Slavic (

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) or Slavonic (

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) studies, also known as Slavistics, is the academic field of area studies concerned with Slavic peoples, languages, literature, history, and culture. Originally, a Slavist or Slavicist was primarily a

linguist Linguistics is the scientific study of language. The areas of linguistic analysis are syntax (rules governing the structure of sentences), semantics (meaning), Morphology (linguistics), morphology (structure of words), phonetics (speech sounds ...

philologist Philology () is the study of language in oral and written historical sources. It is the intersection of textual criticism, literary criticism, history, and linguistics with strong ties to etymology. Philology is also defined as the study of ...

researching Slavistics. Increasingly, historians, social scientists, and other humanists who study Slavic cultures and societies have been included in this rubric. In the United States, Slavic studies is dominated by

Russian studies Russian studies is an interdisciplinary field crossing politics of Russia, politics, history of Russia, history, Culture of Russia, culture, economy of Russia, economics, and languages of Russia, languages of Russia and its neighborhood, often gr ...

. Ewa Thompson, a professor of Slavic studies at

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, described the situation of non-Russian Slavic studies as "invisible and mute".

History

Slavistics emerged in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, simultaneously with

Romantic nationalism Romantic nationalism (also national romanticism, organic nationalism, identity nationalism) is the form of nationalism in which the state claims its political legitimacy as an organic consequence of the unity of those it governs. This includes ...

among various Slavic nations, and ideological attempts to establish a common sense of Slavic community, exemplified by the Pan-Slavist movement. Among the first scholars to use the term was Josef Dobrovský (1753–1829). The history of Slavic studies can be divided into three periods. Until 1876 the early Slavists concentrated on documentation and printing of monuments of Slavic languages, among them the first texts written in national languages. At this time the majority of Slavic languages received their first modern dictionaries, grammars, and compendia. The second period, ending with World War I, featured the rapid development of Slavic philology and linguistics, most notably outside of Slavic countries themselves, in the circles formed around

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(1821–1868) and around August Leskien (1840–1916) at the

University of Leipzig Leipzig University (), in Leipzig in Saxony, Germany, is one of the world's oldest universities and the second-oldest university (by consecutive years of existence) in Germany. The university was founded on 2 December 1409 by Frederick I, Electo ...

. At this time, Slavonic scholars focused on

dialectology Dialectology (from Ancient Greek, Greek , ''dialektos'', "talk, dialect"; and , ''-logy, -logia'') is the scientific study of dialects: subsets of languages. Though in the 19th century a branch of historical linguistics, dialectology is often now c ...

. After World War II, centers of Slavic studies were created at various universities around the world, with much greater expansion into other humanities and social science disciplines. This development was partly due to political concerns in Western Europe and the North America arising from the Cold War. Slavic studies flourished in the years from World War II into the 1990s, though university enrollments in Slavic languages have declined since then.

Subfields

Following the traditional division of Slavs into three subgroups (eastern, southern, western), Slavic studies are divided into three distinct subfields: * East Slavic studies, encompassing the study of East Slavic peoples and their linguistic, literary, and other cultural and historical heritages. ** Belarusian studies, or Belarusistics (); **

, or Russistics (); ** Rusyn studies, or Rusynistics ();Kassianova (2002), p. 1001
"''Rusinistica'', or Carpatho-Rusyn studies - a social science discipline focusing on the history of an Eastern Slavic people inhabiting the northern and southern slope of the Carpathian mountains and living within the borders of several Eastern and Central European countries." **

Ukrainian studies Ukrainian studies is an interdisciplinary field of research dedicated to Ukrainian language, Ukrainian literature, literature, History of Ukraine, history and Ukrainian culture, culture in a broad sense. Ukrainian studies outside Ukraine A numb ...

, or Ukrainistics (); * South Slavic studies, encompassing the study of South Slavic peoples and their linguistic, literary, and other cultural and historical heritages. ** Bosniac studies, or Bosniacistics (); ** Bulgarian studies, or Bulgaristics (); **

Croatian studies Croatian studies or Croatistics (; ; ; ) is an academic discipline within Slavic studies which is concerned with the study of Croatian language, literature, history and culture. Within Slavic studies it belongs to the South Slavic subgroup. Besid ...

, or Croatistics (); **

Macedonian studies Macedonian studies () is an academic discipline within Slavic studies that focuses on the comprehensive study of the Macedonian language, literature, history, and culture. As part of Slavic studies, it falls within the subgroup of South Slavic la ...

