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Russian, Eurasian, and East European Studies (Cluster)

Program Type: Cluster

The Russian, Eurasian, and East European Studies (REEES) Cluster is a multidisciplinary hub for graduate students from across Northwestern with a shared interest in the vast region between Prague and Vladivostok. Founded with the goal of promoting interdisciplinary collaboration, REEES aims to bring together students and faculty in a wide array of departments and programs, including Anthropology, Art History, History, International Studies, Journalism, Political Science, Economics, Musicology, Slavic Languages and Literature, Sociology, and Theatre.

The REEES cluster offers a range of opportunities for graduate students as well as faculty. The cluster provides venues for graduate students to present their research and to engage faculty and students beyond their home departments. It fosters student-directed programming and funds student projects including research travel, language study, and study abroad.

Participating students from a range of departments can tap into Northwestern’s international reputation in Slavic, Eurasian, and East European studies. The range of courses available to satisfy the program's requirements reflects the REEES Cluster's commitment to serving as a platform for collaboration between the humanities and social sciences.

See Russian, Eurasian, and East European Studies (REES) Cluster Requirements for specific courses and procedures needed to complete this program.

How to Apply

Prospective PhD students interested in participating in this cluster should indicate their interest when they apply to their respective graduate programs.

Current students interested in participating in this cluster should contact the cluster co-directors.

Who to Contact

Please contact the cluster director, listed below, with questions about this program.

The following requirements are in addition to, or further elaborate upon, those requirements outlined in The Graduate School Policy Guide.

Students admitted through the cluster take three approved courses, chosen from among the list below. Students work with their departmental advisors and the REES faculty to map out a plan of study that best suits their intellectual interests.

  • ART_HIST 460-0 Studies in 20th & 21st-Century Art: The Russian Avant-Garde
  • COMP_LIT 413-0 Comparative Studies in Theme: Russian Poetry: Romanticism East & West
  • HISTORY 405-0 Seminar in Historical Analysis: Comparative Empires
  • HISTORY 492-0 Topics in History: History and Historiography of Communist East Europe
  • HISTORY 492-0 Topics in History: History and Historiography of the Habsburg Monarchy
  • HISTORY 492-0 Topics in History: Nations and Nationalism
  • POLI_SCI 449-0 Informal Institutions
  • POLI_SCI 451-0 Comparative Political Economy of Developing Countries
  • POLI_SCI 452-0 Democratization
  • POLI_SCI 454-0 Social Movements and Mobilization
  • SLAVIC 405-0 Russian Teaching Methodology
  • SLAVIC 411-0 Proseminar
  • SLAVIC 430-0 Studies in Old Russian Literature
  • SLAVIC 434-0 Studies in 18th Century Russian Lit
  • SLAVIC 436-0 Studies in 19th Century Russian Lit.
  • SLAVIC 437-1 Poetry Seminar
  • SLAVIC 438-0 Studies in 20th-Century Russian Literature (1900-1930s)
  • SLAVIC 438-1 20th-Century Russian Prose (1940s-present)
  • SLAVIC 440-0 Studies in Russian Intellectual History
  • SLAVIC 441-0 Studies in Russian Literary and Cultural Criticism
  • SLAVIC 442-0 Bakhtin's Prosaics