JOBS

Visiting Assistant Professor in Russian and Humanities, Reed College

The REED COLLEGE Russian department invites applications for a two-year Visiting Assistant Professor position in Russian and Humanities to commence in August 2025. Reed is a highly selective liberal arts institution with a commitment to excellence in teaching and scholarship.  

Candidates should specialize in Russian or Russophone literature and/or film. A Ph.D. in Slavic or a related field (in hand by August 2025) is required. Other requirements include native or near-native proficiency in both Russian and English, and experience of college-level teaching. While the candidates’ areas of research expertise are open, we particularly welcome applications from those who, in addition to literature and language, can teach courses on film and media in Russia, Eastern Europe, and/or Eurasia.

Reed is on the semester system with a teaching load of five courses per year. The incumbent’s teaching responsibilities will include courses in the Russian department and a year-long team-taught interdisciplinary course with a pre-set syllabus (Humanities 110). In addition, faculty supervise year-long senior theses, required of all Reed graduates. 

Through Interfolio (http://apply.interfolio.com/160958), please submit a letter of application, a CV, and one sample of your scholarly work (e.g., a dissertation chapter or journal article). Please also have three confidential letters of recommendation submitted on your behalf via Interfolio. 

In your letter of application please address the following:

  • Scholarly interests.
  • Teaching experience: solo teaching, TAing, mentoring students, and/or advising student research projects.
  • Teaching interests: describe one or two new courses that you would like to offer.
  • Contribution to diversity and inclusion: Reed College is a community that values cultural diversity and inclusive educational practices as essential to the excellence of our academic program. Please describe the ways in which your past and current teaching, scholarship, mentorship, and/or community service have supported these values. Please also convey the ways in which your work at Reed will support the commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion articulated in the College’s diversity and anti-racism statements (https://www.reed.edu/institutional_diversity/diversity-statement.html).

The search committee will begin reviewing applications on February 10, 2025 and will continue until the position is filled. Preliminary interviews will be conducted on Zoom. For further information about this position, please contact Evgenii Bershtein, Chair, Russian Search Committee (bershtee@reed.edu). 

An Equal Opportunity Employer, Reed values cultural and intellectual diversity as essential to the excellence of our academic programs, and encourages applications from members of underrepresented groups.

Deadline: February 10, 2025

Visiting Assistant Professor in Russian Language and Literature 2025-2026, Colby College

The Department of German and Russian at Colby College invites applications for a Visiting Assistant Professor in Russian Language, Literature and Culture for the academic year 2025-2026, to begin July 1, 2025. This is a four-course teaching position (two courses in the fall and two in the spring). Applicants must hold a Ph.D. by the date of appointment and have native or near-native fluency in Russian and English.

The successful candidate should have significant teaching experience across the language sequence and be prepared to contribute to the interconnected cultural programming. While the specialization is open, preference will be given to interdisciplinary scholars who express a readiness to teach a broadly appealing course on Russian civilization in English. Promise of ongoing scholarly engagement is an advantage. Candidates should demonstrate a strong interest in liberal arts education including evidence of a commitment to the value of diversity and experience with inclusive teaching. For more information on the Russian Program, see the Russian Program website.

Applicants should submit a cover letter explaining their interest in and qualifications for the position, including a concise teaching philosophy statement; a curriculum vitae; documentation of teaching effectiveness such as course evaluations; three confidential letters of recommendation; two sample syllabi – one for a language course and one for Russian civilization. Electronic submission of application materials through Interfolio is required: https://apply.interfolio.com/162486

Please address the cover letter to Alicia E. Ellis, Associate Professor of German and Department Chair. Review of materials will begin on March 1 and continue until the position is filled.

Lecturer in Russian, University of California, Santa Barbara
The Department of Germanic and Slavic Studies at UC Santa Barbara invites applications for a qualified lecturer to direct its Russian program and teach Russian language courses.
Lecturers are not expected to engage in research, but staying up to date in research about second language acquisition is welcome. Diversity, equity, and inclusion are core values at UC Santa Barbara. Our excellence relies on faculty, students, and staff who share our commitment to these values. Our program is especially interested in candidates who can contribute to the diversity and excellence of the academic community through teaching and service.
Candidates must be legally authorized to work in the United States without the need for employer sponsorship. Also, please note that the Department cannot reimburse travel or moving expenses for interviewing or relocating to our campus and that benefits such as health insurance may only be allocated to full-time employees
 
QUALIFICATIONS
Basic qualifications (required at time of application)
Applicants must possess a minimum of a Master’s degree or equivalent foreign degree in an appropriate field and have a minimum of two years of relevant teaching experience in a college or university at the time of application.
 
Additional qualifications (required at time of start)
Native or near-native proficiency in Russian and English is required. 
 
Preferred qualifications
A demonstrated background in foreign language pedagogy or second language acquisition is required for language teaching, as is the ability to manage the Russian language program.
 
For more information, go to https://recruit.ap.ucsb.edu/JPF02911. Review of applications begins March 3.
 
Co-Editor, East European Politics and Societies (EEPS)

The EEPS Foundation seeks to appoint an active scholar in east Europe studies to join the current editor of EEPS (https://journals.sagepub.com/home/eep) in leading the journal.  The two Co-editors will define the journal’s profile, oversee the solicitation, peer review, and preparation of manuscripts for publication, edit thematic clusters and special issues, and coordinate the work of Associate Editors, Guest Editors, and reviewers.

The long tradition of collegial EEPS editorship responds to the challenges of the field’s broad diversity of languages, cultures, and subregions, and the variety of disciplinary approaches employed.  The newly named Co-editor will complement the current Co-editor’s expertise in social science and her interest in Romania and south-east Europe.

EEPS Co-editors are assisted by the Managing Editor and utilize the editorial software and copyediting services provided by the publisher, Sage Publications.  www.sagepub.com/

The journal is fiscally sponsored by EEPS Foundation, a non-profit, tax-exempt organization, whose governing board names the Co-editors.  www.eepsfoundation.org. The editors exercise full control over editorial policy to stimulate innovation and to ensure intellectual quality and disciplinary rigor.

The strongest candidates for the new position will be scholars who are familiar with EEPS as reviewers or authors, and who wish to contribute to the development of EEPS as an international, interdisciplinary journal in the humanities as well as the social sciences. Scholars of all disciplines will be given full consideration; however, scholars in the humanities, particularly historians, are encouraged to apply.

Terms

The new co-editor’s contract will extend to December 31, 2028, and will be renewable by mutual consent.  Start date is negotiable.  Each co-editor receives an allowance of $4,500 USD per year to cover travel and office costs.

To apply

Expressions of interest, with a cover letter, resume of relevant experience (especially in editing and journal management) should be submitted to the EEPS Foundation’s Manager of Operations at manager@eepsfoundation.org

Deadline for Applications: March 15, 2025

Zuzana Simoniova Cmelikova Visiting International Scholar in Leadership and Ethics, University of Richmond
The University of Richmond's Jepson School of Leadership Studies invites applications for a full-time visiting position as the Zuzana Simoniova Cmelikova Visiting International Scholar in Leadership and Ethics for the 2025-26 academic year.
 
This position, made possible by a generous gift from the Ukrop family, is designed to give visiting scholars with extensive international experience the opportunity to conduct research, develop courses, and/or design programs on leadership ethics. Visiting International Scholars pursue their own advanced research related to leadership and ethics; and actively contribute to the intellectual life of the School and University through meaningful interactions with faculty including presenting their research and/or issues related to leadership in their country. Ordinarily, the fellowship is renewable for a second year. 

Visiting international scholars may be new Ph.D.s or experienced scholars who hold a Ph.D. in an academic area related to the study of leadership and ethics. Scholars from newly formed or restored democracies are especially encouraged to apply. Applicants should explain in a cover letter how their research, teaching, and future plans relate to the scholarship that they would pursue as a visitor at the Jepson School.
 
 
Applicants should apply online at http://jobs.richmond.edu and submit a cover letter, curriculum vitae, one-page research plan, and writing sample. Candidates for this position may be asked, at a later date, to provide the names and contact information for three references who will be asked to submit letters of recommendation. The deadline for applications is March 31, 2025.
 