, or Macedonistics (); **

Montenegrin studies Montenegrin may refer to: * of or related to Montenegro * Montenegrins, the ethnic group associated with Montenegro * Montenegrins (demonym), citizens of Montenegro * Montenegrin language, a variety of Serbo-Croatian spoken by ethnic Montenegrins ...

, or Montenegristics (); **

Serbian studies Serbian studies or Serbistics (; ; ; ; Greek: ) is an academic discipline within Slavic studies which is focused on the study of Serbian language, literature, history and culture. Within Slavic studies it belongs to the South Slavic subgroup. ...

, or Serbistics (); ** Slovene Studies, or Slovenistics (); **

Yugoslav studies Yugoslav studies or Yugoslavistics (; ; ; ; ; ) is an academic discipline within Slavic studies and historical studies which is concerned with the study of the 19th-century or earlier origins of the Yugoslav idea, the creation of Yugoslavia, h ...

, or Yugoslavistics (); * West Slavic studies, encompassing the study of West Slavic peoples and their linguistic, literary, and other cultural and historical heritages. **

Czech studies Bohemistics, also known as Czech studies, is the field of humanities that researches, documents and disseminates Czech language and literature in both its historic and present-day forms. The common Czech name for the field is ''bohemistika''. A res ...

, or Bohemistics (); **

Kashubian studies Kashubian studies, a branch of Slavic studies, is a philological discipline researching the language, literature, culture, and history of the Kashubians. The main centre for development of Kashubian studies is the Polish studies Polish studies, Polish philology or Polonistics (, or ''polonistyka'') is the field of humanities that researches, documents and disseminates the Polish language and Polish literature in both historic and present-day forms. The history of Polish ...

, or Polonistics (); **

Slovak studies Slovak may refer to: * Something from, related to, or belonging to Slovakia (''Slovenská republika'') * Slovaks, a Western Slavic ethnic group * Slovak language, an Indo-European language that belongs to the West Slavic languages * Slovak, Arkan ...

, or Slovakistics (); **

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, or Sorbistics ().

Slavic countries and areas of interest

* By country: ** Belarus:

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literature Literature is any collection of Writing, written work, but it is also used more narrowly for writings specifically considered to be an art form, especially novels, Play (theatre), plays, and poetry, poems. It includes both print and Electroni ...

culture Culture ( ) is a concept that encompasses the social behavior, institutions, and Social norm, norms found in human societies, as well as the knowledge, beliefs, arts, laws, Social norm, customs, capabilities, Attitude (psychology), attitudes ...

history History is the systematic study of the past, focusing primarily on the Human history, human past. As an academic discipline, it analyses and interprets evidence to construct narratives about what happened and explain why it happened. Some t ...

** Bosnia and Herzegovina:

** Bulgaria:

** Croatia:

** Czech Republic:

** North Macedonia:

** Montenegro:

** Poland: languages/dialects ( Polish, Kashubian, Silesian), literature ( Polish, Kashubian),

** Russia:

** Serbia:

, history ( national and

ethnic An ethnicity or ethnic group is a group of people with shared attributes, which they collectively believe to have, and long-term endogamy. Ethnicities share attributes like language, culture, common sets of ancestry, traditions, society, re ...

) ** Slovakia:

** Slovenia:

** Ukraine:

** Other languages:

Serbo-Croatian Serbo-Croatian ( / ), also known as Bosnian-Croatian-Montenegrin-Serbian (BCMS), is a South Slavic language and the primary language of Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Montenegro. It is a pluricentric language with four mutually i ...

Upper Sorbian Upper Sorbian (), occasionally referred to as Wendish (), is a minority language spoken by Sorbs in the historical province of Upper Lusatia, today part of Saxony, Germany. It is a West Slavic language, along with Lower Sorbian, Czech, Poli ...

Lower Sorbian Lower may refer to: * ''Lower'' (album), 2025 album by Benjamin Booker *Lower (surname) *Lower Township, New Jersey *Lower Receiver (firearms) *Lower Wick Lower Wick is a small hamlet located in the county of Gloucestershire, England. It is sit ...

, Kashubian, Polabian, Rusyn,

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Notable people

;Historical * Johann Christoph Jordan, the author of an early scholarly work in Slavic studies * Josef Dobrovský (1753–1829) from

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Jernej Kopitar Jernej Kopitar, also known as Bartholomeus Kopitar (21 August 1780 – 11 August 1844), was a Slovene linguist and philologist working in Vienna. He also worked as the Imperial censor for Slovene literature in Vienna. He is perhaps best known ...

