The North American Society for Serbian Studies () is a non-profit scholarly

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based in

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, founded in 1978, aimed at promoting research and forward Serbian studies and increasing public awareness and understanding of Serbia and its culture and people, including the

Serbian diaspora Serbian diaspora refers to Serbian emigrant communities in the diaspora. The existence of a numerous diaspora of Serbian nationals is mainly a consequence of either economic or political (coercion or expulsion) reasons. There were different wa ...

. It is a member of the

Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies The Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES) is a scholarly society dedicated to the advancement of knowledge about the former Soviet Union (including Eurasia) and Eastern and Central Europe. The ASEEES supports teachi ...

(ASEEES). It publishes the peer-reviewed journal ''Serbian Studies''.

History

Slovenian scholar

Rado Lenček Rado Ludovik Lenček (3 October 1921 – 27 January 2005) was a Slovene linguist, cultural historian and ethnologist, who lived and worked in the United States. Xenia Slavica : papers presented to Gojko Ružičić on the occasion of his seventy-fif ...

(1921–2005), a member of the

Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts The Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts ( la, Academia Scientiarum et Artium Serbica, sr-Cyr, Српска академија наука и уметности, САНУ, Srpska akademija nauka i umetnosti, SANU) is a national academy and the ...

(SANU) and the founder of the Society for Slovene Studies, suggested to his Serbian colleagues to establish the NASSS, whose member he became.

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