Slavic (

American English American English, sometimes called United States English or U.S. English, is the set of variety (linguistics), varieties of the English language native to the United States. English is the Languages of the United States, most widely spoken lan ...

) or Slavonic (

British English British English (BrE, en-GB, or BE) is, according to Lexico, Oxford Dictionaries, "English language, English as used in Great Britain, as distinct from that used elsewhere". More narrowly, it can refer specifically to the English language in ...

) studies, also known as Slavistics is the academic field of area studies concerned with Slavic areas, languages, literature, history, and culture. Originally, a Slavist or Slavicist was primarily a

linguist Linguistics is the scientific study of human language. It is called a scientific study because it entails a comprehensive, systematic, objective, and precise analysis of all aspects of language, particularly its nature and structure. Linguis ...

philologist Philology () is the study of language in oral and written historical sources; it is the intersection of textual criticism, literary criticism, history, and linguistics (with especially strong ties to etymology). Philology is also defined as th ...

researching Slavistics. Increasingly, historians, social scientists, and other humanists who study Slavic area cultures and societies have been included in this rubric. In North America, Slavic studies is dominated by

Russian studies Russian studies is an interdisciplinary field crossing politics, history, culture, economics, and languages of Russia and its neighborhood, often grouped under Soviet and Communist studies. Russian studies should not be confused with the study of ...

Ewa Thompson Ewa M. Thompson (born Ewa Majewska; 1937 in Kaunas) is Polish-American Slavist at Rice University. She is the editor of The Sarmatian Review. She publishes about imperial motives in Russian literature. Post-colonialism Thompson's book ''Imperi ...

, a professor of Slavic studies at

Rice University William Marsh Rice University (Rice University) is a Private university, private research university in Houston, Houston, Texas. It is on a 300-acre campus near the Houston Museum District and adjacent to the Texas Medical Center. Rice is ranke ...

, described the situation of non-Russian Slavic studies as "invisible and mute."

History

Slavistics emerged in late 18th and early 19th century, simultaneously with Romantic nationalisim among various Slavic nations, and ideological attempts to establish a common sense of Slavic community, exemplified by the Pan-Slavist movement. Among the first scholars to use the term was

Josef Dobrovský Josef Dobrovský (17 August 1753 – 6 January 1829) was a Czech philologist and historian, one of the most important figures of the Czech National Revival along with Josef Jungmann. Life and work Dobrovský was born at Balassagyarmat, Nó ...

(1753–1829). The history of Slavic studies can be divided into three periods. Until 1876 the early Slavists concentrated on documentation and printing of monuments of Slavic languages, among them the first texts written in national languages. At this time the majority of Slavic languages received their first modern dictionaries, grammars and compendia. The second period, ending with World War I, featured the rapid development of Slavic philology and linguistics, most notably outside of Slavic countries themselves, in the circle formed around

August Schleicher August Schleicher (; 19 February 1821 – 6 December 1868) was a German linguist. His great work was ''A Compendium of the Comparative Grammar of the Indo-European Languages'' in which he attempted to reconstruct the Proto-Indo-European languag ...

(1821–1868) and around

August Leskien August Leskien (; 8 July 1840 – 20 September 1916) was a German linguist active in the field of comparative linguistics, particularly relating to the Baltic and Slavic languages. Biography Leskien was born in Kiel. He studied philology at the ...

(1840–1916) at the

University of Leipzig Leipzig University (german: Universität Leipzig), in Leipzig in Saxony, Germany, is one of the world's oldest universities and the second-oldest university (by consecutive years of existence) in Germany. The university was founded on 2 Decemb ...

. At this time, Slavonic scholars focused on

dialectology Dialectology (from Greek , ''dialektos'', "talk, dialect"; and , '' -logia'') is the scientific study of linguistic dialect, a sub-field of sociolinguistics. It studies variations in language based primarily on geographic distribution and their ass ...

. After World War II there were developed centers of Slavic studies, and much greater expansion into other humanities and social science disciplines in various universities around the world. Indeed, partly due to the political concerns in Western European and the United States about the Cold War. Slavic studies flourished in the years from World War II into the 1990s, though university enrollments in Slavic languages have declined since then.

Subfields

Following the traditional division of Slavs into three subgroups (eastern, southern, western), Slavic studies are also divided into three distinctive subfields: * East Slavic studies, encompassing the study of East Slavic peoples and their linguistic, literary and other cultural and historical heritages. **

Belarusian studies Belarusian studies ( be, Беларусазнаўства) is a field of research dedicated to Belarusian language, literature and culture. History Emergence of the field Research on the language, ethnography and history of Belarusian lands wa ...

