News and updates on SRAS study abroad programs: staff profiles, interviews, and reports from SRAS locations across Eurasia.
Latvia’s history, multilingual society, and position on NATO’s frontier make Riga a particularly valuable setting for examining how information, identity, and technology shape contemporary...
For a long time, the Russian language has been a personal hobby of mine. I would spend hours every week studying grammar, speaking with...
Poland’s history and geographic position make Warsaw a particularly relevant setting for examining how security threats develop, overlap, and change. Security can be studied...
Many students are ready to look beyond the familiar study abroad destinations of Western Europe. For advisors, the challenge is identifying locations with strong...
Drawing on three decades of experience, SRAS is developing a broader framework for studying the region, placing greater emphasis on applied learning, and creating...
Over two weeks in early January, SRAS students experience Orthodox Christmas, and practice their Russian in an environment that immerses them in both Russian...
We are pleased to announce the publication of the fourth scholarly volume bringing together a unique series of research papers by talented students -...
My fascination for the Caucasus region began on my first journey to Georgia as an SRAS student in 2022. The atmosphere immediately drew me...
This past July, I had the privilege of leading a group of twelve American college students through Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan on the pilot run...
Rikki Brown is a PhD Candidate in Cultural Anthropology at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She recently returned from three years of fieldwork...
Okay. Full disclosure. I have a bit of a problem. Of course, my dear husband feels that it is more than a bit of...
On the flight home from my first study abroad trip to Kyrgyzstan, I was already imagining how and when I would be able to...
No one intends to stay. I certainly didn’t when I first arrived. In truth, I didn’t even really want to come to Tbilisi in...
When I first arrived in Nukus, the capital of the Autonomous Republic of Karakalpakstan, my immediate impression was that everything was salty. I mean...
Lee Sullivan has studied with SRAS in nearly all our locations – many of them new. Back home at Stetson University in Florida, she’s...
Katarzyna Maniszewska is the long-time director of SRAS’ Security and Society in the Information Age program in Warsaw. She received her Ph.D. from the...
Heather Rice has a long history of traveling, living, and working abroad. Now the Russian language coordinator and an assistant professor of instruction of...
David Galloway, Associate Professor of Russian Area Studies at Hobart and William Smith Colleges, has run multiple faculty-led programs with SRAS. He’s also often...