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About Us

Our department explores the cultures and histories of Russia in its various historical incarnations (the tsarist empire, the Soviet Union, Russia) and Central/Eastern Europe – Bosnia, Czechia, Hungary, Poland, Romania, and Slovakia. Our courses and faculty research interests focus on a wide variety of topics: Russian language, literature, film, and translation; Polish language, literature, film, and popular culture; cognition and culture; semiotics; gender and language, literature, and film; medical humanities; death studies; imperial studies, gulag studies; Islamic studies; Jewish studies in Eastern Europe; and power and politics.

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What We Do

Undergraduate

We offer two majors – Russian Studies and Slavic & Eurasian Studies. We offer three minors – Russian Culture and Language, Polish Culture and Language, and Russian and East European Literatures in Translation.

Graduate

We offer a Master’s in Russian Culture. Duke's Center for Slavic, Eurasian, and East European Studies offers a Certificate in Slavic, Eurasian, and East European Studies.

Language Studies

We offer courses in two Slavic and Eurasian languages – Polish and Russian. We also partner with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to offer many other language courses including Czech and Hungarian.