, or Belarusistics ( la, Belarusistica); **

, or Russistics ( la, Russistica, links=no); **

Rusyn Rusyn may refer to: * Rusyns, Rusyn people, an East Slavic people ** Pannonian Rusyns, Pannonian Rusyn people, a branch of Rusyn people ** Lemkos, a branch of Rusyn (or Ukrainian) people ** Boykos, a branch of Rusyn (or Ukrainian) people * Rusyn l ...

studies, or Rusynistics ( la, Rusinistica, links=no);Kassianova (2002), p. 1001
"''Rusinistica'', or Carpatho-Rusyn studies - a social science discipline focusing on the history of an Eastern Slavic people inhabiting the northern and southern slope of the Carpathian mountains and living within the borders of several Eastern and Central European countries." **

Ukrainian studies Ukrainian studies is an interdisciplinary field of research dedicated to Ukrainian language, literature, history and culture in a broad sense. Ukrainian studies outside Ukraine A number of research institutes outside of Ukraine focus on Ukrainia ...

, or Ukrainistics ( la, Ucrainistica, links=no); * South Slavic studies, encompassing the study of South Slavic peoples and their linguistic, literary and other cultural and historical heritages. ** Bosniac studies, or Bosniacistics ( la, Bosniacistica, links=no); ** Bulgarian studies, or Bulgaristics ( la, Bulgaristica, links=no); ** Croatian studies, or Croatistics ( la, Croatistica, links=no); **

Macedonian studies Macedonian studies ( mk, Македонистика ''Makedonistika'') is a science that studies the Macedonian language. A person who studies Macedonian is called a Macedonian specialist (Macedonian: ''Македонист / Makedonist''). Prom ...

, or Macedonistics ( la, Macedonistica, links=no); ** Montenegrin studies, or Montenegristics ( la, Montenegristica, links=no); **

Serbian studies Serbian studies or Serbistics ( sr, Србистика / Srbistika) is an academic discipline within Slavic studies which is focused on the study of Serbian language, literature, history and culture. Within Slavic studies it belongs to the South ...

, or Serbistics ( la, Serbistica, links=no); ** Slovene studies, or Slovenistics ( la, Slovenistica, links=no); **

Yugoslav studies Yugoslav studies or Yugoslavistics ( sh, Jugoslavistika; sl, Jugoslovanske študije; mk, Југословенски студии; sq, Studime Jugosllave; german: Jugoslawistik; la, Iugoslavistica) is an academic discipline within Slavic studi ...

, or Yugoslavistics ( la, Iugoslavistica, links=no); * West Slavic studies, encompassing the study of West Slavic peoples and their linguistic, literary and other cultural and historical heritages. **

Czech studies Bohemistics, also known as Czech studies, is the field of humanities that researches, documents and disseminates Czech language and literature in both its historic and present-day forms. The common Czech name for the field is ''bohemistika''. A res ...

, or Bohemistics ( la, Bohemistica, links=no); **

Kashubian studies Kashubian studies, a branch of Slavic studies, is a philological discipline researching the language, literature, culture, and history of the Kashubians. The main centre for development of Kashubian studies is the Polish studies Polish studies, or Polonistics ( pl, filologia polska, or ''polonistyka'') is the field of humanities that researches, documents and disseminates the Polish language and Polish literature in both historic and present-day forms. In the United State ...

, or Polonistics ( la, Polonistica, links=no); ** Slovak studies, or Slovakistics ( la, Slovacistica, links=no); ** Sorbian studies, or Sorbistics ( la, Sorbistica, links=no).

Slavic countries and areas of interest

* By country: ** Belarus:

language Language is a structured system of communication. The structure of a language is its grammar and the free components are its vocabulary. Languages are the primary means by which humans communicate, and may be conveyed through a variety of met ...

literature Literature is any collection of written work, but it is also used more narrowly for writings specifically considered to be an art form, especially prose fiction, drama, and poetry. In recent centuries, the definition has expanded to include ...

culture Culture () is an umbrella term which encompasses the social behavior, institutions, and norms found in human societies, as well as the knowledge, beliefs, arts, laws, customs, capabilities, and habits of the individuals in these groups.Tyl ...

history History (derived ) is the systematic study and the documentation of the human activity. The time period of event before the History of writing#Inventions of writing, invention of writing systems is considered prehistory. "History" is an umbr ...

** Bosnia and Herzegovina:

** Bulgaria:

** Croatia:

** Czech Republic:

** North Macedonia:

** Montenegro:

** Poland: languages/dialects (

Polish Polish may refer to: * Anything from or related to Poland, a country in Europe * Polish language * Poles Poles,, ; singular masculine: ''Polak'', singular feminine: ''Polka'' or Polish people, are a West Slavic nation and ethnic group, w ...