(1780–1840) from Slovenia * Alexander Vostokov (1781–1864) from Russia *

Vuk Stefanović Karadžić VUK or Vuk may refer to: *Vuk (name), South Slavic given name ** Vuk, Ban of Bosnia (), a member of the Kotromanić dynasty ** Vuk Karadžić (1787–1864), Serbian language reformer and folklorist, often referred to simply as Vuk * ''Vuk'' (film) ...

(1787–1864) from Serbia * Pavel Jozef Šafárik (1795–1861) from Slovakia * Mykhaylo Maksymovych (1804–1873) from Ukraine * Izmail Sreznevsky (1812–1880) from Russia *

Franz Miklosich Franz Miklosich (, also known in Slovene as ; 20 November 1813 – 7 March 1891) was a Slovenian philologist and rector of the University of Vienna. Early life Miklosich was born in the small village of Radomerščak near the Lower Styrian town ...

(1813–1891) from Slovenia * Fyodor Buslaev (1818–1898) from Russia *

(1821–1868) from Germany *

Đuro Daničić Đuro Daničić ( sr-Cyrl, Ђуро Даничић, ; 4 April 1825 – 17 November 1882), born Đorđe Popović ( sr-cyr, links=no, Ђорђе Поповић) and also known as Đura Daničić ( sr-Cyrl, links=no, Ђура Даничић), was a ...

(1825–1882) from Serbia * Anton Janežič (1828–1869) from Slovenia * Alexander Potebnja (1835–1891) from Ukraine * Vatroslav Jagić (1838–1923) from Croatia * August Leskien (1840–1916) from Germany *

Jan Niecisław Baudouin de Courtenay Jan Niecisław Ignacy Baudouin de Courtenay, also Ivan Alexandrovich Baudouin de Courtenay (; 13 March 1845 – 3 November 1929), was a Polish linguist and Slavist, best known for his theory of the phoneme and phonetic alternations. For most ...

(1845–1929) from Poland * Filipp Fortunatov (1848–1914) from Russia *

Aleksander Brückner Aleksander Brückner (; 29 January 1856 – 24 May 1939) was a Polish scholar of Slavic languages and literature (Slavistics), philologist, lexicographer, and historian of literature. He is among the most notable Slavicists of the late 19th ...

(1856–1939) from eastern Galicia * Matija Murko (1861–1952) from Slovenia * Lyubomir Miletich (1863–1937) from

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Macedonia Macedonia (, , , ), most commonly refers to: * North Macedonia, a country in southeastern Europe, known until 2019 as the Republic of Macedonia * Macedonia (ancient kingdom), a kingdom in Greek antiquity * Macedonia (Greece), a former administr ...

Aleksey Shakhmatov Aleksey Aleksandrovich Shakhmatov (, – 16 August 1920) was a Russian philology, philologist and historian credited with laying the foundations for the science of Textual criticism, textology. Shakhmatov held the title of Doctor of Russ ...

(1864–1920) from Russia *

Antoine Meillet Paul Jules Antoine Meillet (; 11 November 1866 – 21 September 1936) was one of the most important French linguists of the early 20th century. He began his studies at the Sorbonne University, where he was influenced by Michel Bréal, the Swiss l ...

(1866–1936) from France] * Holger Pedersen (linguist), Holger Pedersen (1867–1953) from Denmark * 1869–1942) from Russia * (1872–1954) from Slovenia * Krste Misirkov (1874–1926) from Macedonia/Bulgaria/Russia *

Aleksandar Belić Aleksandar Belić (Serbian Cyrillic: Александар Белић, ; 15 August 1876 – 26 February 1960) was a Serbian linguist and academic. Biography Belić was born in Belgrade. After studying Slavic languages in Belgrade, Odessa, and ...

(1876–1960) from Serbia * (1881–1967) from France *

Max Vasmer Max Julius Friedrich Vasmer (; ; 28 February 1886 – 30 November 1962) was a Russian and German linguist. He studied problems of etymology in Indo-European, Finno-Ugric and Turkic languages and worked on the history of Slavic, Baltic, ...

(1886–1962) from Russia * André Vaillant (1890–1977) from France *

Dmytro Chyzhevsky Dmytro Ivanovych Chyzhevsky (Дмитро Іванович Чижевський) (March 3, 1894 – April 18, 1977) was a Ukrainian-born scholar of Slavic literature, history, culture and philosophy. Biography Early life Dmytro Chyzhe ...

