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Studying Russia at The University of Chicago

The University of Chicago offers numerous courses at the graduate and undergraduate level on the history and culture of Russia. On this page you will find featured courses studying Russia as well as related news and upcoming events. For information about studying Russian at The University of Chicago please see our Languages of Study menu.

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Maria Belodubrovskaya

Leah Feldman

Leonid A. Gavrilov

Natalia Gavrilova

Scott Gehlbach

Eleonory Gilburd

Faith Hillis

Erik Houle

Leyla Ismayilova

Matthew J. Jackson

Owen Kohl

John J. Mearsheimer

Anne Eakin Moss

Kenneth Moss

William Nickell

Eugene Raikhel

Olga V. Solovieva

Konstantin Sonin

Malynne Sternstein

Upcoming Events

ASEEES Online Conference - PANEL VI. The Future of SEEES Expertise: How Can We Anticipate Tomorrow’s Differences?

Mar 31, 11:00 am

ASEEES Online Conference - Decolonization In Focus - PANEL V. Syllabus Design and Critical Pedagogies in the Classroom: How Do We Teach Differently?

Mar 17, 11:00 am

ASEEES Online Conference - Decolonization In Focus - PANEL IV. Decolonization: Impact Beyond the Ivory Tower?

Mar 3, 11:00 am

ASEEES Online Conference - PANEL III. Emerging Scholars on the State of the Field, Activism, and Advocacy

Feb 24, 11:00 am

Ukraine Endures: Taking Stock of One Year of the Russia-Ukraine War

Feb 23, 6:00 pm

CEERES, Pearson Institute

ASEEES Online Conference -- Decolonization In Focus PANEL II. Discourse and Decolonization: Perspectives from Outside the Anglophone Academy

Feb 10, 11:00 am

Indiana University's 2023 Language Workshop

Feb 3, 2:02 pm

ASEEES Online Conference -- Decolonization In Focus PANEL I. Decolonization: Why Does It Matter?

Feb 3, 11:00 am

IAN MAKSIN & GABRIEL DATCU "CELLO FOR PEACE"

Jan 12, 8:00 pm

Stanislav Aseyev: On knowledge formation and hybrid war in Ukraine

Nov 17, 12:00 pm

Contemporary Education and Changing Culture in the Frontline City of Kharkiv

Nov 17, 10:00 am

A conversation with Vladimir Sorokin -- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill online event

Nov 11, 2:00 pm

Access as Convenience? Tracing Russophone vocabularies of disability access from the late Soviet period to the 2010s

Nov 9, 12:30 pm

Call for Papers -- Diversifying Slavic: New Approaches to the Field

Nov 1, 3:05 pm

Slavic Languages & Literatures Autumn Celebration & Open House

Oct 13, 4:30 pm

Slavic

Russian-Speaking Student Association at UChicago (RUSA) Lecture by Dr Konstantin Sonin "Сценарии Русского Будущего"

Oct 5, 6:00 pm

The Russia-Ukraine War: What Comes Next?

Sep 23, 12:00 pm

CEERES, Pearson Institute

War in Ukraine – Round table discussion featuring Tymofiy Mylovanov

Jun 22, 1:00 pm

CEERES, Pearson Institute

Justifying War: How Russia Convinced Its People to Take Part in the Land Grab of the Century with Simon Ostrovsky

Jun 20, 6:00 pm

CEERES, CMES, CEAS

Elephant Steps: The Future of Queer Youth in Russia

May 23, 4:30 pm

CEERES, Slavic

Life and Organization Management in War-Torn Ukraine

May 11, 12:00 pm

CEERES

War in Ukraine – A Grave Miscalculation with Konstantin Sonin

Mar 31, 7:00 am

UChicago Hong Kong Yuen Campus

Reports from Kyiv, Moscow, and Chicago

Mar 4, 12:00 pm

CEERES

PATHS/Area Studies Centers (Virtual) Public Lectureship Prize

Feb 28, 12:00 am

CEERES, PATHS

Intersectionality in Focus - Spring 2022 - Session 4: (Post-)Pandemic Eurasia

Feb 26, 12:46 pm

CEERES

Crisis in Ukraine Roundtable Discussion

Feb 17, 7:00 pm

CEERES, Pearson Institute

Intersectionality in Focus - Spring 2022 - Session 3: Gender, Race, Dis/ability and Politics

Feb 12, 12:42 pm

CEERES

Intersectionality in Focus - Spring 2022 - Session 2: Intersectionality and Change

