- 2023-09-01 - The Yaro Skalnik Russian, East European, and Eurasian Center Endowment Fund was established in 2022 through a generous gift by Professor Carol Leff (Emerita, Department of Political Science), in honor of her father. It provides small research grants to undergraduate and graduate students,...
2023-07-28 - By Ivan Cherniakov (PhD Student, Art History) Griffin Creech is a PhD Candidate in the Department of History, University of Pennsylvania, and the 2023 recipient of the Fisher Fellow Award. The Fisher Fellow Award offers support to junior scholars to attend the Summer Research Lab...
2023-07-26 - By Laurel Tollison As an MA student in Russian, East European, and Eurasian, I had the opportunity to assist in several different outreach events as REEEC’s outreach graduate assistant. One of our regular programs included monthly visits to the Orchard Downs Community Center to...
2023-07-07 - By Ivan Cherniakov (PhD Student, Art History) How does citizenship function in an empire? How do different citizenship regimes shape populations in their borderlands? These were the questions that Griffin Creech—the recipient of the 2023...- 2023-06-06 - Arts, Heritage, and Belonging: Armenian Transcultural Entanglements June 14 - 15, 2023 | 2023 Ralph and Ruth Fisher Forum for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies Co-organizers: Donna A. Buchanan (Professor, Music, Anthropology, Slavic Languages &...
- 2023-06-01 - 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 2022 publications that have resulted from research conducted at the Research Labs:...
- 2023-06-01 - The Games Studies and Design project “Playful by Design: Expanding the Transformative Potentials of Games@Illinois” has been selected as one of 11 proposals to be supported through the...
2023-06-01 - Jonathan Phalen (BA, '23) has recently accepted a Fulbright/America for Bulgaria Foundation English teaching assistant award to teach in Bulgaria. Phalen graduated from U of I in May with degrees in English and secondary education. He is a certified teacher and has worked at the campus...
2023-05-15 - Congratulations to Tamara Pavlović (PhD Student, Anthropology) for receiving the Yaro Skalnik Prize for Best Graduate Student Essay in Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies for her paper “Contested Futures: Serbia as a Place of Extracting Value.” Her prize includes...
2023-04-11 - REEEC was happy to host the Illinois ACTR Olympiada of Spoken Russian on March 13, 2023. The Olympiada brought over thirty high school Russian language students from The Noble Academy, Pritzker College Prep, Glenbrook North High School, and By the Onion Sea to our campus for the day to participate...- 2023-04-06 - Richard Esbenshade, a REEEC Research Associate, is the host of the Wednesday World Beat program on WEFT 90.1 FM. As the host of this program on the Central Illinois community radio station, Esbenshade has been spending twenty minutes of his show each week to showcase Ukrainian music...
- 2023-03-28 - Each Spring, REEEC invites submissions for the Yaro Skalnik Prize for the best undergraduate and graduate essays in Russian, East European, or Eurasian Studies at Illinois. Essays from all disciplines are eligible so long as they concern a relevant region. Each winner will receive a certificate and...
2023-03-08 - The Midwest Slavic Association (MWSA) and The Ohio State University's Center for Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies (CSEEES) will host the 2023 Midwest Slavic Conference at Ohio State in Columbus, OH on March 24-26, 2023. The conference committee is hosting papers on all topics...- 2023-01-24 - REEEC is delighted to announce the recipients of the special Spring semester undergraduate FLAS fellowship: Camille Dolce (Political Science) – Russian Melanie Martinovic (Cognitive Neuropsychology) – B/C/S David Mock (Agricultural and Consumer...
- 2022-12-06 - The Russian, East European, and Eurasian Center (REEEC) announces a special Spring 2023 semester FLAS competition for undergraduate students. Students enrolling in an intermediate or advanced language of the REEEC region and an area studies course during the Spring semester are eligible to apply...