Charles Ingrao and Thomas A. Emmert , editors. Confronting the Yugoslav Controversies: A Scholars' Initiative.(Central European Studies.)West Lafayette, Ind.: Purdue University Press, with the United States Institute of Peace Press , Washington, D.C . 2009 . Pp. x, 444. $43.95.

The future of European Studies in the United States is certainly dim, if one presumes that it will parallel the declining importance of “old, tired Europe” for the United States, and for American foreign policy more specifically.1 Alternatively, it could be viewed in a more positive light if one emphasizes the lasting legacy of the European enlightenment for the United States and for world culture, even while China and India are gaining in global importance.

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Government in the United States. By Claudius O. Johnson, Professor of Political Science in the State College of Washington. Revised Edition. (New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company. 1937. Pp. xii, 735. $4.00.) and American Government and Its Problems. By Robert Phillips, Professor of Government at Purdue University. Under the editorship of Edward M. Sait, Pomona College. (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company. 1937. Pp. xv, 813. $3.50.)

The American Historical Review ◽

10.1086/ahr/44.1.137 ◽

1938 ◽

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

New York ◽

Political Science ◽

The United States ◽

The State ◽

American Government ◽

Pomona College ◽

State College ◽

Purdue University

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Czesław Miłosz’s Migrant Perspective in Rodzinna Europa [Native Realm]

Open Cultural Studies ◽

10.1515/culture-2017-0031 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 1 (1) ◽

pp. 342-349

Author(s):

Ewa Kołodziejczyk

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

William Faulkner ◽

Religious Diversity ◽

The United States ◽

Point Of View ◽

European Perspective ◽

Central European ◽

New Perspective ◽

Post War ◽

The Impact

Abstract The article traces the impact of Czesław Miłosz’s first American stay on his image of Central Europe in Rodzinna Europa [Native Realm]. In the United States, the post-war immigrant from Vilnius learned to perceive, understand and evaluate American culture; he also gained a new perspective on his region of Europe and Slavic immigrants. This experience enabled him to adopt an American point of view in his autobiographical essay. Following William Faulkner, Miłosz carries on an analysis of Eastern and Central Europe’s history and identities. The uses Western historical and sociological glossary to describe processes that formed his “native realm.” Analogically, the poet from pre-war Vilnius reflects on American multi-ethnicity and religious diversity from a Central European perspective. In Rodzinna Europa, Miłosz takes the position of a migrant translator and a two-way mediator between East and West.

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In Recognition

Aspasia ◽

10.3167/asp.2019.130102 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 13 (1) ◽

pp. x-xii

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

The United States ◽

Woman Suffrage ◽

Eastern European ◽

European Studies ◽

Great Pleasure ◽

Outstanding Achievement ◽

Russian Woman ◽

Achievement Award ◽

Slavic Studies

It is with great pleasure that Aspasia offers its congratulations to Dr. Rochelle Goldberg Ruthchild, the 2018 recipient of the Association for Women in Slavic Studies’ Outstanding Achievement Award. A historian of the Russian woman suffrage movement, Dr. Ruthchild played a foundational role in the development of women’s history within Russian and Eastern European studies. She helped to establish the Association of Women in Slavic Studies (AWSS) in 1988, serving as its first president. She also contributed to the inaugural volume of Aspasia in 2007,1 and has served as an editor of this journal for over a decade. She is an exemplary scholar, a champion of women’s studies and women’s achievements, as well as a mentor to colleagues and students in the United States and abroad.`

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Soviet and East European Studies in the United States

Slavic Review ◽

10.2307/2498388 ◽

1988 ◽

Vol 47 (3) ◽

pp. 397-413 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Dorothy Atkinson

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

World War Ii ◽

American Association ◽

The United States ◽

Academic Programs ◽

World War ◽

European Studies ◽

East European ◽

The Past ◽

American Academic

The American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies has been engaged over the past several years in a project to collect and analyze information on the Soviet and East European field. Some of the results of the work to date are presented in this report to the profession.The field of Soviet and East European studies is a relative newcomer on the American academic scene. Not until World War II was there any considerable interest in the region in the United States. At that time, however, the federal government found itself acutely short of specialists on the area and had to scrape a shallow academic barrel. The lack of expertise led to the establishment of new military and civilian training programs; and the changed international situation in the postwar period gave further impetus to the extension of academic programs.

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Ukranians in American East European Studies

Nationalities Papers ◽

10.1080/00905997608407791 ◽

1976 ◽

Vol 4 (2) ◽

pp. 99-112

Author(s):

Alexander Sydorenko

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Soviet Union ◽

The United States ◽

European Studies ◽

East European ◽

The Soviet Union ◽

Political Studies

Ukranian scholars in the United States pursue a broad range of disciplines, making significant contributions to such fields of inquiry as literature, linguistics, political studies, and economics. This paper will review the contributions to the study of Ukrainian history. It will examine some of the practical problems affecting the development of the Ukrainian historical studies in the United States and then review the work of a few selected scholars, whose research and publications typify the tenor and the direction of the Ukrainian historiography outside the Soviet Union.

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