Julie Cassidy of Williams College to Lead the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies

Julie Cassidy, a professor of Russian at Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts, has been named president-elect of the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies. She will serve as vice president of the association in 2017 and then become president in 2018.

The Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies is a nonprofit, nonpolitical organization that was founded in 1948. It is “dedicated to the advancement of knowledge about Central Asia, the Caucasus, Russia, and Eastern Europe in regional and global contexts.” The association, based at the University of Pittsburgh, publishes the Slavic Review.  The group has 3,000 members.

Professor Cassidy is a graduate of Grinnell College in Iowa, where she majored in Russian. She holds a master’s degree in Russian and a Ph.D. in Slavic languages from Stanford University.