Engaging Eurasia Teacher Fellowship

A fellowship for high school and community college educators devoted to the people, histories, and cultures of Eurasia. 

This fellowship is intended for high school and community college educators who are interested in bringing new content on Eurasia to their classrooms. Each year of the fellowship is devoted to a different theme – the theme for the 2024-2025 academic year will be Explorations of Identity in Eurasian Studies. 

Over the 9-month fellowship, fellows will participate in 8 content webinars, hearing from scholars with expertise on the fellowship topic. Each fellow is expected to complete a final project–either curriculum development or a literature review on a question that develops during the course of the fellowship.

Applications for the next fellowship cycle will be available in March 2024. The Engaging Eurasia Teacher Fellowship provides select high school and community college educators the opportunity to spend one academic year undertaking an in-depth study of the people, histories, cultures and current events of Eurasia. Fellows participate in monthly webinars with experts in Eurasian studies as well as an in-person workshop at one of the partnering universities, develop curricula for classroom application, and benefit from being a part of a diverse learning community.

The fellowship theme changes annually; the theme for the 2023-2024 program year is An Exploration of Central Asia. Previous themes include conflict in Everyday Life in the Soviet Union, Post-Soviet Eurasia and the art and culture of Eurasia.

2024-2025 Fellowship Details

Over the 9-month fellowship, fellows will participate in 8 content webinars, hearing from scholars with expertise on the fellowship topic. Each fellow is expected to complete a final project–either curriculum development or a literature review on a question that develops during the course of the fellowship. 

How to Apply

 Applications for the 2024-2025 program will be available in March 2024. 

Questions? Contact Allison Hart at ahart@fas.harvard.edu.

Program Sponsors

This fellowship is a collaboration between the Davis Center, the Center for Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies at the Ohio State University, the Center for Russia and East European Studies at the University of Pittsburgh, and the Center for Russia, East Europe and Central Asia at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. It is funded through a Title VI/National Resource Center Grant from the U.S. Department of Education.

Related Insights

Educators gathered on the Harvard campus to synthesize lessons from the yearlong Engaging Eurasia Teacher Fellowship.