Prizes for scholars in Slavic, Eurasian, and East European studies
Please visit the AAASS Prizes page for information on the 2009 AAASS prize competitions!
The listings below announce prizes from other organizations available to scholars specializing in Slavic, Eurasian, and East European studies. Please read carefully rules for nomination and eligibility and visit the posted link to the sponsor's Web site for more information.
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Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences of America
Dissertation Award
deadline: March 20, 2010
Society for Slovene Studies
Rado Lencek Graduate Student Prize and the Joseph Velikonja Undergraduate Essay Prize
deadline: September 15, 2010
Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences of America; Dissertation Award
Dr. Harold Segel, former PIASA Board member and Professor Emeritus of Slavic Literatures and Comparative Literature at Columbia University has recently donated $1500 to underwrite PIASA's Dissertation Award. The award carries a cash award of $1000 and will be presented at PIASA's 68th Annual Meeting on June 5, 2010 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Awardee will receive travel funds up to $500 in order to accept the award in person. Doctoral dissertations on Polish topics that were accepted at an American university in the year 2009 will be eligible. Nominations with a copy of the doctoral dissertation should be submitted to:
- Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences of America
- 208 East 30th Street
- New York, N.Y. 10016
Deadline for submissions: on or before March 20, 2010.
More details will be available on PIASA's website www.piasa.org.
Society for Slovene Studies; Rado Lencek Graduate Student Prize and the Joseph Velikonja Undergraduate Essay Prize
The Society for Slovene Studies invites submissions by young scholars, residing outside Slovenia, interested in things Slovene, for its 2010 competition for the Rado Lencek Graduate Student Prize and the Joseph Velikonja Undergraduate Essay Prize. The Rado Lencek Prize in the amount of $1000 is awarded annually to the best graduate student paper on a Slovene-related topic and the Joseph Velikonja Undergraduate Essay Prize in the amount of $500 to the best undergraduate student essay on a Slovene-related topic. The deadline for the 2010 submissions is September 15, 2010. More information about the prizes with the list of previous winners is on the SSS webpage: http://www.slovenestudies.com.
