Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies

Congratulations to Konstantinos Zivas, 2026 Cohen-Tucker Dissertation Completion Fellow!
“Empire by Credit: Imperial Russia and the Politics of Debt in the Territories of the former Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (1793-1863)”
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In the May NewsNet issue, ASEEES interviews 2025 Wayne S. Vucinich Book Prize winner Masha Salazkina about her study of melodrama and global popular culture in "Romancing Yesenia: How a Mexican Melodrama Shaped Global Popular Culture".
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Congratulations to Alexey Kotelvas, 2026 Next Generation Research Fellow!
“Divided Nations: Politics of Identity in Romanian-Moldovan Tourism and Cultural Diplomacy (1964-1991)”
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Congratulations to Ilya Slavutskiy, 2026 Cohen-Tucker Dissertation Completion Fellow!
“Road Not Taken: Ukrainian Soviet Power and the Ukrainian Socialist Revolutionaries, 1917”
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In the May NewsNet issue, Grant Harward offers a perspective from military history in "Writing Romanian Military History: Perspectives from a SEEES Scholar with a Day Job".
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ASEEES has reopened the 2026 Internship Grant Program competition on a rolling basis. If you are pursuing an unpaid/underpaid internship this summer or fall, please consider applying. We will keep the application open on a rolling basis until we have made the awards.

Congratulations to Hayate Murayama, 2026 Cohen-Tucker Dissertation Research Fellow!
“Inscribed Memories: Japanese POWs and the Afterlives of Forced Labor in Post Soviet Central Asia”
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In the May NewsNet issue, Zach Rewinski reflects on an opportunity for interdisciplinary collaboration in "De-Siloing: For Robust Interdisciplinary Engagement".
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Congratulations to Ivan Cherniakov, 2026 Anne D. Rassweiler Dissertation Research Fellow!
“‘State Farms in Construction:’ Photography and the Making of the Soviet Agricultural Landscape”
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Congratulations to Yee Rem Kim, 2026 Cohen-Tucker Dissertation Research Fellow!
"Visions of Belonging: Korean Public Culture in the Soviet Union, 1920s-1950s"

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