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Czechoslovak Emerging Scholars Prize

Deadline: June 20, 2023

The Czechoslovak Studies Association is pleased to announce the Emerging Scholars Essay Prize. This prize will be awarded to the author of a distinguished article, essay, or chapter on a topic related to the history and culture of Czechoslovakia, its predecessor and successor states, and its peoples. Papers that place these topics in a comparative or transnational context are welcome.

Submissions should be an essay, journal article, book chapter, or chapter of a recently completed dissertation or master’s thesis from 2020, 2021, or 2022 (they may not also be submitted for the Pech Prize). They must be no more than 10,000 words in length inclusive of references/footnotes, and written originally in English. Dissertation or thesis chapters can be edited to meet the maximum word count. Applicants must be current Ph.D. students or have earned a Ph.D. or master’s degree in or after 2020.

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Postdoctoral Fellowship (U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum)

Deadline: April 14, 2023

Full Job Description: https://recruiting.ultipro.com/UNI1056USHMM/JobBoard/3b76cc60-2b05-4241-bd77-5476ab81c570/OpportunityDetail?opportunityId=d2795477-6bef-4097-8d3f-0450a493ce11

The Museum seeks a postdoctoral fellow to research, review, and write content for USHMM’s online Holocaust Encyclopedia. The incumbent will help the Museum to convey stories of the Holocaust and other genocides with the goal of making the past relevant today as well as encouraging our visitors to think, question, care and take action.

This position provides hands-on experience in producing historical content for public-facing digital resources, as well as significant time for research and writing in the chosen candidate’s area of specialization. The position combines professional experience with time to pursue independent scholarly research and interact with other fellows in the Museum’s visiting scholars program.

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Global Diasporas Program

The Global Diasporas Program at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign seeks to explore the transnational networks of diaspora communities through examination of their multifaceted identities across linguistic and cultural spaces. It is the goal of this program to engage with students, faculty, and scholarly groups from different academic training and backgrounds from around the world.

We are seeking collaborative partnerships with academic units, centers, and funding agencies at Illinois and beyond. Students, faculty, and early career scholars are welcome to join our group. The current website for the program is live and viewable at https://globaldiasporas.web.illinois.edu/; future updates will be applied as new information is made available. Please send your questions about the program to Joseph Lenkart, Head of the Slavic Reference Service, at lenkart@illinois.edu. 

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2023 Summer Research Lab Workshops (University of Illinois + Virtual)

Workshop Dates: June 15-16, 2023

The Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies Center and the Slavic Reference Service at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign invite faculty, graduate students, early career scholars, independent researchers, and policy analysts to participate in the upcoming workshops, New Views on Sovereignty in Eurasia and Language Learning and Language Competencies for Field Research in Eurasian Studies. Scholars will be able to participate in person and virtually through Zoom.  For questions about the Summer Research Laboratory, funding, and information on other workshops, please contact us at reeec-srl@illinois.edu. This year’s SRL is made possible by generous support from the US Department of State, through its Program for Research and Training on Eastern Europe and the Independent States of the Former Soviet Union (Title VIII). Revised information on each workshop is linked down below. 

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Open Resources for Teaching Slavic

This portal is focused around open educational resources that can be used for online, hybrid/blended, or technology-enhanced courses in Slavic language, literature, and culture. The website also hosts a map of Slavic programs and courses in the United States as well as a list of resources related to online and technology-enhanced teaching.

The LLC Commons initiative aims to grow a sustainable culture of sharing high-quality recorded interactive lectures and materials among Slavists and language educators at all levels. The portal offers an infrastructure for searching our growing database of online lessons and embedding online modules into a variety of course management platforms across the globe. Contributing to the LLC Commons is an exciting opportunity to collaborate with other language and culture educators at the forefront of a new education era of online and hybrid teaching.

https://llccommons.arizona.edu/

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Job: Archivist Librarian full time position at the Zimmerli Art Museum

Deadline: Open Until Filled

Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, is seeking a Program Coordinator II to be responsible for structuring, cataloguing, record keeping of the library and archives pertaining to the Russian office at the Zimmerli Art Museum. The Coordinator advises and arranges for new acquisitions for the Russian archives and the library in consultation with Curator for Russian and Soviet Nonconformist Art and Research Curator and spearheads digitization of Dodge Archives in collaboration with Dodge Registrar.

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Funding: Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies

Deadline: Varies, March, May 2023

The Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies is pleased to announce its call for applications for funding and awards opportunities in 2023–24.

A primary aim of the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies is to foster, develop, and support Ukrainian studies in Canada and internationally. This is done in part by offering or administering post-doctoral fellowships, graduate fellowships (to master’s and doctoral students), and scholarships to undergraduate students. Grants are also awarded to established scholars in order to support research work that leads to publications or the dissemination of results in other forms.

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Call for Proposals for Research and Pedagogical Case Studies/ Content-Based Teaching of Russian 

Deadline: January 28, 2023

Do you teach content in Russian as a foreign, second, or heritage language? Please consider submitting a proposal for the edited volume Content-Based Teaching of Russian in the Routledge series on Russian language pedagogy and research    

We would like to hear from various fields and backgrounds of Russian language instruction. Language of publication: English; 3,000 to 8,000 words + references and appendices.

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MA Program: Russian, E European, and Eurasian Studies (University of Oregon)

Deadline: February 1, 2023

University of Oregon invites applicants for the MA in Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies

The Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies Program at the University of Oregon (REEES) invites applications for its two-year M.A. degree. REEES is the home of undergraduate and graduate programs in all fields connected to Russia, Eastern Europe, and former Soviet Eurasia at the University of Oregon.

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American Councils 2023 Programming Abroad

Deadlines: February 15 and March 15, 2023

Prospective students are encouraged to apply to the following programs: 

  • Advanced Russian Language and Area Studies Program, currently offered at:
    • Al-Farabi Kazakh National University (KazNU) in Almaty, Kazakhstan  
    • Yerevan State University in Yerevan, Armenia   
        
  • Balkan Language Initiative, which offers the following languages and locations:
    • Albanian in Tirana, Albania  
    • Bosnian in Sarajevo, Bosnia & Herzegovina  
    • Bulgarian in Sofia, Bulgaria  
    • Macedonian in Skopje, North Macedonia  
    • Serbian in Belgrade, Serbia  
    • Montenegrin and Serbian in Podgorica, Montenegro 
       
  • Eurasian Regional Language Program, offering 15 different languages, including:
    • Kazakh in Almaty, Kazakhstan  
    • Azerbaijani and Turkish in Baku, Azerbaijan   
    • Kyrgyz in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan  
    • Romanian and Ukrainian in Chisinau, Moldova  
    • Pashto, Persian (Dari/Farsi/Tajiki), and Uzbek in Dushanbe, Tajikistan  
    • Chechen, Georgian, and Ukrainian in Tbilisi, Georgia  
    • Armenian in Yerevan, Armenia 
       
  • Overseas Professional and Intercultural Training Program (summer only):
    • Internships in 19 different countries in the Balkans, Caucasus, East Asia, Eastern Europe, and Eurasia  
    • Disciplines in Business and Innovation, Democracy Building and Human Rights, Ecology and Environmental Issues, Education Management, Gender and Women’s Rights, Journalism and Mass Media, Marketing and Communications, Public Health, and Social Services 
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