2025-09-17
- REEEC and Slavic announce a new initiative in Bulgarian Studies sponsored by the Republic of Bulgaria. This pilot program will sponsor courses in Bulgarian language, culture, and history at Illinois, as well as create new opportunities to study in Bulgaria for Illinois students and faculty.
- 2025-09-15 - REEEC and Slavic have jointly formed the Illinois Ukrainian Studies Committee. This standing committee coordinates efforts across the university related to Ukraine. Its members include faculty, students, and staff from the College of LAS, Law, Music, Gies, and the Library.
- 2025-09-08 - By Karina Povsteva (MA graduate, Slavic Languages and Literatures) Laura Clarissa Loew is a PhD student at the Department of Central Eastern European History at Justus Liebig University in Gießen (Germany), and the 2025 recipient of the Fisher Fellow Award. The Fisher Fellow Award offers support to junior scholars to attend the Summer Research Lab at the Russian, East...
2025-07-29 - As a result of World War II, the newly founded socialist Polish state faced unprecedented changes in economic, social, and political life. Against the backdrop of the need for reconstruction, forced industrialization, and the establishment of a new socialist statehood, the narrative of “social advancement” emerged as one of the leading promises of Socialist Poland. The discourse on social...- 2025-07-22 - Open Research Laboratory and Summer Research Laboratory alumni publish articles, book chapters, and monographs that help shape the field of Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies. Find below the 2024 publications that have resulted from research conducted at the Research Labs. Anna Batori Batori, Anna. 2024. The Extreme Cinema in Eastern Europe: Rape...
- 2025-05-09 - REEEC at the University of Illinois congratulates REEES Major David Mock on receiving the 2025 Illinois International Undergraduate Achievement Award! This award is given each year by Illinois International to an undergraduate student at Illinois who has shown outstanding international engagement in work,...
- 2025-02-13 - In October 2024, the Russian, East European, and Eurasian Center (REEEC) hosted three Ukrainian scholars as part of the BridgeUSA Ukrainian Academic Fellows Program (UAFP). Sponsored by the U.S. Department of State and administered by American Councils for International Education, the program offers Ukrainian scholars the...
- 2025-02-06 - REEEC at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign is pleased to welcome two new Nonresidential Fellows from Ukraine to our campus community: Oleh Bahmet and Vladyslava Moskalets. These two scholars join our community in the Spring 2025 semester as part of the IU-Ukraine Nonresidential Scholar Program (NRSP). Vladyslava Moskalets is a researcher at the...
2024-11-15 - We're very pleased to announce that Dr. Markian Dobczansky will become the new Associate Director of the Russian, East European, and Eurasian Center at Illinois, starting on November 18th. Dr. Dobczansky is an experienced researcher, teacher, and administrator who has broad intellectual interests and has lived and worked in many states across the REEES region. A historian by training, he earned...
2024-11-14 - REEEC is pleased to welcome to our academic community Illinois Scholar at Risk Maxim Krupskiy. Maxim Krupskiy joined the Illinois Scholars at Risk Program in the fall of 2024. He holds a Ph.D. in Philosophy, and is a human rights defender and attorney-at-law with more than twelve years of experience practicing law in Russia. Throughout his work, he has worked with many Russian and international...
2024-11-05 - 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 research support, access to library resources and competitive Research Awards to...- 2024-09-09 - 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 initiative sponsored by the U.S. Department of State's Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs and...
- 2024-08-19 - 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 the Summer Research Lab at the Russian, East European, and Eurasian Center at the University of...
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...