Part-Time Lecturer in Russian and East European Studies, University of Chicago

The Humanities Collegiate Division and the Department of Slavic Languages & Literatures at the University of Chicago invites applications for part-time Lecturers during the 2024-25 academic year.

The selected candidate will have part-time teaching opportunities in various courses of the Russian and East European Studies curriculum. Responsibilities include preparing and teaching  seminar-style culture courses with a highly interactive discussion element, holding regularly scheduled office hours, and the preparing and grading of assignments and testing materials. Depending on the curricular needs of the department, the successful candidate may teach between one and four courses per academic year.

The terms and conditions of employment for this position are covered by a collective bargaining agreement between the University and Service Employees International Union. The per-course salary for academic year 2024-25 will be at least $7,538. This position is not benefits eligible.

Qualifications

Applicants must hold a doctorate or equivalent in Russian and East European Studies or a related field.

Application Instructions

Applications must include:

  • A current curriculum vitae,
  • A cover letter that addresses professional and teaching experience and discusses approaches to pedagogy,
  • And the names and contact information of three references whose recommendation letters may be solicited.
  • A sample syllabus for a course in Russian and East European Studies.

Optional Materials:

  • Course evaluations, if available

The materials listed above must be submitted through the University of Chicago’s Academic Recruitment site at the following link: https://apply.interfolio.com/156186. Applicants will be asked to provide additional materials following initial review.

In the event that a teaching opportunity becomes available, we will contact applicants with the academic training and experience most appropriate for our available classes. This posting will expire on March 31, 2025.

This position is contingent upon budgetary approval.  Only complete applications will be considered. For more information about this position, please contact Stephan Carver, Department of Slavic Languages & Literatures, spcarver@uchicago.edu.  

INTERNSHIPS

Summer Research Internships at the Icon Museum and Study Center
In summer 2025, the Icon Museum and Study Center (IM+SC) will offer two on-site, six-week research internships: The Catherine Mannick Research Internship and the John Barns Research Internship. Interns will be based in the Study Center and will focus on building knowledge around the icon collection and Eastern Christian art. In addition to having full access to the icons on display and in storage, they will enjoy borrowing privileges at the Study Center library and College of the Holy Cross library and may make use of materials-based study resources. Interns will take part in workshops on painting techniques and paleography and will join in trips to area collections. In consultation with the Curator, interns will develop a project in the first week of their residency; the internship will conclude with a final public presentation of their research.
The internship is open to advanced undergraduate and graduate students at the MA and PhD levels. Reading knowledge of a modern research language (French or German) and some knowledge of Greek or any Slavic language is desirable but not required.  
IM+SC internships will ideally begin in early July, with some flexibility on start dates. 
To apply, please submit: 
  • A statement of interest (1-2 pages single spaced). Applicants should present ideas for a project pertaining to their course of study and the IM+SC collection. 
  • A C.V. or resume 
  • Names and contacts of 2 references 
Interns at the undergraduate level will be compensated $15 per hour and those at the MA and PhD levels $20 per hour for twenty-eight hours a week (four days). Housing and travel stipends may be provided with final allotment depending on available funds.  
Applications are due March 31
Please contact the Curator, Justin Willson (j.wilson@iconmuseum.org ), for any questions about these positions and to apply.
Kennan Institute Research Internship

Research Interns provide direct support to Kennan Institute scholars and are matched according to their interests, background, and availability. The Kennan Institute accepts applications for Research Internships on a rolling basis.

Description

The Kennan Institute offers paid Research Internships lasting two to nine months for undergraduate, graduate, and prospective graduate students. Each intern works with a scholar in residence at the Institute over a period of two to nine months. This internship offers a flexible schedule of 15 hours per week, and a stipend of $10 per hour.

Qualifications

Applicants should have a good command of the Russian or Ukrainian language and ability to conduct independent research.

How to Apply

Please send a resume and cover letter describing your availability to work in Washington, D.C., your research interests and strengths, and the period for which you wish to be considered (in terms of which months or semesters). You may send your application by email to joseph.dresen@wilsoncenter.org

The Kennan Institute accepts applications on a rolling basis. Applicants will be contacted for an interview if their research interests, background, and availability should match an incoming research project. For more information about Kennan Institute Research Internships, please email Joseph Dresen or call (202) 691-4245. 

International students are eligible for Wilson Center internships, but they must hold a valid F-1 or J-1 visa and appropriate work authorization especially if they are receiving compensation for the internships. All international students must obtain written permission from their Designated School Official or Responsible Visa Officer at their university stating that they are in valid immigration status and eligible to do an internship at the Center. The Wilson Center is an equal opportunity employer and follows equal opportunity employment guidelines in the selection of its interns.

SRAS Online Research Internships

SRAS is offering online research internships. If accepted, you will be researching and writing about popular or folk culture for SRAS sites. Internships are flexible and SRAS editors will work with you to assign tasks that are both of interest to you and fill the needs of the SRAS Family of Sites. The internship dates are also flexible - to be able to best fit the individual break taken at your university and your own schedule.

How to apply: https://sras.heiapply.com/catalog/programs/4218

Winter Internship: Enroll By: 15 Dec 2024

- Start Date: 20 Dec 2024

- End Date: 01 Feb 2025

Summer Internship: Enroll By: 26 May 2025

- Start Date:02 Jun 2025

- End Date:31 Jul 2025

 

FUNDING

2025/26 Petro Jacyk Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Ukrainian Politics, Culture, and Society at the University of Toronto

The Petro Jacyk Program for the Study of Ukraine at the Centre for European and Eurasian Studies (CEES), Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy, University of Toronto is accepting applications for the Petro Jacyk Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Ukrainian Politics, Culture, and Society for the 2025-2026 academic year. The objective of the Post-Doctoral Fellowship is to support annually one of the most promising junior scholars studying contemporary Ukraine and thereby to advance academic understanding of Ukrainian politics, culture, and society. The Fellowship is made possible through the generous support of the Petro Jacyk Education Foundation.

Description:

The Petro Jacyk Post-Doctoral Fellowship has both research and teaching components.

The successful candidate will spend most of the engagement duration in residence at CEES and will devote their time preparing their dissertation for publication and/or to starting a new research project. The Fellow will work closely with their supervisor and participate in activities of the Petro Jacyk Program for the Study of Ukraine and CEES. This will include attending guest lectures, workshops, and conferences related to the Fellow’s research interests. The Fellow will also have an opportunity to organize a workshop (online or in person) on the topic of their research.

In addition to research, the Fellow will teach a course (typically during the winter term) on contemporary Ukraine. The specific focus of the course will be determined by the Fellow’s research interests.

The Fellow will also undertake research travel related to the study of Ukraine. Although immediate travel to Ukraine may not be possible according to the University of Toronto Safety Abroad guidelines, the Fellow will be encouraged to undertake trip(s) to conduct research and deliver lecture(s) at educational institutions with programs in Ukrainian studies.

Eligibility:

Eligible applicants are junior scholars in social sciences and humanities with a research and teaching focus on contemporary Ukraine. The fellowship is open to recently awarded PhDs (those who defended no more than five years before the start date of this post-doc).

There are no restrictions with respect to citizenship. However, the successful candidate who is not Canadian will have to meet the requirements in order to obtain a Canadian work permit (and visa, if applicable) prior to the start of the engagement.

Engagement duration:

The duration of the post-doctoral engagement will be one year.

Funding:

The fellow will receive CAD $60,000, which includes payment for teaching a course (one semester), and separately a travel allowance of up to CAD $3,000 for Ukraine-related research.

Application Procedure:

Applications with all required attachments should be received by February 14, 2025. The application form and detailed instructions on the application can be downloaded here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1sSy-kZCr8OkPjRSP0L2eGzdLiRlA0Ko-/edit

Please email your full application to jacyk.program@utoronto.ca 

Short-listed candidates may be contacted for an interview. Inquiries regarding the fellowship may be emailed to jacyk.program@utoronto.ca

Our website: https://munkschool.utoronto.ca/petro-jacyk/petro-jacyk-post-doctoral-fellowship-ukrainian-politics-culture-and-society

American University and Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies Postdoctoral Fellowship

The Jewish Studies Program in the College of Arts and Sciences at American University invites applications for a three-year Postdoctoral Fellow faculty position for Academic Years 2025-2026, 2026-2027, and 2027-2028 and is pending funding. This fellowship is offered in conjunction with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum’s Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies. The appointment is a 36-month term position at an annual stipend of $70,000, and will commence on August 1, 2025.