Feb 5, 12:40 pm

CEERES

Intersectionality in Focus - Spring 2022 - Session 1: Emerging Scholars

Jan 29, 12:32 pm

CEERES

CALL FOR PAPERS – SOUTHERN CONFERENCE ON SLAVIC STUDIES

Dec 1, 5:00 pm

University of Richmond

Intersectionality in Focus Session 4: Genocide and Memory

Oct 29, 1:00 pm

CEERES

Intersectionality in Focus Session 3: Queer Studies

Oct 22, 1:00 pm

CEERES

CEERES of Voices: Kate Brown - Manual for Survival An Environmental History of the Chernobyl Disaster

Oct 22, 12:30 pm

CEERES, Seminary Co-Op

CEERES Director's Lecture - Kate Brown "The Chernobyl Acceleration"

Oct 21, 5:00 pm

CEERES

The Calvert Journal Film Festival: 14 days of New East cinema online

Oct 18, 12:00 am

Calvert Journal

Intersectionality in Focus Session 2:Challenges and Creative Practices in the Classroom

Oct 15, 1:00 pm

CEERES

Intersectionality in Focus Session 1: Addressing Intersectionality Through Course Design

Oct 8, 1:00 pm

CEERES

REES Open House at University of Chicago

Oct 7, 4:45 pm

Call for Submissions: 2023 Graduate Student Essay Competition

Jun 01, 2023

With Freedom in Our Ears: Histories of Jewish Anarchism Book Discussion

May 07, 2023

Three-year Visiting Assistant Professor of Russian at Virginia Tech

May 03, 2023

Anton Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard at Goodman Theatre

Apr 30, 2023

Russian-Speaking Resident Directors in Armenia and Kazakhstan -- American Councils on Int'l Education

Apr 30, 2023

Univ of Pittsburgh -- Resident Instructor & Teaching/Resident Assistants -- STARTALK Russian language program

Apr 28, 2023

Pozen Family Center for Human Rights Doctoral Fellows Program

Apr 28, 2023

Russian Language Immersion Instructor -- University of Georgia STARTALK for Global Professionals program

Apr 20, 2023

Davidson College -- Russian Instructor and Program Coordinator (3 year renewable position)

Apr 07, 2023

Ukraine: Fighting Corruption During a War and Beyond WEBINAR

Apr 05, 2023

2-day Symposium at Harvard University -- Professional Development of Russian Graduate Student Teaching Assistants

Apr 01, 2023

Russian Summer Faculty Instructor.Teaching - Part-Time

Mar 31, 2023

Call for Chapters: Cognitive Approaches to Slavic Cultures

Mar 31, 2023

CISSR 2023-24 Graduate Fellowships

Mar 31, 2023

Ukraine, Russia, and the Future of the Liberal Order

Mar 24, 2023

Aesthetics of Loss by Anders Zanichkowsky at Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art

Mar 23, 2023

Foreign Language Teacher - RUSSIAN (Instructor) - Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center (DLIFLC)

Mar 21, 2023

Faculty Position in Russian language pedagogy and applied linguistics -- UCLA

Mar 19, 2023

Teaching Assistant Professor in Russian Language and Culture - Univ of CO Boulder

Mar 15, 2023

CFP: Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies 2023 -- The American Century and its Challenges: U.S., RUSSIA, P. R. CHINA

Mar 15, 2023

Developing Educator Competence in Equity Literacy and Anti-Oppressive Pedagogies in the Field of Slavic Languages and Literatures

Mar 08, 2023

Hudson Institute Political Studies Undergraduate Summer Fellowship in political theory

Mar 06, 2023

PSV Bootcamp March 2023: Understanding Web3 for Russian-speaking musicians and journalists

Mar 06, 2023

CFP: The Slavic Reference Service (SRS) 2nd Annual Caucasus Research Forum March 30-31st "People and Environment"

Mar 03, 2023

Associate Professorship (or Professorship) of Russophone Literature, Thought, and Culture, 1820-1945 -- New College Oxford

Mar 03, 2023

Slavic and East European Journal Editorial Associate

Mar 01, 2023

CFP:The Weird Russian 19th Century - April 28, 2023 - Rutgers University (via Zoom)

Mar 01, 2023

Princeton University -- Policy and International Affairs (PIA) Librarian

Feb 28, 2023

Grinnell College -- Prof. of Russian/Ukrainian/Central Asian studies -- One-year appt.