, Kashubian, Silesian), literature (

, Kashubian),

** Russia:

** Serbia:

, history (

national National may refer to: Common uses * Nation or country ** Nationality – a ''national'' is a person who is subject to a nation, regardless of whether the person has full rights as a citizen Places in the United States * National, Maryland, c ...

and

ethnic An ethnic group or an ethnicity is a grouping of people who identify with each other on the basis of shared attributes that distinguish them from other groups. Those attributes can include common sets of traditions, ancestry, language, history, ...

) ** Slovakia:

** Slovenia:

** Ukraine:

** Other languages:

Serbo-Croatian Serbo-Croatian () – also called Serbo-Croat (), Serbo-Croat-Bosnian (SCB), Bosnian-Croatian-Serbian (BCS), and Bosnian-Croatian-Montenegrin-Serbian (BCMS) – is a South Slavic language and the primary language of Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia and ...

Upper Sorbian Upper Sorbian (), occasionally referred to as "Wendish", is a minority language spoken by Sorbs in Germany in the historical province of Upper Lusatia, which is today part of Saxony. It is grouped in the West Slavic language branch, together ...

Lower Sorbian Lower may refer to: *Lower (surname) *Lower Township, New Jersey *Lower Receiver (firearms) *Lower Wick Gloucestershire, England See also *Nizhny Nizhny (russian: Ни́жний; masculine), Nizhnyaya (; feminine), or Nizhneye (russian: Ни́� ...

, Kashubian, Polabian,

Old Church Slavonic Old Church Slavonic or Old Slavonic () was the first Slavic languages, Slavic literary language. Historians credit the 9th-century Byzantine Empire, Byzantine missionaries Saints Cyril and Methodius with Standard language, standardizing the lan ...

Notable people

;Historical *

Johann Christoph Jordan Johann Christoph (von) Jordan (died 1748) was a German bureaucrat and antiquary. He wrote in Latin, and his most important work was a history of the Slavic peoples, ''De Originibus Slavicis'', published in 1745. Originally from the Rhineland ...

, the author of an early scholarly work in Slavic studies *

(1753–1829) from

Bohemia Bohemia ( ; cs, Čechy ; ; hsb, Čěska; szl, Czechy) is the westernmost and largest historical region of the Czech Republic. Bohemia can also refer to a wider area consisting of the historical Lands of the Bohemian Crown ruled by the Bohem ...

Jernej Kopitar Jernej Kopitar, also known as Bartholomeus Kopitar (21 August 1780 – 11 August 1844), was a Slovene linguist and philologist working in Vienna. He also worked as the Imperial censor for Slovene literature in Vienna. He is perhaps best known ...

(1780–1840) from Slovenia *

Alexander Vostokov Alexander Khristoforovich Vostokov (born Alexander Woldemar Osteneck; russian: link=no, Алекса́ндр Христофо́рович Восто́ков; – ) was one of the first Russian philologists. Background He was born into a Baltic ...

(1781–1864) from Russia * Vuk Stefanović Karadžić (1787–1864) from Serbia *

Pavel Jozef Šafárik Pavel Jozef Šafárik ( sk, Pavol Jozef Šafárik; 13 May 1795 – 26 June 1861) was an ethnic Slovak philologist, poet, literary historian, historian and ethnographer in the Kingdom of Hungary. He was one of the first scientific Slavists. Family ...

(1795–1861) from Slovakia *

Mykhaylo Maksymovych Mykhailo Oleksandrovych Maksymovych ( uk, Михайло Олександрович Максимович; 3 September 1804 – 10 November 1873) was a famous professor in plant biology, Ukrainian historian and writer in the Russian Empire of a Co ...

(1804–1873) from Ukraine *

Izmail Sreznevsky Izmail Ivanovich Sreznevsky (russian: Измаил Иванович Срезневский; 13 June 1812, Yaroslavl – 21 February 1880, St. Petersburg) was a Russian philologist, Slavist, historian, paleographer, folklorist and writer. Life His ...

(1812–1880) from Russia *

Franz Miklosich Franz Miklosich (german: Franz Ritter von Miklosich, also known in Slovene as ; 20 November 1813 – 7 March 1891) was a Slovene philologist. Early life Miklosich was born in the small village of Radomerščak near the Lower Styrian town of Lju ...

(1813–1891) from Slovenia *

Fyodor Buslaev Fedor Ivanovich Buslaev (russian: Фёдор Ива́нович Бусла́ев; April 25, 1818 – August 12, 1898) was a Russian Empire philologist, art historian, and folklorist who represented the Mythological school of comparative literat ...

(1818–1898) from Russia *

(1821–1868) from Germany *

Đuro Daničić Đuro Daničić ( sr-Cyrl, Ђуро Даничић, ; 4 April 1825 – 17 November 1882), born Đorđe Popović ( sr-cyr, Ђорђе Поповић) and also known as Đura Daničić ( sr-Cyrl, Ђура Даничић), was a Serbian philologist, ...

