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<p class="MsoNormal">Dear members:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:#312F30;background:white">The <a href="http://aseees.org/sites/default/files/downloads/october%202017.pdf">
<span style="color:#0B7097">October</span></a> 2017 issue of NewsNet </span></b><span style="color:#312F30;background:white">is now available and
</span><span style="color:#312F30;background:white">includes<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l6 level1 lfo1"><![if !supportLists]><span style="font-family:Symbol;color:#312F30"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="color:#312F30;background:white">"Article Written: 1917 for 2017" by Kristin Romberg (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l6 level1 lfo1"><![if !supportLists]><span style="font-family:Symbol;color:#312F30"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="color:#312F30;background:white">"The Russian Revolution from Behind Bars" by Andy Bruno (Northern Illinois University) and Mark D. Steinberg (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l6 level1 lfo1"><![if !supportLists]><span style="font-family:Symbol;color:#312F30"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="color:#312F30;background:white">"A Journey of a Thousand Years" by Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett (POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l6 level1 lfo1"><![if !supportLists]><span style="font-family:Symbol;color:#312F30"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="color:#312F30;background:white">"Revolution Every Day" by Robert Bird (University of Chicago), Christina Kiaer (Northwestern University), and William Nickell (University of Chicago)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="color:#312F30;background:white">"Events at the Art Institute during the ASEEES 2017 Convention" by Kathleen Tahk (The Art Institute of Chicago)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="color:#312F30;background:white">Three member spotlights of ASEEES doctoral dissertation research grant recipients<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="color:#312F30;background:white">2016-2017 Contributors to ASEEES<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="color:#312F30;background:white">2018 ASEEES Convention Theme<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#312F30;background:white"><a href="http://aseees.org/sites/default/files/downloads/october%202017.pdf">Click through to read the issue</a>; please know that it will also be mailed to members and subscribers.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#312F30;background:white">In addition to our usual features, we are proud to announce the 2017 ASEEES Prize Winners, who are also listed below: <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><b><span style="color:#312F30"><a href="http://www.aseees.org/programs/aseees-prizes/distinguished-contributions-award/2017-worobec"><span style="color:#0B7097">Distinguished Contributions to Slavic, East European
and Eurasian Studies Award</span></a></span></b><span style="color:#312F30"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><b><span style="color:#312F30">Christine D. Worobec</span></b><span style="color:#312F30">, Board of Trustees and Distinguished Research Professor Emerita at Northern Illinois University<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><b><span style="color:#312F30"><a href="http://www.aseees.org/programs/aseees-prizes/wayne-s-vucinich-book-prize"><span style="color:#0B7097">Wayne S. Vucinich Book Prize</span></a></span></b><span style="color:#312F30"> for
the most important contribution to Russian, Eurasian, and East European studies in any discipline of the humanities or social sciences<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><b><span style="color:#312F30">Benjamin Peters</span></b><span style="color:#312F30">, <i>How Not to Network at Nation:</i> <i>The Uneasy History of the Soviet Internet
</i>(MIT Press)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><b><span style="color:#312F30">Honorable Mention: Martha Lampland</span></b><span style="color:#312F30">, <i>The Value of Labor: The Science of Commodification in Hungary, 1920-1956 </i>(University of Chicago Press)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><b><span style="color:#312F30"><a href="http://www.aseees.org/programs/aseees-prizes/usc-book-prize-literary-and-cultural-studies"><span style="color:#0B7097">University of Southern California Book Prize in Literary
and Cultural Studies</span></a></span></b><span style="color:#312F30"> for outstanding monograph published on Russia, Eastern Europe or Eurasia in the fields of literary and cultural studies<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><b><span style="color:#312F30">Rebecca Gould</span></b><span style="color:#312F30">, <i>Writers & Rebels: The Literature of Insurgency in the Caucasus</i> (Yale University Press)<br>
<b>Honorable Mention: Christine E. Evans</b>,<i> Between Truth and Time: A History of Soviet Central Television</i> (Yale University Press)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><b><span style="color:#312F30"><a href="http://www.aseees.org/programs/aseees-prizes/reginald-zelnik-book-prize-history"><span style="color:#0B7097">Reginald Zelnik Book Prize in History</span></a></span></b><span style="color:#312F30"> for
outstanding monograph published on Russia, Eastern Europe or Eurasia in the field of history<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><b><span style="color:#312F30">Aileen M. Kelly</span></b><span style="color:#312F30">, <i>The Discovery of Chance: The Life and Thought of Alexander Herzen
</i>(Harvard University Press)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><b><span style="color:#312F30">Honorable Mention: Mark Bassin</span></b><span style="color:#312F30">, <i>The Gumilev Mystique: Biopolitics, Eurasianism, and the Construction of Community in Modern Russia</i> (Cornell University
Press)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><b><span style="color:#312F30"><a href="http://www.aseees.org/programs/aseees-prizes/davis-center-book-prize-political-and-social-studies"><span style="color:#0B7097">Davis Center Book Prize in Political and Social