(1894–1977) from Ukraine *

Roman Jakobson Roman Osipovich Jakobson (, ; 18 July 1982) was a Russian linguist and literary theorist. A pioneer of structural linguistics, Jakobson was one of the most celebrated and influential linguists of the twentieth century. With Nikolai Trubetzk ...

(1896–1982) from Russia * (1897–1974) from Austria * Zdzisław Stieber (1903–1980) from Poland * Dmitry Likhachev (1906–1999) from Russia *

George Shevelov George Shevelov (born ''Yuri Schneider'', 17 December 1908 – 12 April 2002) was a Ukrainian professor, linguist, philologist, essayist, literary historian, and literary critic. A longtime professor of Slavic philology at Columbia University, he ...

(1908–2002) from Ukraine * Jaroslav Rudnyckyj (1910–1995) from eastern Galicia * Stoyko Stoykov (1912–1969) from Bulgaria * Horace G. Lunt (1918–2010) from the United States * Karel van het Reve (1921–1999) from the Netherlands * Blaže Koneski (1921–1993) from North Macedonia * Juri Lotman (1922–1993) from Soviet Union/Estonia * Henrik Birnbaum (1925–2002) from Poland/United States *

Vladislav Illich-Svitych Vladislav Markovich Illich-Svitych (, also transliterated as Illič-Svityč; 12 September 1934 – 22 August 1966) was a Soviet linguist and accentologist. He was a founding father of comparative Nostratic linguistics and the Moscow School o ...

(1934–1966) from Russia * Thomas Schaub Noonan (1938–2001) from the United States * Wolfgang Kasack (1927–2003) from Germany * Isabel de Madariaga (1919–2014) from UK *

John Simon Gabriel Simmons John Simon Gabriel Simmons (8 July 1915 – 21 September 2005) was a British scholar of Slavonics. Early years John Simmons was born in Birmingham, England, in 1915. He joined the library at Birmingham University as a "library boy" in 1932, an ...

(1915–2005) from UK *

Vladimir Dybo Vladimir Antonovich Dybo (; 30 April 1931 – 7 May 2023) was a Soviet and Russian linguist, Doctor Nauk in Philological Sciences (1979), Professor (1992), Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences (2011). A specialist in comparative ...

(1930–2023) from Russia *

Pavle Ivić Pavle Ivić ( sr-Cyrl, Павле Ивић, ; 1 December 1924 – 19 September 1999) was a Serbian South Slavic dialectologist and phonologist. Biography Both his field work and his synthesizing studies were extensive and authoritative. A few ...

(1924–1999) from Serbia * Edward Stankiewicz (1920–2013) from Poland/United States * Nicholas V. Riasanovsky (1923–2011) Russian-American * Alexander M. Schenker (1924–2019) from the United States * Zoe Hauptová (1929–2012) from the Czech Republic *

Andrey Zaliznyak Andrey Anatolyevich Zaliznyak ( rus, Андре́й Анато́льевич Зализня́к, p=zəlʲɪˈzʲnʲak; 29 April 1935 – 24 December 2017) was a Soviet and Russian linguist, an expert in historical linguistics, accentology, di ...

(1935–2017) from Russia * Kenneth Naylor (1937–1992) from the United States * Zbigniew Gołąb (1923–1994) from Poland * (1928–2006) from Poland *

Boris Uspensky Boris Aleksandrovich Uspensky (; 12 July 1927 – 28 September 2005), was a Soviet and Russian poster and graphics painter. Biography Boris Uspensky was born in Moscow. He studied in the Moscow Surikov State Academic Institute of Fine Arts, ...

(1937–2005) from Russia * Tadeusz Lehr-Spławiński (1891–1965) from Poland *

Blaže Ristovski Blaže Ristovski (March 21, 1931, Garnikovo, Kavadarci, Kingdom of Yugoslavia – November 28, 2018, Skopje, Macedonia, both in present-day North Macedonia) was a Macedonian linguist, folklorist and historian. He graduated from Faculty of Philolog ...

(1931–2018) from North Macedonia * Radoslav Katičić (1930–2019) from Croatia * Ivan Dorovský (1935–2021) from Czech Republic * (1939–2021) from Poland *

Šárka B. Hrbková Šárka B. Hrbková (also ''Sarka B. Hrbek, Sarka B. Herbkova, Sarah Hrbek'' and ''Sara B. Hrbek''; August 23, 1878 – February 7, 1948) was an American author, writer, university professor, translator, Slavic studies, Slavologist, historian, j ...

