[ASEEES] March NewsNet now available; call for nominations for 2011 prizes; membership renewal opportunity

[ASEEES NewsNet]

MARCH 2011 NEWSNET NOW AVAILABLE
In it, are articles by Eliot Borenstein (NYU) and Paul du Quenoy (American U of Beirut), plus an opportunity to register for the 2011 convention; a "thank you" to our 2010 donors; a calendar of important dates; a partial list of 2011 prize competitions (links to complete lists are below); and news features.
http://www.aseees.org/newsnet/2011-03.pdf

ASEEES SEEKS NOMINATIONS FOR 2011 PRIZES including
*        Deadline:   April 15, 2011

    *   Robert C. Tucker/Stephen F. Cohen Dissertation Prize<http://www.aseees.org/prizes/tuckercohenprize.html> (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.)

*         Deadline:   May 1, 2011

o   Distinguished Contributions to Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies Award<http://www.aseees.org/prizes/honorsprize.html>
*        Deadline:   May 6, 2011

    *   Wayne S. Vucinich Book Prize<http://www.aseees.org/prizes/vucinichprize.html> (contribution to Russian, Eurasian, and East European studies in any discipline of the humanities or social sciences.)
    *   USC Book Prize in Literary and Cultural Studies<http://www.aseees.org/prizes/uscprize.html> (outstanding monograph published on Russia, Eastern Europe or Eurasia in the fields of literary and cultural studies.)
    *   Reginald Zelnik Book Prize in History<http://www.aseees.org/prizes/zelnikprize.html> (outstanding monograph published on Russia, Eastern Europe or Eurasia in the field of history.)
    *   Davis Center Book Prize in Political and Social Studies<http://www.aseees.org/prizes/davisprize.html> (outstanding monograph on Russia, Eurasia, or Eastern Europe in anthropology, political science, sociology, or geography.)
    *   Marshall Shulman Book Prize<http://www.aseees.org/prizes/shulmanprize.html> (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.)
    *   Ed A. Hewett Book Prize<http://www.aseees.org/prizes/hewettprize.html> (outstanding publication on the political economy of the centrally planned economies of the former Soviet Union and East Central Europe and their transitional successors.)
    *   Barbara Jelavich Book Prize<http://www.aseees.org/prizes/jelavichprize.html> (distinguished monograph published on any aspect of Southeast European or Habsburg studies since 1600, or nineteenth- and twentieth-century Ottoman or Russian diplomatic history.)
    *   Kulczycki Book Prize in Polish Studies<http://www.aseees.org/prizes/aaassorbisprize.html> (best book in any discipline, on any aspect of Polish affairs. This prize was known as the Orbis Prize until 2011.)
*        Deadline:   June 1, 2011

    *   Graduate Student Essay Prize<http://www.aseees.org/prizes/studentprize.html> (outstanding essay by a graduate student in Slavic, East European and Eurasian studies.)
Please see http://www.aseees.org/prizes.html for more information, deadlines, nomination procedures and eligibility requirements for each award.

Additionally, please visit http://www.aseees.org/additional/prizelistings.html for information on the following prizes:
*        Academia Rossica<http://www.aseees.org/additional/prizelistings.html#ross> Third Rossica Young Translators Award
deadline: 25 March 2011
*        Association for Women in Slavic Studies<http://www.aseees.org/additional/prizelistings.html#awss>
deadline: 15 May 2011
*        Eighteenth-Century Russian Studies Association<http://www.aseees.org/additional/prizelistings.html#ecrsa> Marc Raeff Book Prize
deadline: 30 May 2011
*        Society for Romanian Studies<http://www.aseees.org/additional/prizelistings.html#socrom> First Biennial SRS Book Prize
deadline: 1 June 2011


RENEW 2011 MEMBERSHIP:
If you've not yet renewed your individual membership, you can do so by following this link:  http://www.aseees.org/membership/membershipindividual.html
Please let me know what questions you have.

Mary Arnstein

Communications Coordinator
Association for Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES)
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