Welcome to the Ellison Center

We are a National Resource Center funded by the Title VI Program of the US Department of Education, promoting in-depth interdisciplinary study of all major post-communist sub-regions - Eastern and Central Europe, the Baltic region, the Caucasus and Central Asia, and Russia - in order to understand the legacies of the imperial and communist past as well as to analyze the emerging institutions and identities that will shape Eurasia's future.

We offer undergraduate degree tracks within the European Studies Major as well as a Master's Degree in Russian, East European and Central Asian Studies; we sponsor lectures, conferences and exchanges covering the entirety of East Europe and Central Eurasia; and we sustain a dynamic program of outreach to local schools, colleges and community organizations interested in our region. With over 60 participating UW faculty, the Ellison Center represents a unique intellectual resource for faculty, students and professionals living in the Pacific Northwest and beyond. 

 

 Upcoming Events, Opportunities and Publications of Interest

 

 

Read The Ellison Center's 2012 Spring Newsletter! 

Featured articles: Rok Miłoszа – The Year of Miłosz; Cat and Mouse in Kazakhstan; Negotiating Narratives of Kaunas 1972 from Archives to Oral Interviews; Photo Essay: DiverseCity.

 

REECAS Graduate School Alum and 2009 Waugh Thesis Award Winner, Simon Wickham-Smith, publishes book

Simon Wickham-Smith has had his translation and commentary on the 6th Dalai Lama’s biography published as part of Lexington Books’ Modern Tibetan Culture series. The Hidden Life of the Sixth Dalai Lama  was written by an 18th century Mongol scholar and presents the Sixth Dalai Lama not as a drinker and poet, but as a solemn and sober Buddhist monk who lived the life of a wandering mendicant and spiritual teacher. Considered by some to be a fictitious account while others read it as authentic, this life story challenges common preconceptions of one of the most caricatured figures in Tibetan history.

 

 

The Ellison Center is pleased to announce the publication of Professor Glennys Young's latest book 

The Communist Experience in the Twentieth Century:  A Global History Through Sources

Review:

"With prodigious effort, Glennys Young has assembled a treasury of documents that illuminate the lives of ordinary and extraordinary people who joined or were marked by the twentieth century's attempt to overcome capitalism. This superb collection covers the globe and tells stories that need to be remembered."--Ronald Grigor Suny, University of Michigan

 

 

The Slavic Languages and Literature Department Chair and Professor, Galya Diment, has released a new book:

A Russian Jew of Bloomsbury: The Life and Times of Samuel Koteliansky

Review:

"Galya Diment's A Russian Jew of Bloomsbury makes a genuine contribution to English literary culture in the first half of the 20th century. Through painstaking research Diment is able to document Kot's life in remarkable detail. Unpublished letters that relate to D.H. Lawrence, Katherine Mansfield, the Woolfs, and others provide a variety of perspectives that greatly enrich our understanding of the period."- Keith Cushman, author of D.H. Lawrence at Work

 

 

We are proud to announce that Barbara Henry, Associate Professor of Russian literature and Jewish studies, is releasing her much anticipated book:

Rewriting Russia: Jacob Gordin's Yiddish Drama (A Samuel and Althea Stroum Boo) 

Review:
"Lucid and engaging, Rewriting Russia makes an important scholarly contribution to the fields of Yiddish culture, American Jewish history, and Russian Jewish history."—Tony Michels, author of A Fire in Their Hearts: Yiddish Socialists in New York.

 

 

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Please complete our online learning survey if you are a UW UNDERGRADUATE or (non-REECAS) GRADUATE STUDENT interested in the region. Thank you!

 

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