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Next Generation Emergency Research Support Fund
The Next Generation Emergency Research Support Fund addresses the urgent need for support for graduate students amidst federal and university funding cuts.
This campaign will ensure the continuation of essential research in the SEEES region and protect the future of our field.
Widespread cuts to federal and university funding have left graduate students in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies unable to conduct the immersive fieldwork that is so essential to our field. Without immediate intervention, field research in the SEEES region may soon be out of reach for many graduate students.
ASEEES is launching the Next Generation Emergency Research Support Fund to ensure the longevity of our field during this critical moment. We are stepping in to provide immediate relief to the next generation of scholars in SEEES.
Your contribution to the Next Generation Emergency Research Support Fund will make new research possible and protect the future of our field. In a moment of unprecedented challenges, ASEEES is positioned to play an essential role in offering immediate relief to graduate students.
Together, we can safeguard the next generation of scholars in SEEES.
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ASEEES is a private not-for-profit 501(c)(3) Organization. All gifts are subject to the ASEEES Gift Acceptance Policy.
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ASEEES Launches the Alfred J. Rieber Dissertation Research Grant Fund
ASEEES is pleased to launch a fund for a Dissertation Research Grant in memory of the late Alfred J. Rieber.
ASEEES is pleased to announce the Anne D. Rassweiler Dissertation Research Fellowship, generously sponsored by John Rassweiler, Janet Rassweiler, and Adele Lindenmeyr.
Ways to Give
Individual Giving Options
One-time gift:
any amount
Multi-year pledge:
give any amount in installments over 2-3 years
Named Giving Opportunities
3-year Research Fellowships
(3-year commitment):
$84,000 (one fellowship per year for three years)
Endowed Research Fellowships:
$700,000 (permanent $28,000 annual fellowship)
3-year Research Grants (3-year commitment):
$18,000 (one grant per year for three years)
Endowed Research Grants:
$150,000 (permanent $6,000 annual grant)
To establish a named grant or fellowship, please contact [email protected]
Your support will fund:
$336,000
13 fully-funded Next Generation Dissertation Research Fellowships
Maximum $28,000 each
4-5 fellowships per year for 2026, 2027, and 2028
$64,000
14 new Dissertation Research Grants
Maximum $6,000 each
3-4 additional fellowships per year for 2026, 2027, and 2028
2023 Dissertation Research Grant Recipient
Zora Piskačová
History, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
The Dissertation Research Grant allowed me to complete on-site dissertation research and consequently ensured a steady progress of my dissertation writing…By enabling me to explore the archival holdings in Prague and Warsaw, the grant was crucial for adding a national level to an otherwise local story and consequently, explor[ing] the power dynamics between the two municipalities and their respective nation-states, thus facilitating the final step in telling the so far neglected story of reconstruction and stabilization of civic life in a torn city.
2024 Dissertation Research Grant Recipient
Alexandra Artamonova
Art History, Northwestern University
The Dissertation Research Grant enabled me to conduct crucial archival research for my dissertation on Black artists’ engagement with the Eastern Bloc’s “socialist friendship” policy. Thanks to this support, I collected vital primary and secondary sources that will help reconstruct the experiences of African and African American artists in the Soviet Union and analyze broader Cold War cultural diplomacy. As a young scholar affected by regional conflict, this grant was instrumental in advancing research on the understudied history of Soviet-African cultural cooperation, a topic that continues to resonate in contemporary international relations.
Letter from the Campaign Leadership Committee Chair
Dear colleagues,
In its long history, ASEEES has played an essential role in supporting and sustaining the field. In many ways, our association today is stronger than it has ever been. Yet this is an extremely challenging time for our field and for higher education in general. Severe and sudden cuts to federal research funding and university budgets across the U.S. have cast a pall over the future for all of us. For graduate students in our field, the situation is particularly dire. The unprecedented loss of key sources of research support has left many of them unable to conduct the immersive field research that is essential to area studies. Without help, some may be unable to complete their degrees at all.
In order to ensure the continuity and viability of our field, ASEEES is stepping in to protect the future of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies by creating the Next Generation Emergency Research Support Fund. Our goal is to raise $400,000 to award 12 new fully-funded Next Generation Dissertation Research Fellowships ($28,000 each) and 11 additional Dissertation Research Grants ($6000 each) between 2026 and 2028.
I decided to launch this campaign because I was feeling helpless and outraged in the face of the onslaught against research and higher education. As president of ASEEES, I wanted our organization to take meaningful action that would make a real difference to people in our field. The Next Generation Emergency Research Support Fund does this, by offering immediate relief to graduate students who may be unable to continue their research due to funding cuts. If you are able, please consider donating generously to the Next Generation fund. Your support is an investment in the next generation of scholars in SEEES and in the future of the field itself.
