East Central European Center
The East Central European Center promotes the study of the nations and peoples located between Germany and Russia and between the Baltic 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.
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Jošt Franko: A Memory Without Evidence
Jošt Franko: A Memory Without Evidence
East Central European Center
Latest News
Past ECEC Events
EU Enlargement in the Shadow of Russia’s War in Ukraine
EU Enlargement in the Shadow of Russia’s War in Ukraine
Book Panel. Ukrainian-English Collocation Dictionary
Book Panel. Ukrainian-English Collocation Dictionary
Ecologies of Solidarity: Nika Autor’s Newsreels
Ecologies of Solidarity: Nika Autor’s Newsreels
Austro-Hungarian and Serbian War Literature
Austro-Hungarian and Serbian War Literature
The Power of Three: The Triptych in Yugoslav Cinema
The Power of Three: The Triptych in Yugoslav Cinema
ECEC Faculty
Aleksandar Bošković
Senior Lecturer in Bosnian, Croatian, and Serbian; Co-Deputy Director of the East Central European Center
Mircea Cărtărescu
Writer in Residence
Ofer Dynes
Leonard Kaye Assistant Professor of Hebrew and Comparative Literature, Dept. of Slavic Languages
Gábor Egry
Istvan Deak Visiting Professor in the Department of History
Marcel Garboś
István Deák Visiting Assistant Professor
Christopher Harwood
Senior Lecturer in Czech
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
Ferenc Laczó
István Deák Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of History
Agnieszka Legutko
Senior 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
Associate Professor of Slavic Languages
Tsveta Petrova
Lecturer in the Discipline of Political Science
Katharina Pistor
Edwin B. Parker Professor of Comparative Law; Director, Center on Global Legal Transformation; Member, Committee on Global Thought
Carol Rounds
Senior Lecturer in Hungarian, Department of Italian
David Stark
Arthur Lehman Professor of Sociology; Director of Columbia's Center on Organizational Innovation
András Vadas
Istvan Deak Visiting Associate Professor in the Department of History
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.
