Tabitha Cochran is a Master’s student in REEES and Library and Information Science at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. She was a 2020-2021 REEEC FLAS fellow and will be a 2021-2022 EUC FLAS fellow. She received her B.A. in Russian Studies and International Studies from Macalester College in 2013. Her research focuses on Ukrainian nationalism at the turn of the 20th century,...
Spring 2021 Virtual Open Research Laboratory (January 25 - May 5, 2021): Associates List & VORL Events Calendar
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Race in Focus: Spring 2021 Sessions
By Jamie Hendrickson (MA Student, REEES) On March 18, 2021, as part of the REEEC New Directions Lecture series, Dr. Holly Case gave an online lecture entitled: “The Noblesse Oblige of Megalomania: The Hungarian History of an Idea.” Case, a Professor of History at Brown University, is a historian of modern Europe whose work focuses on the relationships between nineteenth and...
This Spring semester, we welcomed Dr. Jasmina Savic as a Visiting Scholar and a Programming and Projects Assistant at REEEC. Dr. Savic holds a PhD in Slavic Languages and Literatures from Illinois. While here as a Visiting Scholar, she will be expanding on her dissertation, “Porno Ludens: Soviet Literary Pornography, 1970s – 1990s,” which focused on the emergence of Russian literary pornography...
Faculty Spotlight: REEEC Faculty Profile: Nora Webb Williams
This academic year, REEEC welcomed Dr. Nora Webb Williams to our affiliated faculty and to Illinois. Dr. Webb Williams is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science who holds a PhD in Political Science from the University of Washington. She previously taught at the University of...
More Department News
- By Tabitha Cochran (MA Student, REEES and LIS) On February 18th, 2021, REEEC and the EUC hosted Kim Lane Scheppele of Princeton University for a talk entitled “Europe’s New Democracy Deficit: Creeping Autocracy in Hungary and Poland.” This event was part of the REEEC Critical...
- The editorial assistantship at Slavic Review provides graduate students with the opportunity to engage with leading scholars in our field and, just as importantly, demystifies the world of academic publishing. Editorial assistants are involved in every stage of getting articles published—...
- By Kit Condill (REEES Librarian, University Library) Despite the COVID-19 pandemic’s wide-ranging effects on academic year 2020-2021, the University Library has continued to make major REEES acquisitions in print and electronic formats, across a variety of disciplines. For...
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SLAV 505This class is designed to give you a foundation in the development of Russian from its genesis in Proto-Slavic up to the modern-day language. The focus of the developmental period will be the 9th to 11th centuries, though the course touches on aspects of Slavic grammar and stylistics that occurred...
RUSS 122A survey of the interactions between key African American figures and Russian culture, in a historical and socio-political context. The course explores the Russian-sourced cultural transfers that influenced the Black American experience; and examines its impact on people and events in the Russian...
REES 201Interdisciplinary survey of Eastern Europe focusing mostly on the 20th century to the present, exploring issues of nationalism, socialism, post socialism and EU accession. Focuses on Central Europe and the Balkans, but also references the Baltic States, Belarus, Ukraine, and Russia. Students will...
IS 461This course is intended to provide all necessary tools for the conduct of effective research in the field of Russian, East European & Eurasian Studies for both scholars and librarians. Relying on the rich bibliographic tradition of Russia, Central Asia, the Caucasus and Eastern Europe, the...
