2024

• "Thank you for continuing to make this award possible!" Laura Goering, Carleton College
• "At Georgetown Slavic we consider the ACTR Scholar Laureate Award a great honor for our students and are grateful for all your hard work!" Irina Denischenko, Georgetown University
• "Thank you for your work on this important award!" Steven Clancy, Harvard University
• "Thanks as always for your service to the profession! We are grateful." Mary Nicholas, Lehigh University
• "Thanks for this wonderful service you provide!" Benjamin Sutcliffe, Miami University
• "This award means a lot for my program and for my students who are very dedicated to the Russian program. This award is a small token of appreciation and recognition of the most talented students in my program." Nadja Berkovich, University of Arkansas
• "Thank you for all your work coordinating this award!" Larry McLellan, University of California, Santa Barbara
• "Thank you immensely for your dedication and for facilitating this process. Your efforts in recognizing outstanding students are greatly valued." Alla Kourova, University of Central Florida
• "Thanks very much for the invaluable service that you are providing for us educators and our wonderful students!" Holly Myers, University of Delaware 
• "Thank you for providing recognition to our students!" Polina Maksimovich, University of Denver
• "Thank you for continuing this beautiful tradition of recognizing outstanding students of Russian!" Alexandra Shapiro, University of Georgia
• "Thank you for continuing to sponsor this recognition. Our students are always gratified to receive it!" Nicole Monnier, University of Missouri-Columbia
• "Thank you very much for continuing this important work for our students! We are so grateful to you." Karen Evans-Romaine, University of Wisconsin-Madison
• "We highly appreciate this opportunity to recognize our best students yearly!" Olga Scarborough, U.S. Air Force Academy
• "Thank you for your commitment to this important service." Albina Khabibulina, Vanderbilt University
• "Thank you very much for your important work, this award means a lot for the students!" Maria Goebert, SUNY, University at Albany
• "Thank you for all your hard work on this opportunity for our students!" Irina Kogel, Boston Univer

2023

• “Thank you for everything you do to sustain this program!!! This is such a great program, and it means so much to the students who are selected.“ Emily Johnson, University of Oklahoma
• “Thank you so much for providing the opportunity to recognize and celebrate wonderful students like Ben. It means so much to the awarded student, faculty members, our program, and the community.” Julia Katsnelson, University of Vermont
• “Thanks for doing this--it is a nice recognition for our students.” Benjamin Sutcliffe, Miami University
• “Thank you very much. I am glad that there is such a great opportunity to acknowledge and celebrate the achievements of our students.”  Maria Ivanova, McGill University
• “Thanks to you all for doing so much good work for this great program and service to the profession!” Tom Garza, The University of Texas at Austin
• “Thanks as always for this wonderful service to the profession!” Mary Nicolas, Lehigh University
• “We are most grateful that you organize this opportunity for the many deserving students studying Russian every year.” Janneke van de Stadt, Wiliams College
• “We're so delighted to have the opportunity to honor our students in this way and very much appreciate all you do to make this possible.”  Lara Ravitch, University of Oregon
• “Thank you for providing this service!” Holly Myers, University of Delaware
• “I really appreciate your work. This has been an exciting opportunity for our students!” Snezhana Zheltoukhova, Stetson University
• “Thank you for making this available. It is very important to us and our students.” Erin Collopy, Texas Tech University
• “Thank you for the opportunity!” Larysa Stepanova, Ohio State University
• “Thank you for doing such a great job with this! it is a beautiful certificate and goes a long way to instilling a sense of accomplishment in our winners!” Halima Belemlih, University of New Haven
• “Thank you for offering this important recognition of student dedication to Russian studies. The award is an important component of our program's spring awards ceremony, and it's a wonderful thing to connect our students with a larger community of honorees.” Molly Blasing, University of Kentucky
• “Thank you again for this excellent service. We love honoring our students, and this is a great way for us to do that.” Cori Anderson, Rutgers University
• “Thanks for making this great opportunity available!” Michael Gorham, University of Florida
• “Thank you so much for organizing this award!” Laura Little, Connecticut College
• “Thank you so much for your ongoing efforts to recognize our best students' achievements!” Larry McLellan, University of California, Santa Barbara
• “Thank you very much for this much appreciated service to the profession and our students!” Karen Evans-Romaine, University of Wisconsin - Madison
• “Thank you very much for giving us this opportunity to acknowledge the commitment, hard work and success of one of our best students again.” Olga Scarborough, USAFA

2022

• “I really appreciate everything that you are doing to sustain this program.  These kinds of ACTR projects really help encourage our students and sustain interest in Russian. I think they are particularly important now –when things are so uncertain. I hope you are doing well personally despite the very hard circumstances.” Emily Johnson, University of Oklahoma
• “Thank you for spearheading this important initiative and for supporting our students.” Irina Ivliyeva, Missouri University of Science and Technology
• “Joining the chorus of happy instructors: this is a wonderful award to be able to offer!” Janneke van de Stadt, Williams College
• “What a wonderful way to honor our students' hard work!” Amy Adams, The College of the Holy Cross
• “Thanks for offering this great award for our students.” Benjamin Sutcliffe, Miami University
• “Thank you for continuing to sponsor this award!”  Valeria Sajez, Lafayette College
• “Thank you for your service to the field. We genuinely appreciate it!” Mary Nicholas, Lehigh University
• “Thank you for doing it. It is very important for the students and for the Russian program.” Alla Kourova, the University of Central Florida
• “We take this award very seriously in our department and do not nominate students every year, preferring to reward those students whose work and participation has been truly noteworthy. Thank you all for running this.” Diane Nemec Ignashev, Carleton College
  
