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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:

Rules of eligibility

Rules of eligibility for the Davis Center book prize competition are as follows:

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:

(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)