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Special Agent – Linguists/Foreign Language Background (FBI)

Deadline: January 21, 2025

FBI Special Agents apply their professional expertise and unique skill sets to their work every day. Many have foreign language/linguistics backgrounds and use them to interview victims, translate during a suspect interrogation or testify in court. Language skills and cultural knowledge, specifically in Arabic, Bosnian, Chinese, Farsi, Russian, Somali, Uzbek, Korean or another language are highly sought after by the FBI. All applicants must pass the FBI’s Foreign Language Test Battery.

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Title VIII Research and Dissertation Grants

Deadline: December 31, 2024

The National Council for Eurasian and East European Research welcomes applications to its 2025 Title VIII competitions:

The Title VIII National Research Competition (PhD holders, US citizens only) provides funding of up to $20,000 for individual projects and $40,000 for collaborative projects on issues relevant to current US foreign policy within the Title VIII eligible regions (please see www.nceeer.org for eligible countries).

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2025 Summer Research Laboratory on Russia, Eastern Europe, and Eurasia (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)

Deadline: March 17, 2025

The Russian, East European, and Eurasian Center and the Slavic Reference Service at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign are accepting applications for our 2025 Summer Research Laboratory (SRL) program. The SRL is an in-person program that offers comprehensive research support, access to library resources and competitive Research Awards to graduate and post-graduate scholars developing projects on all aspects of Russian, East European, and Eurasian studies. It is funded by the U.S. Department of State through its Program for Research and Training on Eastern Europe and the Independent States of the Former Soviet Union (Title VIII).

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CFP: Problematizing “Eurasia”: 2025 Detroit Pre-Conference to the American Association of Geographers (AAG)

Deadline: December 15, 2024

2025 Detroit Pre-Conference to the American Association of Geographers (AAG)
March 22 & 23, 2025
Organizers: Evangeline McGlynn (Harvard), Ariel Otruba (Virginia Tech), Kate Shields (Rhodes College), and Megan Dixon (College of Idaho)

Since the escalation of Russia’s war in Ukraine in 2022, scholars working on the post-Soviet world have begun critical conversations reflecting on the dominance of Russian centered scholarship in the field. Naming this region has proven difficult and produced long and unwieldy labels such as “Russian, Eastern European, and Central Asian” studies. Previous attempts at renaming the region, for example, the 2016 renaming of the “Russian, Central Eurasian, and East European” specialty group as the “Eurasian” specialty group, sought to include colleagues working in the post-Soviet peripheries and build bridges beyond the former Soviet world. While within AAG, renaming the group originally led to productive conversations across regional divisions; these larger engagements were fleeting. 

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Acad. Job: Tenure-Track Assistant Professor in Modern Russophone Literature

Deadline: November 1, 2024

The department of Slavic Languages and Literatures in the Dana and David Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences at the University of Southern California (Los Angeles, California) invites applications for a tenure-track position at the level of assistant professor in modern Russophone literature. An ideal candidate will also demonstrate expertise in one or more literature and culture of Eastern Europe, the Baltics, Caucasus, or Central Asia. Native or near-native fluency in Russian and English is required; native or near-native fluency in a language related to the candidate’s additional geographic region of expertise is desired. The successful applicant will have Ph.D. in hand by August 2025 and will be expected to teach graduate and undergraduate courses, including courses in the University’s general education program.

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Tenure Track Assistant Professor, Yiddish (University of Wisconsin)

Deadline: December 2, 2024

The Department of German, Nordic, and Slavic+ at the University of Wisconsin – Madison invites applications for a tenure-track faculty member at the rank of Assistant Professor. We are seeking scholars with an active research program in the field of Yiddish literature/culture with the demonstrated ability to teach Yiddish language and at the university level. The selected candidate will be committed to advancing an innovative research agenda, to working with colleagues to develop a Yiddish language sequence, and to supporting a robust Yiddish studies curriculum at the undergraduate and graduate levels.

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Part-Time Lecturer in Russian and East European Studies (University of Chicago)

Deadline: March 31, 2025

The Humanities Collegiate Division and the Department of Slavic Languages & Literatures at the University of Chicago invites applications for part-time Lecturers during the 2024-25 academic year.
The selected candidate will have part-time teaching opportunities in various courses of the Russian and East European Studies curriculum. Responsibilities include preparing and teaching seminar-style culture courses with a highly interactive discussion element, holding regularly scheduled office hours, and the preparing and grading of assignments and testing materials. Depending on the curricular needs of the department, the successful candidate may teach between one and four courses per academic year.
The terms and conditions of employment for this position are covered by a collective bargaining agreement between the University and Service Employees International Union. The per-course salary for academic year 2024-25 will be at least $7,538. This position is not benefits eligible.

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Job: Managing Editor of The Russian Review (University of Kansas)

Deadline: December 8, 2024

The Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies at the University of Kansas (KU CREES) invites applications for the position of Managing Editor of The Russian Review. The successful candidate is expected to start on July 1, 2025. To read the full position description and apply, please visit this link.

Position Overview

The Managing Editor enjoys a full-time staff appointment through KU CREES and oversees the editing, publication, and operations of The Russian Review, which ranks among the oldest and most widely read journals of Russian and Eurasian studies in the world. The Managing Editor reports to Professor Erik Scott, Editor of the journal, but is expected to work independently to manage submissions, prepare manuscripts for publication, and ensure timely production of the journal.

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Russian Online Language Pedagogy (OLP) Video Series

This NFLRC professional learning opportunity, offered this past summer and designed specifically for online Russian language teachers, focused on three key areas of teaching Russian online: 1) Adapting materials and resources; 2) Teaching writing and reading in Russian; and 3) Learner interaction.

We’ve divided the three panel sessions up into TED-Ed lessons by interview question, providing you with a quick and easy way to access the particular content you want in the time you have. Resources mentioned in the clips are included in the Dig Deeper sections, and we encourage you to share your own responses to the interview questions in the Discuss sections. Access them here: https://nflrc.hawaii.edu/olp/#section8

And for those who prefer to watch everything all at once, the full video recordings for all 3 panels can be found on our NFLRC YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLLBJ9BLnZf1UoOkQ8Rs0Hwsk2Z6kQWFtY

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Job: Administrative Assistant, Russian and Soviet Nonconformist Art Department (Rutgers University)

Deadline: Open Until Filled, posted October 24, 2024


Russian and Soviet Nonconformist Art Department
Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, is seeking an Administrative Assistant to be responsible for everyday operations and office management of the Russian and Soviet Nonconformist Art Department at the Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum.

The key duties of the position include:

– Handling the administrative work in the Department of Russian and Soviet Nonconformist Art.
– Preparation and overseeing financial documents.
– Submitting travel expense reports for reimbursement.
– Assists with putting together annual department budgets and tracking the budget.
– Keeping track of department activities and statistics.
– Writing special and annual reports.
– Assisting with exhibition and program coordination.
– Handling mail distributions and department mailing list.
– Handling graduate assistants’ and postdocs’ appointment processes, travel needs and schedules.
– Handling overall office management.
– Facilitating the Department purchasing in compliance with the University procurement policies and procedures.

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