Summer Institute for the Study of East Central and Southeastern Europe

Anna Adashinskaya
Year:
- 2025
University of Bucharest
Voices in Stone: Exploring Commemorative Functions and Authorship of Graffiti in Early Modern Moldavian Churches

Catherine M. Ashcraft
Year:
- 2025
University of New Hampshire
An Environmental History of the Crimean War

Eunice L. Blavascunas
Year:
- 2024
Whitman College
Imaginaries of the Future at the Forested Polish, Belarusian, Lithuanian Borderland

Mariana Bodnaruk
Year:
- 2024
Central European University
Transfeminist Perspectives on Premodern Trans Lives

Donna A. Buchanan
Year:
- 1996
- 2024
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
The Girl in the Bell: Gender, Power, and Cosmologies Ensounded in Bulgaria

Winson W. Chu
Year:
- 2011
- 2023
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
The Criminal Police and the Lodz Ghetto

Gabrielle Cornish
Year:
- 2019
- 2023
- 2025
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Socialist Noise: Sound and Soviet Identity after Stalin

R. Chris Davis
Year:
- 2024
Lone Star College
“Blood Brotherhoods” and a Cult of Death: The Radicalization and Martyrdom of Romanian Lawyer Ion Motza across Interwar Europe

Polina Dimova
Year:
- 2019
- 2023
University of Denver
At the Crossroads of the Senses: Synaesthesia in Art and Science – A Digital Companion

Bilge Firat
Year:
- 2024
University of Texas at El Paso
Quiet Lives of Energy Geopolitics in the Balkans

Olena Fomenko
Year:
- 2023
Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv
Ukraine’s Image in Media Discourse: Cultural Icons and the Impact of the Russia-Ukraine War

Anna Gaidash
Year:
- 2025
Borys Grinchenko Kyiv Metropolitan University
Representations of the Holodomor in Drama: the Diasporic and Mainland Reading of the Ineffable

Brian K. Goodman
Year:
- 2025
Arizona State University
The Antipolitical Imagination: Literature, Dissent, and Human Rights after 1968

Magdalena Grabowska
Year:
- 2023
The Polish Academy of Sciences
Reproductive Agency, Social Reproduction, and (Re-) Democratization Processes in Poland and Eastern Europe

James Graham
Year:
- 2023
California College of the Arts
Settler Constructivism: Architecture, Agriculture, and the "National Question" under the Soviet First Five Year Plan

Tomasz Grusiecki
Year:
- 2024
Boise State University
Ecocide Art: Extinction Management and the Material and Visual Cultures of the Jaktorów Forest Aurochs, 1500–1650

Atdhe Hetemi
Year:
- 2024
University of Prishtina
Albanianism, Islamic, and Communist Platform(s) in Yugoslavia, 1945-1989

Kristina Hook
Year:
- 2023
Kennesaw State University
Losing and Finding a Nation: Ukrainian Holodomor Narratives as Wartime Resistance and Reclamation

Leontina Hormel
Year:
- 2024
University of Idaho
Work on the Edge of Empires: Social Reproduction in Ukraine Before Revolution and War

Klejd Kellici
Year:
- 2023
University of Tirana
Identity, Political Reburials, and Regimes of Memory in Albania

Alina Kondratiuk
Year:
- 2025
The Romanian Academy
Byzantine Receptions in Ukrainian Art of the First Half of the Seventeenth Century

Kriton Kuci
Year:
- 2025
Mediterranean University of Albania
Nationalism and the Limits of Academic Freedom in Albanian Higher Education

Piotr Kuligowski
Year:
- 2024
The Tadeusz Manteuffel Institute of History Polish Academy of Sciences
The Political Discourse of Pocket Assemblies in post-Napoleonic Europe: The Polish Case

Armin Langer
Year:
- 2025
University of Florida
Religious Organizations and Authoritarian Politics: A Case Study of Jewish Federations in Hungary

Svitlana Luparenko
Year:
- 2024
H.S. Skovoroda Kharkiv National Pedagogical University
Control and Prevention of Juvenile Crimes in Ukraine in the First Half of the Twentieth Century

Wiktor Marzec
Year:
- 2023
University of Warsaw
Post Imperial Field of Power in the Second Republic of Poland, Greater Romania and the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes After the First World War

Ehlimana Memisevic
Year:
- 2023
University of Sarajevo
A Search for Belonging: Migrations of Bosnian Muslims in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries and Responses of the Islamic Scholars

J. Mackenzie Pierce
Year:
- 2024
University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
Beyond Rupture: Listening for Polish-Jewish Music before and after the Holocaust

Selma Raljevic
Year:
- 2025
University of Dzemal Bijedic in Mostar
Narrating Worlds through Transnationalism: The Transnational Poetics of Aleksandar Hemon and Semezdin Mehmedinovic

David T. Salkowski
Year:
- 2024
University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Medieval Music and Imperial Ideologies: The “Bulgarian Question” in Music

Olena Sushyi
Year:
- 2025
Institute of Social and Political Psychology of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine
Artificial Intelligence in Scenario Forecasting for Post-War Community Reconstruction in Ukraine—Opportunities, Limitations, and Risks

Julia Sushytska
Year:
- 2023
Occidental College
On Truth in the Age of Postmodern Propaganda: Views of Five Eastern European Philosophers

Márton Szarvas
Year:
- 2024
Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design
Peacetime for the Soldiers of Culture? Making People and Community in Houses of Culture

Ruth Trumble
Year:
- 2025
Hofstra University
Vulnerable Expertise: the Labor of Demining Explosives in the Former Yugoslavia

Snejana Ung
Year:
- 2023
Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu
The Inter-Peripheral Circulation of the Novel in Post-Imperial Southeastern Europe, 1918-1989

Olena Uvarova
Year:
- 2024
Odessa National Medical University
Russia among Great Powers in Fighting for Ottoman Christians: Ideology and Implementation of Patronage Politics in 1774-1856

Matthew Worsnick
Year:
- 2022
- 2025
Vanderbilt University
Polemical Anachronism: Temporal Slippage and the Political Manipulation of Material Culture and Public Art

Iryna Yakovenko
Year:
- 2025
Borys Grinchenko Kyiv Metropolitan University
Narrative and Visual Discourses in Commemorating the Chornobyl Nuclear Disaster