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Association's Distinguished Contributions to Slavic Studies Award

The Association's 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.

Winners of the 2009 Distinguished Contributions to Slavic Studies Award

The 2009 Distinguished Contributions to Slavic Studies Award was presented to Caryl Emerson , A. Watson Armour III University Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures at Princeton University, and to Leopold Haimson, Professor Emeritus in the Department of History and the Harriman Institute for Advanced Study of Eurasia at Columbia University. (Please click on the winner's name to read the full citation for the award).

2010 Honors and Awards Committee

The winner of the 2010 Distinguished Contributions to Slavic Studies Award will be chosen by members of the Honors and Awards Committee:

  • Irena Grudzinska Gross, Princeton U; 2009-2011
    iggross@princeton.edu
  • Benjamin Nathans, U of Pennsylvania; 2009-2011
  • Timothy Frye, Columbia U; 2010-2012

Past winners of the Association's Distinguished Contributions to Slavic Studies Award

The following scholars received the Association's Distinguished Contributions to Slavic Studies Award in the past:

(please click on the name of the winner to read the citation for the prize)

  • 2008 - Joseph Frank
  • 2007 - Alexander M. Schenker and Richard S. Wortman
  • 2006 - Moshe Lewin and James R. Millar
  • 2005 - Istvan Deak and Rep. David Obey (D-WI)
  • 2004 - William Zimmerman
  • 2003 - Josef Skvorecky
  • 2002 - Maurice Friedberg, Patricia Kennedy Grimsted, and Andrzej Korbonski
  • 2001 - Alexander Vucinich and Robert V. Daniels
  • 2000 - Keith Hitchins and Murray Feshbach
  • 1999 - George L. Kline and Robert C. Tucker
  • 1998 - Vladimir Toumanoff
  • 1997 - John A. Armstrong
  • 1996 - Dorothy Atkinson and John P. Hardt
  • 1995 - Ralph Talcott Fisher, Jr.
  • 1994 - Peter Sugar
  • 1993 - Nicholas V. Riasanovsky
  • 1992 - Barbara Jelavich and Charles Jelavich
  • 1991 - Vera Dunham and Gregory Grossman
  • 1990 - Albert B. Lord and Marc Raeff
  • 1989 - Jozo Tomasevich and Wayne S. Vucinich
  • 1988 - H. Gordon Skilling and Donald W. Treadgold
  • 1987 - Adam Ulam
  • 1986 - Marshall D. Shulman
  • 1985 - Cyril Black
  • 1984 - Victor Erlich
  • 1983 - Wiktor Weintraub
  • 1982 - Frederick C. Barghoorn
  • 1981 - Edward J. Brown and Czeslaw Milosz
  • 1980 - John C. Campbell
  • 1979 - Gordon B. Turner
  • 1978 - Leo Gruliow and Chauncey D. Harris
  • 1977 - John N. Hazard
  • 1976 - Alfred Senn and Marc Szeftel
  • 1975 - Abram Bergson, John Shelton Curtiss, George F. Kennan, and Helen Muchnic
  • 1973 - Gleb Struve, S. Harrison Thompson, and Rene Wellek
  • 1972 - Francis Dvornik, Bertram D. Wolfe, and Sergius Yakobson
  • 1971 - George Florovsky, Alexander Gerschenkron, and Philip E. Moseley
  • 1970 - Oscar Halecki, Roman Jakobson, and George Vernadsky