The Association for Women in Slavic Studies is dedicated to the promotion of research and teaching in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian women's, gender, and sexuality studies, and to the support of scholars who identify as women or LGBTQIA.
We welcome those of any gender identity who study women, gender, and sexuality in Slavic and Eurasian studies, as well as women working in any field pertaining to the region.
Membership rates are as follows:
Lifetime Membership // $400 (one time)
Graduate Student / Low Income // $15 Annually
Salary is LESS than 30K/year // $30 Annually
Salary is MORE than 30K/year // $40 Annually
Contributor // $55 Annually
Friend of AWSS // $100 Annually
Institutional Membership // $100 Annually
Congratulations to 2024 AWSS Prizes and Grants Announcements
Each year AWSS awards a number of prizes and grants to our members.
Please join us at the Association for Women in Slavic Studies Annual Reception and Awards Ceremony on Friday, November 22, 6:00 to 7:30pm EST, Room and Zoom TBA
Statement From the Board in Response to the Ongoing Russian War on Ukraine (August 2023)
The Association for Women in Slavic Studies (AWSS) continues to deplore and to condemn Russia’s horrific and ongoing war on Ukraine. Our institutional mission remains unchanged. AWSS is dedicated to promoting research and teaching in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian women’s, gender, and sexuality studies, and to the support of scholars who identify as women or LGBTQIA. We are committed to the study of this multinational, multi-confessional, and multiethnic region across various disciplines and support all scholars who wish to improve the general public’s understanding of women, gender, and sexuality and are committed to challenging sexist, homophobic, transphobic, racist, classist, ableist, and ageist structures that reproduce injustice.
AWSS recognizes that funds for scholarship and research in our field have for many years often been disproportionately allocated to the study of Russia and the Russian imperial project. We believe that it is necessary also to allocate funds in support of scholarship on the diverse communities (national, ethnic, or otherwise defined) that at one time or another have been part of Eastern European, Russian, or Soviet imperial space. AWSS will continue to prioritize its own funding to support those scholars who are at the greatest risk and who share our mission. Statement from February 2022: The Association for Women in Slavic Studies (AWSS) condemns the recent Russian invasion of Ukraine
Join US for Our Round table at ASEEES
Practices of Liberation in Women’s Writing circa 1900: Sat, November 23, 4:00 to 5:45pm EST
Description: In many areas of Eastern and Central Europe, including Ukraine, women emerge as a literary force towards the end of the 19th century. Was such increased visibility simply the result of greater numbers of women engaging in cultural production or did other factors affect the emergence and recognition of female writing? This panel examines how women writers emerged in specific national contexts and what pressures might have helped to shape how they were recognized in their own eras and later. What factors conditioned – perhaps enchaining or facilitating -- women’s literary liberation in Ukraine? And how does the Ukrainian case compare with the experience of other national traditions in Central and Eastern Europe? Other questions to be considered include: Were women encouraged or required to write differently than men in order to enter the literary field? How did factors such as class, ethnicity, and heteronormativity affect the reception of women writers? Were certain social or political views required of them or considered taboo? How did currents such as modernism, radicalism, nationalism (or supranationalism) intersect with the female gender to define or influence the literary status of women writers? How did understandings of gender spill over into other discourses or modes of knowledge in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, inflecting them as female and influencing their reception? And finally, do case studies from different cultural contexts illustrate shared supranational principles about the role that women writers have had to play in literary history?
We foster community through regular gatherings at annual and biennial conferences, collaboration with other affiliate organizations, frequent communication through our listserv as well as informal networking opportunities. We also connect with our members via social media. Please find us on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.
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In 2020 AWSS launched a fundraising effort to support a graduate research prize in honor of Patricia Herlihy and her incredible contributions to both the study of Ukraine as well as her support for multiple generations of scholars across disciplines engaged in study on Ukraine and its neighbors. Please consider making a donation to support the future of the field and honor the memory of a scholar who did so much to shape the field and her discipline. Select the Herlihy Prize For Graduate Research option on the drop-down menu through the Paypal link below.
AWSS awards prizes to scholars at all stages of their careers. We support the work of individuals who embody our organization's values and mission each year through the following awards.