This fellowship seeks an emerging scholar in Holocaust Studies, broadly conceived, who demonstrates evidence for a promising scholarly trajectory and potential for excellence in teaching. Applicants should hold a PhD or other terminal degree by August 1st, 2025. The position will require the incumbent to teach one course at American University during each semester. Course assignments will be made in consultation with the Director of the Jewish Studies Program. The fellow will be expected to hold office hours and participate in American University activities. In addition, the fellow will join the 2025-2026, 2026-2027, and 2027-2028 cohorts of fellows at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) and will be expected to conduct research in the USHMM’s collections and participate in the ongoing activities, including the weekly fellows’ seminar, of the Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies.

Review of applications will begin on February 15, 2025 and will continue until the position is filled. 

Application Materials and Requirements

Please submit applications via: https://american.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/AU/job/Main-Campus-Washington-DC/Postdoctoral-Fellow---Jewish-Studies-Program_R2175. Include a letter of application describing research and teaching interests, curriculum vitae, two letters of recommendation, and a writing sample (dissertation chapter or publication). 

Contact Information

Professor Pamela Nadell, Director of the Jewish Studies Program
202-885-2025
pnadell@american.edu

Józef Tischner Fellowship

The Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna (Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen, IWM), an intellectually and politically independent institute for advanced study in the humanities and social sciences, would like to inform you about the ongoing call for applications for the Józef Tischner Fellowship 2025-2026. Please help us to spread the word about this opportunity to potential applicants, and feel free to share it through any of your communication channels.

Józef Tischner Fellowship
The Józef Tischner Fellowships are open to all academic disciplines in the humanities and social sciences; a thematic relation to one of the Institute’s research fields is, however, strongly encouraged. The Józef Tischner Junior Fellows will be invited to spend a four-month term between September 2025 and June 2026 at the IWM to pursue their research projects. Candidates for the Józef Tischner Junior Visiting Fellowship must be Polish citizens, Polish-American scholars or permanently reside in Poland.

Deadline for applications: 16 February 2025
More details here: 
https://www.iwm.at/program/jozef-tischner-fellowship

Jordan Center Postdoctoral Fellowship

Applications are now open for the 2025-2026 Jordan Center Postdoctoral Fellowship Program!

The NYU Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia Post-Doctoral Fellowship program is designed to provide a transition to career independence for recent PhD recipients and to provide time to conduct post-PhD research. Fellows will conduct independent research and writing and regularly attend Jordan Center events. Fellows may be given the opportunity to organize a symposium and to teach one course in the department of Russian and Slavic Studies. This is an in-person fellowship. As such, applicants who do not intend to relocate to New York should not apply.  

Deadline: March 1, 2025

Eligibility: Applicants must have been granted a PhD in the past five years in History, Comparative Literature, Slavic Literature, Anthropology, Political Science, Sociology, or any other related discipline, with a focus on Russia and Russian studies.

Application Guidelines
Applicants must submit:

  • Current CV
  • 2-3 page description of research proposal for postdoc year
  • Writing Sample (e.g, chapter from dissertation, draft or published journal article)
  • 3 letters of recommendation
  • 1 page proposal for an undergraduate course
  • 1-2 page proposal for a one-day symposium with at least six speakers to be hosted by the fellow

Please upload your application materials HERE by March 1, 2025.

For more information please contact jordan.russia.center@nyu.edu

Postdoctoral Fellowship in Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies (2025-2027), University of Pittsburgh

The Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies (REEES) at the University of Pittsburgh is offering a postdoctoral fellowship for Social Sciences scholars whose work focuses on Eastern Europe and/or Eurasia. This fellowship is a two-year appointment starting August 2025. Fellows will be expected to pursue their own scholarly work and participate in the academic and intellectual activities of REEES, University Center for International Studies (UCIS), as well as the Department(s) with which they become affiliated.

The Fellow will teach two courses per academic year throughout the duration of their appointment. The specific courses to be taught will be determined according to the fellow’s interests, the needs of their department, and REEES priorities. Fellows will additionally support REEES’s annual graduate and undergraduate student conferences and other Center outreach activities.

These fellowships provide an annual stipend with additional support made available to support research and conference attendance. These stipends range from $50,000-$55,000 annually, with additional research support approximating $3,500 per year. During their tenure, fellows will also be expected to organize a 2-day international symposium to advance their research with seed funding provided by REEES and other academic centers within UCIS.

Qualifications:

  • A completed Ph.D. from an accredited university in the Social Sciences, or a letter from the department chair or advisor confirming the PhD will be conferred by July 31, 2025 (letter must be attached to the application).
  • The completed PhD must be completed no earlier than December 2021.

Required Documents:

  • Cover Letter
  • Curriculum Vitae
  • Contact information for 2 references
  • Dissertation abstract
  • Table of contents
  • Full length chapter

Applications with the required documents must be submitted by February 28, 2025 via https://cfopitt.taleo.net/careersection/pitt_faculty_external_pd/jobdetail.ftl?job=25000688&tz=GMT-05%3A00&tzname=America%2FNew_York..

QUESTIONS? Contact:

Zsuzsánna Magdó, Ph.D.
Associate Director, Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies, University of Pittsburgh
4209 Posvar Hall, 230 S Bouquet St., Pittsburgh, PA 15260
412-648-7423 | zsuzsannamagdo@pitt.edu | www.ucis.pitt.edu/crees

Call for Submissions: American Association for Ukrainian Studies

American Association for Ukrainian Studies (AAUS) invites invites nominations (including self-nominations) for the next round of the AAUS Book, Article, Translation Prizes, and Graduate Student Prize. For this round, works published (graduate student papers completed) in 2023 and 2024 are eligible (as long as they were not nominated last year, as each work can be considered for a prize only once). Eligibility criteria are as follows. Deadline for nominated works to be received by all members of the respective prize committee is MARCH 1, 2025

The AAUS Book Prize is awarded for the best scholarly monograph-length work in the field of Ukrainian history, politics, language, literature and culture published in English, preferably by a single author, but by no more than two. Textbooks, collections, bibliographies, reference works, and self-published books are ineligible. English translations of scholarly monographs published initially in another language will be considered on a case-by-case basis, but will generally not receive highest priority unless their content represents a major contribution to Ukrainian studies. 

The AAUS Article Prize is awarded for the best article-length work in the field of Ukrainian history, politics, language, literature and culture published in English. Journal articles in peer-reviewed academic journals and chapters in scholarly collections are eligible. 

The AAUS Translation Prize is awarded for the best translation into English of a book-length literary work originally published in Ukrainian. 

The Lubomyr Hajda Graduate Student Prize is awarded to the best graduate student paper in the field of Ukrainian studies, including Ukrainian history, politics, language, literature and culture, published in English. The prize commemorates the immense impact Dr. Hajda has had on Ukrainian Studies scholarship and community in North America. Papers written by graduate students in 2023 or 2024 are eligible. Nomination by a faculty member is required. 

Please submit nominations via the AAUS website by clicking on the relevant link to nominate a book, article, translation or graduate paper for the AAUS Prize. Copies or e-copies of nominated books (monographs and translations) must be sent to all members of the current AAUS Book Prize and AAUS Translation Prize committees, respectively. Mailing addresses of committee members are listed on the website. Works nominated for the Article Prize need to be submitted and uploaded via the website. Please direct any questions to the respective committees at book_prize@ukrainianstudies.org, article_prize@ukrainianstudies.org, translation_prize@ukrainianstudies.org, or student_prize@ukrainianstudies.org. Prize winners will be announced by early May during the ASN Convention at Columbia University, New York (22-24 May 2025).

