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<p align="left">Dear ASEEES<a></a> members:</p>
<p align="left"><font face="minion pro">We are thrilled to announce with winners of the 2011 ASEEES<a></a> Prizes:</font></p>
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<p align="left">Distinguished Contributions to Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies Award</b></i></font></font><font lang="JA" size="3" face="MinionPro-Regular"><font lang="JA" size="3" face="MinionPro-Regular">:
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<p align="left"><b><font size="3" face="MinionPro-Bold"><font size="3" face="MinionPro-Bold"> Norman Naimark<a></a></b></font></font><font lang="JA" size="3" face="MinionPro-Regular"><font lang="JA" size="3" face="MinionPro-Regular">, Stanford University</p>
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<p align="left">Wayne S. Vucinich<a></a> Book Prize </b></i></font></font><font lang="JA" size="3" face="MinionPro-Regular"><font lang="JA" size="3" face="MinionPro-Regular">for the most important contribution to Russian, Eurasian, and East European studies
in any discipline of the humanities or social sciences.</p>
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<p align="left"> Matthew Jesse Jackson, </b></font></font><i><font size="3" face="MinionPro-It"><font size="3" face="MinionPro-It">The Experimental Group: Ilya<a></a> Kabakov<a></a>, Moscow Conceptualism, Soviet Avant<a></a>-Gardes<a></a>
</i></font></font><font lang="JA" size="3" face="MinionPro-Regular"><font lang="JA" size="3" face="MinionPro-Regular">(University of Chicago Press).</p>
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<p align="left"><font face="minion pro"> </font>Short listed titles: </b></font></font><font lang="JA" size="3" face="MinionPro-Regular"><font lang="JA" size="3" face="MinionPro-Regular">Paulina Bren,
</font></font><i><font size="3" face="MinionPro-It"><font size="3" face="MinionPro-It">The Greengrocer and His TV: The Culture of Communism after the 1968 Prague Spring;
</i></font></font><font lang="JA" size="3" face="MinionPro-Regular"><font lang="JA" size="3" face="MinionPro-Regular">Gabriella Safran<a></a>,
</font></font><i><font size="3" face="MinionPro-It"><font size="3" face="MinionPro-It">Wandering Soul: The Dybbuk’s<a></a> Creator, S. An-sky;
</i></font></font><font lang="JA" size="3" face="MinionPro-Regular"><font lang="JA" size="3" face="MinionPro-Regular">Timothy Snyder,
</font></font><i><font size="3" face="MinionPro-It"><font size="3" face="MinionPro-It"><i><font size="3" face="MinionPro-It"><font size="3" face="MinionPro-It">Bloodlands</font></font></i><a></a>: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin
</i></font></font><font lang="JA" size="3" face="MinionPro-Regular"><font lang="JA" size="3" face="MinionPro-Regular">Christina Vatulescu<a></a>,
</font></font><i><font size="3" face="MinionPro-It"><font size="3" face="MinionPro-It">Police Aesthetics: Literature, Film and the Secret Police in Soviet Times</p>
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<p align="left">University of Southern California Book Prize in Literary and Cultural Studies
</b></i></font></font><font lang="JA" size="3" face="MinionPro-Regular"><font lang="JA" size="3" face="MinionPro-Regular">for outstanding monograph published on Russia, Eastern Europe or Eurasia in the fields of literary and cultural studies.</p>
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<p align="left"> James Loeffler<a></a></b></font></font><font lang="JA" size="3" face="MinionPro-Regular"><font lang="JA" size="3" face="MinionPro-Regular">,
</font></font><i><font size="3" face="MinionPro-It"><font size="3" face="MinionPro-It">The Most Musical Nation: Jews and Culture in the Late Russian Empire
</i></font></font><font lang="JA" size="3" face="MinionPro-Regular"><font lang="JA" size="3" face="MinionPro-Regular">(Yale University Press).</p>
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<p align="left">Reginald Zelnik<a></a> Book Prize in History </b></i></font></font><font lang="JA" size="3" face="MinionPro-Regular"><font lang="JA" size="3" face="MinionPro-Regular">for outstanding monograph published on Russia, Eastern Europe or Eurasia in
the field of history.</p>
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<p align="left"> Matthew E. Lenoe<a></a></b></font></font><font lang="JA" size="3" face="MinionPro-Regular"><font lang="JA" size="3" face="MinionPro-Regular">,
</font></font><i><font size="3" face="MinionPro-It"><font size="3" face="MinionPro-It">The Kirov Murder and Soviet History
</i></font></font><font lang="JA" size="3" face="MinionPro-Regular"><font lang="JA" size="3" face="MinionPro-Regular">(Yale University Press).</p>
