To recognize outstanding scholarship, the Association awards annually the following prizes, presented at the Awards Presentation during the National Convention.
Distinguished Contributions to Slavic Studies Award
The Distinguished Contributions to Slavic Studies Award honors senior scholars who have helped to build and develop the field of Slavic Studies through scholarship, training, and service to the profession.
Association's Book Prizes
Please note that the deadline for nomination for all book prizes has already passed - it was May 8, 2009. The committees do not accept any more nominations this year.
- Wayne S. Vucinich Book Prize is awarded annually for the most important contribution to Russian, Eurasian, and East European studies in any discipline of the humanities or social sciences.
- University of Southern California Book Prize in Literary and Cultural Studies is awarded annually for an outstanding monograph published on Russia, Eastern Europe or Eurasia in the fields of literary and cultural studies.
- Reginald Zelnik Book Prize in History is awarded annually for an outstanding monograph published on Russia, Eastern Europe or Eurasia in the field of history.
- Davis Center Book Prize in Political and Social Studies is awarded annually for an outstanding monograph on Russia, Eurasia, or Eastern Europe in anthropology, political science, sociology, or geography.
- Marshall Shulman Book Prize is awarded annually 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 is awarded annually 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 is awarded annually 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 is awarded annually for the best book in any discipline, on any aspect of Polish affairs.
- W. Bruce Lincoln Book Prize is awarded biennially (in even numbered years) 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.
Association's Prizes for Graduate Students and Young Scholars
- Graduate Student Essay Prize is awarded annually for an outstanding essay by a graduate student in Slavic studies.
- Robert C. Tucker/Stephen F. Cohen Dissertation Prize is awarded annually (if there is a distinguished submission) for an outstanding doctoral dissertation 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 for Policy Papers for two distinguished policy papers - one on Southeast European Affairs and one on Eurasian Affairs in any policy relevant discipline (discontinued).
Contact
For all issues relating to the Association's Prizes, please contact:
Jolanta M. Davis
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phone: 617-495-0679
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