The Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES) is a scholarly society "dedicated to advancing knowledge about Central Asia, the Caucasus, Russia, and Eastern Europe in regional and global contexts.

ASEEES has cultivated the field's intellectual landscape for over fifty years through its chief publication, Slavic Review, Annual Convention, book prizes, and organizational newsletter.

In addition to providing access to current research and scholarship through Slavic Review, ASEEES has also held an Annual Convention for decades.

In 1938, the JCSS set up a subcommittee specifically for the review of Russian studies, whose chief activity was to prompt and finalize a proposal for a national professional organization.

This subcommittee joined forces with ACLS's professional journal ASEER—American Slavic and East European Review, a scholarly magazine launched in 1941 by John Hazard of Columbia University.

They did so, in 1948, so as to have an "owner" (but was merely a “legal umbrella”) so that they would be permitted to print their journal in the State of New York—that year is still considered the association's official date of establishment.

Together, ASEER and JCSS coordinated the June 1, 1960, launch of a full-fledged national professional membership organization under the existing AAASS name.

[3] AAASS had (and continues to have) an interdisciplinary scope, and was to be a means of promoting contact and communication and of encouraging a sense of identification and association among those concerned with Russian and East European Studies.

Its main functions were to distribute an annual bibliography, to sponsor professional meetings and scholarly conferences, to provide a non-juried periodic newsletter (published to promote the flow of information among society members regarding the status of ongoing research and other matters of general academic interest), and to promote and sponsor other projects designed to help the field as a whole.

Six regional affiliates and a geographically wide-ranging committee structure enable members across the country to effectively work together on matters of professional interest.

In addition, ASEEES has organizational ties with scholarly societies within the broad field of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian studies.

It features articles, discussions, and reviews of recent literature that span all academic disciplines and geographic areas within "Eastern Europe, Russia, the Caucasus, and Central Asia, past and present".