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