2025–26 HRI Fellowships: “Story and Place”
HRI is pleased to announce that its 2025–26 fellowship year theme will be “Story and Place.”

In spite of the impact of global economic and culture forces on our lives—and of course because of it—attention to the particularity of place remains key to how humanists and artists think about the world. How does your work engage with place-based experiences, histories, performative cultures, languages, politics, literatures? What does storytelling that emerges from specific places and spaces contribute to how we apprehend the visual, the material, the political, the queer, or the orthodox?

Place often takes root through story, but it is as often made in the telling. How can storytelling and story-making create place and its attachments—or unravel it, or make it legible to new audiences? What is the role of place-based story in how we grapple with war, social movements, equity work, fantasy, political ideology, art practice, social media, ecological crisis, and/or the land grant university itself? And what is “place” beyond the local, exactly?

HRI invites proposals which engage the intersection of place and story in a variety of mediums— narrative, textual, maker-oriented, graphic, and more. We look forward to learning from humanities- and arts-based researchers who are working with place at any scale and in any number of forms. We’re interested in the geography closest in or the farthest out; in stories that stick close to home or those that carry home with them as they move.

We’re curious, in short, about multi-form ways of exploring the places, real and imagined, that help us reckon with the world as we know it, tell it, and want it to be told. If place is a backdrop to how you are communicating your work, this is an opportunity, in the context of a yearlong interdisciplinary seminar, to converse with colleagues interested in experimenting with how to bring place and storytelling into sharper relation.

The projects proposed to HRI for 2025–26 fellowships will be evaluated on the scholarly excellence and promise of the project, the applicant’s preparation/readiness to undertake the proposed research, the quality of the narrative proposal, the relationship to the annual theme, the case made for how the interdisciplinary experience offered by the Fellows Seminar would be beneficial to the project, and the letters of support.

HRI welcomes applications from all disciplines and departments with an interest in humanities and humanities-inflected research. HRI is especially interested in fostering interdisciplinary work, both within the humanistic disciplines, and between the humanities and the arts.

See the links available here for specific guidelines. The submission portal will open on September 1, 2024.

ARIT Fellowships for research and language study in Turkey, 2025-2026

ARIT Summer Fellowships for Advanced Turkish Language in Istanbul offers intensive advanced study of Turkish at Bogazici University during the summer 2025.  Participants must have completed two years of Turkish language study or the equivalent.  The fellowships cover round-trip airfare to Istanbul, application and tuition fees, and a maintenance stipend.   The application deadline will be in February, 2025.

For additional information please see the ARIT webpage at https://aritweb.org/fellowships/

CONFERENCES & WORKSHOPS

Workshop on Religion, Atheism, and Belief During State Socialism

We are excited to invite paper proposals for a two-day workshop on religion, atheism, and belief in socialist states in the twentieth century. The workshop is sponsored by the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies and will be held in-person at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts on May 9-10, 2025.

We encourage papers from scholars working on topics including traditional and non-traditional religions, spirituality, belief, and ritual in history and related disciplines. While this workshop’s primary geographic focus is on the Soviet Union and Eastern Bloc, we welcome papers on topics from other socialist contexts.

This workshop is intended as a welcoming, informal environment for scholars to engage with each other on works in progress. Graduate students are especially encouraged to apply.

Please send an abstract of 250-300 words and a CV to Anna Bisikalo (abisikalo@g.harvard.edu) and Emma Friedlander (efriedlander@g.harvard.edu) by February 14. Participants will be notified of their acceptance by the end of February.

Catering will be provided by the workshop. Participants are responsible for their own transportation and lodging. 

Moskowitz/Rafalowicz International Research Workshop: Interrogating Neutrality during the Holocaust

July 7–18, 2025, Washington, D.C.
Applications due 2/14/25

The Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum invites applications for the 2025 Moskowitz/Rafalowicz International Research Workshop Interrogating Neutrality during the Holocaust. The Mandel Center will co-convene this workshop with Danielle Sanchez, Colorado College. The workshop is scheduled for July 7–18, 2025, and will take place at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.

This workshop focuses on the ways individuals, communities, and nations grappled with the concept of neutrality before, during, and after the Holocaust. The Museum’s special exhibition, Americans and the Holocaust, emphasizes one of the most important political and intellectual debates of the mid-twentieth century: whether the country would directly confront the rising tide of fascism and antisemitism of the 1930s. The America First movement united individuals from a variety of ideological positions, but they all shared a desire to remain neutral in the face of growing fascism and antisemitism. Similar debates in neutral European countries, both democracies and dictatorships, profoundly shaped the fates of Jews desperately seeking safe passage and refuge from Nazi persecution.

While neutrality has often been framed as a response to geopolitical conflict, its limitations—especially in the context of the Holocaust and World War II—require deeper exploration beyond Western Europe and the United States. This workshop thus seeks to bring together scholars from a range of disciplines to engage with the concept of neutrality, its various manifestations, its limitations, and its consequences in the lead up to and during World War II and the Holocaust.

The aim of this workshop is to foster conversations that unpack the limitations of the term neutrality, critically analyze the philosophies and ethics surrounding it, and explore whether neutrality is even possible—especially during an event like the Holocaust. What are the limitations of the term neutrality?  How can we critically analyze the philosophies and ethics surrounding neutrality? What practical, ethical, and historical challenges arise from neutrality during and after the Holocaust?  How did neutrality function—or fail to function—across different contexts during the Holocaust and its aftermath?

We seek to engage with case studies of neutrality during the Holocaust and World War II, assessing the practical, ethical, and historical challenges that arise. Together, we will reflect on how neutrality functioned (or failed) across different contexts and whether it served as a valid position or an illusory ideal in moments of crisis.

We invite applications that address, but are not limited to, the following themes:  

  • Case studies of neutrality policies and their impact during the Holocaust in under-researched regions
  • Neutrality and occupation
  • Neutrality in propaganda
  • Neutrality and collaboration
  • The political economy of neutrality
  • Comparative approaches to neutrality across nations, communities, and individuals
  • Transnational debates on neutrality
  • The ideological, political, and social justifications for neutrality during the Holocaust.  
  • The role of neutrality in shaping collective memory and postwar narratives
  • Ethical dilemmas of neutrality: compliance, resistance, and complicity in the face of atrocity
  • Theoretical explorations of neutrality as a concept in political philosophy, critical theory, anthropology, sociology, and history


Daily sessions of the workshop will consist of presentations and roundtable discussions led by participants, as well as discussions with Museum staff and research in the Museum’s collections. The workshop will be conducted in English.

Museum Resources

The Museum's David M. Rubenstein National Institute for Holocaust Documentation houses an unparalleled repository of Holocaust evidence that documents the fate of victims, survivors, rescuers, liberators, and others. The Museum’s comprehensive collection contains millions of documents, artifacts, photos, films, books, and testimonies. The Museum’s Database of Holocaust Survivor and Victim Names contains records on people persecuted during World War II under the Nazi regime. In addition, the Museum possesses the holdings of the International Tracing Service (ITS), which contains more than 200 million digital images of documentation on millions of victims of Nazism—people arrested, deported, killed, put to forced labor and slave labor, or displaced from their homes and unable to return at the end of the war. Many of these records have not been examined by scholars, offering unprecedented opportunities to advance the field of Holocaust and genocide studies.

The Museum’s related collections include:

  • Records from various ministries and other governmental agencies of countries that remained neutral for all or part of World War II, including Argentina, Ireland, Portugal and its colonies, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, and the Vatican
  • Diplomatic correspondence related to Turkey
  • Records relating to officials who leveraged neutrality in their efforts to rescue Jews, such as Per Anger, Julius Kühl, Carl Lutz, Albert Nussbaum, and Giorgio Perlasca
  • Records of international aid organizations that maintained a position of neutrality, such as the International Committee of the Red Cross, or that coordinated rescue and relief operations with neutral countries, such as the World Jewish Congress, the American Friends Service Committee, and the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee
  • Rare books from the 1930s and ‘40s reflecting debates about neutrality
  • Oral histories of refugees and survivors who transited through or found refuge in neutral countries

Participants will have access to both the Museum’s downtown campus and the David and Fela Shapell Family Collections, Conservation and Research Center in Bowie, MD. To search the Museum's collections, please visit collections.ushmm.org/search.

To Apply

Applications are welcome from scholars affiliated with universities, research institutions, or memorial sites and in any relevant academic discipline, including but not limited to history, literature, philosophy, political science, religion, and sociology. Applications are encouraged from scholars at all levels of their careers, from Ph.D. candidates to senior faculty.

The Mandel Center will reimburse the costs of round-trip economy-class air tickets to/from the Washington, D.C. metro area, and related incidental expenses, up to a maximum reimbursable amount calculated by home institution location, which will be distributed within 6–8 weeks of the workshop’s conclusion. The Mandel Center will also provide hotel accommodation for the duration of the workshop. Participants are required to attend the full duration of the workshop and to circulate a draft paper in advance of the program.

The deadline for receipt of applications is February 14, 2025. Applications must include a short biography, a CV, a list of any related publications and/or on-going research projects, and an abstract of no more than 500 words outlining the specific project that the applicant plans to research and is prepared to present during the program. All application materials must be submitted in English online here.

Admission will be determined without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender (sexual orientation or gender identity), national origin, age, disability, genetic information, or reprisal. The Museum also prohibits any form of workplace discrimination or harassment.

Questions should be directed to researchworkshops@ushmm.org.

This workshop has been made possible through the generosity of the Moskowitz/Rafalowicz Endowment at the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.

Junior Scholar Workshop: "Writing Back from the Peripheries? Russophone Literary Diversity"

funded by the BRIDGE Seed Fund for collaboration between the University of Birmingham (UoB) in the UK, and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) in the USA

July 9-10, 2025 at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, decolonizing and decentring approaches to the study of Russophone literature and culture have become increasingly urgent tasks. This workshop seeks to offer support to emerging scholars whose research focuses on minoritized Russophone authors (both those who are “writing back” from regions formerly colonized by Russia and those who ended up living in exile abroad).
The interdisciplinary workshop follows the symposium on Russophone Literary Diversity organized at the University of Birmingham in September 2024. It is open to advanced graduate students and early career scholars working in literary studies, linguistics, human geography, anthropology, history, and political science. We welcome submissions focused on Russophone literary diversity and peripheries, with diversity being understood along a number of different axes: geographic, ethnic, racial, linguistic, sexual/gender. Abstracts and papers should highlight the critical methodologies used in the work. Selected papers will be pre-circulated among the participants, to maximize opportunity for discussion.
The workshop participants will receive feedback on their projects both from their peers and senior scholars, the latter serving as panel discussants and mentors. A specialized bibliography session on the topic of the workshop will be offered by the UIUC Slavic Reference Service.
The workshop committee will comprise
: Valeria Sobol, David Cooper and George Gasyna (UIUC); Nataliya Rulyova, Isobel Palmer, and Irina Kuznetsova (UofB).

Application and funding information
To apply, please send a 300-word abstract and CV to vsobol@illinois.edu by February 15th, 2025.  In your email message subject, please write “Peripheries Workshop” and your name, for example: “Peripheries Workshop_Sobol.”
We will inform participants who have been selected by March 7th and ask you to develop a paper of 4,000-5,000 words by June 1st, 2024.

The workshop will cover accommodation (dormitory housing) and offer partial travel reimbursement. Most meals will be covered for all the participants.

6th Annual Yale European and Eurasian Studies Graduate Student Conference

The European Studies Council (ESC) of the MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale University invites applications to the 6th annual Yale European and Eurasian Studies Graduate Student Conference

On May 6-7, 2025, a hybrid-format conference is scheduled to take place at Yale University. This conference will bring together graduate students, early-career scholars, and established academics from across disciplines to discuss the most pressing challenges facing Europe, Russia, and Eurasia today. The deadline for applications is February 17, 2025. To propose an individual paper, please submit an online application form.

Political Science, History, Sociology, Anthropology, Film and Media Studies, Economics, Literature, Law, Cultural Studies, and Public Health are all examples of acceptable fields for paper topics. Only open to applications from graduate students and early career scholars.

In the backdrop of Russia’s war against Ukraine, we are especially receptive to initiatives that further the decentralization and decolonization of the study of the former “communist bloc” of the Soviet Union, Central and Eastern Europe, and Eurasia at large. The results of the selection will be communicated by February 21, 2025.

For more information, please visit the conference webpage and email questions here.

Wisconsin Slavic Conference
Abstracts for 20-minute papers on any aspect of Slavic literatures, cultures (including film, music, and the visual arts), linguistics, and history, as well as on Slavic language and literature pedagogy are invited for the annual Wisconsin Slavic Conference. Comparative topics and interdisciplinary approaches are welcome and encouraged. The conference will be held in-person at the University of Wisconsin–Madison on Friday and Saturday, April 4 and 5, 2025.
Recent conference programs are available on the Wisconsin Slavic Conference website at https://gns.wisc.edu/2024/04/24/wisconsin-slavic-conference-2024/
This year’s keynote lecture “The Other Place of Language: Hybridity and Extraterritoriality in Conrad, Gombrowicz, Stasiuk, and Wilk” will be delivered by Prof. George Z. Gasyna from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.  
 
To present a paper at the Wisconsin Slavic Conference, please submit a proposal by February 17, 2025
A complete proposal consists of:   
1. Author’s contact information (name, affiliation, and email).  
2. Paper title.
3. 300–500-word abstract.
Please send proposals by email to: Yekaterina Pak (ypak3@wisc.edu) and Piotr Kawulok (kawulok@wisc.edu). 
Please include “Wisconsin Slavic Conference” in the subject line of your email. All submissions will be acknowledged and considered. 
 
2025 Curt C. and Else Silberman Faculty Seminar: Jewish Experiences Under Nazi and Soviet Occupation of Eastern Europe

The Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies announces the call for applications for the 2025 Curt C. and Else Silberman Faculty Seminar. This seminar will explore Jewish experiences during World War II in eastern Europe’s borderlands. Focusing on territories occupied by the Nazis and the Soviets in the wake of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact of 1939, the seminar will pay particular attention to the history of Jews who lived in the territories of present-day Poland, Ukraine, Belarus, and the Baltic states. It will shed light on how the ethno-national changes that occurred across this region, as well as the pressures from two totalitarian regimes, impacted relationships between Jews and their neighbors. The seminar leaders will discuss methods of survival, routes of escape, acts of resilience, practices of memory by Jews and other persecuted populations, and responses to the surge in popular and state antisemitism that followed the Holocaust in the region.

The 2025 Silberman Seminar is designed to help faculty, instructors, and advanced PhD students who are currently teaching or preparing to teach courses that focus on or have a curricular component related to the Holocaust. The deadline for applications is Tuesday, March 25, 2025. This seminar will take place June 11-20, 2025 at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC. The full CfA and the application form are available here on the USHMM website.

Please contact Campus Outreach Programs (campusoutreachprograms@ushmm.org) with any questions.

SRS 9th Annual SEEES Dissertation Research Workshop

The Slavic Reference Service, together with the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES) invites doctoral students in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (SEEES) and affiliated disciplines to register for the 9th Annual SEEES Online Dissertation Research Workshop on March 6, 2025, 9:00 am – 12:45 pm Central Time.

This annual event brings together SEEES doctoral students, librarians, archivists, and faculty advisors to discuss resources, strategies, and professional development opportunities. We seek to foster a sense of community and support among SEEES doctoral students.

Workshop focus areas include:

  • Dissertation Writing
  • Planning Research Trips
  • Research Support
  • Sources and Collections
  • ASEEES Dissertation Writing Grants

Register - https://forms.gle/o3pAe4CZmgDGvQiJ9

Call for Proposals: Gazeta Workshop virtual presentations, Fall 2024 - Spring 2025

Gazeta Workshop offers a digital community for scholars of Eastern Europe, Eurasia, and Russia to share their research on the history of the press. Founded in 2021, Gazeta Workshop is an online forum for scholars across the humanities and social sciences to share research related to the history of the press from the eighteenth century to the present. It offers an interdisciplinary and international community of scholars analyzing the historical press through its many facets, from history, sociology, political science, literary and cultural analysis, art history, and more. We welcome presentations from museum and archival curators, historians, literary scholars, and scholars in other academic disciplines working with newspapers, journals, almanacs, magazines, and other forms of periodicals circulating in the Eurasian, East European, and Russian space.

