Prof. Emeritus Howard “Howie” Aronson, who built the foundation for the University of Chicago to become a major hub for research in Balkan and Caucasian languages, passed away in Chicago on Oct. 26.

A multidisciplinary study has reconstructed the genomic history of the Balkan Peninsula during the first millennium of the common era, a time and place of profound demographic, cultural and linguistic ...

In 1940, Vladimir Nabokov moved to New York City from Paris and needed a job. He submitted his curriculum vitae to Yale along with three letters of reference, including one penned by Nobel ...

All Cyrillic-using Slavic nations are celebrating the Day of Slavic Writing on 24 May. Belarus has observed this holiday ...

May 24 is widely regarded as one of the most meaningful dates in Bulgaria’s national calendar, marking the Day of Bulgarian Education and Culture and the Slavonic Alphabet. The holiday is dedicated to ...

The major in Slavic Studies provides broadly based training about the nations of Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union, including Russia. The normal program for this major requires ten ...

The spread of the Slavs stands as one of the most formative yet least understood events in European history. Starting in the 6th century CE, Slavic groups began to appear in the written records of ...