Center for Slavic and East European Studies

History Founded in 1965 by Professor Leon Twarog, the Center for Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies (CSEEES) promotes the study of Central Europe, Eastern Europe, Eurasia, Russia, and Southeastern Europe. Through funding from the International and Foreign Language Education division within the federal Department of Education, CSEEES functions as a Comprehensive National Resource Center (NRC) and administers a Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship (FLAS) grant (both under Title VI of the Higher Education Act). CSEEES' overall goal is to promote the study, knowledge, and teaching of this region and its languages at The Ohio State University (OSU), in the state of Ohio, in the Midwest, and beyond. In addition to fostering East European and Eurasian area and language studies at OSU, CSEEES has an outreach program that extends throughout the state of Ohio and the Midwest. Mission At OSU, CSEEES seeds faculty positions and courses, sponsors lectures and conferences, brings visiting specialists from the region to campus, administers a Slavic, East European and Eurasian studies MA program, provides monies for library acquisitions, awards FLAS to OSU undergraduate and graduate students, and maintains a large video library. CSEEES' outreach beyond OSU includes teacher workshops, presentations at local schools, partner programs with other higher education institutions, area studies conferences, video loans, and a newsletter. East European and Eurasian area studies at OSU is facilitated by the presence of approximately 90 area specialist faculty members who teach over 250 different courses in languages and area studies. OSU regularly offers instruction in seven East European/Eurasian languages: Bosnian-Croatian-Serbian, Modern Greek, Polish, Romanian, Russian, Modern Turkish, and Uzbek. Occasional language offerings include Bulgarian, Czech, Georgian, Hungarian, Old Church Slavonic, Ukrainian, and Yiddish.