“Ukraine has a special place in my heart, in my career, and in my life. A Ukrainian breast cancer project first introduced me to the field of global oncology, along with experience of seeing first-hand the challenges (and rewards) of providing cancer care and conducting cancer research in a setting of constrained resources.”

Chris Collison is a former journalist in Ukraine, where he documented social and political change during the Revolution of Dignity and the first years of the War in the Donbas. He was the recipient of a 2018-2019 Fulbright grant to study developments in civil society, civic culture, and independent media in Ukraine. He now works for

The Ellison Center condemns the Russian Federation’s invasion of Ukraine as a violation of that country’s sovereignty as well as its flagrant disregard of international laws and norms. As an institution that embodies the principles of pluralism and evidence-based academic inquiry, the Center also condemns President Vladimir Putin’s blatantly self-serving distortions of Ukraine’s past and

100 Years after Red October: Historical Legacies and New Beginnings in Culture and Politics ____ REECAS NW warmly welcomes papers on history, culture, politics, economics, sociology, religion and other topics from the centuries leading to 1917 until the present day. ____ Russia, Eastern Europe and Central Asia have undergone tremendous changes in the hundred years

UW Jackson School of International Studies M.A. student Chris Collison spent part of his summer in Ukraine. He worked on a project about coal mining as part of an internship with Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty. Before beginning his master’s degree in the Russian, East European and Central Asian Studies program (REECAS), he worked as a

By Alison Knight University of Washington Slavic Languages and Literatures M.A. student Alison Knight recently returned from studying Czech in Prague on a Foreign Language and Area Studies fellowship (FLAS). When not in class, Alison spent time exploring the magnificent architecture and rich culture of the city. In the process, she came to know a country which is