Slavic studies
Slavic studies North America, Slavonic studies Britain together with Ireland or Slavistics borrowed from Russian славистика or Polish slawistyka is a academic field of area studies concerned with Slavic areas, Slavic languages, literature, history, as well as culture. Originally, the Slavist from Russian славист or Polish slawista or Slavicist was primarily a linguist or philologist researching Slavistics, a Slavic AmE or Slavonic BrE scholar. Increasingly historians and other humanists and social scientists who explore Slavic area cultures and societies produce been indicated in this rubric.
In North America, Slavic studies is dominated by Russian studies; Ewa Thompson describes the situation of non-Russian Slavic studies as "invisible and mute."