2008 Davis Center Book Prize in Political and Social Studies Winner
The AAASS Davis Center Book Prize in Political and Social Studies, established in 2008, and sponsored by the Kathryn W. and Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies at Harvard University, will be awarded annually for an outstanding monograph published on Russia, Eurasia, or Eastern Europe in anthropology, political science, sociology, or geography in the previous calendar year.
The 2008 AAASS Davis Center Book Prize in Political and Social Studies was presented to Philip G. Roeder for Where Nation-States Come From? Institutional Change in the Age of Nationalism, published by Princeton University Press.
The prize committee also decided to present two honorable mentions:
- Zsuzsa Gille received an honorable mention for From the Cult of Waste to the Trash Heap of History, published by Indiana University Press
- Catherine Wanner received an honorable mention for Communities of the Converted: Ukrainians and Global Evangelism, published by Cornell University Press
(Please click on the name of the winner to see the citation for the award, to connect to the publisher's web page with more information about the book, please click on the title)
Communities of the Converted: Ukrainians and Global Evangelism, by Catherine Wanner
An anthropologist, Wanner provides an expertly crafted and elegantly written study of the resurgence of evangelical Protestantism in Ukraine. Based on exemplary multi-sited ethnographic research in both the US and Ukraine, the book combines thoughtful and thorough historical contextualization with extended forays into the evangelical worlds and shows the processes through which international movements were able to establish a presence in disenfranchised communities as well as what they contributed to those communities.