There are three formats for presentations: talks, workshopped papers, and book presentations. Invited talks are 45 minutes to an hour, with Q&A afterwards. For workshopped papers, we circulate papers one week prior to the event date, then discuss them. If you have a new book coming out in 2024-25, we invite a 45-minute presentation with discussion afterwards. Invited talks and book presentations are usually recorded and posted to YouTube; workshopped papers are not. We generally meet once per month via Zoom in the Fall semester and again in the Spring. While past presentations have been on Fridays at 3PM EST, we hope to accommodate our presenters with additional time slots at 12PM EST on Wednesday, Thursdays, and Fridays.

We’re open to scholars from around the world. Independent scholars are welcome, as are Ph.D. candidates and early career researchers. If you would like to present, please send us a title, abstract, and your CV to gazeta.workshop@gmail.com. In your email, please indicate your preference either for the Fall semester (September – December 2024) or the Spring semester (February – May 2025), as well as the format (on presentation formats, see below).

Contact Email: gazeta.workshop@gmail.com

Gender and Transformation in Central-Eastern Europe and Eurasia Workshop (Fall 2024- Spring 2025)

European Union Studies Center/CUNY Graduate Center

Call for Papers 2024-2025 online and in-person/hybrid

Founded in 1993, amidst the conflicts in Yugoslavia, this workshop is driven by the exploration of questions related to gender in postcommunist countries of East, South and Central Europe and the former Soviet Union, including the Baltic countries and Central Asia. Centered on debates on communism’s impact on women and gender and on how to converse and theorize across the East-West divide, this workshop strives to include voices from not just the New York City area, but also from the region and around the world. We continue to be an informal and friendly gathering for feminist scholars, activists, and journalists to discuss recent theoretical and/or critical work, empirical research, and critical and scholarly reflections on activism. 

Theme: We invite papers on any topic related to the themes of communism and postcommunism and gender, but this year, we are particularly p thinking about the impact of Russia’s long war against Ukraine and of the threat of anti-gender populism and authoritarianism. We remain especially interested in proposals that consider the impact of Russia’s aggression on gender in the region, state gendered violence inside and outside the state borders, and the role of state propaganda in fostering ultranationalism and war. We are also especially interested in reflecting on our work as scholars of gender and this region, including  the continued influence of Russia-centrism and West-based scholarship.  We welcome conversations that put this region in the context of global events and processes, including the Israel-Gaza war.

Details:

  • Meet monthly, usually on Fridays, at the CUNY Grad Center in New York City (with Zoom participation available) or via Zoom only, 2-3 PM New York time (8-9PM Poland time)
  • Presenters share a 10-15 page paper in advance to those who have registered. We ask authors to limit their presentation to 20 minutes to allow maximum time for conversation.
  • We will moderate the sessions so that we check in with what we are all thinking about, hear and see the key ideas of the paper, and have lots of time to discuss collaboratively.

To participate, please fill out this google form with your name, email, location/affiliation, current related interests.  We have also created a space there for you to share your thoughts and suggestions about the workshop as well as to indicate interest in participating in a NYC-based networking session to foster collaboration and mentoring.

If you’d like to present your work/project  this next academic year, please also add the following: 

  • tentative title for your talk
  • abstract of less than 200 words describing your proposed talk
  • up to 5 recent publications or information about your activism
  • your schedule clarifying which Fridays you could present
  • Preferred format: Zoom or in-person

We regret that, despite our best efforts, we do not have funds for an honorarium. All are welcome to participate.

SUMMER/ LANGUAGE OPPORTUNITIES

Summer Intensive Russian at UCLA

The UCLA Department of Slavic, East European and Eurasian Languages and Cultures has open seats for both Intensive First Year Russian (Russian 10) and Intensive Second Year Russian (Russian 20) in Summer 2025.

*All sections are taught online

Dates: June 23 – August 15, 2025 (8 weeks)
Times: Monday-Friday 10:00am – 1:50pm Pacific Standard Time
Russian 10 (Intensive Elementary):      Mon-Fri 10am-1:50pm PST. Course ID: 421030110
Russian 20 (Intensive Intermediate):   Mon-Fri 10am-1:50pm PST. Course ID: 421060110

For information on how to enroll, please see: https://summer.ucla.edu/registration/

Students with prior experience in Russian should contact Professor Anna Kudyma, UCLA Russian Language Coordinator, in advance at akudyma@ucla.edu for questions regarding placement.

Call for Applications: University of Pittsburgh Summer Language Institute

The Summer Language Institute (www.sli.pitt.edu) at the University of Pittsburgh is accepting applications to summer 2025 programs in Pittsburgh and abroad, as well as to our trademark 10-week Pitt+abroad programs and language internship programs. SLI is planning a primarily in-person program in 2025, but will offer a limited number of online, synchronous opportunities. We welcome inquiries from students about the availability of their preferred instructional format.

Our priority application due date for best funding consideration is March 1. Please note that the deadline for FLAS applications from Pitt’s REEES and other international studies centers this year is February 17.

SLI's 2024 languages are:

Arabic (Beginning-Intermediate)

Bosnian/Croatian/Montenegrin/Serbian (Beginning-4th-year)
Also offering study abroad in Montenegro

Bulgarian (Beginning)

Czech (Beginning-4th-year)
Also offering study abroad in Czech Republic

Hungarian (Beginning)
Program aligned for participation in IU’s 4-week study abroad in Hungary after SLI

Hebrew (Beginning)

Polish (Beginning-4th-year)
Also offering study abroad in Poland

Russian (Beginning-5th-year)
Also offering a new program of study abroad in Latvia

Slovak (Beginning-4th year)
Also offering study abroad in Slovakia

Turkish (Beginning-Intermediate)

Ukrainian (Beginning-Intermediate)
Also offering
Ukrainian Internship

For specific program offerings, dates, and links to our applications, visit: www.sli.pitt.edu

 SLI Program Highlights:

  • Intensive language training: 2 semester’s worth of academic credit (6-10 credits) and the corresponding proficiency gains in one summer
  • Generous scholarships available: All applicants are eligible to apply for scholarship support from SLI (including non-Pitt, out-of-state students and not-currently-enrolled language learners). Explore all our funding opportunities on our Funding Your Study page
  • Expanded internship opportunities: Built on the model of our Ukrainian internship program, SLI is expanding the credit-bearing language internship program to other languages
  • Cultural enrichment through films, lectures, masterclasses on arts, music, and movement, extra-curriculars, excursions, ethnic picnics, and more
  • A diverse student body of undergraduate and graduate students from institutions all around the country and highly-motivated, non-student learners
  • Expert teaching faculty of highly experienced, dedicated, friendly, and inspiring language teachers

SLI celebrates a 36-year tradition of passionate teaching and proven results. Students who complete SLI programs rapidly acquire language proficiency and cultural competency, while enjoying the camaraderie of other motivated language learners and friendly, experienced instructors. Enjoy the culturally rich, urban environment of University of Pittsburgh’s main campus or come abroad with us!

To explore our programs and apply: www.sli.pitt.edu

We welcome your questions! Direct inquiries to our team at sliadmin@pitt.edu  

Reach SLI Director, Kathleen Manukyan, at manukyan1@pitt.edu

SRAS Study Abroad Program: Russian as a Second Language

Gain fluency in Russian and first-hand knowledge of local culture.

In Tbilisi, Georgia an intensive and supportive environment for Russian language study is paired with home stay to provide you with an immersive language and cultural experience. Out-of-classroom experiences and special lectures and workshops introduce you to local Georgian identity, history, and current issues in contemporary Georgia. Tbilisi is a very affordable option for study abroad, due to the many inclusions in this program and the generally low cost of living.

