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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, established in 2008, is 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 Davis Center Book Prize carries a cash award. The 2009 award will be presented in November at the AAASS National Convention in Boston, Massachusetts.
2009 AAASS Davis Center Book Prize in Political and Social Studies Committee
The winner of the 2009 AAASS Davis Center Book Prize will be chosen by the following scholars:
- Gerald Easter, Boston College; Committee Chair, 2008-2010
(mailing address):
Gerald Easter
229 McGuinn Hall
Political Science Department
Boston College
Chestnut Hill, MA 02467 - Ted Gerber, University of Wisconsin-Madison; 2008-2010
(mailing address):
Ted Gerber
Professor of Sociology
Director, Center for Russia, East Europe, and Central Asia (CREECA)
University of Wisconsin-Madison
8128 Sewell Social Science Building
1180 Observatory Drive
Madison, WI 53706-1393 - Nancy Ries, Colgate University; 2008-2010
(mailing address):
Nancy Ries
Sociology and Anthropology Department
Colgate University
13 Oak Drive
Hamilton, NY 13346
Rules of eligibility
Rules of eligibility for the Davis Center book prize competition are as follows:
- The copyright date inside the book must list the previous year as the date of publication
- The book must be originally in the form of a monograph, preferably by a single author, or by no more than two authors
- Authors may be of any nationality as long as the work is originally published in English
- Works may deal with any area of Russia, Eurasia, or Eastern Europe
- The competition is open to works of scholarship in anthropology, political science, sociology, or geography, and also to social science works that cross strict disciplinary boundaries
- Textbooks, collections, translations, bibliographies, and reference works are ineligible
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 “Davis Center Book 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 Davis Center Book Prize Winner
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)
