MISSION
The American Institute for Southeast European Studies (AISEES) is dedicated to supporting and promoting academic research in the Humanities and Social Sciences in southeastern Europe conducted by southeast European and American scholars. The eleven countries served by AISEES are Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Kosovo, Moldova, Montenegro, Republic of North Macedonia, Romania, Serbia, and Slovenia.
VISION
AISEES enhances the research projects of southeast European and American scholars through fellowships and travel grants. We provide a welcoming and inclusive forum for discussion through our program of lectures.
VALUE
In support of our Mission, AISEES:
– supports and promotes scholarship in the Humanities and Social Sciences, including anthropology, archaeology, art history, communications, economics, epigraphy, ethnography, folklore, history, languages & linguistics, music, philology, and political science from prehistory through the modern age.
– offers fellowships to American and southeast European scholars and travel grants to SE European scholars.
– provides an open and inclusive forum for the discussion of historical and contemporary subjects related to the scope of our mission.
– fosters collaboration between southeast European and American scholars.
The headquarters of AISEES is in the USA.
We do not have physical facilities overseas; however, we have established partnerships with nonprofits in Bulgaria and Romania whose administrators provide logistical and academic support to AISEES Fellows and Members working in those countries. In the future we will establish partnerships in other countries we serve.
AISEES is in close communication with academic institutions in southeastern Europe which enables scholars and students to avail themselves more fully of the possibilities for comparative and transnational study within the larger region. In addition, AISEES is in contact with nearby American Overseas Research Centers and American institutions dedicated to the humanities and social sciences, thus taking advantage of a vast scholarly network and assisting scholars to link the region’s developments to the wider world.
AISEES is governed by a Board of Trustees who are volunteers with varied experiences and interests in southeastern Europe.