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.
The Jelavich Book Prize carries a cash award. The 2009 award will be presented in November at the AAASS National Convention in Boston, Massachusetts.
2009 Barbara Jelavich Book Prize Committee
The winner of the 2009 Jelavich Book Prize will be chosen by the following scholars:
- Irina Livezeanu, University of Pittsburgh; Committee Chair, 2008-2010
(mailing address):
Irina Livezeanu
Department of History, 3520
Posvar Hall
University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, PA 15260 - Maureen Healy, Lewis and Clark College; 2009-2011
(mailing address):
Maureen Healy
Department of History, Miller 406
Lewis and Clark College
0615 S.W. Palatine Hill Rd
Portland, OR 97219 - Jennifer Siegel, Ohio State University; 2009-2011
(mailing address):
Jennifer Siegel
Department of History
The Ohio State University
106 Dulles Hall
230 West 17th Avenue
Columbus, OH 43210-1367
Rules of eligibility
Rules of eligibility for the Jelavich book prize competition are as follows:
- The copyright date inside the book must list the previous calendar year 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
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 “Barbara Jelavich 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 Barbara Jelavich Book Prize Winner
The 2008 Barbara Jelavich Book Prize was awarded to Deborah R. Coen for Vienna in the Age of Uncertainty: Science, Liberalism, and Private Life, published by the University of Chicago 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)
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)