(1878–1948) Czech-American slavologist * Charles E. Townsend (1932–2015) from the United States * Charles E. Gribble (1936–2016) from the United States ;Contemporary * Irwin Weil (born 1928) from the United States * Zuzanna Topolińska (born 1931) from Poland * Hakan Kırımlı (born 1958) from Turkey * Stefan Brezinski (born 1932) from Bulgaria * (born 1937) from Germany * Branko Mikasinovich (born 1938) from the United States * Mario Capaldo (born 1945) from Italy * Frederik Kortlandt (born 1946) from Netherlands *

Gary Saul Morson Gary Saul Morson (born April 19, 1948) is an American literary critic and Slavist. He is particularly known for his scholarly work on the great Russian novelists Leo Tolstoy and Fyodor Dostoevsky, and the literary theorist Mikhail Bakhtin. Mors ...

(born 1948) from the United States * Victor Friedman (born 1949) from the United States * Christina Kramer (born 1950) from the United States * (born 1952) from the Czech Republic *

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(born 1953) from Ukraine *

Snježana Kordić Snježana Kordić (; born October 29, 1964) is a Croatian linguist. In addition to her Academic publishing, work in syntax, she has written on sociolinguistics. Kordić is known among non-specialists for her numerous Article (publishing), article ...

(born 1964) from Croatia * Charles S. Kraszewski (born 1962) from the United States * Marek Jan Chodakiewicz (born 1962) from Poland and the United States * Alexandra Popoff (born 1959) from Russia * Catriona Kelly (born 1959) from UK * (born 1947) from Austria

Journals and book series

* '' Archiv für slavische Philologie'' * '' Canadian Slavonic Papers'', published by the Canadian Association of Slavists * ''

The Russian Review ''The Russian Review'' is an independent peer-reviewed multi-disciplinary academic journal devoted to the history, literature, culture, fine arts, cinema, society, and politics of the Russian Federation, former Soviet Union and former Russian Empi ...

'' * '' Sarmatian Review'' *''

Slavic and East European Journal The ''Slavic and East European Journal'' (SEEJ) is a major peer-reviewed academic journal publishing original research and review essays in the areas of Slavic and East European languages, literatures, cultures, linguistics, methodology, and pe ...

'', published by the

American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages The American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages (AATSEEL) is an academic organization founded in 1941. AATSEEL holds an annual conference each January and publishes the ''Slavic and East European Journal'' (SEEJ), a peer ...

* ''

Slavic Review The ''Slavic Review'' is a major peer-reviewed academic journal publishing scholarly studies, book and film reviews, and review essays in all disciplines concerned with "Eastern Europe, Russia, the Caucasus, and Central Asia, past and present". ...

'', published by the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies * '' Studies in Slavic and General Linguistics'' * ''

The Slavonic and East European Review ''The Slavonic and East European Review'', the journal of the UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies (University College London), is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal covering Slavonic and East European Studies. It was estab ...

'' * Scando-Slavica * '' Wiener Slawistischer Almanach''

Conferences

* American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies *

* Formal Approaches to Slavic Linguistics

Institutes and schools

;Academic * Institute for Slavic Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia * Jan Stanislav Institute of Slavistics, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, Slovakia * Institute of Slavic Studies,

Polish Academy of Sciences The Polish Academy of Sciences (, PAN) is a Polish state-sponsored institution of higher learning. Headquartered in Warsaw, it is responsible for spearheading the development of science across the country by a society of distinguished scholars a ...

, Warsaw, Poland * Institute of Slavonic Studies,

Czech Academy of Sciences The Czech Academy of Sciences (abbr. CAS, , abbr. AV ČR) was established in 1992 by the Czech National Council as the Czech successor of the former Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences and its tradition goes back to the Royal Bohemian Society of Sc ...

, Prague, Czechia ;University
Institute of Western and Southern Slavic Studies

University of Warsaw The University of Warsaw (, ) is a public university, public research university in Warsaw, Poland. Established on November 19, 1816, it is the largest institution of higher learning in the country, offering 37 different fields of study as well ...

, Poland * Institute of Slavonic Philology,

Uniwersytet Śląski The University of Silesia in Katowice () is an autonomous state-run university in Katowice, Silesian Voivodeship, Silesia Province, Poland. The university offers higher education and research facilities. It offers undergraduate, masters, and ...

