East Central European Center
The East Central European Center trains students in the knowledge of those nations and peoples located between Germany and Russia and between the Balkan and Aegean seas. Established in 1954 with a grant from the Carnegie Corporation, it was the first academic unit in any major U.S. academic institution to deal exclusively with East Central Europe.
Coming Up
Film Screening & Discussion. RAMPART
Film Screening & Discussion. RAMPART
East Central European Center
Latest NewsPast ECEC Events
An Evening with Filmmaker Želimir Žilnik
An Evening with Filmmaker Želimir Žilnik
Viktor Orbán and the Illiberal Turn Beyond Hungary
Viktor Orbán and the Illiberal Turn Beyond Hungary
Translations of Havel’s The Memo/randum
Translations of Havel’s The Memo/randum
ECEC Faculty

Aleksandar Bošković
Lecturer in Bosnian, Croatian, and Serbian; Co-Deputy Director of the East Central European Center

István Deák (1926-2023)
Seth Low Professor of History, Emeritus

Ofer Dynes
Leonard Kaye Assistant Professor of Hebrew and Comparative Literature, Dept. of Slavic Languages

Christopher Harwood
Senior Lecturer in Czech; Co-Deputy Director of the East Central European Center

Annette Insdorf
Professor, Film

Valentina Izmirlieva
Director, Harriman Institute; Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures

Rebecca Kobrin
Russell and Bettina Knapp Associate Professor of American Jewish History; Co-Director, Institute for Israel and Jewish Studies

Wojciech Kopczuk
Professor of Economics and International and Public Affairs

Ferenc Laczó
István Deák Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of History

Agnieszka Legutko
Lecturer in Yiddish, Director of the Yiddish Language Program

Mark Mazower
Ira D. Wallach Professor of World Order Studies and Director of Columbia's Institute for Ideas and Imagination

Malgorzata Mazurek
Associate Professor of Polish Studies, Department of History

Jessica Merrill
Assistant Professor of Slavic Languages

Ronald Meyer
Communications Mgr.; Adj. Associate Professor of Slavic Languages

Tsveta Petrova
Lecturer in the Discipline of Political Science

Tomasz Piskorski
Edward S. Gordon Professor of Real Estate in the Finance Division at Columbia Business School

Katharina Pistor
Edwin B. Parker Professor of Comparative Law; Director, Center on Global Legal Transformation; Member, Committee on Global Thought

Daniel W. Pratt
István Deák Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Slavic Languages

Carol Rounds
Senior Lecturer in Hungarian, Department of Italian

Klaus Segbers
Adjunct Professor of International and Public Affairs
Contact the East Central European Center
Send an email or call 212-854-4623. You can also reach out to one of ECEC’s current co-deputy directors, Aleksandar Boskovic or Christopher Caes.