2026 Summer Institute for the Study of East Central and Southeastern Europe

Deadline: December 2, 2025

The American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) invites applications for the Summer Institute for the Study of East Central and Southeastern Europe (SISECSE) 2025-26 competition. In partnership with the Centre for Advanced Study Sofia (CAS), ACLS will convene leading scholars from Eastern Europe and North America for a two-week residency in Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria from June 3 to June 19, 2026.

SISECSE will provide participating scholars with time and space to dedicate to their own research and writing in a collaborative and interdisciplinary setting. The program covers travel, accommodation, and per diem expenses. Scholars are expected to be in residence and to participate in all planned events for the duration of the institute.

Learn More About Eligibility and Application Requirements

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Interdisciplinary Fellowship at The Met for Post-MAs and Above

Deadline: October 17, 2025

The Interdisciplinary Fellowship supports scholars whose projects lie at the intersection of various disciplines and methodologies. It encourages cross-departmental projects that explore connections between various cultures and Met collections, bridging the visual arts and other disciplines in the humanities and sciences.

Interdisciplinary fellows hail from a wide range of fields including anthropology, archaeology, critical theory, education, ethnic studies, film studies, gender studies, history, linguistics, literature, media studies, medicine, musicology, performance, philosophy, political science, psychology, religious studies, and sociology.

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76th Summer Language Workshop (Indiana University)

Deadline: December 5, 2025

Indiana University is accepting applications for its 76th Summer Language Workshop.

2026 highlights include:

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Russian for Global Professionals Immersion Program (Honolulu, HI)

Deadline: January 14, 2026

UGA is accepting applications for summer 2026 program “Russian for Global Professionals”. This 8-week hybrid program will start with 2 weeks of virtual immersion and will continue with an intensive 6-week domestic immersion program at the UGA field study site in Honolulu, HI. The program accepts students with Novice High-Intermediate Low proficiency (ILR 0+/1).

Program dates: May 12th – May 22nd online, May 25th – July 2nd in-person (8 weeks total)

Program location: Honolulu, HI

For more information and to apply, please visit https://dfs.uga.edu/_portal/tds-program-brochure?programid=14063

WGCTV Funding Opportunity for Graduate Students

Deadline: October 10, 2025

In 2025, the Working Group on Cinema and Television (WGCTV) is committed to subsidizing graduate students working in film and media studies who are attending the ASEEES convention for the first time or who have no local institutional resources for travel support. We anticipate that we will be able to fund, on a competitive basis, 3 awards of $300 each.

Eligibility

All applicants must be:

  1. Students working at either master’s or doctoral level in film and media studies within Slavic, East European, or Eurasian Studies departments.
  2. Presenting a paper on a panel at the ASEEES Annual Convention.

*Recipients of the ASEEES Graduate Student Travel Grant cannot receive the WGCTV grant for the same convention.

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Embedded Scholars Program for UT Students

Info Session: September 24, 2025
Application Deadline: November 1, 2025

The 2026 Embedded Scholars Application is now open for UT students to apply for Summer 2026 internships in democratic and constitutional development in the Balkans, Central Asia, Europe, and Latin America. This is a partially funded international internship open to undergraduate and graduate students from any major at UT.

The program provides unparalleled opportunities for students interested in democracy to work with CID Gallup and International IDEA in Latin America, with International IDEA in Europe, and with the National Democratic InstituteTransparency International, and the United Nations Development Programme in the Balkans, Central Asia, and Eurasia. Students receive training at UT in the spring before going abroad for the summer to support democracy assistance programs in the field.

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NSA 2026 Intelligence Analysis Summer Internship Program – Maryland and Hawaii

Deadline: September 14, 2025

Join students from across the country and lend your knowledge to national security in one of NSA’s over 30 summer internship programs. These 12 week paid programs run from mid-May to mid-August and are open to undergraduate freshman up to Ph.D. students depending on internship requirements. These internships are open to a wide variety of majors and give students the opportunity to work directly with mission-critical problems and experience the excitement of working in NSA spaces.

The NSA Summer Internship Programs at our Fort Meade, MD and Oahu, HI location offers students exciting, impactful professional work opportunities (with pay and limited benefits!) to grow their knowledge of the Intelligence Community and federal government while advancing NSA’s two primary missions: 1) Collecting, analyzing, and producing foreign signals intelligence; and 2) Providing cybersecurity solutions and guidance to protect critical national infrastructure. These summer internship opportunities are open to students who are pursuing education in a variety of degree programs.

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Acad. Job: Assistant Professor of Russian (Dickinson College)

Deadline: October 15, 2025

Assistant Professor of Russian

Russian Department, Dickinson College

Description

Dickinson College invites applications for a tenure-track faculty appointment in the Department of Russian at the rank of Assistant Professor, beginning July 1, 2026. Specialization is open to any area of Russian or Russophone literature, film and media, and culture broadly construed; candidates with additional areas of expertise, including regional and disciplinary, will be especially attractive. The teaching load is five undergraduate courses over two semesters, which includes a mix of content courses in English and language teaching in Russian at all levels. Alongside contributing to the college’s liberal arts curriculum, all Dickinson faculty contribute to the interdisciplinary first-year seminar program once per sabbatical cycle.

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Sonja Luehrmann Article Prize for Graduate Students and Untenured Faculty

Deadline: September 15, 2025

Soyuz: The Research Network for Postsocialist Cultural Studies is accepting submissions for the 2025 Sonja Luehrmann Article Prize for the best published peer-reviewed article related to the culture, history, or politics of (post)socialism, broadly defined. Although we encourage submissions that contribute to the advancement and nuancing of contemporary scholarly understandings of (post)socialism, (post)communism, and decolonization, submitted entries may be on any topic that falls within the broad scope of interest represented by Soyuz. Submissions from any discipline are welcome.

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CFP: Workshop in Ukrainian Studies (NYC)

Deadline: September 10, 2025

The Shevchenko Scientific Society in the United States, in partnership with the American Association for Ukrainian Studies and Razom for Ukraine, is pleased to announce a call for applications from early-career scholars. PhD candidates studying at US universities and post-doctoral fellows who received their PhD degrees within the past three years are invited to apply for participation in an interdisciplinary workshop in Ukrainian Studies. Applicants engaged in a wide range of approaches and subfields are welcome to apply. Topics include, but are not limited to, civil society, culture, economic development, gender, historical memory, humanitarian aid, international relations, migration, and war.The in-person workshop will be held in New York City on October 31 – November 1, 2025, which will provide participants with an opportunity to attend some events at the Ukrainian Cultural Festival. 

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