, Poland
Institute of Slavonic Studies

Jagiellonian University The Jagiellonian University (, UJ) is a public research university in Kraków, Poland. Founded in 1364 by Casimir III the Great, King Casimir III the Great, it is the oldest university in Poland and one of the List of oldest universities in con ...

, Poland
Institute of Slavic Philology
University of Adam Mickiewicz, Poland
Institute of Slavic Studies

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, Poland
Institute of Slavic Philology

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, Poland
Institute of Slavic Studies
, Lviv University, Ukraine
Department of Slavonic Philology

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Department of Slavic philology
,

University of Belgrade The University of Belgrade () is a public university, public research university in Belgrade, Serbia. It is the oldest and largest modern university in Serbia. Founded in 1808 as the Belgrade Higher School in revolutionary Serbia, by 1838 it me ...

, Serbia
Department of Slavistics

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, Serbia
Department of Russian and Slavonic Studies

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* UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies,

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, United Kingdom
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, United Kingdom
Department of Slavic Languages & Literatures
Chengchi University,

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Yale University Yale University is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Founded in 1701, Yale is the List of Colonial Colleges, third-oldest institution of higher education in the United Stat ...

, United States
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, United States
Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures
University of Princeton, United States
Department of Slavic Studies

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, United States
Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures
Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences, United States
Department of Slavic Languages & Literatures

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University of Virginia The University of Virginia (UVA) is a Public university#United States, public research university in Charlottesville, Virginia, United States. It was founded in 1819 by Thomas Jefferson and contains his The Lawn, Academical Village, a World H ...

, United States
Department of Slavic Languages & Literatures

University of Pittsburgh The University of Pittsburgh (Pitt) is a Commonwealth System of Higher Education, state-related research university in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. The university is composed of seventeen undergraduate and graduate schools and colle ...

, United States
Department of Russian and Slavic Studies

University of Arizona The University of Arizona (Arizona, U of A, UArizona, or UA) is a Public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Tucson, Arizona, United States. Founded in 1885 by the 13th Arizona Territorial Legislature, it ...

, United States
Department of Slavic and Eurasian Studies

University of Texas at Austin The University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin, UT, or Texas) is a public university, public research university in Austin, Texas, United States. Founded in 1883, it is the flagship institution of the University of Texas System. With 53,082 stud ...

, United States
Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC, U of I, Illinois, or University of Illinois) is a public university, public land-grant university, land-grant research university in the Champaign–Urbana metropolitan area, Illinois, United ...

, United States
Department of Slavic and Eurasian Studies

Duke University Duke University is a Private university, private research university in Durham, North Carolina, United States. Founded by Methodists and Quakers in the present-day city of Trinity, North Carolina, Trinity in 1838, the school moved to Durham in 1 ...

, United States
Department of Slavic Languages

Georgetown University Georgetown University is a private university, private Jesuit research university in Washington, D.C., United States. Founded by Bishop John Carroll (archbishop of Baltimore), John Carroll in 1789, it is the oldest Catholic higher education, Ca ...

, United States
Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures

University of Southern California The University of Southern California (USC, SC, or Southern Cal) is a Private university, private research university in Los Angeles, California, United States. Founded in 1880 by Robert M. Widney, it is the oldest private research university in ...

, United States
Department of Slavic Languages & Literatures

University of Toronto The University of Toronto (UToronto or U of T) is a public university, public research university whose main campus is located on the grounds that surround Queen's Park (Toronto), Queen's Park in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It was founded by ...

, Canada
Department of Germanic and Slavic Studies

University of Victoria The University of Victoria (UVic) is a public research university located in the municipalities of Oak Bay, British Columbia, Oak Bay and Saanich, British Columbia, Canada. Established in 1903 as Victoria College, British Columbia, Victoria Col ...

, Canada
Department of Germanic and Slavic Studies

University of Waterloo The University of Waterloo (UWaterloo, UW, or Waterloo) is a Public university, public research university located in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. The main campus is on of land adjacent to uptown Waterloo and Waterloo Park. The university also op ...

, Canada
Department of Slavic Studies
Le département d’études slaves), Universite Paris 8, France
Institute for Slavistics

University of Vienna The University of Vienna (, ) is a public university, public research university in Vienna, Austria. Founded by Rudolf IV, Duke of Austria, Duke Rudolph IV in 1365, it is the oldest university in the German-speaking world and among the largest ...

