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Report: Russian studies in crisis

EXCERPT FROM THE REPORT:  The State of Russian Studies in the United States: AN ASSESSMENT BY THE ASSOCIATION FOR SLAVIC, EAST EUROPEAN, AND EURASIAN STUDIES (ASEEES)

History and Slavic studies are experiencing declines in job opportunities for graduates and shortfalls in funding for grad students. Slavic/Russian language, literature, and/or culture departments contain the most tenure-line faculty working on Russia (161) and they have granted the most PhDs (127) since 2010, an annual average of approximately 25 PhDs awarded per year. However, only one in four of Slavists who received PhDs in the 2010s have tenure line jobs, and only 62% of those who received their PhDs in the 2000s do. There are at least 69 tenure-line history faculty members who specialize on Russia and 66 PhDs granted to historians whose dissertation included at least 25% Russia content since 2010. One third of recently minted history PhDs have tenure-line jobs, but almost 80% of those who received their PhDs in the 2000s do.

Read entire article at ASEEES