AAASS/Orbis Books Prize for Polish Studies

The AAASS/Orbis Books Prize for Polish Studies, sponsored by Mr. and Mrs. Kulczycki, owners of the Orbis Books Ltd. of London, England, is awarded annually by the AAASS, for the best book in any discipline, on any aspect of Polish affairs.

Rules of eligibility for the 2006 Orbis Books prize competition:

• The book must have been published in 2005;
• Only works originally published in English, outside of Poland, are eligible;
• The book must be a monograph, preferably by a single author, or by no more than two authors;
• The competition is open to works in any discipline, dealing with any aspect of Polish affairs;
• Textbooks, translations, bibliographies, and reference works are ineligible.
• Preference will be given to works by younger scholars.

To submit a publication for the 2006 AAASS/Orbis Books book prize competition, please send one copy of eligible monograph to the AAASS main office and to each Committee member:

AAASS
Book Prizes
8 Story Street, 3rd floor
Cambridge, MA 02138

Professor Bozena Shallcross (Committee Chair)
(University of Chicago)
Mailing address: 5225 S. Dorchester Ave., # 2
Chicago, IL 60615

Professor Krzysztof Jasiewicz
Washington and Lee University
Department of Sociology and Anthropology
5 Newcomb Hall
2004 West Washington Street
Lexington, VA 24450-2116

Professor Brian Porter
University of Michigan
Department of History
1029 Tisch Hall
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1003

Nominations must be received by May 19, 2006. Submissions should be clearly marked “AAASS/Orbis Books Prize Nomination.” If you wish to receive an acknowledgment that your nomination was delivered, please enclose a self-addressed stamped envelope or a postcard with the copy you send to the AAASS.

The AAASS/Orbis Books Prize carries a cash award. The 2006 award will be announced in November at the AAASS National Convention in Washington, DC. Prize-winning books are publicized nationally and internationally by the AAASS.

Past winners of the AAASS/Orbis Books Prize

• 2005 - Elizabeth C. Dunn, Privatizing Poland: Baby Food, Big Business and the Remaking of Labor (Cornell University Press)
• 2004 - Jonathan Huener, Auschwitz, Poland, and the Politics of Commemoration, 1945–1979 (Ohio University Press)
• 2003 - Ezra Mendelsohn, Painting a People: Maurycy Gottlieb and Jewish Art (Brandeis University Press and University Press of New England); Jolanta T. Pekacz, Music in the Culture of Polish Galicia, 1772–1914 (University of Rochester Press)
• 2002 - Roman Koropeckyj, The Poetics of Revitalization: Adam Mickiewicz between Forefathers’ Eve, Part 3, and Pan Tadeusz (Columbia University Press); Keely Stauter-Halsted, The Nation in the Village: The Genesis of Peasant National Identity in Austrian Poland, 1848–1914 (Cornell University Press)
• 2001 - Karin Friedrich, The Other Prussia: Royal Prussia, Poland and Liberty, 1569–1772 (Cambridge University Press); Johannes Remy, Higher Education and National Identity: Polish Student Activism in Russia 1832–1862 (Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura, Finland)
• 2000 - Grzegorz Ekiert and Jan Kubik, Rebellious Civil Society: Popular Protest and Democratic Consolidation in Poland, 1989–1993 (University of Michigan Press)
• 1999 - Daniel H. Cole, Instituting Environmental Protection: From Red to Green in Poland (St. Martin’s Press)
• 1998 - Padraic Kenney, Rebuilding Poland: Workers and Communists, 1945–1950 (Cornell University Press)
• 1997 - Richard Noyce, Contemporary Painting in Poland (Roseville East, Australia: Craftsman House, dist. in US by Gordon and Breach Publishing Group)
• 1996 - Kathleen M. Cioffi, Alternative Theatre in Poland (Amsterdam: Harwood Academic Publishers)