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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 for the best book in any discipline, on any aspect of Polish affairs.
The AAASS/Orbis Books Prize carries a cash award. The 2009 award will be presented in November at the AAASS National Convention in Boston, Massachusetts.
2009 AAASS/Orbis Books Prize for Polish Studies Committee
The winner of the 2009 AAASS/Orbis Books Prize for Polish Studies will be chosen by the following scholars:
- Padraic Kenney, Indiana University; Committee Chair, 2008-2010
(mailing address):
Padraic Kenney
Professor
Department of History
Indiana University
Ballantine Hall 742
1020 E. Kirkwood Ave.
Bloomington IN 47405 - Clare Cavanagh, Northwestern University; 2008-2010
(mailing address):
Clare Cavanagh
Herman and Beulah Pearce Miller Research Professor in Literature
Slavic Literatures, Comparative Literary Studies, Gender Studies
Northwestern University
Evanston, IL 60208 - Barbara Hicks, New College of Florida; 2009-2011
(mailing address):
Barbara Hicks
New College of Florida
Division of Social Sciences
5800 Bay Shore Rd.
Sarasota, FL 34243
Rules of eligibility
Rules of eligibility for the AAASS/Orbis Books Prize for Polish Studies competition are as follows:
- The copyright date inside the book must list the previous calendar year as the date of publication
- 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
Nominating Instructions
Send one copy of eligible monograph to each Committee member (see addresses above) AND to the AAASS main office (address in the footnote). Nominations must be received no later than May 8, 2009.
Submissions should be clearly marked “AAASS Orbis Books Prize Nomination.” If you would like to receive an acknowledgment that your nomination was received please enclose with the copy mailed to the AAASS main office a note with your e-mail address or a self-addressed stamped envelope or a postcard.
2008 AAASS/Orbis Books Prize for Polish Studies Winner
The AAASS/Orbis Books Prize for Polish Studies was awarded to Samuel D. Kassow for Who Will Write Our History? Emanuel Ringelblum, the Warsaw Ghetto, and the Oyneg Shabes Archive, published by Indiana University Press.
Previous winners of the AAASS/Orbis Books Prize for Polish Studies
The following scholars received the AAASS/Orbis Books Prize for Polish Studies in the past:
(Please click on the winner's name to read the citation for the award; please click on the title to connect to the publisher's web page about the book)
- 2007 - co-winners:
- Marci Shore received the award for Caviar and Ashes: A Warsaw Generation's Life and Death in Marxism, 1918-1968 (Yale University Press)
- Geneviève Zubrzycki received the award for The Crosses of Auschwitz: Nationalism and Religion in Post-Communist Poland (University of Chicago Press)
- 2006 - Timothy J. Cooley received the award for Making Music in the Polish Tatras: Tourists, Ethnographers, and Mountain Musicians (Indiana University Press)
- 2005 - Elizabeth C. Dunn received the award for 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 - Kathleen M. Cioffi, Alternative Theatre in Poland (Amsterdam: Harwood Academic Publishers)
- 1996 - Richard Noyce, Contemporary Painting in Poland (Roseville East, Australia: Craftsman House, dist. in US by Gordon and Breach Publishing Group)
