study abroad
Undergraduate Study Abroad Programs
Penn Sponsored Programs
Penn-in-Prague
ACTR/ACCELS Programs in Russia & former Soviet Republics (offered through Penn Abroad). Offers programs throughout Eastern Europe (non-EU), Russia and Central Asia.
Additional Recommended Programs
The Kosciuszko Foundation sponsoring semester and summer programs in Poland
The University of Arizona in Tucson with summer, semester, and academic year programs in Moscow and St. Petersburg.
The Council on International Educational Exchange with summer, semester, and academic year programs in Russia, Poland and the Czech Republic.
The School of Russian and Asian Studies with summer, semester, and academic year programs throughout Russia and the Central Asian States.
The Higher School of Economics in Moscow with summer, semester and academic year programs in Moscow. Especially well suited for advanced speakers and students who speak Russian at home because of access to high quality university courses for Russian students.
The Bard-Smolny College in St. Petersburg with summer, semester, and academic year programs in Russia’s only liberal arts college.
For more information on Russian exchange programs in particular, see also Study Abroad information at the Penn Slavic Department.
For advice on choosing a program, contact: Maria Shardakova, Russian Language Coordinator, Slavic Dept.
For Graduate level research travel programs, see: Grant Opportunities
Turkish Armenia: See Dr. Holquist's current book project By Right of War, that investigates the conduct of
the Russian army in Turkish Armenia during WWI.
Austrian Galica: See Dr. Holquist's current book project By Right of War, that investigates the conduct of
the Russian army in Galicia during WWI.
St. Petersburg Russia, Capital of the Russian Empire: See Dr. Holquist's book Making War, Forging Revolution:
Russia 's Continuum of Crisis, 1914-1921.
Chernobyl, Ukraine: Dr. Petryna’s first book, Life Exposed: Biological Citizens after Chernobyl describes
the vexed scientific and social circumstances that followed the Chernobyl disaster.
Kazan, Russia: Formerly the seat of the Khanate of Kazan, the city was conquered in 1552 by Ivan the Terrible.
See Dr. Platt's current book project Terrible and Great: Ivan IV and Peter I, as Russian Myths.
Samara, Russia: Professor Yakubovich's study explores the role of formal institutions and
informal networks in shaping the local labor market in the late 1990s.
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