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March 2026 Issue

In the March issue, anthropologist Neringa Klumbytė brings firsthand testimonies from Ukrainians who lived under Russian occupation. Zsuzsánna Magdó offers an overview of Title VI, ruminating on present threats and future possibilities. Anna Mazurkiewicz, Iwona Flis, Eleonora Narvselius, and Magdalena Nowak discuss personal archives, family memory, and the women who quietly preserved the histories of Eastern and Central Europe. ASEEES interviews 2025 Wayne S. Vucinich Book Prize winner Benjamin Nathans about his landmark study of the Soviet dissident movement.

In addition to the 2026 Annual Convention, ASEEES announces the 2026 Book Prize Call for Nominations, the 2026 Grants & Fellowships Call for Applications, the Spring 2026 First Book Subvention recipients, the Call for Self-Nominations for the 2027 Board of Directors, the Spring 2026 Research Meetup Series—and more!

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Articles in This Issue

  • March 12, 2026

    Testimonies from the Occupied Territories of Ukraine 

    By Neringa Klumbytė

    Total occupation is never possible. Resistance takes many forms.

  • March 12, 2026

    Echoes from the Attic: Personal Narratives in Eastern and Central European History 

    By Anna Mazurkiewicz, Iwona Flis, Eleonora Narvselius, and Magdalena Nowak

    At the 2025 ASEEES Convention, three female historians discussed stories from their own family archives and artifacts. All three stories involved women who served as custodians of memory for their families: a grandmother, a mother, an aunt.

  • March 12, 2026

    Title VI Today and the Future(s) of SEEES

    By Zsuzsánna Magdó

    In 2025, universities with decades-long investment in international and area studies learned that Title VI funding and the nearly 70-year-old partnership with the federal government were unreliable. This development also raised critical questions about the mission, infrastructure, and future sustainability of area studies.

  • March 12, 2026

    An Interview with 2025 Wayne S. Vucinich Book Prize Winner Benjamin Nathans

    By NewsNet

    I didn’t want to simply reproduce the dissident narrative; what I had in mind was a monograph that probed the shifting structural possibilities of dissent in the post-Stalin era and the paths by which the movement found its way to the non-self-evident doctrine of universal human rights.

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