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Department of Slavic and Eurasian Studies

Orr hearts Ukraine

Q&A with RANE Eurasia Analyst Matthew Orr

April 5, 2022 by Daniel Oppenheimer

Matthew Orr is a Eurasia analyst at RANE, a risk intelligence company that provides geopolitical information and consultation to consumers and corporate clients with business interests around the globe. Prior to starting at RANE, Orr received dual Master’s degrees in Global Policy Studies and Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies at The University of Texas […]

UT in Ukraine

A Community of Scholars and Students Responds to the War in Ukraine

April 4, 2022 by Mary Neuburger

As Director of the Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies (CREEES) and a historian of Eastern Europe, I am writing to share with you how the faculty and students of our center are responding to this horrific moment.

Q&A on the War in Ukraine with Professor Joan Neuberger, Department of History

March 31, 2022 by Leora Visotzky

Joan Neuberger, a professor of history at The University of Texas at Austin, studies modern Russian culture in social and political context, with a focus on the politics of the arts. Her most recent book, This Thing of Darkness: Eisenstein’s Ivan the Terrible in Stalin’s Russia (Cornell: 2019), won the American Historical Association’s George L. Mosse Book […]

Misha with statue

Q&A with Mykhaylo (Misha) Simanovskyy, Graduate Student and Donetsk Native

March 29, 2022 by Leora Visotzky

Misha Simanovskyy is a native of Donetsk, Ukraine and a first-year graduate student pursuing a dual master’s degree in Global Policy Studies and Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies.

Seegel tweets

Assembling the February 24 Archive

March 28, 2022 by Daniel Oppenheimer

Since the war began, Professor Steven Seegel has tweeted about 12,000 times. He plans to keep going, with the help of international colleagues in the digital humanities, for as long as necessary, in order to build what he’s calling “The February 24th Archive.”

The Misinformation Age

September 17, 2021 by Alex Reshanov

Depending on whom you ask, conspiracy theories are either having a heyday or it’s just business as usual. But whether or not there is a long-term increase happening, certain factors likely influence the ebb and flow of conspiratorial beliefs.

Heather Rice teaching Russian

Exploring the World Through Language

August 5, 2020 by Alex Reshanov

Sometimes we fall in love when we least expect it. Arriving at The University of Texas at Austin as a mathematically inclined freshman, Heather Rice had no intention of learning Russian.

Portrait of Bianna Golodryga.

Getting it Right

April 2, 2019 by Caroline Murray

The Pro Bene Meritis award is the highest honor bestowed by the College of Liberal Arts. Since 1984, the annual award has been given to alumni, faculty members and friends of the college who are committed to the liberal arts, have made outstanding contributions in professional or philanthropic pursuits or have participated in service related to the college. […]

How To Survive A Night in Dracula’s Castle

October 31, 2016 by Thomas Garza

“Suddenly I became conscious of the fact that the driver was in fact in the act of pulling up the horses in the courtyard of a vast ruined castle, from whose tall black windows came no ray of light, and whose broken battlements showed a jagged line against the moonlit sky.” With these words, Jonathan […]

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