Duke University Master's 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 2009.  This
two-year program prepares students for further academic study in a
regionally related discipline as well as careers in business,
government, journalism, and nonprofit work.
http://www.duke.edu/web/slavic/grad_info.html


PROGRAMS AND CURRICULUM:

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, art history, cultural
anthropology, gender studies, history, linguistics, media and film,
performing arts history, theater studies, and aspects of comparative
literature, literary theory, and translation.  Our Department
collaborates closely in courses and activities with the Departments of
Cultural Anthropology, English, Literature, Romance Studies, Theater
Studies, and Women's Studies; the Interdepartmental Program in
Linguistics and the Film/Video/Digital Program.


FACULTY:

Our Department's primary and secondary faculty include specialists in
language, linguistics, literature, cultural anthropology and cultural
studies, gender studies, theater, and history.  The Duke Slavic
Department has an ongoing faculty exchange with St. Petersburg
State University; since 1988, one professor from Russia has come to
teach at Duke each semester.  M.A. students are also encouraged to
sample courses from the many other Slavic and Eurasian Studies-related
faculty at Duke, including the faculty and visiting media fellows of
the DeWitt Wallace Center for Communication and Journalism.  For a
complete list of these faculty, see
http://www.duke.edu/web/CSEEES/duke_faculty.html


STUDY ABROAD:

Duke 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/dukeinistanbul-istanbul.htm


SCHOLARLY RESOURCES:

Our students benefit from the combined resources of Duke University
and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, including
extensive collaboratively developed 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.  For more information on the holdings (and
special collections) at Duke Library, see

http://guides.library.duke.edu/slavicstudies

http://guides.library.duke.edu/content.php?pid=11342&sid=76817


FINANCIAL SUPPORT:

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 M.A. 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.


APPLICATION INFORMATION AND DEADLINES:

December 15, 2008 is the priority deadline for submission of
applications for admission and award  for fall 2009.  For more
information about admissions, application requirements and fees,  see
http://www.duke.edu/web/slavic/grad_admissions.html

or contact

Professor Beth Holmgren
Professor and Director of Graduate Studies
Department of Slavic and Eurasian Studies
309 Languages Building, Box 90259
Duke University
Durham, NC 27708-0259
Tel: (919) 660-3140
Fax: (919) 660-3141
Email: beth.holmgren at duke.edu

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