ASEEES is an international nonprofit, non-political scholarly society.
The association focuses on the teaching, research and publication of information about Central Asia, the Caucasus, Russia and ?Eastern Europe, according to their website.
Kenney will takeover as vice president of ASEEES in 2015, according to the University.
His role in the more than 3,000 member group will later change in 2016 as he will become president.
Kenney will be the seventh ASEEES president to come from IU, according to the University.
He will join the ranks of David Ransel, Charles Jelavich, Robert Campbell, Robert Byrnes, Edward Brown and William Edgerton, according to the ?University.
“Professor Kenney is known throughout the United States and the region and around the globe as one of the leading scholars in the field,” said Lee Feinstein, dean of the IU School of Global and International Studies. “His scholarship is matched only by his dedication to his students and colleagues. On behalf of the School of Global and International Studies, we congratulate him for this recognition.”
Here at IU, Kenney studies Poland and Eastern and Central Europe from czarist Russian rule to present day.
Kenney specifically studies the social movements and transition into post-Soviet society, according to the University.
This aligns with the ASEEES primary goal of furthering the knowledge of Eurasian studies in a regional and global context, according to their website.
“Regional expertise is more important now than it has been in a generation as we all try to understand Russia’s effort to remake the world order,” Kenney said the release.
“Historians, political scientists, experts on literature, culture and society in Russia, Central Asia and Eastern Europe are going to be contributing to vital national and international conversations. I am honored to be chosen to lead ASEEES at this time,” he added.
Lindsay Moore
