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.
Can Ukrainian resolve be sustained for as long as the war lasts? Our panelists will help us clarify what the war has cost (or not cost) Russia and Putin, how Ukrainians have been united by a common cause, and what Europe and the United States should do in a second year of war.
Emerging Scholars on the State of the Field, Activism, and Advocacy is the third panel in the Decolonization in focus Series.
The series will consist of six wide-ranging panels featuring speakers from a variety of disciplines and institutions. Panelists and participants will be encouraged to consider why decolonizing Russian & Eurasian studies matters, how to implement concrete change in their classrooms, and how to conceive of the future of expertise within the field. All sessions will be convened using Zoom, live-streamed via YouTube, and recorded to be made available for later viewing.
The panel will discuss considerable interrelated challenges facing Caspian littoral states and their plans to develop the Middle Corridor for trans-Eurasian trade.
Travelogues by Sophia Yablonska transgressed norms of gender, genre, and perception and will offer material to reassess traditional histories of literature in the twentieth century.