With gratitude and best wishes,
Adrienne Edgar
ASEEES President
Campaign Leadership Committee
Adrienne Edgar
UC Santa Barbara
Committee Chair
Laura Engelstein
Yale University
Virginia Olmsted-McGraw
United States Naval Academy
Harley Balzer
Georgetown University
Stephen E. Hanson
College of William & Mary
Daniel T. Orlovsky
Southern Methodist University
Mark Beissinger
Princeton University
Tsuyoshi Hasegawa
UC Santa Barbara
Lewis Siegelbaum
Michigan State University
Alexandra Birch
Columbia University
Adeeb Khalid
Carleton College
Robert Weinberg
Swarthmore College
Edith Clowes
University of Virginia
Adele Lindenmeyr
Villanova University
Kimberly Zarecor
Iowa State University
ASEEES thanks our generous donors
$10,000+
- Harley D. & Marjorie Mandelstam Balzer
- in memory of loren graham and alfred j. rieber
- Edith Clowes
- Adrienne Edgar
- Laura Engelstein & Michael Geyer
- in memory of Reginald Zelnik
- Stephen Earl Hanson
- Tsuyoshi Hasegawa
- Diane P. Koenker
- Adele Lindenmeyr
- in memory of Anne D. Rassweiler
- Janet & John Rassweiler
- in memory of anne d. rassweiler
- Marsha Siefert
- in memory of alfred j. rieber
- Douglas Smith & Stephanie Ellis-Smith
- Christine Worobec
$5000 to $9,999
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$1000 to $4,999
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- in memory of alfred j. rieber
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- in memory of alfred j. rieber
- Robert Edelman
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- in memory of J. Arch Getty and alfred j. rieber
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- in honor of laura engelstein
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- Anna Lawton
- in memory of alfred j. rieber
- John P. Losee
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- In memory of alfred j. rieber
- Joan Neuberger
- Robert Orttung
- Karen Petrone and Ken Slepyan
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- Paul Werth
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Up to $1000
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- Alan Barenberg
- Seth Bernstein
- Ismael Biyashev
- E. Wayles Brown
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- Catherine Clay
- in memory of alfred j. rieber
- Peter Clement
- Heather J. Coleman
- In Honor of Diane P. Koenker
- David Cooper & Valeria Sobol
- Susan E. Costanzo
- Michael Zdenek David
- Heather D. DeHaan
- Galya Diment
- Emily Elliott
- David Engerman
- Melissa Feinberg
- Benjamin Frommer
- Ziva Galili
- Robert Geraci
- Eagle Glassheim
- Robert Goeckel
- Krista Goff
- Michael S. Gorham
- Katherine Graney
- Emily Greble
- Michael Hamm
- Tim Harte
- James Heinzen
- in memory of alfred j. rieber
- Julie Hessler
- Lynn Marie Hicks
- Steven L. Hoch
- David Hoffmann
- Hilde M. Hoogenboom
- Muriel Joffe
- in memory of alfred j. rieber
- Cynthia Kaplan
- Stephen T. Kerr
- Lisa Kirschenbaum
- Nancy Kollmann
- Konstantin V. Kustanovich
- Jacob Labenz
- Jessie Labov
- in memory of alfred j. rieber
- Anna Lawton
- Robert Legvold
- Uku Lember
- in memory of alfred j. rieber
- Zsófia Lóránd
- in memory of alfred j. rieber
- Anne L. Lounsbery
- Gary Marker
- Janet L. B. Martin
- Louise McReynolds
- Michael Melancon
- Ainsley Morse
- Anne Eakin Moss
- Kevin Moss
- Harriet Murav
- Amy Nelson
- Stephen Norris
- Virginia Olmsted-McGraw
- Thomas W. Ort
- Jeffrey A. Pennington
- Vladimir Petrovic
- in memory of alfred j. rieber
- Ellen Powell
- Donald J. Raleigh
- Thomas Remington
- Richard Gardner Robbins
- William G. Rosenberg
- in memory of alfred j. rieber
- Philip Rudolph
- in memory of alfred j. rieber
- Wendy R. Salmond
- Sergey Salushchev
- Stephanie Sandler
- Mark Schrad
- Nora Seligman Favorov
- Oxana Shevel
- Sarah Sokhey
- Juliette Stapanian-Apkarian
- Tricia Starks
- Mark Steinberg
- Melissa Stockdale
- Amanda Jean Swain
- Brian D. Taylor
- Nicholas Thorner
- in memory of alfred j. rieber
- Ludmila A. Trigos
- Nina Tumarkin
- Barbara Walker
- Adrian Wanner
- Sarah Weld
- David Wolff
- Glennys J. Young
