The Master of Arts in Regional Studies—Russia, Eastern Europe, and Central Asia (REECA) is a two-year program that offers advanced training in the history, politics, culture, society, and languages of this region.
We are the only dedicated Georgia program at a U.S. university, advancing the study of Georgia, the South Caucasus, and the Black Sea region through research, teaching, scholarly and cultural exchanges, and outreach.
Join our visiting scholars as they explore China’s, India’s, and Russia’s economic and political activity beyond their borders — from "hostile" investment in Central Europe to broad geopolitical engagement in the South Caucasus.
Kyrgyzstan’s populist mobilization in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic can be better understood as a story of re-politicization of a depoliticized polity.
In this workshop we will learn a method of historical analysis that capitalizes on AI’s capacity to speculate (wildly, at times). The exercise is designed to teach participants to develop a better sense of what we can and cannot know about the past.