Duke University M.A. in Slavic and Eurasian Studies

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DUKE UNIVERSITY M.A. IN SLAVIC AND EURASIAN STUDIES

Duke University's  Department of Slavic and Eurasian Studies invites
applications for its Fall 2010 Master of Arts program.  This two-year
graduate program is tailor-made to develop students' intellectual
interests and train them for their chosen careers. Working out their
individual plans of study with the Director of Graduate Studies, our
M.A. students may prepare for further graduate work in a regionally
related discipline or disciplines as well as for careers in business,
government, journalism, nonprofit work, and public policy.

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) Slavic and
Eurasian studies. All our tracks enable students to develop
proficiency in a variety of Eurasian languages (Russian, Pashto,
Persian, Polish, Romanian, and Turkish).  Our diverse faculty (see
faculty list below) provide training in a wide array of disciplines,
including:

-Art History
-Cultural Anthropology
-Cultural Studies
-Film
-Gender Studies
-History
-Information Literacy
-Islamic Cultures
-Linguistics
-Literary Studies
-Market and Legal Studies
-Political Science
-Religion
-Semiotics
-Theater Studies
-Translation
-Visual Culture

Our Department collaborates closely in courses and activities with the
Departments of Cultural Anthropology, English, Literature, Romance
Studies, Theater, Women's Studies;  the Interdepartmental Program in
Linguistics; the Duke Islamic Studies Center; and the
Film/Video/Digital Program.

DEPARTMENT FACULTY:

Primary Faculty

Edna Andrews.  Ph.D. Indiana University.  Slavic and  general
linguistics; semiotics of  culture; poetics.

Carol Apollonio.  Ph.D. UNC-Chapel Hill.  Russian literature;
translation; theory of  translation.

Jehanne Gheith.  Ph.D. Stanford University.  Russian literature and
culture; gender studies; Gulag history; memory and trauma studies.

Erdag Göknar.  Ph.D. University of Washington. Turkish literature and
cultural studies; comparative research in Middle Eastern and Eurasian
studies.

Beth Holmgren.  Ph.D. Harvard University. Russian literature and
culture; Polish literature and culture; gender studies; theater
history.

Elena Maksimova.  M.A. Leningrad State University.  Bunin; Russian
stylistics; Russian film; scientific, scholarly, and legal Russian;
certified proficiency tester.

Denis Mickiewicz.  Ph.D. Yale University.  Russian poetry; modernism;
comparative poetics; music.

Mustafa Tuna.  Ph.D. Princeton University.  Russian and Central
Eurasian history and culture; Islam in Turkey and Central Eurasia.

JoAnne Van Tuyl.   Ph.D. UNC-Chapel Hill.  Russian language; Russian
literature; Russian and African American comparative studies;
instructional technology for Russian as a foreign language.

Secondary Faculty

Johanna McAuliffe.  M.F.A. Yale University.  Literary and  cultural
criticism;  directing;  Russian drama.

Martin Miller.  Ph.D. University of Chicago.  Russian history; history
of psychoanalysis in Russia; comparative terrorist movements.

Julie Tetel.  Ph.D. UNC-Chapel Hill.  Linguistic historiography,
focusing on French, German,  and American theories of language from
the eighteenth through the twentieth centuries.  

Adjunct Faculty

Michael Newcity.  M.A., J.D. The George Washington University. 
Russian law. 

Pamela Kachurin.  Ph.D. Indiana.  Russian visual culture; contemporary
Russian art; art and politics; Soviet artists.

Ernest Zitser.  Ph.D. Columbia University. Librarian, Slavic and East
European Collection. Early modern Russian history; autobiography;
Russian visual culture; Slavic information literacy.

St. Petersburg University Faculty

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.

Slavic and Eurasian Studies-related Faculty

M.A. students are also encouraged to sample courses from the many
other Slavic and Eurasian Studies-related faculty at Duke, listed at

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.  We encourage and advise all of our M.A.
students to enroll in summer study abroad programs in areas of their
regional interest.  For more information on Duke in Russia, see

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

http://studyabroad.duke.edu/home/Programs/Summer/Duke_in_Russia

SCHOLARLY RESOURCES:

Duke University Library's consortial responsibilities vis-à-vis other
institutional members of the Triangle Research Library Network (TRLN),
and the interests and support of Duke's faculty, have laid the basis
for several significant collections, particularly in Polish cultural
and literary studies, 20th-century Russian and Ukrainian history, as
well as Russian visual culture.  For more information on the holdings
(and special collections) at Duke Library, see

http://library.duke.edu/research/subject/guides/slavic/about/index.html

http://library.duke.edu/research/subject/guides/slavic/about/collection_highlights.html

Our students benefit from the combined resources of Duke University
and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, including a joint
Title VI Center which hosts a wide array of lectures, workshops, and
conferences with visiting national and international experts.  

http://www.duke.edu/web/CSEEES/index.html

FINANCIAL SUPPORT:

Financial support for full-time M.A. students is available from the
Center for Slavic, Eurasian and East European Studies, which typically
offers four fellowships per year for the study of a Eurasian language.
M.A. students are also encouraged to take advantage of our teaching
apprenticeships, which provide them training in course research,
instruction, and grading.

APPLICATION INFORMATION AND DEADLINES FOR FALL 2010:

NOVEMBER 8, 2009 - Deadline for submission of electronic application
and supporting documents to pay the reduced application fee of $65.
Any application submitted after November 8 must be accompanied by the
$75 fee or it will not be processed.

JANUARY 30, 2010  -  Priority deadline for submission of Master's
applications for admission and award for the fall semester. 

For more information about our programs, admissions, application
requirements, please click on

http://gradschool.duke.edu/admissions/index.php

or contact:

Professor Beth Holmgren, Director of Graduate Studies
Department of Slavic and Eurasian Studies
316 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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