Feb 28, 2023

Russian Summer Faculty Instructor Teaching - Part-Time - Univ of Pittsburgh

Feb 28, 2023

Stop The War Charge The Criminals Rally in Daley Plaza Chicago

Feb 25, 2023

Ideologies of War and Theologies of Healing: Ukraine one year later

Feb 23, 2023

Call for Papers: Wisconsin Slavic Conference March 24-25, 2023

Feb 19, 2023

American Councils for Int'l Education -- Advanced Russian Language and Area Studies Program (RLASP)

Feb 15, 2023

Ukraine Fights On: One Year Later: Women social activists and a lawyer from the SICH Human Rights Protection Group in Ukraine Speak

Feb 15, 2023

IIE Language Flagship Russian language program funding opportunity

Feb 14, 2023

Central European University Call for Applications for Intensive Summer Courses in Budapest

Feb 14, 2023

Lector/Senior Lector I in Russian language -- Yale University

Feb 10, 2023

In Conversation with Yevgenia Albats: Masha Gessen

Feb 02, 2023

Call for Papers: Formal Approaches to Slavic Linguistics - May 19–21, 2023 at Indiana University, Bloomington

Feb 01, 2023

CFP Tolstoy Studies Journal Conference - Tolstoy and Russian Imperialism - Tbilisi, Georgia, June 16–19, 2023

Feb 01, 2023

American Home in Vladimir, Russia online/in-person ESL teaching positions

Jan 31, 2023

CFP: Reproductive Care and Justice – Special Issue of New Area Studies

Jan 28, 2023

Olga V. Solovieva—Ales Bialiatski, Together: On the 2022 Nobel Peace Prize and East Slavic Solidarity

Jan 17, 2023

ASU -- Melikian Center for Russian Eurasian and East European Studies Associate Director & Clinical Assistant or Clinical Associate Professor

Jan 15, 2023

NYU Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia Masters and Undergraduate Research Symposia

Jan 15, 2023

2023 CALL FOR PAPERS North East Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (NESEEES)

Jan 13, 2023

"Byzantine Influence On Old Rus': A Reassessment" by Sergey Ivanov at Northwestern's Global Antiquities Workshop

Jan 06, 2023

Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center (DLIFLC) -- Russian language teacher

Dec 31, 2022

Defense Language Institute -- ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF RUSSIAN TRANSLATION

Dec 27, 2022

CFP - University of Oslo: "Trauma, Memory, and Counter-Culture: Borders and Border Transgressions in (Post-)Communist Europe"

Dec 23, 2022

CFP: Science and Literature in Russia and Eastern Europe -- Yale University

Dec 22, 2022

CEERES 2023 Newsletter

Dec 20, 2022

Pearson Institute Research and Innovation Fund at the University of Chicago

Dec 16, 2022

Oberlin College -- Assistant Professor of Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies

Dec 15, 2022

Department of Slavic Languages & Literatures at Harvard University - Faculty Coordinator position

Dec 09, 2022

Call for Applications: Open Research Laboratory at Illinois

Dec 07, 2022

Webinar on non-academic professions affected by US-Russian relations

Dec 07, 2022

"Ukraine in the Pan-European Natural Gas System" with Per Hogselius (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm)

Dec 06, 2022

U of Nebraska -- Asst Prof Russian language and Cultural Studies

Dec 02, 2022

CFP: Rewired and revamped? Media and trans/national feminisms in Europe and beyond -- Tampere University Finland

Dec 01, 2022

CISSR Call for Proposals 2023-24 Faculty Research Fellowship

Dec 01, 2022

Brown University -- Assistant Professor of Slavic Studies

Dec 01, 2022

Atlantic Council -- Ukraine Research Assistant

Nov 30, 2022

Call for Applications: Two Year Postdoc University of Missouri

Nov 30, 2022

Augusta University: Assistant Professor of Modern European History with ability to teach the history of Russia and the USSR

Nov 30, 2022

“Digital Transformations of Feminisms in Russia and Eastern Europe” Online Seminar

Nov 25, 2022

Wake Forest University -- Assistant Professor of Russian

Nov 21, 2022

The School of Modern Languages at the University of St Andrews -- Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship

Nov 21, 2022

Brigham Young University -- tenure-track faculty or visiting position in Russian language, linguistics, literature, or culture

Nov 18, 2022

Univ of Pittsburgh -- Teaching Assistant Professor of Russian Language, Literature, and Culture

Nov 15, 2022

The Ohio State University - Assistant Professor with focus on Indigenous Siberian Studies

Nov 14, 2022

The Government Inspector by Nikolai Gogol at the Theater of Western Springs

Nov 06, 2022

Boston University -- Department of World Languages & Literatures renewable full-time Lecturer in Russian

