Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies
OCREECAS Internships
An important mission of OCREECAS is to support summer and postgraduate service internships abroad through grants.
Each spring, OCREECAS awards up to three grants of a maximum of $5,000 each to send students to internships in the OCREECAS region* during 2026. While a few affiliate placements are available, students are strongly encouraged to create their own opportunities with recognized institutions. Internships typically last one to three months and require at least one affiliate institution in the host country. The program is open to current students and recent graduates (within the past two years), with priority for REEES majors and students who have not previously received this award. The application instructions and form are linked below.
Maia Solovieva, Senior Lecturer in Russian and OCREECAS Internship Coordinator, recommends that all students applying for an internship have prior experience in that country, either through study abroad or some other intimate means. The internships are meant to give students an opportunity to experience professional or pre-professional life in Eastern Europe and Central Asia.
Download the instructions and application form
Recent OCREECAS Internships include:
- TYPA Printing and Paper Art Centre, Tartu, Estonia
- Baltic Center, Riga, Latvia
- Riga Ghetto and Latvian Holocaust Museum, Riga, Latvia
- Pheasant's Tears Winery, Sighnaghi, Georgia
- Art Quarter Budapest, Hungary
- BPZines, Budapest, Hungary
- Threadwritten, Hungary
- Ilkhom Theatre, Tashkent, Uzbekistan
Previous OCREECAS Internships required Russian language knowledge and partnerships included the institutions listed below. Internships in Russia are not currently supported.
- The Great Baikal Trail, Irkutsk, Russia
- Friends House, Moscow, Russia
- The Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia
- The Presidential Physics and Mathematics Lyceum 239, St. Petersburg, Russia
- Delta Intercontact, Tver, Russia
- The American Home, Vladimir, Russia
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