kolleg in Greifswald, and the American Scandinavian Foundation. She has been a visiting reseacher at Universities of Hamburg and Växjö. Additionally, she serves as a fellowship reviewer for the American Council of Learned Societies, for the American Scandinavian Foundation, and the Getty Foundation.
Prof. Facos acts also as Editor-in-Chief of “Arts”, an e-journal. Her outstanding publications on Scandinavian art and national identities, e.g. “An Introduction to Nineteenth-Century Art” (London 2011), “Symbolist Art in Context” (Berkeley 2009), “Culture and National Identity in Fin de Siècle Europe” (New York, Cambridge 2003), and “Nationalism and the Nordic Imagination: Swedish Painting in the 1890s” (Berkeley 1998), are widely read and internationally renowned.

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