[ASEEES] The Association congratulates the winners of the 2010 ASEEES Prizes

[ASEEES] The Association congratulates the winners of the 2010 ASEEES Prizes

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Tue Oct 19 11:31:43 EDT 2010


The Association congratulates the winners of the 2010 ASEEES Prizes



Distinguished Contributions to Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies Award: Stanisław Barańczak, Harvard University.



Wayne S. Vucinich Book Prize for the most important contribution to Russian, Eurasian, and East European studies in any discipline of the humanities or social sciences.

Miriam Dobson, Khrushchev's Cold Summer: Gulag Returnees, Crime, and the Fate of Reform after Stalin (Cornell University Press, 2009).



University of Southern California Book Prize in Literary and Cultural Studies for outstanding monograph published on Russia, Eastern Europe or Eurasia in the fields of literary and cultural studies.

Claudia R. Jensen,  Musical Cultures in Seventeenth-Century Russia (Indiana University Press).



Reginald Zelnik Book Prize in History for outstanding monograph published on Russia, Eastern Europe or Eurasia in the field of history.

Robert Edelman, Spartak Moscow: A History of the People's Team in the Workers' State (Cornell University Press).



Honorable Mention:  Howard Louthan, Converting Bohemia: Force and Persuasion in the Catholic Reformation (Cambridge University Press) and Christine Ruane, The Empire's New Clothes:  A History of the Russian Fashion Industry, 1700-1917 (Yale University Press).



Davis Center Book Prize in Political and Social Studies for outstanding monograph on Russia, Eurasia, or Eastern Europe in anthropology, political science, sociology, or geography.

Olga Shevchenko, Crisis and the Everyday in Post-Socialist Moscow (Indiana University Press).



Honorable Mention:  Bruce Grant,  The Captive and the Gift: Cultural Histories of Sovereignty in Russia and the Caucasus (Cornell University Press) and Douglas Rogers, The Old Faith and the Russian Land: A Historical Ethnography of Ethics in the Urals (Cornell University Press).



Marshall Shulman Book Prize for outstanding monograph dealing with the international relations, foreign policy, or foreign-policy decision-making of any of the states of the former Soviet Union or Eastern Europe.

Lorenz M. Luthi, The Sino-Soviet Split: Cold War in the Communist World (Princeton University Press).



Mary Elise Sarotte, 1989: The Struggle to Create Post-Cold War Europe (Princeton University Press).



Honorable Mention:  Keith A. Darden, Economic Liberalism and its Rivals: The Formation of International Institutions Among the Post-Soviet States (Cambridge University Press).



Ed A. Hewett Book Prize for outstanding publication on the political economy of the centrally planned economies of the former Soviet Union and East Central Europe and their transitional successors.

 Keith A. Darden, Economic Liberalism and its Rivals: The Formation of International Institutions Among the Post-Soviet States (Cambridge University Press).



Honorable Mention:  Sean McMeekin, History's Greatest Heist: The Looting of Russia by the Bolsheviks (Yale University Press), and Grigore Pop-Eleches for From Economic Crisis to Reform: IMF Programs in Latin America and Eastern Europe (Princeton University Press).



Barbara Jelavich Book Prize for distinguished monograph published on any aspect of Southeast European or Habsburg studies since 1600, or nineteenth- and twentieth-century Ottoman or Russian diplomatic history.

Holly Case,  Between States: The Transylvanian Question and the European Idea during World War II (Stanford University Press).



ASEEES/Orbis Books Prize for Polish Studies for best book in any discipline, on any aspect of Polish affairs.

Clare Cavanagh, Lyric Poetry and Modern Politics, Russia, Poland, and the West (Yale University Press).



Neal Pease, Rome's Most Faithful Daughter:  The Catholic Church and Independent Poland

1914-1939 (Ohio University Press & Swallow Press).



W. Bruce Lincoln Book Prize for author's first published monograph or scholarly synthesis that is of exceptional merit and lasting significance for the understanding of Russia's past.

Rebecca Manley, To the Tashkent Station (Cornell University Press).



Graduate Student Essay Prize for outstanding essay by a graduate student in Slavic, East European and Eurasian studies.

Zsolt Nagy, "National Identities for Export: Hungarian, Czechoslovak, and Romanian Nationality Rooms in Pittsburgh's Cathedral of Learning," University of North Carolina.



Robert C. Tucker/Stephen F. Cohen Dissertation Prize for outstanding doctoral dissertation in the tradition of historical political science and political history of the Soviet Union as practiced by Robert C. Tucker and Stephen F. Cohen.

Oscar Sanchez-Sibony "Red Globalization. The Political Economy of Soviet Foreign Relations in the 1950s and 1960s." University of Chicago.



CLIR Distinguished Librarian Award  for outstanding leadership in the field of Slavic, East European and Eurasian librarianship and for a recipient's sustained impact in promoting and strengthening the profession.

                Miranda Remnek

                Edward Kasinec

We've announced these awards to the winners and their respective publishers.  Please feel free to share this news with university and department leaders.  Full-length versions of the citations will be printed in the convention program.

Mary
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