, Austria
Institute for Slavistics

University of Graz The University of Graz (, formerly: ''Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz'') is a public university, public research university located in Graz, Austria. It is the largest and oldest university in Styria, as well as the second-largest and second-old ...

, Austria * Department of Slavic Studies,

University of Salzburg The University of Salzburg (, ), also known as the Paris Lodron University of Salzburg (''Paris-Lodron-Universität Salzburg'', PLUS), is an Austrian public university in Salzburg, Salzburg municipality, Salzburg (federal state), Salzburg State, ...

, Austria
Department of Slavonic and Finno-Ugrian Studies

University of Delhi The Delhi University (DU, ISO 15919, ISO: ), also and officially known as the University of Delhi, is a collegiate university, collegiate research university, research Central university (India), central university located in Delhi, India. It ...

, India
Department of Slavic Studies

Comenius University Comenius University Bratislava () is the largest university in Slovakia, with most of its faculties located in Bratislava. It was founded in 1919, shortly after the creation of Czechoslovakia. It is named after Jan Amos Comenius, a 17th-century ...

, Slovakia
Department of Russian Language and Literature & Slavic Studies

University of Athens The National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA; , ''Ethnikó kai Kapodistriakó Panepistímio Athinón''), usually referred to simply as the University of Athens (UoA), is a public university in Athens, Greece, with various campuses alo ...

Greece Greece, officially the Hellenic Republic, is a country in Southeast Europe. Located on the southern tip of the Balkan peninsula, it shares land borders with Albania to the northwest, North Macedonia and Bulgaria to the north, and Turkey to th ...

Department of Slavistics

University of Ljubljana The University of Ljubljana (, , ), abbreviated UL, is the oldest and largest university in Slovenia. It has approximately 38,000 enrolled students. The university has 23 faculties and three art academies with approximately 4,000 teaching and re ...

, Slovenia
Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures

University of Maribor The University of Maribor () is Slovenia's second-largest university, established in 1975 in Maribor, Slovenia. It currently has 17 faculties. History The university's roots reach back to 1859 when a theological seminary was established wi ...

, Slovenia
Department of Slavonic Studies
University of Olomouc, Czechia
Department of Slavonic Studies

Masaryk University Masaryk University (MU) (; ) is the second largest university in the Czech Republic, a member of the Compostela Group and the Utrecht Network. Founded in 1919 in Brno, it now consists of ten faculties and 35,115 students. It is named after To ...

, Czechia
Department of Slavonic Studies
University of Ostrava, Czechia
Department of Slavic Studies
Plovdiv University "Paisii Hilendarski", Bulgaria
Department of Slavic Studies

Sofia University Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski" () is a public university, public research university in Sofia, Bulgaria. It is the oldest institution of higher education in Bulgaria. Founded on 1 October 1888, the edifice of the university was constr ...

, Bulgaria
Institute of Slavic Studies

Heidelberg University Heidelberg University, officially the Ruprecht Karl University of Heidelberg (; ), is a public research university in Heidelberg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. Founded in 1386 on instruction of Pope Urban VI, Heidelberg is Germany's oldest unive ...

, Germany
Institute of Slavic Studies
Justus-Liebig Universität Gießen, Germany
Institute of Slavic Studies

University of Kiel Kiel University, officially the Christian Albrecht University of Kiel, (, abbreviated CAU, known informally as Christiana Albertina) is a public research university in the city of Kiel, Germany. It was founded in 1665 as the ''Academia Holsator ...

, Germany * Institute of Slavic Studies,

University of Mainz The Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz () is a public research university in Mainz, Rhineland Palatinate, Germany. It has been named after the printer Johannes Gutenberg since 1946. it had approximately 32,000 students enrolled in around 100 a ...

, Germany
Institute of Slavic Studies

University of Regensburg The University of Regensburg () is a public research university located in the city of Regensburg, Germany. The university was founded on 18 July 1962 by the Landtag of Bavaria as the fourth full-fledged university in Bavaria. Following groundbr ...

, Germany
Institute of Slavic Studies
Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Germany
Institute of Slavic Studies

University of Hamburg The University of Hamburg (, also referred to as UHH) is a public university, public research university in Hamburg, Germany. It was founded on 28 March 1919 by combining the previous General Lecture System ('':de:Allgemeines Vorlesungswesen, ...

