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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:9.6pt'><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Dear all:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:9.6pt'><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>The Robert C. Tucker/Stephen F. Cohen Dissertation Prize d</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>eadline has been extended to <span style='background:white'>May 15, 2013.</span></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:9.6pt'><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>The Tucker/Cohen Dissertation Prize, sponsored by the JKW Foundation, is awarded annually (if there is a distinguished submission) for an outstanding English-language doctoral dissertation in Soviet or Post-Soviet politics and history in the tradition of historical political science and political history of Russia or the Soviet Union as practiced by Robert C. Tucker and Stephen F. Cohen, defended at an American or Canadian university. The prize carries a $5,000 award intended to help the author turn the dissertation into a publishable manuscript. The dissertation must be completed and defended during the calendar year prior to the award. The prize is awarded at the ASEEES <a href="http://aseees.org/convention.html" title="ASEEES Convention"><span style='color:windowtext;background:white;text-decoration:none'>Annual Convention</span></a> in November.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Please see <a href="http://aseees.org/prizes/tuckercohenprize.html">http://aseees.org/prizes/tuckercohenprize.html</a> for more information. And please feel free both to share this widely and to contact me with questions.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Mary Arnstein</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Consolas'>Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Consolas'>203C Bellefield Hall <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Consolas'>University of Pittsburgh<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Consolas'>Pittsburgh, PA 15260-6424 <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Consolas'>USA<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Consolas'>(412) 648-9809 (direct), 648-9911 (main)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Consolas'>(412) 648-9815 (fax)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><a href="http://www.aseees.org/"><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:blue'>www.aseees.org</span></a><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Consolas'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><a href="http://www.aseees.org/support.html"><b><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#C00000'>Support ASEEES</span></b></a><b><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#C00000'><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/Association-for-Slavic-East-European-and-Eurasian-Studies/141362775903086"><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:blue'>Find us on Facebook</span></a><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Consolas'> | </span><a href="http://www.linkedin.com/groups?mostPopular=&gid=2585509"><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:blue'>Join us on LinkedIn</span></a><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Consolas'> | </span><a href="http://twitter.com/#!/aseeestudies"><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:blue'>Follow us on Twitter</span></a><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Consolas'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>