Association for Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES). A nonprofit, non-political, scholarly society established in 1948, ASEEES is the leading international organization dedicated to the advancement of knowledge about Central Asia, the Caucasus, Russia, and Eastern Europe in regional and global contexts.

Czechoslovak Studies Association (CSA). A professional organization based in the United States for academics who study the history of Czechoslovakia and the contemporary Czech Republic. See also CSA’s Facebook page.

British Association for Slavonic and East European Studies (BASEES). BASEES is the UK national learned society for the study of Russia, Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. The Forum for Czech and Slovak Studies in the UK, a BASEES study group, is a network devoted to supporting and coordinating UK-based academic research related to the Czech and Slovak region.

Slovak Academy of Sciences/Slovenská akadémia vied (SAV). The primary publicly-funded research organization in Slovakia, consisting of research institutions as well as specialized and service organizations.

Institute of National Remembrance/Ústav pamäti národa (ÚPN). Founded in 2002 and opened in 2003, the Nation’s Memory Institute is a public archival and scientific-research center that collects and processes all types of resources related to Slovak’s period of non-freedom, 1939-1989.

Carpatho-Rusyn Research Center. A research and publishing house established in 1978 whose goal is to publish and distribute scholarly and popular reading materials on all aspects of the history and culture of Carpatho-Rusyns in Europe and North America.

The Botstiber Institute for Austrian-American Studies (BIAAS). BIAAS was established by the Dietrich W. Botstiber Foundation in 2008 to promote an understanding of the historic relationship between the United States and Austria, including lands of the former Hapsburg empire.

Center for Austrian Studies. Based at University of Minnesota, the Western Hemisphere’s oldest and best-known research center investigating the past, present, and future of Central Europe with a specific focus on Austria and the successor states of the Habsburg Empire.

Collegium Carolinum. An affiliated institute of the LMU Munich, Collegium Carolinum’s research agenda focuses on the history and culture of the Bohemian lands, Slovakia and Czechoslovakia in a European and especially East-Central European context. The institute sponsors research projects, organizes academic conferences, issues publications, and provides important background research services.

American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages (AATSEEL). The primary professional organization for North American academics who study and teach Central and Eastern European languages.