, Germany
Institute of Slavic Studies

Greifswald University The University of Greifswald (; ), formerly known as Ernst-Moritz-Arndt University of Greifswald, is a public university, public research university located in Greifswald, Germany, in the state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. Founded in 14 ...

, Germany
Institute of Slavic Studies
Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg, Germany
Institute of Slavistics

Technische Universität Dresden TU Dresden (for , abbreviated as TUD), also as the Dresden University of Technology, is a public research university in Dresden, Germany. It is the largest institute of higher education in the city of Dresden, the largest university in Saxony a ...

, Germany * Institute of Slavistics,

University of Potsdam The University of Potsdam is a public university in Potsdam, capital of the state of Brandenburg, northeastern Germany. The university is mainly situated across three campuses in the city. Some faculty buildings are part of the New Palace o ...

, Germany * Institute for Slavic Studies,

Humboldt University The Humboldt University of Berlin (, abbreviated HU Berlin) is a public university, public research university in the central borough of Mitte in Berlin, Germany. The university was established by Frederick William III of Prussia, Frederick W ...

, Germany * Institute of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Ludwig-Maximilians University Munich, Germany * Institute of Slavic Studies,

University of Oldenburg The Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg () is a university located in Oldenburg, Germany. History The first teachers training was held in Oldenburg as early as 1793, launched by Duke Peter Friedrich Ludwig. A garden seminar for te ...

, Germany
Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures
Ankara, Turkey * Institute of Slavic Studies,

Tbilisi State University Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University ( ka, ივანე ჯავახიშვილის სახელობის თბილისის სახელმწიფო უნივერსიტეტი, tr; often shorten ...

, Georgia
Department of Russian and Slavic Philology
Departamentul de Filologie Rusă şi Slavă), Romania
Department of Russian and Slavic Studies

Hebrew University of Jerusalem The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HUJI; ) is an Israeli public university, public research university based in Jerusalem. Co-founded by Albert Einstein and Chaim Weizmann in July 1918, the public university officially opened on 1 April 1925. ...

* Institute of Slavic Studies,

University of Pécs The University of Pécs ( , PTE; ) is one of the largest higher education institutions in Hungary. The history of the university began in the Middle Ages, when in 1367, at the request of Louis I of Hungary, King Louis I the Great, Pope Urban V gr ...

, Hungary * Institute of Slavonic and Baltic Philology,

Eötvös Loránd University Eötvös Loránd University (, ELTE, also known as ''University of Budapest'') is a Hungarian public research university based in Budapest. Founded in 1635, ELTE is one of the largest and most prestigious public higher education institutions in ...

, Hungary
Institute of Slavic Philology

University of Szeged The University of Szeged () is a Public university, public research university in Szeged, Hungary. Established as the Jesuit Academy of Kolozsvár in present-day Cluj-Napoca in 1581, the institution was re-established as a university in 1872 by ...

, Hungary
Resource Center for Medieval Slavic Studies

Ohio State University The Ohio State University (Ohio State or OSU) is a public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Columbus, Ohio, United States. A member of the University System of Ohio, it was founded in 1870. It is one ...

, United States
Slavic Department

University of Chicago The University of Chicago (UChicago, Chicago, or UChi) is a Private university, private research university in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Its main campus is in the Hyde Park, Chicago, Hyde Park neighborhood on Chicago's South Side, Chic ...

, United States *Núcleo de Estudos em Eslavística,

Federal University of Rio de Janeiro The Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (, UFRJ) is a public university, public research university in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. It is the largest federal university in the country and is one of the Brazilian centers of excellence in teaching and r ...

, Brazil
Núcleo de Estudos Eslavos
Universidade Estadual do Centro-Oeste, Brazil ;Others *

Old Church Slavonic Institute The Old Church Slavonic Institute () is a Croatian public institute founded in 1952 by the state for the purpose of scientific research on the language, literature and paleography of the mediaeval literary heritage of the Croatian vernacular and the ...

, Zagreb, Croatia
Ghent Centre for Slavic and East European Studies
Ghent, Belgium

Organisations

(AATSEEL) *

Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies Association may refer to: *Club (organization), an association of two or more people united by a common interest or goal *Trade association, an organization founded and funded by businesses that operate in a specific industry *Voluntary associatio ...

(ASEEES) *

American Council of Teachers of Russian American(s) may refer to: * American, something of, from, or related to the United States of America, commonly known as the "United States" or "America" ** Americans, citizens and nationals of the United States of America ** American ancestry, p ...

(ACTR) * North American Association of Teachers of Polish (NAATPl)