CREECA

About CREECA

The Center for Russia, East Europe, and Central Asia (CREECA) is a U. S. Department of Education Title VI National Resource Center. It was established in 1993 to unite the efforts of two longstanding University programs--Russian and East European Studies, and Central Asian Studies. CREECA consists of over 100 members who are nationally and internationally recognized experts in their fields.

CREECA's mission is threefold:

To foster new knowledge and understanding of Russia, East Europe, and Central Asia
To train a new generation by providing the knowledge, tools, and experience necessary for understanding these societies and for playing productive roles in their reconstruction
To serve as a community resource through outreach activities designed for Wisconsin's citizens, businesses and other parties interested in these regions of the world

Today CREECA offers PhD certificates, Masters of Arts degrees, and undergraduate certificates to dozens of students on the UW campus. Furthermore, through Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) fellowships, CREECA supports graduate students in departments from Anthropology to Slavic as well as professional students in law, medicine, and engineering.

As a center focusing on Russia, East Europe and Central Asia, we encourage study of the following countries:

Albania	Lithuania
Armenia	Republic of Macedonia
Azerbaijan	Moldova
Belarus	Mongolia
Bosnia-Herzegovina	Poland
Bulgaria	Romania
Croatia	Russia
Czech Republic	Serbia and Montenegro
Estonia	Slovakia
Georgia	Slovenia
Hungary	Tajikistan
Kazakhstan	Turkmenistan
Kyrgyz Republic	Ukraine
Latvia	Uzbekistan

The CREECA region encompasses 28 countries which contain over 400 million people, more than an eighth of the world's land surface, and nearly three and half trillion dollars of economic production. For more information about these countries, you can look at this page.