Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies

 
The Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies (REEES) at the University of Pittsburgh is an interdisciplinary center focusing on Central and Eastern Europe and the successor states of the former Soviet Union. As a Title VI National Resource Center (NRC) funded by the US Department of Education, REEES plays a critical role in promoting regionally focused scholarship and teaching on Pitt’s campus and raising awareness among wider communities in the Pittsburgh area and beyond. REEES's affiliated faculty members come from the humanities, social sciences and professional schools. The Center develops and supports student programs focused on foreign language acquisition, cultural immersion, and interdisciplinary area studies certificates to complement traditional disciplinary degrees. REEES also partners with various international and domestic organizations to promote educational, technical and economic development in the Center's world area.

Services Offered: 
Cultural Festivals
Guest Speakers
High School Student Events
Intensive Summer Language Study Opportunities
Internships
Professional Development Workshops
Resource Lending Library
School Visits

Resources

Here is a sample of materials generated by the Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies or as a result of programming in which they participated.

Video

Intended Audience:
K-12

Dr. Michael Giazzoni, Director of College in High School, and Cindy McNulty, Global Competence Director at Oakland Catholic High School, discuss the benefits of dual credit programs and infusion of global content into the curriculum.
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Intended Audience:
9-12, Higher Education, Faculty, Post-Secondary

In late October 2017 as part of the 1917 Centenary Series organized by the Center for Russian and East European Studies, Grace Kennan Warnecke spoke on her recently completed memoir "Daughter of the Cold War." Daughter of the leading Cold War strategist George Kennan, Grace Kennan Warnecke has had a lifelong association with Russia and the former Soviet Union.

Intended Audience:
Higher Education, Faculty, Post-Secondary

The longtime home of the Soviet nuclear program, the Chelyabinsk region contains beautiful lakes, shuttered factories, mysterious closed cities, and some of the most polluted places on earth. Based on her recent book Putin Country (Farrar, Straus&Giroux, 2016), Anne Garrels charts in this lecture the aftershocks of the U.S.S.R.’s collapse. Having returned again and again to...

Outreach at Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies

Zita Tóth-Shawgo
Engagement Coordinator
Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies