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.
Eugene Ostashevsky will offer a personal take on questions of translation, immigration, and language by discussing poems on the siege of Leningrad from his latest collection.
Join a discussion on Western academia's perpetuation of historical, cultural, and political frameworks rooted in Cold War-era Sovietology. This talk will focus on the case of Belarus.
Declassified archival materials from the United States and the former Soviet Union confirm memoir accounts of U.S. covert operations in Soviet Ukraine in the first several years after World War II. The seminar will explore what is now known about these operations, which proved unsuccessful.
In their new book Indulging Kleptocracy, John Heathershaw, Tena Prelec, and Tom Mayne offer an engaging inside account of the fight against kleptocracy in the UK.