(1825–1882) from Serbia *

Anton Janežič Anton Janežič, also known in German as Anton Janeschitz (19 December 1828 – 18 September 1869) was a Carinthian Slovene linguist, philologist, author, editor, literary historian and critic. Life Janežič was born in a peasant family in ...

(1828–1869) from Slovenia * Alexander Potebnja (1835–1891) from Ukraine *

Vatroslav Jagić Vatroslav Jagić (; July 6, 1838 – August 5, 1923) was a Croatian scholar of Slavic studies in the second half of the 19th century. Life Jagić was born in Varaždin (then known by its German name of ''Warasdin''), where he attended the el ...

(1838–1923) from modern-day Croatia *

(1840–1916) from Germany *

Jan Niecisław Baudouin de Courtenay Jan Niecisław Ignacy Baudouin de Courtenay (13 March 1845 – 3 November 1929) was a Polish linguist and Slavist, best known for his theory of the phoneme and phonetic alternations. For most of his life Baudouin de Courtenay worked at Imper ...

(1845–1929) from Poland *

Filipp Fortunatov Filipp Fyodorovich Fortunatov ( rus, Фили́пп Фёдорович Фортуна́тов; – ) was a Russian philologist, Indo-Europeanist and Slavist, best known for establishing the Fortunatov–de Saussure law. Biography Fortunatov wa ...

(1848–1914) from Russia *

Aleksander Brückner Aleksander Brückner (; 29 January 1856 – 24 May 1939) was a Polish scholar of Slavic languages and literatures (Slavistics), philologist, lexicographer and historian of literature. He is among the most notable Slavicists of the late 19th ...

(1856–1939) from eastern Galicia. *

Matija Murko Matija Murko, also known as Mathias Murko (10 February 1861 – 11 February 1952), was a Slovenian scholar, known mostly for his work on oral epic traditions in Serbian, Bosnian and Croatian. Life Murko was born in the small village of Drs ...

(1861–1952) from Slovenia *

Lyubomir Miletich Lyubomir Miletich ( bg, Любомир Милетич) (14 January 1863 – 1 June 1937) was a leading Bulgarian linguist, ethnographer, dialectologist and historian, as well as the chairman of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences from 1926 to ...

(1863–1937) from

Bulgaria Bulgaria (; bg, България, Bǎlgariya), officially the Republic of Bulgaria,, ) is a country in Southeast Europe. It is situated on the eastern flank of the Balkans, and is bordered by Romania to the north, Serbia and North Macedon ...

/ Macedonia * Aleksey Shakhmatov (1864–1920) from Russia * Antoine Meillet (1866–1936) from France] * Holger Pedersen (linguist), Holger Pedersen (1867–1953) from Denmark * 1869–1942) from Russia * (1872–1954) from Slovenia *

Krste Misirkov Krste Petkov Misirkov ( bg, Кръсте (Кръстьо) Петков Мисирков; mk, Крсте Петков Мисирков, ; 18 November 1874 – 26 July 1926) was a philologist, journalist, historian and ethnographer from the regio ...

(1874–1926) from Macedonia/Bulgaria/Russia *

Aleksandar Belić Aleksandar Belić (Serbian Cyrillic: Александар Белић, ; 15 August 1876 – 26 February 1960) was a Serbian linguist and academic. Biography Belić was born in Belgrade. After studying Slavic languages in Belgrade, Odessa, and M ...

(1876–1960) from Serbia * (1881–1967) from France *

Max Vasmer Max Julius Friedrich Vasmer (; russian: Максимилиан Романович Фа́смер, translit=Maksimilian Romanovič Fásmer; 28 February 1886 – 30 November 1962) was a Russo-German linguist. He studied problems of etymology in I ...

(1886–1962) from Russia *

André Vaillant André Vaillant (November 3, 1890 – April 23, 1977), was a French linguist, philologist and grammarian who also specialized in Slavic languages. He was born in Soissons. After studying at École Normale Supérieure in Paris, he became professor ...

(1890–1977) from France *

Dmytro Chyzhevsky Dmytro Ivanovych Chyzhevsky (Дмитро Іванович Чижевський, sometimes transliterated as Dmitri Tschizewsky or Dmitrij Tschizewskij) (March 3, 1894 – April 18, 1977) was Ukrainian-born scholar of Slavic literature and th ...

(1894–1977) from Ukraine *

Roman Jakobson Roman Osipovich Jakobson (russian: Рома́н О́сипович Якобсо́н; October 11, 1896Kucera, Henry. 1983. "Roman Jakobson." ''Language: Journal of the Linguistic Society of America'' 59(4): 871–883. – July 18,Zdzisław Stieber Zdzisław Stieber, (June 7, 1903 – October 12, 1980) was a Polish linguist and Slavist. He was born in Szczakowa, then part of the Austro-Hungarian province of Galicia (since 1918 Poland). His family was of assimilated German descent in Poland f ...

