Ukrainian Studies

Faculty at the Center for Russian, East European & Eurasian Studies at Stanford University and interested members of the Northern California community have launched an initiative to develop Ukrainian studies at Stanford. Our goals are:

For the next three to five years we would like to bring distinguished visitors to teach at Stanford, in contemporary social sciences; to fund one or more five-year fellowship package for a Ph.D. graduate student; to develop the library collection; and sponsor lecture series and conferences for the public.

At the same time we hope to begin raising an endowment for a professorship in Ukrainian Studies at Stanford.

Enhancing the study of Ukraine at Stanford brings benefits both to the academic enterprise at Stanford and to the development of Ukrainian studies nationally. Now that Ukraine has achieved independence, it is a good time to bring to a broader audience the rich legacy of Ukrainian literature, history and culture. Conditions now are good for fostering research and academic contacts between Ukraine and the U.S.. In addition, study of Ukraine brings an important comparative perspective to international studies at Stanford. Ukraine engaged in global processes of state building, creating a market economy and social change. Studying Ukraine in comparative perspective will broaden Stanford's curriculum on strategically important parts of the world.

WHY STANFORD?

Stanford has strong faculty resources capable of creating and sustaining a major graduate training program and outreach activities. There is no major center of Ukrainian studies on the West Coast, and we can fill that need.

Our library and archival resources are of national importance. Our Ukrainian collection is strong in books, current periodicals and new collaborative projects with archives in Ukraine. Stanford has a long tradition in promoting studies of the Slavic world. It was among the first American universities to develop courses and library collections on Eastern Europe, starting in the aftermath of World War I with the founding of the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace and its world-renowned archive. Since the 1960s, Stanford has aggressively developed its faculty expertise, curriculum, library and archival resources in the field of East European studies. Stanford has a strong commitment to international studies, with undergraduate majors in International Studies and in area studies. The university supports two major research centers - the Hoover Institution and Stanford Institute for International Studies - and an active area center sponsoring curricular development and public events. For these reasons - resources, faculty and infrastructure - the time is right to expand Ukrainian studies at Stanford.

We have established the Ukrainian Studies Funds and will work with Stanford academic departments and the Stanford University Libraries to distribute resources from the Fund for visiting professors, graduate fellowships and activities. Donations to the Ukrainian Studies Fund at Stanford are fully tax deductible. For large gifts, Stanford offers the opportunity of life income grants, whereby a gift to Stanford yields annual income to the donor as well as benefit to the Fund.

For further information about gift opportunities, about donating to the Ukrainian Studies Fund at Stanford or about Stanford's initiative in Ukrainian studies, please consult our website: http://ukrainianstudies.stanford.edu/

Nancy S. Kollmann
William H. Bonsall Professor of History
kollmann@stanford.edu
(650) 723-9475

UKRAINIAN STUDIES AT STANFORD UNIVERSITY