Fargo, N.D. – Kristi Groberg, assistant professor of art history at NDSU, attended the Association for Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies annual conference, Nov. 14-19, in New Orleans. She presented her paper, titled “Theofanis Stavrou’s 50 Years of Service to Eastern Orthodox Studies,” during a roundtable honoring Stavrou’s career as an active educator, researcher, author and mentor in various aspects of Slavic studies.

Groberg’s paper will be printed in the publication, “Festschrift in Honor of Theofanis G. Stavrou,” which was edited by Groberg and Soterios Stavrou. The publication is comprised of scholarly articles contributed by Stavrou’s students, colleagues and friends from throughout the world, and librarians, translators, cartographers, photographers, poets and musicians.

NDSU is recognized as one of the nation’s top 108 public and private research universities by the Carnegie Commission on Higher Education.