(1903–1980) from Poland *

Dmitry Likhachev Dmitry Sergeyevich Likhachov (russian: Дми́трий Серге́евич Лихачёв, also ''Dmitri Likhachev'' or ''Likhachyov''; – 30 September 1999) was a Russian medievalist, linguist, and a former inmate of Gulag. During his lifet ...

(1906–1999) from Russia *

George Shevelov , birth_date = , birth_place = Łomża, Łomża Governorate, Russian Empire (now Poland) , death_date = , death_place = , resting_place = , resting_place_coordinates = , home_town = , other_names ...

(1908–2002) from Ukraine *

Jaroslav Rudnyckyj Jaroslav Bohdan Antonovych Rudnyckyj ( uk, Яросла́в-Богда́н Рудни́цький, ; November 18, 1910 – October 19, 1995) was a Ukrainian Canadian linguist and lexicographer with a specialty in etymology and onomastics, folkl ...

(1910–1995) from eastern Galicia *

Stoyko Stoykov Stoyko Ivanov Stoykov ( bg, Стойко Иванов Стойков; 26 October 1912 – 9 December 1969) was a Bulgarian linguist, Slavist. Biography Graduated Slavic Philology at Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski", (1935). Specialized ...

(1912–1969) from Bulgaria * Horace G. Lunt (1918–2010) from the United States *

Karel van het Reve Karel van het Reve (19 May 1921 – 4 March 1999) was a Dutch writer, translator and literary historian, teaching and writing on Russian literature. He was born in Amsterdam and was raised as a communist. He lost his 'faith' in his twentie ...

(1921–1999) from the Netherlands *

Blaže Koneski Blaže Koneski ( mk, Блаже Конески; 19 December 1921 – 7 December 1993) was a Macedonian poet, writer, literary translator, and linguistic scholar. His major contribution was to the codification of standard Macedonian. He is the key ...

(1921–1993) from North Macedonia *

Juri Lotman Juri Lotman (russian: Ю́рий Миха́йлович Ло́тман; 28 February 1922 – 28 October 1993) was a prominent Russian-Estonian literary scholar, semiotician, and historian of Russian culture, who worked at the University of Tart ...

(1922–1993) from Soviet Union/Estonia * Henrik Birnbaum (1925–2002) from Poland/United States *

Vladislav Illich-Svitych Vladislav Markovich Illich-Svitych (russian: Владисла́в Ма́ркович И́ллич-Сви́тыч, also transliterated as Illič-Svityč; September 12, 1934 – August 22, 1966) was a Soviet linguist and accentologist. He was a fo ...

(1934–1966) from Russia * Thomas Schaub Noonan (1938–2001) from the United States *

Wolfgang Kasack Wolfgang Kasack (russian: Вольфганг Германович Казак, ''Volfgang Germanovich Kazak''; Potsdam, 20 January 1927 – Much, 10 January 2003) was a German Slavic studies scholar and translator. After his death, his academic ...

(1927–2003) from Germany * Isabel Margaret de Madariaga (1919–2014) from UK * John Simon Gabriel Simmons (1915–2005) from UK *

Pavle Ivić Pavle Ivić ( sr-cyr, Павле Ивић, ; 1 December 1924 – 19 September 1999) was a Serbian South Slavic dialectologist and phonologist. Biography Both his field work and his synthesizing studies were extensive and authoritative. A few of ...

(1924–1999) from modern-day Serbia * Edward Stankiewicz (1920–2013) from Poland/United States *

Nicholas V. Riasanovsky Nicholas Valentine Riasanovsky (December 21, 1923 – May 14, 2011) was a professor at the University of California, Berkeley and the author of numerous books on Russian history and European intellectual history. Biography Nicolai Valentinovitch R ...

(1923–2011) Russian-American * Alexander M. Schenker (1924–2019) from the United States * Zoe Hauptová (1929–2012) from the Czech Republic *

Andrey Zaliznyak Andrey Anatolyevich Zaliznyak ( rus, Андре́й Анато́льевич Зализня́к, p=zəlʲɪˈzʲnʲak; 29 April 1935 – 24 December 2017) was a Soviet and Russian linguist, an expert in historical linguistics, accentology, diale ...

(1935–2017) from Russia * Kenneth Naylor (1937–1992) from the United States *

Zbigniew Gołąb Zbigniew Gołąb (16 March 1923, in Nowy Targ – 24 March 1994, in Chicago) was a Polish-American linguist and Slavist. He was described as "one of the world's greatest experts on the Macedonian language and the leading expert on Macedonian– ...