Studies</span></a></span></b><span style="color:#312F30"> for outstanding monograph on Russia, Eurasia, or Eastern Europe in anthropology, political science, sociology, or geography<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><b><span style="color:#312F30">Juliet Johnson</span></b><span style="color:#312F30">, <i>Priests of Prosperity: How Central Bankers Transformed the Postcommunist World</i> (Cornell University Press)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><b><span style="color:#312F30">Honorable Mention: Rebecca Gould</span></b><span style="color:#312F30">, <i>Writers and Rebels. The Literature of Insurgency in the Caucasus</i> (Yale University Press)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><b><span style="color:#312F30"><a href="http://www.aseees.org/programs/aseees-prizes/ed-hewett-book-prize"><span style="color:#0B7097">Ed A Hewett Book Prize</span></a></span></b><span style="color:#312F30"> for
outstanding publication on the political economy of Russia, Eurasia and/or Eastern Europe<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><b><span style="color:#312F30">Sergei Antonov</span></b><span style="color:#312F30">, <i>Bankrupts and Usurers of Imperial Russia: Debt, Property, and the Law in the Age of Dostoevsky and Tolstoy</i> (Harvard University Press)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><b><span style="color:#312F30">Juliet Johnson</span></b><span style="color:#312F30">, <i>Priests of Prosperity: How Central Bankers Transformed the Postcommunist World</i> (Cornell University Press)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="color:#312F30"><a href="http://www.aseees.org/programs/aseees-prizes/barbara-jelavich-book-prize"><b><span style="color:#0B7097;text-decoration:none">Barbara Jelavich Book Prize</span></b></a> for a
distinguished monograph published on any aspect of Southeast European or Habsburg studies since 1600, or nineteenth- and twentieth-century Ottoman or Russian diplomatic history<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><b><span style="color:#312F30">Jakub S. Beneš</span></b><span style="color:#312F30">, <i>Workers and Nationalism: Czech and German Social Democracy in Habsburg Austria, 1890-1918</i> (Oxford University Press)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><b><span style="color:#312F30"><a href="http://www.aseees.org/programs/aseees-prizes/marshall-d-shulman-book-prize"><span style="color:#0B7097">Marshall Shulman Book Prize</span></a></span></b><span style="color:#312F30"> for
an 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<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><b><span style="color:#312F30">Juliet Johnson</span></b><span style="color:#312F30">, <i>Priests of Prosperity: How Central Bankers Transformed the Postcommunist World</i> (Cornell University Press)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><b><span style="color:#312F30">Honorable Mention: Agnia Grigas</span></b><span style="color:#312F30">, <i>Beyond Crimea: The New Russian Empire</i> (Yale University Press)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="color:#312F30"><a href="http://www.aseees.org/programs/aseees-prizes/kulczycki-book-prize-polish-studies"><b><span style="color:#0B7097;text-decoration:none">Kulczycki Book Prize in Polish Studies</span></b></a> for
the best book in any discipline, on any aspect of Polish affairs<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><b><span style="color:#312F30">Paul Brykczynski</span></b><span style="color:#312F30">, <i>Primed for Violence: Murder, Antisemitism, and Democratic Politics in Interwar Poland</i> (University of Wisconsin Press)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><b><span style="color:#312F30">Honorable Mention: John Kulczycki</span></b><span style="color:#312F30">, <i>Belonging to the Nation: Inclusion and Exclusion in the Polish-German Borderlands, 1939–1951</i> (Harvard University Press)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="color:#312F30"><a href="http://www.aseees.org/programs/aseees-prizes/graduate-student-essay-prize"><b><span style="color:#0B7097;text-decoration:none">ASEEES Graduate Student Essay Prize</span></b></a> for
an outstanding essay by a graduate student in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><b><span style="color:#312F30">Louis Porter</span></b><span style="color:#312F30">, “No ‘Neutral Men’: A Day in the Life of a Soviet International Civil Servant, 1956-1967,” PhD Candidate in the Department of History at the University
of North Carolina at Chapel Hill<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="color:#312F30"><a href="http://www.aseees.org/programs/aseees-prizes/tucker-cohen-dissertation-prize"><b><span style="color:#0B7097;text-decoration:none">Robert C. Tucker/Stephen F. Cohen Dissertation
Prize</span></b></a> for an outstanding English-language doctoral dissertation in Soviet or Post-Soviet politics and history in the tradition practiced by Tucker and Cohen, defended at an American or Canadian university<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><b><span style="color:#312F30">David Szakonyi</span></b><span style="color:#312F30">, “Renting Elected Office: Why Businesspeople Become Politicians in Russia,” Columbia University<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="color:#312F30">Prize winners will be recognized during the <a href="http://aseees.org/convention"><span style="color:#0B7097">ASEEES Annual Convention</span></a> award ceremony on Saturday, November 11, 6:30pm, in Chicago, IL. The event is open
to the public. Full citations will be printed in the convention program.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="color:#312F30">As we gear up for the January issue of NewsNet, please feel free to send us your news of book publications, fellowships, promotions, job changes and the like.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="color:#312F30">Mary Arnstein<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="color:#312F30">ASEEES Communications Coordinator<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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