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<p align="left"><font face="minion pro"> </font>Honorable mention: </font></font><b><font size="3" face="MinionPro-Bold"><font size="3" face="MinionPro-Bold">Rochelle Goldberg Ruthchild<a></a></b></font></font><font lang="JA" size="3" face="MinionPro-Regular"><font lang="JA" size="3" face="MinionPro-Regular">,
</font></font><i><font size="3" face="MinionPro-It"><font size="3" face="MinionPro-It">Equality and Revolution: Women’s Rights in the Russian Empire, 1905-1917
</i></font></font><font lang="JA" size="3" face="MinionPro-Regular"><font lang="JA" size="3" face="MinionPro-Regular">(University of Pittsburgh Press).</p>
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<p align="left">Davis Center Book Prize in Political and Social Studies </b></i></font></font><font lang="JA" size="3" face="MinionPro-Regular"><font lang="JA" size="3" face="MinionPro-Regular">for outstanding monograph on Russia, Eurasia, or Eastern Europe
in anthropology, political science, sociology, or geography.</p>
</font></font><b><font size="3" face="MinionPro-Bold"><font size="3" face="MinionPro-Bold">
<p align="left"> Kristen Ghodsee<a></a>, </b></font></font><i><font size="3" face="MinionPro-It"><font size="3" face="MinionPro-It">Muslim Lives in Eastern Europe
</i></font></font><font lang="JA" size="3" face="MinionPro-Regular"><font lang="JA" size="3" face="MinionPro-Regular">(Princeton University Press).</p>
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<p align="left"><font face="minion pro"> </font>Honorable Mention: </font></font><b><font size="3" face="MinionPro-Bold"><font size="3" face="MinionPro-Bold">Sarah Phillips</b></font></font><font lang="JA" size="3" face="MinionPro-Regular"><font lang="JA" size="3" face="MinionPro-Regular">,
</font></font><i><font size="3" face="MinionPro-It"><font size="3" face="MinionPro-It">Disability and Mobile Citizenship
</i></font></font><font lang="JA" size="3" face="MinionPro-Regular"><font lang="JA" size="3" face="MinionPro-Regular">(Indiana University Press).</p>
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<p align="left">Marshall Shulman<a></a> Book Prize </b></i></font></font><font lang="JA" size="3" face="MinionPro-Regular"><font lang="JA" size="3" face="MinionPro-Regular">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.</p>
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<p align="left"> Lara J. Nettelfield<a></a></b></font></font><font lang="JA" size="3" face="MinionPro-Regular"><font lang="JA" size="3" face="MinionPro-Regular">,
</font></font><i><font size="3" face="MinionPro-It"><font size="3" face="MinionPro-It">Courting Democracy in Bosnia and Herzegovina: The Hague Tribunal’s Impact in a Postwar State
</i></font></font><font lang="JA" size="3" face="MinionPro-Regular"><font lang="JA" size="3" face="MinionPro-Regular">(Cambridge University Press).</p>
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<p align="left">Ed A. Hewett Book Prize </b></i></font></font><font lang="JA" size="3" face="MinionPro-Regular"><font lang="JA" size="3" face="MinionPro-Regular">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.</p>
</font></font><b><font size="3" face="MinionPro-Bold"><font size="3" face="MinionPro-Bold">
<p align="left"> Timothy Frye, </b></font></font><i><font size="3" face="MinionPro-It"><font size="3" face="MinionPro-It">Building States and Markets After Communism
</i></font></font><font lang="JA" size="3" face="MinionPro-Regular"><font lang="JA" size="3" face="MinionPro-Regular">(Cambridge University Press).</p>
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<p align="left"><font face="minion pro"> </font>Honorable mention: </font></font><b><font size="3" face="MinionPro-Bold"><font size="3" face="MinionPro-Bold">Yoshiko Herrera,
</b></font></font><i><font size="3" face="MinionPro-It"><font size="3" face="MinionPro-It">Mirrors of the Economy: National Accounts and International Norms in Russia and Beyond
</i></font></font><b><font size="3" face="MinionPro-Bold"><font size="3" face="MinionPro-Bold">(</b></font></font><font lang="JA" size="3" face="MinionPro-Regular"><font lang="JA" size="3" face="MinionPro-Regular">Cornell University Press).</font></font></p>
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<p align="left">Barbara Jelavich<a></a> Book Prize </b></i></font></font><font lang="JA" size="3" face="MinionPro-Regular"><font lang="JA" size="3" face="MinionPro-Regular">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.</p>
</font></font><b><font size="3" face="MinionPro-Bold"><font size="3" face="MinionPro-Bold">
<p align="left"> Sean McMeekin<a></a></b></font></font><font lang="JA" size="3" face="MinionPro-Regular"><font lang="JA" size="3" face="MinionPro-Regular">,
