Graduate Programs – Page 2 – CREEES Professional Resources Forum

October 30, 2023October 30, 2023

Grad. Program: Slavic Languages and Literatures (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign_

Deadline: December 18, 2023

The Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign invites students interested in pursuing a Ph.D. in Slavic literatures and cultures to apply to our graduate program. Qualified students beginning their graduate career at Illinois are guaranteed five years of financial support, contingent on satisfactory progress. Support includes fellowships, teaching, research and graduate assistantships, summer stipends, and the opportunity for an editorial assistantship at Slavic Review, the world’s leading English-language academic journal in our discipline, which is based on our campus. We also welcome applicants who have completed an M.A. in Slavic Languages and Literatures or related fields.

October 30, 2023October 30, 2023

Grad. Program: Funded PhD Opportunity in Russian, Soviet, Post-Soviet, Eurasian and East-European Studies: Durham University (UK)

Russian Studies at Durham University, UK (https://www.durham.ac.uk/departments/academic/modern-languages-cultures/undergraduate-study/language-areas/russian-studies/) invites applications for PhD studentships through the AHRC-funded Northern Bridge Doctoral Training Partnership. We welcome applications from outstanding candidates who can demonstrate evidence of academic excellence, as well as evidence of sufficient research skills to undertake the project.

October 20, 2023October 20, 2023

Ph.D. Program in Slavic and Eurasian Literatures and Cultures (Yale)

Deadline: December 15, 2023

Yale University’s Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures invites applications for its Ph.D. program in Slavic and Eurasian literatures and cultures. The deadline for admission is December 15, 2023. More information about the admissions process can be found on the website for the Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences.

Yale University’s Slavic Department is one of the most dynamic in the United States and takes great pride in the creative and forward-thinking scholarship of its faculty and students. Our graduate program values interdisciplinary and comparative perspectives on Russian, East European, and Eurasian literatures and cultures. While maintaining a foundation in the study and teaching of language and literature, the Department sees both as embedded in a global context and a broad network of cultural production. In coursework, exams, professional training, mentoring, and intellectual life, our graduate program seeks to provide its students with the knowledge, skills, and vision to become engaged, innovative Slavists and Eurasianists for the twenty-first century.

October 12, 2023October 12, 2023

New Research Fellowships (Center for Jewish History)

Deadline: February 19, 2024

The Center for Jewish History is proud to announce the creation of an expanded fellowship program. The program features four new endowed 10-month fellowships in addition to one existing 12-month fellowship and two short-term fellowships. The seven fellowships constitute the nucleus of a projected Institute for Advanced Jewish Historical Research.

The fellowships will support original research using the collections of the Center’s five partners: American Jewish Historical Society, American Sephardi Federation, Leo Baeck Institute, Yeshiva University Museum, and YIVO Institute. Preference will be given to those candidates who draw on the archival and library resources of more than one partner institution. The fellowships are open to a range of senior scholars, early career scholars, and advanced graduate students who have completed all the requirements (i.e., coursework, exams, dissertation proposal) for the doctoral degree apart from the dissertation.

October 6, 2023October 6, 2023

Grad Program: Center for Eurasian, Russian, and East European Studies (Georgetown University)

Deadline: November 1, 2023; December 1, 2023; January 15, 2024; April 1, 2024

The Master’s Degree Program at Georgetown’s Center for Eurasian, Russian and East European Studies (CERES) brings together scholars, practitioners and students working on contemporary and historical issues affecting Eurasia and beyond. Through multidisciplinary coursework on the politics, history, language(s) and culture(s) of the region, the CERES MA educates professionals prepared to engage with global challenges and supports innovative research on current issues facing the region.

September 8, 2023September 8, 2023

MPhil and PhD Opportunities in Slavonic Studies at the University of Cambridge

Deadline: October 11, 2023

The Slavonic Studies section in the University of Cambridge invites applications from qualified students for a 1-year MPhil or 3-year PhD in Slavonic Studies, beginning Autumn 2024.

The Slavonic Studies section engages in the advanced study of Russia, Poland, and Ukraine, with an emphasis on cultural history from the Middle Ages to the present day. It is home to a dynamic annual programme of public lectures, research seminars, conferences, and exhibitions. Its intellectual vitality is particularly evident in the fields of pre-modern East Slavic culture; Russian, Polish, and Ukrainian Literatures of the 19th and 20th centuries; Slavonic linguistics; Nationalism Studies; history of science and medicine; print culture; and film and visual culture. We encourage applications from students who work comparatively across Slavonic cultures and languages, as well as those who focus on individual ones.

August 10, 2023August 10, 2023

Fully-Funded PhD position in Russian Linguistics (UiT The Arctic University of Norway)

Deadline: August 31, 2023

A PhD position is available at the Department of Language and Culture, Faculty of Humanities, Social Sciences and Education in Russian linguistics. The successful candidate will be joining CLEAR (Cognitive Linguistics: Empirical Approaches to Russian); a research group at UiT that pursues empirical research in the framework of cognitive linguistics with the aim of building electronic resources that support research-based student-centered language pedagogy. The CLEAR group at UiT (together with partners at HSE University in Moscow) has developed the largest digital resource of constructions for any language of the world, namely the Russian Constructicon, with over 2200 constructions. Our Russian Constructicon resource has numerous features that will prove especially valuable in the research that this PhD candidate will pursue.

July 28, 2023July 28, 2023

Call for Applicants: University of Belgrade Faculty of Political Science MA in Peace, Security, and Development Program for the academic year 2023/2024

Deadline: August 20, 2023

Innovative English-taught program backed by the Centre for Peace Studies and Centre for International Security, an exemplary blend of local expertise, world-class scholarship, state-of-the-art teaching methods, and practice-based learning, catering to passionate students interested in peace, conflict, and development studies.

Two semester MA program including master’s thesis: the first semester focuses on theoretical knowledge with a blend of compulsory and elective courses while the second semester emphasizes methodological skills in addition to an internship, providing hands-on experience in organizations and institutions that deal with peace, security, and development issues.

July 14, 2023July 14, 2023

PhD Position: Critical infrastructures: Construction, Functional Crises and Protection in Cities (Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany)

Deadline: July 25, 2023

The interdisciplinary Research Training Group (RTG) KRITIS “Critical infrastructures: Construction, Functional Crises and Protection in Cities” at the Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany, offers a PhD position (f/m/d) scheduled to begin on 1 October 2023 or earlier. The position is initially limited to 2 years (until 30 September 2025, 0.65 of full-time employment). Both supervisors will support the successful candidate in applying for a 1–2-year contract extension through third-party and/or university funding to complete the dissertation.

May 10, 2023June 12, 2023

Funding: Dumbreck Doctoral Research Scholarship in Slavonic Studies

Deadline: May 26, 2023

The School of Modern Languages and Cultures (SMLC) is offering one Dumbreck Scholarship for doctoral study in any field of Slavonic Studies, tenable from October 2023.

The scholarship (consisting of an award of £12,000 per annum, renewable for a maximum of three years) is open to students to cover tuition fees at the UK rate, with the remainder contributing to maintenance. For current research fees see: https://www.gla.ac.uk/postgraduate/research/fees/