Nov 02, 2022

Call for Papers: Kentucky Foreign Language Conference (KFLC) annual meeting

Nov 01, 2022

Assistant Professor of Russian in the field of Russian Linguistics -- Univ of South Carolina

Nov 01, 2022

Call for Papers -- Out of the USSR: Travelling Women, Travelling Memories -- University of Turku, Finland

Nov 01, 2022

University of Maryland -- Assistant Professor, Russian & Digital Humanities

Nov 01, 2022

Univ of Texas at Austin -- Assistant Professor of Slavic and Eurasian Studies

Oct 31, 2022

National Security Agency Language Careers and internships

Oct 31, 2022

Pozen Center Human Rights Internship Program

Oct 30, 2022

Call for Proposals -- 2022 Detroit Mercy Law Review Symposium -- Fallout: The Legal Impact of the 2022 Russian Invasion of Ukraine

Oct 28, 2022

The George Washington University -- Assistant Professor of Russian

Oct 24, 2022

Worldwide Anti-War Rally October 23

Oct 23, 2022

Columbia University -- Russian literature and culture Assistant or Associate Professor

Oct 21, 2022

Columbia University -- Lecturer or Senior Lecturer in Russian Language

Oct 21, 2022

Boston University -- Postdoctoral Fellowships

Oct 17, 2022

SRAS Spring Study Abroad Program

Oct 15, 2022

University of Kansas -- Assistant Professor Russian and/or Eurasian International Relations

Oct 15, 2022

CEERES at Humanities Day 2022

Oct 15, 2022

University of California-Davis -- Professor of 19th Century Russian Lit & Culture

Oct 14, 2022

Summer 2022 K-12 Teacher Training Workshop: Understanding the Culture and History of Ukraine — Ohio State University

Jul 01, 2022

Seasonal Lecturer in Russian Literature — University of British Columbia

Jun 14, 2022

Virtual Talk: "Pushkin the Historian and Russia's Many Schisms" with Robert Chandler — Pushkin House

Jun 07, 2022

Workshop: Public Scholarship in Russia, Eurasia and East Europe -- Arizona State University

May 30, 2022

Visiting Assistant Professor in Cinematic Traditions of the Russian Federation, Eastern and Central Europe, and Eurasia — University of Pittsburgh

May 31, 2022

Zoom Talk: "Three Mothers Learn of their Sons' Death in Combat" with Robert Chandler — University of Glasgow

May 19, 2022

Book Talk: "Ступает Слон" — Maxim Sonin

May 19, 2022

Assistant Director, Center for Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies -- Ohio State University

May 17, 2022

Visiting Lecturer Russian & East European Languages & Literatures — Rutgers University

May 16, 2022

The 2022 Hagel Lecture: "Principled Foreign Policy in a Fragile World" with Sec. Leon Panetta and Sec. Chuck Hagel -- University of Chicago

May 11, 2022

Program Assistant: Study and Research Abroad Programs 2022 -- American Councils for International Education

May 03, 2022

Internship: Russia Studies, Summer 2022 -- Council on Foreign Relations

May 03, 2022

Visiting Assistant Professor in Russian Area Studies -- Lawrence University

Apr 25, 2022

Fall 2022 Semester Abroad: Russian Studies in Almaty & Chisinau -- American Councils for International Education

Apr 30, 2022

Call for Proposals: White Ink, Red Flag: Expressing Maternity in Eastern European Culture -- University of Exeter

Apr 29, 2022

Teaching Fellow in Russian Studies -- University of Durham

Apr 25, 2022

Virtual Lecture: "Ukraine: a Spotlight on the Culture of Change and Resistance" with Dr. Valentyna Ushchyna and Dr. Olena Sivachenko -- University of British Columbia

Apr 25, 2022

Visiting Assistant Professor in Russian Studies -- College of Wooster

Apr 19, 2022

Call for Submissions: All the Russias 2022 Graduate Student Essay Competition -- New York University

Apr 18, 2022

Call for Proposals: “Russia and the Global Color Line” -- University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Apr 14, 2022

Call for Abstracts: Virtual Student Research Competition -- Macalester College

Apr 11, 2022

Film Screening: "Navalny" - Doc10

Apr 09, 2022

UPDATE Applications Open: Monterey Summer Symposium on Russia -- Middlebury Institute for International Studies at Monterey

Apr 04, 2022

REEESNe 2022 Student Conference -- Yale University

Apr 01, 2022

Zoom Discussion: The Context Behind the Crisis -- University of Chicago

Mar 04, 2022

Rapid Response Panel: Ukraine Under Attack -- Harvard University

Feb 28, 2022

Program Coordinator, Melikian Center -- Arizona State University

Feb 22, 2022

Call for Papers -- The ‘Byt’ of Literature: Literary Personalities, Scholarly Discourses and the Modes of Their Production -- Princeton University

