AAASS Barbara Jelavich Book Prize
The Barbara Jelavich Book Prize, sponsored by Charles Jelavich, is awarded annually for a distinguished monograph published on any aspect of Southeast European or Habsburg studies since 1600, or nineteenth- and twentieth-century Ottoman or Russian diplomatic history.
Barbara Jelavich was a distinguished and internationally respected scholar whose numerous publications included Modern Austria, Russia's Balkan Entanglements, and the two-volume History of the Balkans. The Jelavich Prize was established in 1995 in her memory to recognize and to encourage the high standards she set in her many areas of scholarly interest and to promote continued study of those areas.
2008 Barbara Jelavich Book Prize Committee
The winner of the 2008 Jelavich Book Prize will be chosen by the AAASS Barbara Jelavich Book Prize Committee:
- Timothy Snyder, Yale U; Committee Chair, 2007-2009; timothy.snyder@yale.edu;
mailing address:
60 Canner St.,
New Haven, CT 06511 - Jeremy King, Mt. Holyoke College; 2006-2008;
mailing address:
12 Stanton Avenue,
South Hadley, MA 01075 - Irina Livezeanu, University of Pittsburgh; 2008-2010;
mailing address:
Department of History,
University of Pittsburgh,
3520 Posvar Hall,
Pittsburgh, PA 15260
Rules of eligibility
Rules of eligibility for the Jelavich book prize competition are as follows:
- The copyright date inside the book must list 2007 as the date of publication, and the book must have been published in the United States
- The book must be a monograph, preferably by a single author, or by no more than two authors
- Authors must be scholars who are citizens or permanent residents of North America
- The competition is open to works on any aspect of Southeast European or Habsburg studies since 1600, or 19th- and 20th-century Ottoman or Russian diplomatic history
- Textbooks, translations, bibliographies, and reference works are ineligible
To nominate a publication send one copy of eligible monograph to the AAASS main office (address below in the footnote of the page) AND to each Committee member listed above.
Nominations must be received no later than May 2, 2008.
Submissions should be clearly marked “Barbara Jelavich Book Prize.” If you would like to receive an acknowledgment that your nomination was received please enclose a letter with an e-mail address with the copy mailed to the AAASS main office.
The Jelavich Book Prize carries a cash award. The 2008 award will be presented in November at the AAASS National Convention in Philadelphia.
Past winners of the AAASS Barbara Jelavich Book Prize
The following scholars received the AAASS Barbara Jelavich Book Prize 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 - Pieter M. Judson received the award for Guardians of the Nation: Activists on the Language Frontiers of Imperial Austria (Harvard University Press)
- 2006 - Alison Frank received the award for Oil Empire: Visions of Prosperity in Austrian Galicia (Harvard University Press)
- 2005 - Maureen Healy received the award for Vienna and the Fall of the Habsburg Empire: Total War and Everyday Life in World War I (Cambridge University Press)
- 2004 - Vladimir Tismaneanu, Stalinism for all Seasons: A Political History of Romanian Communism (University of California Press)
- 2003 - Jennifer Siegel, Endgame: Britain, Russia and the Final Struggle for Central Asia (I.B. Tauris Publishers)
- 2002 - Larry Wolff, Venice and the Slavs: The Discovery of Dalmatia in the Age of Enlightenment (Stanford University Press)
- 2001 - Alice Freifeld, Nationalism and the Crowd in Liberal Hungary, 1848?1914 (Woodrow Wilson Center Press and Johns Hopkins University Press)
- 2000 - Lois C. Dubin, The Port Jews of Habsburg Trieste: Absolutist Politics and Enlightenment Culture (Stanford University Press)
- 1999 - Melissa K. Bokovoy, Peasants and Communists: Politics and Ideology in the Yugoslav Countryside, 1941?53 (University of Pittsburgh Press)
- 1998 - Anastasia N. Karakasidou, Fields of Wheat, Hills of Blood: Passages to Nationhood in Greek Macedonia, 1870?1990 (University of Chicago Press)
- 1997 - S.C.M. Paine, Imperial Rivals: China, Russia and Their Disputed Frontier (M.E. Sharpe)
- 1996 - Robert Rotenberg, Landscape and Power in Vienna (Johns Hopkins University Press)
- 1995 - Franz A.J. Szabo, Kaunitz and Enlightened Absolutism, 1753?1780 (Cambridge University Press)