</font></font><i><font size="3" face="MinionPro-It"><font size="3" face="MinionPro-It">The Berlin-Baghdad Express: The Ottoman Empire and Germany’s Bid for World Power
</i></font></font><font lang="JA" size="3" face="MinionPro-Regular"><font lang="JA" size="3" face="MinionPro-Regular">(Belknap Press/Harvard University Press).</p>
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<p align="left"><a></a>Kulczycki Book Prize for Polish Studies </b></i></font></font><font lang="JA" size="3" face="MinionPro-Regular"><font lang="JA" size="3" face="MinionPro-Regular">for best book in any discipline, on any aspect of Polish affairs.</p>
</font></font><b><font size="3" face="MinionPro-Bold"><font size="3" face="MinionPro-Bold">
<p align="left"> Antony Polonsky<a></a>, </b></font></font><i><font size="3" face="MinionPro-It"><font size="3" face="MinionPro-It">The Jews in Poland and Russia, vols<a></a> 1 and 2
</i></font></font><font lang="JA" size="3" face="MinionPro-Regular"><font lang="JA" size="3" face="MinionPro-Regular">(Littman Library of Jewish Civilization).</p>
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<p align="left"><font face="minion pro"> </font>Honorable mention: </font></font><b><font size="3" face="MinionPro-Bold"><font size="3" face="MinionPro-Bold"><b><font size="3" face="MinionPro-Bold"><font size="3" face="MinionPro-Bold">Bo¿ena</font></font></b><a></a>
Shallcross<a></a>, </b></font></font><i><font size="3" face="MinionPro-It"><font size="3" face="MinionPro-It">The Holocaust Object in Polish and Polish-Jewish Culture
</i></font></font><font lang="JA" size="3" face="MinionPro-Regular"><font lang="JA" size="3" face="MinionPro-Regular">(Indiana University Press).</p>
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<p align="left">Graduate Student Essay Prize </b></i></font></font><font lang="JA" size="3" face="MinionPro-Regular"><font lang="JA" size="3" face="MinionPro-Regular">for outstanding essay by a graduate student in Slavic, East European and Eurasian studies.</p>
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<p align="left"> Jolanta<a></a> Mickute<a></a></b></font></font><font lang="JA" size="3" face="MinionPro-Regular"><font lang="JA" size="3" face="MinionPro-Regular">, “History Remaking the Jewish Woman: Zionist Discourse on the Jewish Woman's Body and Sexuality
in Interwar Poland” Indiana University, Bloomington.</p>
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<p align="left">Robert C. Tucker/Stephen F. Cohen Dissertation Prize </b></i></font></font><font lang="JA" size="3" face="MinionPro-Regular"><font lang="JA" size="3" face="MinionPro-Regular">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.</p>
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<p align="left"> Eleonory<a></a> Gilburd<a></a></b></font></font><font lang="JA" size="3" face="MinionPro-Regular"><font lang="JA" size="3" face="MinionPro-Regular">, “To See Paris and Die: Western Culture in the Soviet Union, 1950s<a></a> and 1960s<a></a>,”
UC<a></a>, Berkeley</p>
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<p align="left"><font face="minion pro"> </font>Ora<a></a> John Reuter</b></font></font><font lang="JA" size="3" face="MinionPro-Regular"><font lang="JA" size="3" face="MinionPro-Regular">, “The Origins of Dominant Parties,” Emory University.</p>
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<p align="left">Committee on Libraries and Information Resources Distinguished Service Award
</b></i></font></font><font lang="JA" size="3" face="MinionPro-Regular"><font lang="JA" size="3" face="MinionPro-Regular">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.</p>
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<p align="left"> Allan Urbanic<a></a> </b></font></font><font lang="JA" size="3" face="MinionPro-Regular"><font lang="JA" size="3" face="MinionPro-Regular">(ret). Head, International & Area Studies, and Librarian for Slavic & East European Collections at
UC<a></a>, Berkeley.</font></font></p>
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<p align="left"><font lang="JA" size="3" face="MinionPro-Regular"><font lang="JA" size="3" face="MinionPro-Regular">We've announced these awards to the winners and their respective publishers. This list of winners is also included in the October NewsNet<a></a>
found here: <a href="http://aseees.org/newsnet/2011-10.pdf">http://aseees.org/newsnet/2011-10.pdf</a></font></font></p>
<p align="left"><font lang="JA" size="3" face="MinionPro-Regular"><font lang="JA" size="3" face="MinionPro-Regular">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.<br>
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Mary<br>
Communications Coordinator and NewsNet<a></a> Editor</p>
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