Russian, East European, and Eurasian Center
REEEC at Illinois
The Russian, East European, and Eurasian Center is home to a wide variety of programs for members of the university community and the general public designed to expand understanding of and promote knowledge about Russia, and the countries of Eastern and Central Europe, the Balkans, the Caucasus, and Central Asia. REEEC receives major support for programming and FLAS fellowships through the U.S. Department of Education through its Title VI program, for which REEEC serves as a designated National Resource Center.
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- The Russian, East European, and Eurasian Center and the Slavic Reference Service at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign are accepting applications for our 2025 Summer Research Laboratory (SRL) program. The SRL is an in-person program that offers comprehensive ... Read full story Call for Applications: 2025 Summer Research Laboratory on Russia, Eastern Europe, and Eurasia
- This fall, the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign welcomes a distinguished cohort of Ukrainian scholars as part of the BridgeUSA Ukrainian Academic Fellows Program (UAFP), an exchange... Read full story BridgeUSA Ukrainian Academic Fellows to Visit Illinois
- By Karina Povsteva (PhD student, Slavic Languages and Literatures) Tori Paige is a PhD Candidate in the Department of History, The Ohio State University, and the 2024 recipient of the Fisher Fellow Award. The Fisher Fellow Award offers support to junior scholars to attend... Read full story Interview with the 2024 Fisher Fellow, Victoria Paige
M.A. REEES/M.S. LIS Student Spotlight: Paulina Grzybowicz
Paulina Grzybowicz is a first-year student in the dual M.A. in Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies / M.S. in Library and Information Science program at UIUC. She also currently works in Slavic languages cataloging at the Main Library’s Acquisitions and Cataloguing Services. Before UIUC, Paulina earned her B.S. in Computer Science from DePaul University in Chicago. She has several years of professional experience in software engineering and IT. In 2022-23, she was awarded a Fulbright grant, conducting HCI research at the HumanTech Center for Social and Technological...
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- 2024-07-16 - Under the auspices of the mobilization drive in the 1930s, Soviet media started actively encouraging women to participate in armed forces as civilian soldiers. As World War II raged, in April 1942 women could officially enlist in combat positions. As the war ended, the Soviet legislation prohibited women from future enlistment, the decree lasted until the breakdown of the USSR. The recipient of...
- 2024-07-11 - The Russian, East European, and Eurasian Center (REEEC) at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign has announced a search for a new Associate Director. This position is the senior full-time staff position at REEEC. The Associate Director provides academic leadership and staff supervision for the Center, acts as its chief grant and financial officer, directs our interdisciplinary BA...
- 2024-07-02 - The Illinois Global Institute is pleased to announce the IGI Summer 2024 Global Educators Workshop. This workshop features two days of round-table discussions and keynote addresses focused on the theme of “Critical Thinking in the Technological World.” Educators from across the globe are invited to engage in dynamic discussions, exploring the intersection of critical thinking and technology in...