• “Thank you so much for putting this together! We appreciate the work you put into this.” Tom Dolack, Wheaton College
  
• “Thanks for curating this important national award!” Michael Gorham, the University of Florida
• “Thank you for running this program. I'm grateful to have this opportunity to recognize this very deserving Russian student!” Holly Myers, University of Delaware
• “Thank you for the wonderful opportunity to acknowledge the contributions of our students to our Russian program.”    Hilde Hoogenboom, Arizona State University
• “Thank you for this service! We are so grateful for a way to recognize our students, even though it is hard to choose every year! (We actually invented another award for excellence in literary studies!)” Cori Anderson, Rutgers University
  
• “And thank you for the opportunity to encourage our students to study Russian and reward the best with this honor.” Constantine Muravnik, Yale University

2021

• "Thanks for organizing this nice honor!" Benjamin Sutcliffe, Miami University
• “[o]ur laureate this year is honored and thrilled. He's excited to be receiving his certificate. Thanks again for continuing to run this program. It's such a great way to reward student success and achievement.”  Kristine Shmakov, Portland Community College
• "Thanks so much for your message and for coordinating the ACTR Awards. It's a great way to show our appreciation for highly motivated students who put in extra effort." College of St. Scholastica, Karen Rosenflanz
• "We appreciate this opportunity to recognize one of our outstanding Russian students with the ACTR Post-Secondary Russian Scholar Laureate Award." Robert Channon, Purdue University
• "Thank you very much for this wonderful opportunity to honor our strong students!" Valentina  B. Iepuri, University of Mississippi
• "Thank you so much for your work on this annual endeavor. It means so much to our students and to me." Mary Nicholas, Lehigh University
• "Thank you for giving me a way to reward Matthew’s diligent work!" Michael Ossorgin, Fordham University
• "Thank you so much for this service!" Emily Van Buskirk, Rutgers University
• Thank you to ACTR for your continued efforts to recognize students’ achievements." Larry McLellan, University of California at Santa Barbara                                                     
  
• "Thank you for this opportunity to recognize our students!" Maria Allen, University of Pennsylvania
• "Thank you so much for this wonderful opportunity! It is a great way to recognize our students' hard work, strivings, and talents!" Natalya Kuznetsova, University of Utah
• "It means so much to our students – and so much to us to add it to our celebrations of them at the end of the academic year." Nicole Monnier, University of Missouri
• "In this most unusual teaching year, we at Binghamton are especially glad of the continuing opportunity to recommend a PSRSLA nominee." Nancy Tittler, Binghamton College
• "Our previous two student awardees have been most appreciative and humbled by this PSRSLA Achievement Award. Thank you for your continued consideration." Svetlana Grenier, Georgetown University

2020

• "Many thanks for making this opportunity available to Russian students! It is a terrific way to recognize their achievements."
• "I am a small-college Russian program nominator, and I want to thank you for such a great opportunity to recognize a hard-working, dedicated and very talented student!"
• "Thank you for doing this, we love being able to award this every year! I appreciate what all of you do under normal circumstances, but at the present moment that goes double."  
• "Thank you for continuing to organize this!"
• "Thank you very much for giving us this nation-wide opportunity to recognize one of the best students in our Russian program each year."
• "Thank you SO much for continuing to run this wonderful program. It is such a great motivator for our students and our program. You are fabulous!"
• "Thank you for all that the ACTR is doing to support the field during the COVID shutdowns."
• "Thank you so much!  We really appreciate the program and all you do to organize it every year.  I know how much work this is."
• "Thank you for this valuable service!!"
• "Thank you so much. I'm sure that was a huge amount of work, but this is so meaningful to the students."
• "Thank you for doing this important work, despite the circumstances."
  

2019  

•  "I am a one-person program, and it means a lot to see my students get recognized by the ACTR. As I am working towards establishing a Russian studies minor, this is the best reward they could get for studying Russian at our University. Thank you so much for recognizing the best students of Russian."               
  
• "Thank you for continuing to offer this wonderful form of recognition for our students!"
• "Thank you for arranging this!"
• "Thank you, as always!"
• "Thank you so much for doing this once again!"
• "Thanks so much for this wonderful program!"
• "Thank you so much for orchestrating the Laureate Award, which is always a nice thing to give out at the end of the year."   
• "Thank you. I appreciate so much the work of the ACTR to support our programs!"
• "Thanks so much for this opportunity. I love being able to honor the strongest student in my program each year for their hard work and dedication to learning Russian. They are always thrilled to receive this award each year."
  

2018

•  "Thank you ! for making this possibility available to students of Russian!"
• "Thank you very much for coordinating this award! It means so much to the students and everyone in the profession!"
• "Thank you, as always, for coordinating this program. Especially for the frequent reminders, even on the last day!"
• "And thanks again for running the award program, it's a great program."
• "Thanks so much for organizing this wonderful award -- we so appreciate it!"