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The organization traces its official founding to 1948, when the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, Inc. was incorporated as a legal entity to allow the American Slavic and East European Review to print in the State of New York. The full national membership organization launched on the 1st of June, 1960.
The membership voted in 2008 to rename the organization, effective 2010, to reflect its expanded scope beyond Slavic and Russian studies. The change aligned with a broader trend in which many university centers were renaming themselves Centers for Eurasian Studies to better represent their geographic coverage.
ASEEES is headquartered at the University of Pittsburgh in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The organization moved there from Harvard in Cambridge, Massachusetts, at the time of its 2010 name change.
Slavic Review is the flagship peer-reviewed quarterly journal of ASEEES, covering all academic disciplines across Eastern Europe, Russia, the Caucasus, and Central Asia. Its editorial offices are at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, and it is available through JSTOR.
The first convention of the organization was held in New York City in April 1964, under the chairmanship of Professor Holland Hunter of Haverford College. Conventions were initially held every third year before moving to an annual format.
In June 2025, Russia's Prosecutor-General designated ASEEES an "undesirable" organization, effectively outlawing it within Russian territory. The designation carries legal risk for scholars in Russia who maintain connections to the association.