Duke University MA Program in Slavic and Eurasian Studies

[Beth Holmgren]

DUKE UNIVERSITY M.A. IN SLAVIC AND EURASIAN STUDIES

Duke University's  Department of Slavic and Eurasian Studies invites
applications for its Master of Arts program for Fall 2008.  This
two-year program prepares students for further academic study in a
regionally related discipline as well as careers in government,
business, journalism, and nonprofit work.  Master's students at Duke
may elect to concentrate in 1) Russian literature and culture;  2)
Slavic linguistics; or 3) Eurasian studies. Our program aims to
develop students'  proficiency in a variety of languages (we offer
Bosnian-Croatian-Serbian, Hungarian, Pashto, Persian, Polish,
Romanian,  Russian, and Turkish) and to offer them training in the
wide-ranging fields of our faculty expertise, which include area and
cultural studies, cultural anthropology, gender studies, history,
linguistics, media and film, performing arts studies, and aspects of
comparative literature, theory, and translation.  Our Department
collaborates closely in courses and activities  with the Duke Program
in Literature, the Marxism and Society Program, the Film/Video/Digital
Program, the English Department, the Romance Studies Department, the
History Department, the Interdepartmental Program in Linguistics, the
Department of Cultural Anthropology, and Women's Studies.

Duke also sponsors semester and summer programs in Russia at the St.
Petersburg State University and in Turkey at the Bogazici University
in Istanbul.  For more information about these programs, see the
following links:

http://www.duke.edu/web/slavic/stp_semester.html

http://www.duke.edu/philosophy/istanbul/


Our students benefit from the combined resources of Duke University
and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, including
extensive Slavic and East European library collections and a joint
Title VI Center which hosts a wide array of lectures, workshops, and
conferences with visiting national and international experts. Students
also have the opportunity to consult and take courses with the faculty
and visiting media fellows of the DeWitt Wallace Center for
Communication and Journalism, and to use its important video archives
of news programs from Soviet and Russian television, as well as other
materials.

Financial support for full-time students is available in various forms
(fellowships, teaching assistantships, summer awards, and travel
support for students delivering papers at conferences). The Center for
Slavic, Eurasian and East European Studies offers four fellowships per
year for the study of a Slavic language.  Prospective students with
outstanding qualifications should consider application for a James B.
Duke Fellowship, a Mellon Fellowship or any of the other national
fellowships available for support of graduate study.

The deadline for applications is January 15, 2008.
Candidates may apply online at
https://app.applyyourself.com/?id=DukeGrad

For more information about the Duke Department of Slavic and Eurasian
Studies and its A.M. program, see

http://www.duke.edu/web/slavic/grad_info.html

or contact

Professor JoAnne van Tuyl
Associate Professor of the Practice
Department of Slavic and Eurasian Studies
307 Languages Building, Box 90259
Duke University
Durham, NC 27708-0259
Tel: (919) 660-3145
Fax: (919) 660-3141
Email: jvtuyl at .duke.edu

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