(1923–1994) from Poland * (1928–2006) from Poland *

Tadeusz Lehr-Spławiński Tadeusz Lehr-Spławiński (September 20, 1891 – February 17, 1965) was a Polish linguist, scholar, and professor of Slavonic studies. He was twice elected rector of the Jagiellonian University in Kraków before and after the Nazi German occupat ...

(1891–1965) from Poland *

Blaže Ristovski Blaže Ristovski (March 21, 1931, Garnikovo, Kavadarci, Kingdom of Yugoslavia – November 28, 2018, Skopje, Macedonia, both in present-day North Macedonia) was a Macedonian linguist, folklorist and historian. He graduated from Faculty of Philolog ...

(1931–2018) from North Macedonia *

Radoslav Katičić Radoslav Katičić (; 3 July 1930 – 10 August 2019) was a Croatian linguist, classical philologist, Indo-Europeanist, Slavist and Indologist, one of the most prominent Croatian scholars in the humanities. Biography Radoslav Katičić was born ...

(1930–2019) from Croatia * Ivan Dorovský (1935–2021) from Czech Republic * (1939–2021) from Poland * Šárka B. Hrbková (1878–1948) Czech-American slavologist ;Contemporary *

Irwin Weil Irwin Weil (born 1928) is a Professor Emeritus in thDepartment of Slavic Languages and Literatureat Northwestern University. He is noted for his work in promoting cultural exchange and mutual understanding between the USA and the USSR/Russia, and ...

(born 1928) from the United States * Zuzanna Topolińska (born 1931) from Poland *

Vladimir Dybo Vladimir Antonovich Dybo (russian: Влади́мир Анто́нович Дыбо́; born 30 April 1931) is a Soviet and Russian linguist, Doctor Nauk in Philological Sciences (1979), Professor (1992), Academician of the Russian Academy of Sci ...

(born 1930) from Russia * Hakan Kırımlı (born 1958) from Turkey * Stefan Brezinski (born 1932) from Bulgaria * (born 1937) from Germany * Boris Uspensky (born 1937) from Russia *

Branko Mikasinovich Branko Mikasinovich (born November 6, 1938) is a Serbian American scholar of Yugoslav and Serbian literature, as well as a noted Slavist. Much of Croatian literature accessible in English are credited to him. Education and career Mikasinovich ...

(born 1938) from the United States * Mario Capaldo (born 1945) from Italy *

Frederik Kortlandt Frederik Herman Henri (Frits) Kortlandt (born 19 June 1946) is a Dutch former professor of descriptive and comparative linguistics at Leiden University in the Netherlands. He writes on Baltic and Slavic languages, the Indo-European languages in g ...

(born 1946) from Netherlands *

Gary Saul Morson Gary Saul Morson (born 1948) is an American literary critic and Slavist. He is particularly known for his scholarly work on the great Russian novelists Leo Tolstoy and Fyodor Dostoevsky, and the literary theorist Mikhail Bakhtin. Morson is Lawren ...

(born 1948) from the United States *

Victor Friedman Victor A. Friedman (born October 18, 1949) is an American linguist, Slavist. He is the Andrew W. Mellon Distinguished Service Professor in Humanities at the University of Chicago. He holds an appointment in the Department of Linguistics and an ...

(born 1949) from the United States *

Christina Kramer Christina Elizabeth Kramer is Professor of Slavic and Balkan languages and linguistics at the University of Toronto and Chair of the university's Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures which is part of the Faculty of Arts and Science. ...

(born 1950) from the United States * (born 1952) from the Czech Republic *

Alexander F. Tsvirkun Alexander is a male given name. The most prominent bearer of the name is Alexander the Great, the king of the Ancient Greek kingdom of Macedonia (ancient kingdom), Macedonia who created one of the largest empires in ancient history. Variants li ...

(born 1953) from Ukraine *

Snježana Kordić Snježana Kordić (; born 29 October 1964) is a Croatian linguist. In addition to her work in syntax, she has written on sociolinguistics. Kordić is known among non-specialists for numerous articles against the puristic and prescriptive langua ...

(born 1964) from Croatia *

Charles S. Kraszewski Charles S. Kraszewski (born 1962) is a Polish-American professor, Slavicist and translator from Polish, Czech, Slovak, Greek and Latin. Life From 2008-2011, editor-in-chief of ''The Polish Review'', the scholarly quarterly of the Polish Institute ...

(born 1962) from the United States *

Marek Jan Chodakiewicz Marek Jan Chodakiewicz (born July 15, 1962) is a Polish-American historian specializing in Central European history of the 19th and 20th centuries.Alexandra Popoff (born 1959) from Russia * Catriona Kelly (born 1959) from UK * Aage Hansen-Löve (born 1947) from Austria

Journals and book series

Archiv für slavische Philologie ''Archiv für slavische Philologie'' is the oldest Slavic philological journal, generally considered as the best in the field at the time it was published. It was founded in 1875 by Vatroslav Jagić and published by Weidmannsche Buchhandlung in B ...

