Berkeley Program in Soviet and Post-Soviet Studies
The Berkeley Program in Soviet and Post-Soviet Studies (BPS) is a leading center for graduate training and research on the Soviet Union, its successor states, and Eastern Europe. Founded in 1983, BPS's mission is to train graduate students in both cross-disciplinary social science methodology and theory, as well as the history, languages, and cultures of the former Soviet Union; to carry out an innovative program of scholarly research and publication on the Soviet Union and its successor states; and to undertake an active public outreach program for the local community, other national and international academic centers, and governmental agencies.
The Program helps affiliated faculty and graduate students take advantage of the many opportunities for innovative research on the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe by awarding fellowships, language training grants, and dissertation fellowships; sponsoring new courses on understudied topics; hosting visiting scholars who offer alternative approaches to the study of the former Soviet Union; and organizing conferences, workshops, graduate student colloquia, and lectures by faculty and visiting speakers.
Affiliated faculty members include George W. Breslauer (Political Science); Victoria Bonnell (Sociology); Michael Burawoy (Sociology); John Connelly (History); M. Steven Fish (Political Science); Victoria Frede (History); Gregory Grossman (emeritus, Economics); David Hooson (emeritus, Geography); Andrew Janos (emeritus, Political Science); Olga Matich (Slavic Languages & Literatures); Michael Nacht (Public Policy); Harsha Ram (Slavic Languages & Literatures); Gerard Roland (Economics); Nicholas Riasanovsky (emeritus, History); Yuri Slezkine (History); Edward W. Walker (Political Science); Jason Wittenberg (Political Science); and Alexei Yurchak (Anthropology). Over seventy Ph.D. candidates in the social sciences and humanities are affiliated with the Berkeley Program.
Administratively part of Institute of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ISEEES), BPS is chaired by Victoria E. Bonnell, professor of sociology, and directed by Edward W. Walker, adjunct associate professor of political science.
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- Upcoming Events, included on the ISEEES page
- Case-UC Berkeley Field Project
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