The Slavonic Studies Section of the University of Cambridge promotes international excellence in research over a wide array of topics in the study of language, literature, thought, history and culture from the Middle Ages to the present day. Our scholarly remit extends from Wrocław and Kharkiv to St Petersburg and Vladivostok. Our primary specialisms are Pre-Modern East Slavic culture; Polish, Russian and Ukrainian Literatures of the 19th and 20th centuries; Film and Visual Culture; Slavonic Linguistics; Nationalism Studies; Memory Studies; and Russian Sensory History.

Below is an outline of the research architecture of the Slavonic Studies Section. Our very active series of events, most of which are free and open to the public, can be found here. Individual research profiles of the Slavonic Studies staff are listed here.

• Academic Centres
  • Cambridge Ukrainian Studies

• Academic Initiatives
  • Cambridge Polish Studies

• Research Projects
  • Cambridge Russian Sensory History Network
  • Information Technologies in Russia, 1450-1850
  • Memory at War: Cultural Dynamics in Poland, Russia and Ukraine
  • Samizdat

• Research Groups
  • Disinformation and Media Literacy Special Interest Group (DML SIG)
  • Slavonic Studies Graduate Research Forum (Archive)
  • Places of Amnesia

• Research Networks
  • Cambridge Committee for Russian and East European Studies
  • Slavonic and East European Medieval Studies Group 

• Research Students
  • List of Current PhD students