Center for Eurasian, Russian and East European Studies

The Center for Eurasian, Russian and East European Studies (CERES) at Georgetown University offers one of the nation's preeminent Master's degree programs and hosts a rich outreach program of events on the area from central Europe to the Pacific and the Baltic to the Mediterranean, Black and Caspian Seas. Founded in 1959 to prepare scholars who understood the Soviet Union and could analyze its secretive system, the Center's focus has evolved in the wake of the Soviet Union's demise and today incorporates multiple scholarly disciplines for the study of this culturally rich region.