We are excited to welcome Margarita Nafpaktitis to SUL as Curator for the Slavic and East European Collections. Her first day in the library is Tuesday, Sept. 12.  Margarita comes to Stanford from UCLA, where she has been Librarian for Slavic and East European Studies, Librarian for Linguistics, and Research Library Instruction Coordinator (2011-2016) and Interim Western European Studies Librarian (2015-2016). Prior to beginning her position at UCLA, she was an Assistant Professor of Slavic and East European Studies at the University of Virginia (2004-2011). 

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SUL’s Assistant Curator for Estonian and Baltic Studies, Liisi Esse, defended her doctoral thesis on August 24 at the University of Tartu, Estonia.

Liisi’s thesis is titled “Estonian soldiers in the First World War: the war experience and its postwar meaning.” It is the first attempt to comprehensively explore and analyze the collective component of the war experiences of Estonian soldiers who served in the Russian Army during WWI, and the postwar, often long-lasting traces of these experiences. Below is a brief summary of her thesis.

Bridget Thrasher has been appointed the new Earth and Environmental Sciences Librarian at Branner Earth Sciences Library and Map Collections.  Bridget will join SUL on September 12, 2016.