AAASS Committees
A wide-ranging committee structure enables AAASS members across the country to work together effectively on matters of professional interest. Upcoming vacancies on AAASS standing and prize committees are filled by the AAASS President and approved by the AAASS Board of Directors.
Appointments to the AAASS Bibliography & Documentation (B&D) Committee are made by the B&D Committee and approved by the AAASS Board at the AAASS National Convention.
AAASS Standing Committees
- AAASS/AATSEEL Committee on Language has been appointed to increase dialogue between area studies specialists and language specialists about the place of language study in the academic preparation of future area studies specialists.
- Committee on Education solicits and edits contributions for the column Teaching Slavic Studies in the AAASS NewsNet.
- Committee on the Status of Women in the Profession
- Nominating Committee selects nominees for vacancies on the AAASS Board of Directors.
- Slavic Review Committee
AAASS Bibliography and Documentation Committee
The AAASS Bibliography & Documentation (B&D) Committee, consisting of scholars and librarians in the fields of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian studies, works throughout the year on a wide range of topics and ventures that include--but are not limited to--copyright, digital projects, microfilming projects, vendor issues, collection development, and the American Bibliography of Slavic and East European Studies (ABSEES).
AAASS Prize Committees
- Honors and Awards Committee chooses the winner of the AAASS Distinguished Contributions to Slavic Studies Award.
- Wayne S. Vucinich Book Prize Committee chooses the winner of the AAASS 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 published English in the United States in the previous calendar year.
- Marshall Shulman Book Prize Committee chooses the winner of the AAASS Marshall Shulman Book Prize 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.
- Ed A. Hewett Book Prize Committee chooses the winner of the AAASS Ed A. Hewett Book Prize for an 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 Committee chooses the winner of the AAASS Barbara Jelavich Book Prize 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.
- AAASS/Orbis Books Prize for Polish Studies Committee chooses the winner of the AAASS/Orbis Books Prize for Polish Studies for the best book in any discipline, on any aspect of Polish affairs.
- W. Bruce Lincoln Book Prize Committee chooses the winner of the AAASS W. Bruce Lincoln Book Prize for an author s first published monograph or scholarly synthesis that is of exceptional merit and lasting significance for the understanding of Russia s past.
- Committee on the Student Prize chooses the winner of the AAASS Graduate Student Essay Prize for an outstanding essay by a graduate student in Slavic studies.
- Robert C. Tucker/Stephen F. Cohen Dissertation Prize Committee chooses the winner of the Tucker/Cohen Dissertation Prize for an outstanding English-language doctoral dissertation defended at an American or Canadian university in the tradition of historical political science and political history of the Soviet Union as practiced by Robert C. Tucker and Stephen F. Cohen.
- Title VIII Prize Committee chooses the winners of two distinguished policy papers - one on Southeast European Affairs and one on Eurasian Affairs in any policy relevant discipline.
