Russian, East European, and Eurasian History

Russian, East European, and Eurasian History at IU Bloomington

Building on our strong tradition of scholarship of the region, the Department of History at Indiana University Bloomington continues to advance the field of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian studies and to train the next generation of scholars.  

  • Andy Bruno: inaugural Stephen F. Cohen Chair of Russian History, environmental history of the Soviet Union
  • Maria Bucur: gender, citizenship, disability in twentieth-century Eastern Europe
  • Clare Griffin: medicine, global knowledge in early modern Russia
  • Ke-Chin Hsia: war and welfare in modern East Central Europe, late Habsburg Empire
  • Tatiana Saburova: space, cartography, photography in late imperial Russia

IU Bloomington is also home to the Robert F. Byrnes Russian and East European Institute, the Department of Central Eurasian Studies, and the Department of Slavic and East European Languages and Cultures.