To Chairs of U.S. Departments of Slavic/Russian programs

[Maria Carlson]

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"Jolanta M. Davis" wrote:

> Dear Professor,
>
> I would like to publish in the next, September, issue of AAASS NewsNet some
> data about recent graduates in the Russian and East European studies and
> Russian and Slavic Languages and Literatures. If possible, could you please
> send me (to newsnet at fas.harvard.edu) by Friday, July 14 a list of your
> recent graduates including:
> - name
> - degree awarded (B.A., M.A., Ph.D., or other)
> - title of thesis or dissertation
> - employment prospects or future education plans (whether the graduate
> already secured employment or not; if so, please provide the name of the
> organization and the title of position obtained; or if the graduate is
> planning further study, please note whether he/ she already got admitted
> into a graduate program and where)
> - total number of degrees in each category (B.A., M.A., Ph.D., or other)
> awarded this year by your institution (university or college)
>
> The main reason I am asking for names of graduates is that if they are
> AAASS members, I will put in an announcement about their graduation in the
> "Personages" column. However, if you think that this information is too
> confidential to send me, please provide at least the number of degrees
> awarded in each category (B.A., M.A., Ph.D., or other), the number of your
> graduates who already secured employment or were admitted into graduate
> schools, and the total number of degrees in each category awarded this year
> by the university or college (for counting the percentage of graduates who
> majored in Russian and Slavic studies).
>
> Thank you very much for your help in obtaining this information. I hope
> that AAASS members would be interested in seeing statistics on recent
> graduates and if I get good comments about this survey, I am planning to
> run similar information in each September issue of NewsNet.
>
> Sincerely,
> Jolanta Davis
> Jolanta M. Davis
> Publications Coordinator and NewsNet Editor
> American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies (AAASS)
> 8 Story Street
> Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
> tel.: (617) 495-0679
> fax: (617) 495-0680
> http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~aaass/
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University of Kansas
Russian and East European Studies Program
(US/ED Title VI NRC)

MA in Russian & East European Language and
Area Studies (a terminal degree)

1999 Graduates  (May, August, December)

10 MA Graduates
   5 were in Russian Studies
   2 in Balkan Studies
   2 in Ukrainian Studies
   1 in Polish Studies

Of these 9:
3 are active FAOs [U.S. Army Foreign Area Officers] (2 Russ., 1 Balk.)
   (assigned to the Intelligence Directorate of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, to US Embassy-Zagreb,
   and to Military Intelligence at the Pentagon)
1 works as professional staff in the KU Libraries (Ukr.)
1 is finishing law school (Russ.)
1 works for a major Russian book vendor as admin. staff (Russ.)
1 is a Fascell Fellow at U.S. Embassy-Warsaw (Pol.)
1 is a translator at Commercial Bank of San Francisco after turning down a Fascell for U.S.
Consulate-Vladivostok (Russ.)
1 is a store manager in Tucson (Balk.)
1 works for an NGO in Prague (Ukr.), having turned down a Fascell for US Embassy-Kyiv

Paper Topics:
"Academic and Scientific Libraries in Ukraine:  Acquisition of
   Traditional Materials"
"Morality and Spirituality in the Plays of L. Razumovskaia"
"Do the Armed State Agencies and Departments of the Russian Federation
   Influence Policy in the Security Council?"
"Barriers to the Establishment of Chukchi Self-Government"
"Nuclear Security in the Russian Federation:  A Challenge to
   American Foreign Policy"
"Redefining Republican Relationships:  Serbia and Montenegro"
"How "Wprost" [a counter-culture art group] Influenced the Return
   of 'Historical Symbolism' and the Romantic Gesture in
   Contemporary Polish Art"
"Burning Corpses in the Street:  Russia's Doctrinal Flaws in the
   Fight for Grozny"
"Cross-cutting Cleavages:  Explaining Ukraine's Survival"
"Economic Reform in Slovenia and Serbia"


2000 Graduates  (May, August)

7 MA Graduates
   5 in Russian Studies
   1 in Balkan Studies






   1 in Polish Studies

Of these 7:
   1 is an FAO (Russ.), assigned to On-Site Inspection Agency, Stuttgart
   1 is continuing for a PhD in History (Russ.)
   1 is working on an Master's in Public Administration (Balk./Bulg.)
   1 teaches at the Monterey Institute of International Studies (Pol.)
   1 has returned home to take over a family business which does business in Russia (Russ.)
   1 is completing a PhD in Russian History (Russ.)
   1 is looking for himself

Paper Topics:

"The March to Pristina:  Mission Accomplished?"
"The Provincialization of Russia by Moscow"
"The Prospects for Public Administration in Bulgaria on the Brink
   of the New Millennium"
"Amending the ABM Treay and Russia's Security"
"Solidarity's Last Stand:  The Conflict over the Gdansk Shipyard"
"Repression of Religion in Russia"
"'Negative Phenomena':  Soviet Press Coverage of the 1986 Alma-Ata
   Ethnic Riots"

We expect an additional 3 REES students to receive MA degrees
in December 2000; of these 2 are FAOs and will have military assignments;
one will go on for the PhD degree in History.


Our program does not focus on undergraduates, offering a co-major
in REES and a traditional discipline.  In 1999 we had 12 co-majors, and in
2000, 11.

KU awarded 1,356 MA degrees in 1999