The Russian Review ''The Russian Review'' is an independent peer-reviewed multi-disciplinary academic journal devoted to the history, literature, culture, fine arts, cinema, society, and politics of the Russian Federation, former Soviet Union and former Russian Empir ...

Sarmatian Review The ''Sarmatian Review'' () is an English-language peer-reviewed academic tri-quarterly journal devoted to Slavistics (the study of the histories, cultures, and societies of the Slavic nations of Central, Eastern, and Southern Europe). The '' ...

Slavic and East European Journal The ''Slavic and East European Journal'' (SEEJ) is a major peer-reviewed academic journal publishing original research and review essays in the areas of Slavic and East European languages, literatures, cultures, linguistics, methodology and peda ...

, published by the American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages *

Slavic Review The ''Slavic Review'' is a major peer-reviewed academic journal publishing scholarly studies, book and film reviews, and review essays in all disciplines concerned with Russia, Central Eurasia, and Eastern and Central Europe. The journal's titl ...

, published by the

American Association for the Advancement of Slavic 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 teach ...

Studies in Slavic and General Linguistics Studies in Slavic and General Linguistics (SSGL) () is an academic book series that was founded in 1980 by A.A. Barentsen, B.M. Groen and R. Sprenger and is published by Rodopi. SSGL is mainly devoted to the field of descriptive linguistics. Altho ...

The Slavonic and East European Review ''The Slavonic and East European Review'', the journal of the UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies (University College London), is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal covering Slavonic and East European Studies. It was estab ...

* Scando-Slavica * Wiener Slawistischer Almanach

Conferences

* American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages * Formal Approaches to Slavic Linguistics

Institutes and schools

;Academic *

Institute for Slavic Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences The Institute for Slavic Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Russian: Институт славяноведения РАН) is an integral part of the Historical and Philological Studies Department of the Russian Academy of Sciences. It ...

, Moscow, Russia * Jan Stanislav Institute of Slavistics,

Slovak Academy of Sciences The Slovak Academy of Sciences ( sk, Slovenská akadémia vied, or SAV) is the main scientific and research institution in Slovakia fostering basic and strategic basic research. It was founded in 1942, closed after World War II, and then reestab ...

, Bratislava, Slovakia * Institute of Slavic Studies,

Polish Academy of Sciences The Polish Academy of Sciences ( pl, Polska Akademia Nauk, PAN) is a Polish state-sponsored institution of higher learning. Headquartered in Warsaw, it is responsible for spearheading the development of science across the country by a society o ...

, Warsaw, Poland * Institute of Slavonic Studies,

Czech Academy of Sciences The Czech Academy of Sciences (abbr. CAS, cs, Akademie věd České republiky, abbr. AV ČR) was established in 1992 by the Czech National Council as the Czech successor of the former Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences and its tradition goes back ...

, Prague, Czechia ;University
Institute of Western and Southern Slavic Studies

University of Warsaw The University of Warsaw ( pl, Uniwersytet Warszawski, la, Universitas Varsoviensis) is a public university in Warsaw, Poland. Established in 1816, it is the largest institution of higher learning in the country offering 37 different fields of ...

, Poland * Institute of Slavonic Philology,

Uniwersytet Śląski The University of Silesia in Katowice ( pl, Uniwersytet Śląski w Katowicach, UŚ) is an autonomous state-run university in Silesia Province, Katowice, Poland. The university offers higher education and research facilities. It offers undergradu ...

, Poland
Institute of Slavonic Studies
Jagiellonian University, Poland
Institute of Slavic Philology
University of Adam Mickiewicz, Poland
Institute of Slavic Studies

University of Wroclaw A university () is an institution of higher (or tertiary) education and research which awards academic degrees in several academic disciplines. Universities typically offer both undergraduate and postgraduate programs. In the United States, th ...

, Poland
Institute of Slavic Philology
Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland
Institute of Slavic Studies

Lviv University The University of Lviv ( uk, Львівський університет, Lvivskyi universytet; pl, Uniwersytet Lwowski; german: Universität Lemberg, briefly known as the ''Theresianum'' in the early 19th century), presently the Ivan Franko Na ...

, Ukraine
Department of Slavonic Philology

University of Tartu The University of Tartu (UT; et, Tartu Ülikool; la, Universitas Tartuensis) is a university in the city of Tartu in Estonia. It is the national university of Estonia. It is the only classical university in the country, and also its biggest ...

Estonia Estonia, formally the Republic of Estonia, is a country by the Baltic Sea in Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by the Gulf of Finland across from Finland, to the west by the sea across from Sweden, to the south by Latvia, a ...