2025 Summer (4 weeks): Application Deadline: 01 Mar 2025

  • Start Date: 23 May 2025
  • End Date: 22 Jun 2025

2025 Summer (8 weeks): Application Deadline: 01 Mar 2025

  • Start Date: 23 May 2025
  • End Date: 20 Jul 2025

2025 Summer (10 weeks): Application Deadline: 01 Mar 2025

  • Start Date: 23 May 2025
  • End Date: 03 Aug 2025

2025 Summer (6 weeks): Application Deadline: 15 Mar 2025

  • Start Date: 20 Jun 2025
  • End Date: 03 Aug 2025

2025 Fall: Application Deadline: 01 May 2025

  • Start Date: 22 Aug 2025
  • End Date: 14 Dec 2025

Learn Russian in the European Union (Daugavpils, Latvia)

Learn Russian in the European Union (Daugavpils, Latvia) is accepting applications for the following study abroad programs:

- Summer Russian Language and Area Studies Program, 5 weeks.

- Summer Intensive Russian Language Program, 6 weeks.

- Baltic Jewish History Tour (in English).

- 2025 Fall Semester Study Abroad Program.

- 2026 Spring Semester Study Abroad Program.

All Russian-language programs are hosted at Daugavpils University in Daugavpils, Latvia. Undergraduate credits will be awarded at Daugavpils University.

PROGRAM SUMMARY

2025 SUMMER RUSSIAN LANGUAGE AND AREA STUDIES PROGRAM, 5 weeks

Application deadline: April 14, 2025

Document submission deadline: April 21, 2025

Start date: May 25, 2025

End date: June 28, 2025

Duration: 5 weeks

Total in-class hours: 120

Russian class level: Intermediate, Advanced

Credits: 9 ECTS Russian, 3 ECTS Area Studies

2025 SUMMER INTENSIVE RUSSIAN LANGUAGE PROGRAM, 6 weeks

Application deadline: May 18, 2025

Document submission deadline: May 25, 2025

Start date: June 30, 2025

End date: August 8, 2025

Duration: 6 weeks

Total in-class hours: 144

Russian class level: Intermediate, Advanced

Credits: 13.5 ECTS Russian   

2025 BALTIC JEWISH HISTORY TOUR (IN ENGLISH)

Application deadline: April 7, 2025

Document submission deadline: April 14, 2025

Recommended arrival in Riga: June 2, 2025

The first day: June 3, 2025

The last day: June 19, 2025

Duration: 16 days

Experience: 15 cities and towns, 50 excursions and events

2025 FALL & 2026 SPRING SEMESTER PROGRAMS

The following study options are available:

- Russian Language and Political Science;

- Russian Language and East European Studies;

- Russian Language, Literature, and Culture.

2025 FALL

Application deadline: July 24, 2025

Document submission deadline: July 31, 2025

Optional pre-semester Russian: August 18, 2025

Semester start date: September 1, 2025

End date: December 19, 2025

Duration: 16 weeks

Total in-class hours: 320

Credits: 30 ECTS       

2026 SPRING

Application deadline: November 25, 2025

Document submission deadline: December 1, 2025

Optional pre-semester Russian: January 12, 2026

Semester start date: January 26, 2026

End date: May 15, 2026

Duration: 16 weeks

Total in-class hours: 320

Credits: 30 ECTS       

INTENSIVE PRE-SEMESTER COURSE

Students may select an optional intensive pre-semester course before starting the Fall or Spring Semester programs. This 2-week Russian language course enables students to brush-up the language skills, refresh grammar and active vocabulary, and ensure a smooth start of the academic program.

The course doesn’t give academic credit.

ALL PROGRAMS INCLUDE

- Homestays with vetted and trained Russian host families, breakfast and dinner included.

- Exciting excursions, study trips around the Baltic states, and cultural experience.

- Airport pick-up and two-way transfer.

- Local insurance, 24/7 in-country support, and many more.

DAUGAVPILS

Daugavpils is the second largest city in Latvia and the largest Russian-speaking city in the European Union.

Daugavpils is a Russian language enclave, where modern standard Russian is the language of daily communication. It is a perfect location for Russian study abroad programs.

Please find full details at Learn Russian in the EU website.

SRAS Study Abroad Program: Identity and Conflict in the Caucasus

Perfect for anthropology, international relations, conflict studies, or history majors.

The Caucasus are rugged mountains that have historically separated – and been contested and colonized by – great empires. Politically and demographically, the extreme geography has given rise to dozens of languages, cultures, and identities packed into small and often isolated territories. These hard-to-access areas pose challenges to infrastructure and economic development, with competition for scarce funds divided along regional and ethnic lines. In some cases, regions are additionally divided by the scars of war and separatism. Yet, the unique geography also presents potential advantages – in untapped resources, renewable energy potential, tourism, and providing transport links between larger economic powers.

While based in Tbilisi, Georgia, you will travel extensively within that country's diverse landscape and also to Armenia and Azerbaijan to discuss the conflicts in these states, both past and present, with local experts. Learning of the historical background and the interests of groups involved, including foreign interests, you will critically consider the governance issues that face modern multiethnic states. You will search for pragmatic solutions using the experience you gain on the ground. This program provides invaluable experience for anyone interested in diplomacy or policy making.

2025 Fall: Application Deadline: 01 May 2025

  • Start Date: 22 Aug 2025
  • End Date: 14 Dec 2025
Advanced Russian Language and Area Studies Program (RLASP)

American Councils Study & Research Abroad is pleased to announce that in addition to summer programming, the Advanced Russian Language and Area Studies Program (RLASP) will now be offered for semester and academic year programming in Tallinn, Estonia, starting in 2025. The program provides 20 hours per week of intensive in-class Russian language instruction, housing with Russian speaking host families, weekly meetings and activities with conversation partners, weekly cultural activities, extended group travel to explore the host country, and a rich array of opportunities to engage with the host culture through extracurricular activities and volunteering opportunities.

Open to both graduate and undergraduate students who have completed at least two semesters of Russian language study, the program offers academic credit (graduate or undergraduate) from Bryn Mawr College upon its successful completion.  

Generous financial aid is available for all RLASP sites and includes the Diversity and Inclusion Scholarship and the Dan E. Davidson Scholarship for advanced students of Russian.

Application deadlines:

Summer 2025: February 15, 2025 

Fall 2025: March 15, 2025

SRAS 2025 Summer Study Abroad Program: Warsaw: Slavic Studies Summer

Warsaw, Poland

Join SRAS in Warsaw for a Slavic experience this summer. Study intensive Polish or Ukrainian, practice with native conversation partners and immerse yourself in the multi-Slavic environment of Warsaw.

All participants will also take part in the Slavic Seminar - a series of lectures and workshops diving into topics of identity, language, literature and film, history, and more - and enjoy an extensive cultural program.

This program is open to all levels of Ukrainian or Polish language, including beginners. Belarusian language (all levels, individualized) is available on request.

2025 Summer (4 weeks)

  • Start Date: 14 Jun 2025
  • End Date: 12 Jul 2025

2025 Summer (8 weeks)

  • Start Date: 14 Jun 2025
  • End Date: 09 Aug 2025

Application Deadline: 15 Mar 2025

Website: https://sras.heiapply.com/catalog/programs/190385

SRAS 2025 Summer Study Abroad Program: Yerevan: Armenian Studies Summer

Yerevan, Armenia

Explore the Armenian language, history, and culture through the lens of museum studies. This highly experiential program takes you to the past and back again, providing new perspectives on history, geography, identity and more.

Often referred to as "The Museum Under the Sky," Armenia is a walk through history, nestled in incredibly beautiful landscape. It is one of the oldest centers of civilization and home to an ancient cultural heritage. This setting, along with well-developed museums, active excavation sites, and restoration labs, provides us with opportunities to understand how history is uncovered, interpreted, preserved, and presented.

Summer 2025 (4 weeks)

  • Start Date: 13 Jun 2025
  • End Date: 13 Jul 2025

Application Deadline: 15 Mar 2025

Website: https://sras.heiapply.com/catalog/programs/191717

SRAS 2025 Summer Study Abroad Program: Tbilisi: Georgian Language & Culture

Tbilisi, Georgia

Embark on a travel writing adventure in Georgia with SRAS. Over four weeks we will travel extensively, noting the pillars of Georgian identity - Georgian language, food and wine, music, and dance - and how they are shaped by geography. We will discuss Georgia's growing tourism sector and sustainability. If you are linguistically and culturally curious, enjoy writing, and love sharing your experiences with others, this course is for you!