Feb 20, 2022

Call for Papers: Wisconsin Slavic Conference -- University of Wisconsin-Madison

Feb 20, 2022

Call for Papers: Shifting Grounds, Changing Models of Nature in the Former Soviet Sphere -- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (ZOOM)

Feb 15, 2022

Teaching and Learning Research (LTLR) Grants -- University of Pittsburgh

Feb 15, 2022

(Zoom) Conference: Beyond Borderland: 30 Years of Ukrainian Sovereignty -- Harvard University

Feb 07, 2022

American Home in Vladimir Russia Academic Opportunities

Jan 31, 2022

Visiting Assistant Professor of Russian -- Swarthmore College

Jan 15, 2022

Call for Papers: Women Philosophers and Russia / Женщины-философы и Россия.

Jan 15, 2022

Asynchronous Course: "Jewish Voices in Russian Culture" -- Hofstra University

Postdoctoral Research Scholar in Russian Politics -- Columbia University

Jan 14, 2022

Summer Russian-Speaking Resident Directors, Assistant Resident Directors -- American Councils for Int'l Education

Outreach and Program Coordinator -- University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Dec 15, 2021

Fellowship Writing Seminars at UChicagoGRAD

Dec 15, 2021

Visiting Assistant Professorship in Russian -- Kenyon College

Dec 10, 2021

"When are we going to win again?": Hockey and Politics in Putin's Russia with Bruce Berglund -- Ohio State

Dec 03, 2021

Call for Applications: Open Research Laboratory at Illinois

Dec 03, 2021

Assistant Professor of Russian Studies -- University of Kentucky

Dec 03, 2021

Assistant Professor in Slavic and Global Literary Studies -- University of Washington

Dec 01, 2021

Cultural Vistas Alfa Fellowship Program

Dec 01, 2021

Visiting Professorship of post-Soviet states (any period) -- University of Alberta

Dec 01, 2021

English Language teacher-Togliatti, Russia -- Windsor International Education Company

Nov 30, 2021

Professor of Russian Literature and Culture -- UCLA

Nov 22, 2021

ASSISTANT DIRECTOR FOR OUTREACH - Univ. of Pittsburgh University Center for International Studies

Nov 19, 2021

Senior Lecturer in Russian Language -- Columbia University

Nov 18, 2021

Living through History: The Coup of August 19, 1991 -- Hofstra University

Nov 18, 2021

Virtual Harper Lecture: "Democracy in Peril: A Conversation with UChicago Social Sciences Faculty"

Nov 15, 2021

Professor & Director, School of International Letters and Cultures -- Arizona State university

Nov 15, 2021

Assistant Professor in Russian History -- Indiana University

Nov 15, 2021

Funding Opportunity - U.S.-Russia Virtual University Partnerships Program (UniVIP) 2021-22

Nov 12, 2021

Assistant Professor in Russian Culture -- University of Cambridge

Nov 11, 2021

Diverging Paths: An Intimate History of Russian and Ukrainian Nationalism in Late Imperial Kiev

Nov 10, 2021

Online Film screening -- Queer Taxonomies: Gender and New Post-Soviet Cinema

Nov 06, 2021

“The Revolution Will Be Fictionalized: Postmodern Politics and Radical Literature in Putin’s Russia" --Lecture by Fabrizio Fenghi

Nov 02, 2021

Call For Papers -- 2022 Kentucky Foreign Language Conference

Nov 01, 2021

Assistant Professor in Russian Studies -- Dartmouth College

Nov 01, 2021

Assistant Professor Post-Soviet Russian literature and culture -- USC

Nov 01, 2021

Assistant Professor Russian literature and culture --Stanford University

Nov 01, 2021

Call For Papers: Central Asia Research Forum 2021- Publishing and Book Culture

Oct 28, 2021

ARISC GIS Workshop: GIS from the Ground Up

Oct 21, 2021

Slavic Languages and Literatures tenured/tenure track postion -- Princeton

Oct 20, 2021

Russian Language Teachers -- STARTALK Russian immersion program

Oct 15, 2021

Central Eurasian Studies Society Annual Conference (Virtual CESS 2021)

Oct 14, 2021

Study Abroad Fellowships: NSEP Boren & Critical Languages Information Session

Oct 13, 2021

Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowship Peer-Review Workshop

Oct 11, 2021

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