American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies

AAASS Distinguished Contributions to Slavic Studies Award

The AAASS 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.

2008 Honors and Awards Committee

The winner of the 2008 AAASS Distinguished Contributions to Slavic Studies Award will be chosen by the Honors and Awards Committee:

  • Victoria Bonnell, Chair, 2006-2008; UC, Berkeley, vbonnell@berkeley.edu
  • David Holloway, 2007-2009; Stanford U
  • Larry Wolff, 2006-2008; New York U

The Committee invites members to submit letters of nomination for this award. The committee members will consider only nomination letters without accompanying documentation. Nomination letters may be submitted by May 1, 2008 by e-mail to: vbonnell@berkeley.edu.

Past winners of the AAASS Distinguished Contributions to Slavic Studies Award

The following scholars received the AAASS Distinguished Contributions to Slavic Studies Award in the past:

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

  • 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