02/25/2022 - In response to Russia's war on Ukraine, REEEC has created a special resource page. It...
News
12/30/2021 - By Justin Balcor (PhD Student, Musicology) On November 11, 2021, as part of the REEEC New Directions Lecture Series, members of the REEEC community gathered online to hear a talk...
REEEC New Directions Lecture: Sunnie Rucker-Chang, “The Chinese in Serbia as ‘Perpetual Foreigners’”12/21/2021 - By Peter Wright (Assistant Professor, Slavic Languages and Literatures) Over the past decade, the field of Slavic and East European studies has undergone a transformation. Marked by...
12/10/2021 - Michael Finke, Professor Emeritus of Slavic Languages and Literatures and the former Department Head, has published a new book which analyzes Chekhov’s major stories, plays, and nonfiction in the...
12/10/2021 - Professor Valleri Robinson recently wrote an article for Public Seminar, " Belarus Needs Our Help: The United States must stand boldly against the Lukashenka regime and its abuse of human rights"....
11/15/2021 - Eugene Avrutin, professor of history with an affiliate appointment in the Program in Jewish Culture & Society, has been named the Tobor Family Professor in Jewish History. The Tobor Professorship...
10/15/2021 - Spring 2022 Select Courses in Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies Please note: The courses below are not an exhaustive list of courses being offered on the...
10/12/2021 - Professor Valleri Robinson recently wrote an article for UPI, "Even in exile, Belarus' Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya fights authoritarianism". Professor Robinson is a Public Voices Fellow of the OpEd...
10/07/2021 - By Felix Cowan (PhD Candidate, History) On September 30, 2021, REEEC faculty, students, and staff gathered online for a talk by Dr. Amanda Gregg (Assistant Professor of Economics,...
10/05/2021 - Recently, Valleri Robinson, Associate Professor of Theatre at UIUC, has published two articles related to the political situation in Belarus. The first article was a review of a performance of ...
09/29/2021 - REEEC Associate Director Maureen Marshall joined with other educational and non-profit organizations in an event announcing the creation of a Georgian Studies program at Harvard. “As some of our...
08/26/2021 - Dear Colleagues, Well, here it is tomorrow! The new academic year is upon us, with an odd mixture of new and old. Walking around campus already feels so completely different from last year, even as...
08/20/2021 - REEEC Director John Randolph was interviewed in a recent BBC article, "What will today's data tell future historians?" A repost of the article is below, and the original article (with images) can be...
05/21/2021 - Jamie Hendrickson completed her degree program this Spring 2021 semester, earning an M.A. in Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. She also...
05/13/2021 - Congratulations to Jacob Bell (PhD Candidate in History) for winning the Best Graduate Student Essay in Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies for his paper “...
