A surge of scholarly interest across the country in Ukrainian studies is far exceeding American universities’ capabilities, but UC Berkeley is positioning itself to fill that gap.
Ever since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, Berkeley’s active community of Ukrainian students and faculty members has hosted benefit concerts, documented Russian war crimes, analyzed how Ukraine might rebuild and welcomed dissident scholars from Russia.
The Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures is raising money to endow a chancellor’s chair in Ukrainian studies that will lead to expanded course offerings, cultural programs and a growing cluster of academic scholars — and catapult Berkeley to the upper echelon of the field.
Find out how by reading the full article at Berkeley News.