Department of Slavic philology

University of Belgrade The University of Belgrade ( sr, / ) is a public university in Serbia. It is the oldest and largest modern university in Serbia. Founded in 1808 as the Belgrade Higher School in revolutionary Serbia, by 1838 it merged with the Kragujevac-b ...

, Serbia
Department of Slavistics
University of Novi Sad, Serbia
Department of Russian and Slavonic Studies
Trinity College Dublin, Ireland * UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London, United Kingdom
Department of Russian and Slavonic Studies
University of Nottingham, United Kingdom
Department of Slavic Languages & Literatures
Chengchi University, Taiwan
Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures
Yale University, United States
Institute of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies
University of California at Berkeley, United States
Department of Slavic Languages & Literatures
Harvard University, United States
Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures
Stanford University, United States
Slavic Department
Barnard College, United States
Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures
University of Princeton, United States
Department of Slavic Studies
Brown University, United States
Department of Slavic Languages
Columbia University, United States
Department of German, Nordic, and Slavic+
University of Wisconsin–Madison, United States
Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures
Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences, United States
Department of Slavic Languages & Literatures
University of Washington, United States
Department of Slavic Languages & Literatures
University of Virginia, United States
Department of Slavic Languages & Literatures
University of Pittsburgh, United States
Department of Russian and Slavic Studies
University of Arizona, United States
Department of Slavic and Eurasian Studies
University of Texas at Austin, United States
Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, United States
Department of Slavic and Eurasian Studies
Duke University, United States
Department of Slavic Languages
Georgetown University, United States
Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures
, University of Southern California, United States
Department of Slavic Languages & Literatures
University of Toronto, Canada
Department of Germanic and Slavic Studies
University of Victoria, Canada
Department of Germanic and Slavic Studies
University of Waterloo, Canada
Department of Slavic Studies
Le département d’études slaves), Universite Paris 8, France
Institute for Slavistics
University of Vienna, Austria
Institute for Slavistics
University of Graz, Austria * Department of Slavic Studies, University of Salzburg, Austria
Department of Slavonic and Finno-Ugrian Studies
University of Delhi, India
Department of Slavic Studies
Comenius University, Slovakia
Department of Russian Language and Literature & Slavic Studies
University of Athens, Greece
Department of Slavistics
University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures
University of Maribor, Slovenia
Department of Slavonic Studies
University of Olomouc, Czechia
Department of Slavonic Studies
Masaryk University, Czechia
Department of Slavonic Studies
University of Ostrava, Czechia
Department of Slavic Studies
Plovdiv University "Paisii Hilendarski", Bulgaria
Department of Slavic Studies
Sofia University, Bulgaria
Institute of Slavic Studies
Heidelberg University, Germany
Institute of Slavic Studies
Justus-Liebig Universität Gießen, Germany
Institute of Slavic Studies
University of Kiel, Germany * Institute of Slavic Studies, University of Mainz, Germany
Institute of Slavic Studies
University of Regensburg, Germany
Institute of Slavic Studies
Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Germany
Institute of Slavic Studies
University of Hamburg, Germany
Institute of Slavic Studies
Greifswald University, Germany
Institute of Slavic Studies
Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg, Germany
Institute of Slavistics
Technische Universität Dresden, Germany * Institute of Slavistics, University of Potsdam, Germany * Institute for Slavic Studies, Humboldt University, Germany * Institute of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Ludwig-Maximilians University Munich, Germany * Institute of Slavic Studies, University of Oldenburg, Germany
Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures
Ankara, Turkey * Institute of Slavic Studies, Tbilisi State University, Georgia
Department of Russian and Slavic Philology
Departamentul de Filologie Rusă şi Slavă), Romania
Department of Russian and Slavic Studies
Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel * Institute of Slavic Studies, University of Pécs, Hungary * Institute of Slavonic and Baltic Philology, Eötvös Loránd University, Hungary
Institute of Slavic Philology
University of Szeged, Hungary
Resource Center for Medieval Slavic Studies
Ohio State University, United States *Núcleo de Estudos em Eslavística, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Núcleo de Estudos Eslavos
Universidade Estadual do Centro-Oeste, Brazil ;Others * Old Church Slavonic Institute, Zagreb, Croatia
Ghent Centre for Slavic and East European Studies
Ghent, Belgium

Organisations

* American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages (AATSEEL) * Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES) * American Council of Teachers of Russian (ACTR)

References

Sources

External links

Canadian Association of Slavists

* [https://www.aseees.org Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies] (ASEEES)
Slavistik-Portal
The Slavistics Portal (Germany) * *
Association of Slavists POLYSLAV

Slavic Linguistics Society

Library guides

* * [http://www.lib.duke.edu/ias/slavic/ Slavic Studies Guide (Duke)]
Slavic Studies: A Research Guide (Harvard)

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Slavic Studies Guide (NYU)
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University College London, School of Slavonic & East European Studies

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