The three types of faculty affiliation with CREECA are:
Currently forty tenure-track UW-Madison professors with a primary teaching or research interest in Russian, Eastern and Central European, and Central Asian Studies are affiliated with CREECA. Faculty members and associates represent a wide range of disciplines, including Art History, Communication Arts (Film), Comparative Literature & Folklore Studies, Forestry & Wildlife Ecology, Gender & Women’s Studies, Geography, History, Jewish Studies, Languages & Cultures of Asia, Law, Political Science, Slavic Languages & Literature, Scandinavian Studies, Sociology, and Theatre & Drama.
Our faculty affiliates are recognized nationally and internationally as experts in their fields. They are regularly published in both scholarly journals and mainstream newspapers, including The New York Times and The Washington Post.
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With support from its National Resource Center grant, CREECA offers current UW-Madison faculty and academic staff modest awards to travel to academic conferences in order to present research on Russia, Central and Eastern Europe, and Eurasia. As part of the Wisconsin Russia Project, funded by the Carnegie Corporation of New York, CREECA will offer grants for faculty to conduct social science research in Russia.
Additional internal and external awards are posted regularly on our Jobs & Opportunities page.