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Slavic (American English) or Slavonic (British English) studies, also known as Slavistics, is the academic field of area studies concerned with Slavic peoples, languages, literature, history, and culture. Originally, a Slavist or Slavicist was primarily a linguist or philologist researching Slavistics. Increasingly, historians, social scientists, and other humanists who study Slavic cultures and societies have been included in this rubric.
In the United States, Slavic studies is dominated by Russian studies. Ewa Thompson, a professor of Slavic studies at Rice University, described the situation of non-Russian Slavic studies as "invisible and mute".




History


Slavistics emerged in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, simultaneously with Romantic nationalism 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 (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 circles formed around August Schleicher (1821–1868) and around August Leskien (1840–1916) at the University of Leipzig. At this time, Slavonic scholars focused on dialectology.
After World War II, centers of Slavic studies were created at various universities around the world, with much greater expansion into other humanities and social science disciplines. This development was partly due to political concerns in Western Europe and the North America arising from 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 divided into three distinct subfields:

East Slavic studies, encompassing the study of East Slavic peoples and their linguistic, literary, and other cultural and historical heritages.
Belarusian studies, or Belarusistics (Latin: Belarusistica);
Russian studies, or Russistics (Latin: Russistica);
Rusyn studies, or Rusynistics (Latin: Rusinistica);
Ukrainian studies, or Ukrainistics (Latin: Ucrainistica);
South Slavic studies, encompassing the study of South Slavic peoples and their linguistic, literary, and other cultural and historical heritages.
Bosniac studies, or Bosniacistics (Latin: Bosniacistica);
Bulgarian studies, or Bulgaristics (Latin: Bulgaristica);
Croatian studies, or Croatistics (Latin: Croatistica);
Macedonian studies, or Macedonistics (Latin: Macedonistica);
Montenegrin studies, or Montenegristics (Latin: Montenegristica);
Serbian studies, or Serbistics (Latin: Serbistica);
Slovene Studies, or Slovenistics (Latin: Slovenistica);
Yugoslav studies, or Yugoslavistics (Latin: Iugoslavistica);
West Slavic studies, encompassing the study of West Slavic peoples and their linguistic, literary, and other cultural and historical heritages.
Czech studies, or Bohemistics (Latin: Bohemistica);
Kashubian studies, or Kashubistics (Latin: Kashubistica);
Polish studies, or Polonistics (Latin: Polonistica);
Slovak studies, or Slovakistics (Latin: Slovacistica);
Sorbian studies, or Sorbistics (Latin: Sorbistica).




Slavic countries and areas of interest


By country:
Belarus: language, literature, culture, history
Bosnia and Herzegovina: language, literature, culture, history
Bulgaria: language, literature, culture, history
Croatia: language, literature, culture, history
Czech Republic: language, literature, culture, history
North Macedonia: language, literature, culture, history
Montenegro: language, literature, culture, history
Poland: languages/dialects (Polish, Kashubian, Silesian), literature (Polish, Kashubian), culture, history
Russia: language, literature, culture, history
Serbia: language, literature, culture, history (national and ethnic)
Slovakia: language, literature, culture, history
Slovenia: language, literature, culture, history
Ukraine: language, literature, culture, history
Other languages: Serbo-Croatian, Upper Sorbian, Lower Sorbian, Kashubian, Polabian, Rusyn, Old Church Slavonic




Notable people


Historical

Contemporary




Journals and book series



Archiv für slavische Philologie
Canadian Slavonic Papers, published by the Canadian Association of Slavists
The Russian Review
Sarmatian Review
Slavic and East European Journal, published by the American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages
Slavic Review, published by the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies
Studies in Slavic and General Linguistics
The Slavonic and East European Review
Scando-Slavica
Wiener Slawistischer Almanach




Conferences


American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies
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, Moscow, Russia
Jan Stanislav Institute of Slavistics, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, Slovakia
Institute of Slavic Studies, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland
Institute of Slavonic Studies, Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czechia
University
Institute of Western and Southern Slavic Studies, University of Warsaw, Poland
Institute of Slavonic Philology, Uniwersytet Śląski, Poland
Institute of Slavonic Studies, Jagiellonian University, Poland
Institute of Slavic Philology, University of Adam Mickiewicz, Poland
Institute of Slavic Studies, University of Wroclaw, Poland
Institute of Slavic Philology, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland
Institute of Slavic Studies Archived 2022-03-22 at the Wayback Machine, Lviv University, Ukraine
Department of Slavonic Philology, University of Tartu, Estonia
Department of Slavic philology Archived 2016-05-03 at the Wayback Machine, University of Belgrade, 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
Slavic Department, University of Chicago, 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)




See also


Balkan studies
Indo-European studies
Byzantine studies
List of linguists
Outline of Slavic history and culture




References






Sources


Greenberg, Robert D. (2004). Language and Identity in the Balkans: Serbo-Croatian and its Disintegration. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-151455-5.




External links



Canadian Association of Slavists (in English and French)
List of Journals in Russian, Eurasian, and East European Studies at Slavic Review Archived 2009-02-26 at the Wayback Machine
Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES)
Slavistik-Portal The Slavistics Portal (Germany)
André, Mazon (November 1946). "Slavonic studies in France". The Slavonic and East European Review. 25 (64).
Maslenikov, Oleg A. (April 1947). "Slavic studies in America, 1939–1946". The Slavonic and East European Review. 25 (65).
Association of Slavists POLYSLAV
Slavic Linguistics Society




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Slavonic and East European studies: a guide to resources (British Library) Archived 2015-11-14 at the Wayback Machine
"Russian & East European Studies Research Guides". New York, USA: Columbia University Libraries. Archived from the original on 2017-06-21. Retrieved 2013-11-18.
Slavic Studies Guide (Duke) Archived 2008-05-16 at the Wayback Machine
Slavic Studies: A Research Guide (Harvard) Archived 2017-02-22 at the Wayback Machine
Slavic and East European Resources (University of Illinois)
"Slavic and East European Studies". Resources by Subject. USA: Indiana University Bloomington Libraries. Archived from the original on 2014-06-04. Retrieved 2014-04-23.
University Library. "German, Russian and Slavonic Studies". UK: University of Leeds.
Slavic Studies Guide (NYU) Archived 2009-03-14 at the Wayback Machine
"Slavonic, Central and Eastern European Studies". Oxford LibGuides. Oxford, UK: University of Oxford, Bodleian Libraries. Archived from the original on 2015-10-04. Retrieved 2013-11-18.
"Slavic/East European/Eurasian Studies Research Guides". Princeton LibGuides. USA: Princeton University Library.
University Libraries. "German, Slavic, & East European Languages & Literatures". Research Guides. New Jersey, USA: Rutgers University.
Guides to Resources. University College London, School of Slavonic & East European Studies
Slavic & East European Collections (Yale) Archived 2006-12-09 at the Wayback Machine

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