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  • Students

Stanford senior True Sweetser has been awarded an NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship, a one-time grant of $10,000. With a major in History and a minor in Slavic Languages and Literatures, Sweetster will further develop his interest in the region as a…

  • In the News

In collaboration with the Institute of International Education – Scholar Rescue Fund, for nearly a century Stanford has hosted endangered scholars who have had to escape conflict or flee persecution because of their research, race or creed.…

  • Announcements

In an interview posted by the Hoover Institution, Anatol Shmelev discusses his new book In the Wake of Empire: Anti-Bolshevik Russia in International Affairs, 1917–1920, published by Hoover Institution Press. In the book, Shmelev explores the…

  • Alumni

Jake Zawlacki, a 2019 graduate of the CREEES MA program, published "The Allegorical Aĭdaḣar: An Animated Look at Kazakh National Identity" in Folklorica, the peer-reviewed journal of the Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Folklore Association.…

  • Announcements

The Center for Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies (CREEES) is thrilled to announce the Helena Brandt Visiting Scholar Program, which will bring annually to Stanford an eminent scholar of East Europe. During their residency of up to a…