The Georgian language is the most widely spoken Kartvelian language, a language grouping not related to any other. It features a unique script (seen above in an inscription dedicated to the builders of Georgia's Ananuri Fortress). The language has a rich, complex grammar and a long literary history. The Georgian language, which has survived pressures from many empires over many centuries, is also considered an important pillar of Georgian identity.

Food and wine are perhaps the most recognized expression of Georgian identity and diversity. Extremely healthy (think superfoods), with amazing vegetarian and vegan dishes, Georgian food evokes emotion in any who have been lucky enough to try it. The wine industry has ancient roots, fascinating and unique history, and is making its way steadily into world markets.

From polyphonic singing to incredible folk and jazz, Georgia is a music destination. Georgian dance is famous for its difficulty. All of this we will experience firsthand.

Summer 2025

  • Start Date: 23 May 2025
  • End Date: 22 Jun 2025

Application Deadline: 01 Mar 2025

Website: https://sras.heiapply.com/catalog/programs/190394

SRAS 2025 Summer Study Abroad Program: Crossroads: Geopolitics and Security in the Caucasus

Location(s): Yerevan, Armenia; Baku, Azerbaijan; Tbilisi, Georgia

This course takes us to the South Caucasus countries of Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia. Since independence from the USSR, each of these countries has pursued individual paths in foreign policy, shaping alliances with neighboring countries. We will study these paths both individually and collectively. Individually we explore the complex relationships with not only the most proximate (geographically) powers of Iran, Turkey, and Russia, but also with the EU, US, China, India, and others. Collectively we look at the relationships between these three countries, conflicts, real and potential areas for cooperation, and infrastructure development.

The geography of the Caucasus is some of the most dramatic and fascinating in the world. It is truly a region where geography shapes history and identity. We will start and end in Tbilisi (Georgia) and in between visit Baku (Azerbaijan) and Yerevan (Armenia). We will blend formal lectures and workshops with experiential learning. We will come to understand the worldview from these countries and why we should be paying more attention to them.

2025 Summer + Language

  • Start Date: 23 May 2025
  • End Date: 19 Jul 2025

2025 Summer

  • Start Date: 20 Jun 2025
  • End Date: 19 Jul 2025

Application Deadline: 01 Mar 2025

Website:  https://sras.heiapply.com/catalog/programs/189746

Bard College Russian in Central Asia Summer Program (Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan)

Bard Abroad is pleased to announce that we opened applications for the Russian in Central Asia Summer Program in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan. The program is open for students with at least one year of college level Russian. It is hosted by the American University of Central Asia (AUCA), a Bard College dual-degree partner. Below are the program details.

Program Dates: June 5 to August 2, 2025.

Application Deadline: March 15, 2025.

For more information and to apply visit the website.

Program Overview 

The Summer Program combines intensive Russian study with an academic course to contextualize Central Asia’s historical, cultural, and contemporary ties to Russia and the former Soviet Union. This 8-week program consists of two 4-credit courses: Post-Soviet Central Asia: Sovereignty, Community, and Cultural Self-Expression and Russian Language Course.

Academic Program 

Track 1

● Beginners to Intermediate: Transitional Russian Language Course

Track 2

● On the Road to Proficiency: Russian from Intermediate to Advanced

In addition to daily Russian Language classes, both tracks include:

● Post-Soviet Central Asia: Sovereignty, Community, and Cultural Self-Expression Course (4 credits)

● Russian Table lunches, which encourage casual conversation in Russian

● Guided homework sessions with peer tutors.

Cultural Program and Extracurricular Activities

Participants experience the culture, history, society, and natural beauty of Kyrgyzstan through weekly excursions in Bishkek, and trips to sights of interest in Kyrgyzstan including the stunning Lake Issyk-Kul and Ala-Archa Nature Park.

Homestays

Participants live with local Russian-speaking families in Bishkek, experiencing daily life in Kyrgyzstan while immersing themselves in a Russian language environment. Homestays include two meals a day during the week and three meals on weekends.

For more information or questions, contact Tatiana Orlova torlova@bard.edu

Summer Program: Learn Russian in the European Union (Daugavpils, Latvia)

Learn Russian in the EU offers an intensive summer Russian program in Daugavpils, Latvia. This program takes advantage of our experience in providing highly successful summer programs for universities, federal service academies, Project GO, and other institutional customers from the USA and Europe.

This program is focused on improving practical Russian communication skills and confidence, extending active vocabulary, and refining grammar. The in-class study is augmented with full language and culture immersion.

6 week program – application deadline: May 18, 2025

  • June 30th – August 8th 2025
  • Intensive 6-week language study and full Russian language immersion in Daugavpils, Latvia, the  Russian-language enclave in Latvia.
  • 144 instruction hours with Daugavpils University professors.
  • 13.5 ECTS credits in Russian language at Daugavpils University (optional).
  • Conversation practice with native Russian communication tutors, 12 hours.

5 week program – application deadline: April 14, 2025

  • May 25th  – June 27th 2025
  • Intensive 5-week language study and full Russian language immersion in Daugavpils, Latvia, the  Russian-language enclave in Latvia.
  • 120 instruction hours with Daugavpils University professors.
  • 9 ECTS credits in Russian language and 3 ECTS credits in area studies at Daugavpils University (optional).
  • Conversation practice with native Russian communication tutors is included, 10 hours.
Intensive Language Instruction Program (formerly IFLIP)

The Intensive Language Instruction Program (ILIP)—formerly known as the Intensive Foreign Language Instruction Program, or IFLIP—is a unique educational experience designed to accelerate language learning through an immersive classroom atmosphere that is fun and welcoming. ILIP classes combine language and culture through engaging high-quality activities facilitated by our skilled instructors.

ILIP is open to members of the university community and to the general public and offers classes in several languages, including beginner Polish and Ukrainian. Learn more here:

Intensive Language Instruction Program (formerly IFLIP) | School of Literatures, Cultures & Linguistics | UIUC (illinois.edu)

Aspirantum- Armenian School of Languages and Cultures

ASPIRANTUM provides life-changing education for academically-oriented people, students, researchers, and professionals. ASPIRANTUM - School of Languages and Cultures has a long tradition of organizing language schools in the Republic of Armenia.  ASPIRANTUM operates as a separate brand/entity with the aim to offer language courses in Armenian, Persian, Russian, Georgian, Arabic, Turkish, and Kurmanji. Since 2014 we have organized Armenian, Persian and Russian summer and winter schools for students and scholars from around the globe. ASPIRANTUM has already served more than 100 students from more than 20 countries. Current ASPIRANTUM programs include: Persian Language Winter School and Russian Language Winter SchoolCIEE Study Abroad in Russia

Since 1947, nonprofit study abroad and intercultural exchange organization CIEE has been bringing the world together, advancing peace by building bridges of mutual understanding between different people, different countries, and different cultures. The current programs CIEE offers are: Semester or Year Russian Area StudiesSummer Russian Area StudiesSemester or Year Russian Language, and Summer Russian Language.

Deadlines differ based on program.

Russian Practicum at Columbia University 

The Russian Practicum offers three courses in the Russian language (beginning, intermediate and advanced). The first session is offered June 3–27, and the second session is offered July 1–25. Each Russian session carries four (4) credit points and is offered at a flat payment rate, which is lower than the standard semester per credit rate. It is an excellent opportunity to explore a new language or, if you have taken Russian before, bring it up to the next level of proficiency.

The Russian Practicum provides an opportunity to deepen your knowledge of the Russian language and culture in an immersive and engaging environment. The program is designed to provide you with instruction in speaking and listening, reading and writing. You will have the chance to learn alongside other enthusiastic students who share your passion for the Russian language and culture.

If you have any questions or if you need help with registration, contact Alla Smyslova at as2157@columbia.edu.