Dear ASEEES members:
We are thrilled to announce with winners of the 2011 ASEEES Prizes:
Distinguished Contributions to Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies Award:
Norman Naimark, Stanford 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.
Matthew Jesse Jackson, The Experimental Group: Ilya Kabakov, Moscow Conceptualism, Soviet Avant-Gardes (University of Chicago Press).
Short listed titles: Paulina Bren, The Greengrocer and His TV: The Culture of Communism after the 1968 Prague Spring; Gabriella Safran, Wandering Soul: The Dybbuk’s Creator, S. An-sky; Timothy Snyder, Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin Christina Vatulescu, Police Aesthetics: Literature, Film and the Secret Police in Soviet Times
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.
James Loeffler, The Most Musical Nation: Jews and Culture in the Late Russian Empire (Yale University Press).
Reginald Zelnik Book Prize in History for outstanding monograph published on Russia, Eastern Europe or Eurasia in the field of history.
Matthew E. Lenoe, The Kirov Murder and Soviet History (Yale University Press).
Honorable mention: Rochelle Goldberg Ruthchild, Equality and Revolution: Women’s Rights in the Russian Empire, 1905-1917 (University of Pittsburgh 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.
Kristen Ghodsee, Muslim Lives in Eastern Europe (Princeton University Press).
Honorable Mention: Sarah Phillips, Disability and Mobile Citizenship (Indiana 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.
Lara J. Nettelfield, Courting Democracy in Bosnia and Herzegovina: The Hague Tribunal’s Impact in a Postwar State (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.
Timothy Frye, Building States and Markets After Communism (Cambridge University Press).
Honorable mention: Yoshiko Herrera, Mirrors of the Economy: National Accounts and International Norms in Russia and Beyond (Cornell 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.
Sean McMeekin, The Berlin-Baghdad Express: The Ottoman Empire and Germany’s Bid for World Power (Belknap Press/Harvard University Press).
Kulczycki Book Prize for Polish Studies for best book in any discipline, on any aspect of Polish affairs.
Antony Polonsky, The Jews in Poland and Russia, vols 1 and 2 (Littman Library of Jewish Civilization).
Honorable mention: Bożena Shallcross, The Holocaust Object in Polish and Polish-Jewish Culture (Indiana University Press).
Graduate Student Essay Prize for outstanding essay by a graduate student in Slavic, East European and Eurasian studies.
Jolanta Mickute, “History Remaking the Jewish Woman: Zionist Discourse on the Jewish Woman's Body and Sexuality in Interwar Poland” Indiana University, Bloomington.
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.
Eleonory Gilburd, “To See Paris and Die: Western Culture in the Soviet Union, 1950s and 1960s,” UC, Berkeley
Ora John Reuter, “The Origins of Dominant Parties,” Emory University.
Committee on Libraries and Information Resources Distinguished Service Award for member librarians, archivists or curators whose contributions to the field of Slavic, East European and Eurasian studies librarianship have been especially noteworthy or influential.
Allan Urbanic (ret). Head, International & Area Studies, and Librarian for Slavic & East European Collections at UC, Berkeley.
We've announced these awards to the winners and their respective publishers. This list of winners is also included in the October NewsNet found here: http://aseees.org/newsnet/2011-10.pdf
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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