Eastern Europe and Eurasia in the 21st Century, Challenges and Opportunities

This past summer, amidst international concern about the global COVID pandemic, Belarus erupted in protests following the stolen reelection of President Lukashenko. These events have reiterated the importance of having an active working group on the UCSD campus discussing changes in the region of Eastern Europe and Eurasia. This interdisciplinary group of scholars is dedicated to promoting and discussing recent trends and challenges in the study of Eastern Europe and Eurasia. After the fall of the Soviet Union, with the opening of Soviet Archives, scholars of the former Soviet Union and its satellite states found themselves with new resources and opportunities to better understand the region and its relationship to the United States. Within the last decade, political changes in Eastern Europe and changing relations between Russia and the United States have simultaneously made the study of the region more urgent, and placed new obstacles before scholars wishing to better understand the region from a political, sociological, historical, or artistic perspective. This faculty and graduate student group will meet virtually each quarter to discuss recent scholarship on Eastern Europe and Eurasia that is relevant to the Humanities and Social Sciences.

Liaison Faculty Member

Amelia Glaser, Literature Department, amglaser@ucsd.edu

Faculty and Graduate Students

Amelia Glaser, Literature faculty, amglaser@ucsd.edu

Robert Edelman, History faculty, redelman@ucsd.edu

Jesse Driscoll, Political Science faculty, jesse.driscoll@gmail.com

Philip Roeder, Political Science faculty, PROEDER@mail.ucsd.edu

Martha Lampland, Sociology faculty, Mlampland@ucsd.edu

Patrick Patterson, History faculty, PatrickPatterson@ucsd.edu

Ivana Polic, Graduate Student, History, IPolic@ucsd.edu