AAASS W. Bruce Lincoln Book Prize
The W. Bruce Lincoln Book Prize, sponsored by Mary Lincoln, is awarded biennially (in even numbered years) for an author's first published monograph or scholarly synthesis that is of exceptional merit and lasting significance for the understanding of Russia's past.
The prize was established in 2004 in memory of W. Bruce Lincoln, a Russian historian and a widely-read author.
The Lincoln Book Prize carries a cash award. The 2010 award will be presented in November at the National Convention in Los Angeles, California.
2008 W. Bruce Lincoln Book Prize Winners
The 2008 W. Bruce Lincoln Book Prize was presented to John Randolph for A House in the Garden: The Bakunin Family and the Romance of Russian Idealism, published by Cornell University Press in 2007.
(A House in the Garden also received an honorable mention for the 2008 Wayne S. Vucinich Book Prize.)
(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)
The prize committee also decided to recognize three honorable mentions:
- Jochen Hellbeck received an honorable mention for Revolution on My Mind: Writing a Diary under Stalin, published by Harvard University Press in 2006
(Revolution on My Mind was also shortlisted for the 2007 Vayne S. Vucinich Book Prize) - Marianne Kamp received an honorable mention for The New Woman in Uzbekistan: Islam, Modernity, and Unveiling under Communism, published by the University of Washington Press in 2006
- Ethan Pollock received an honorable mention for Stalin and the Soviet Science Wars, published by Princeton University Press in 2006
(Stalin and the Soviet Science Wars was also shortlisted for the 2007 Vayne S. Vucinich Book Prize)
(Please click on the title to connect to the publisher's web page with more information about the book)
2008 W. Bruce Lincoln Book Prize Committee
The winner of the 2008 Lincoln Book prize was chosen by the W. Bruce Lincoln Book Prize Committee.
- Gregory Freeze, Brandeis University; Committee Chair
- Glennys Young, University of Washington
- Daniel H. Kaiser, Grinnell College
Rules of eligibility
Rules of eligibility for the AAASS W. Bruce Lincoln Book Prize competition are as follows:
- The book must be an author's first published monograph or work of synthesis.
- It must bear a copyright date of either one or two years preceding the award year (the next competition will be in 2010 and for that year the copyright will need to be 2008 or 2009).
- It must be published in English and in North America.
- The geographic area of study is broadly defined as the territories of the former imperial Russian state and the Soviet Union. The book may deal with any period of history.
- Textbooks, translations, reference works, or edited collections of essays are not eligible.
- Books that have received other prizes are eligible.
- Scholarly merit, originality, and felicity of style will be the main criteria for selection.
Past winners of the W. Bruce Lincoln Book Prize
The following scholars received the AAASS/Orbis Books Prize for Polish Studies 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)
- 2006 - Douglas Northrop received the award for Veiled Empire: Gender and Power in Stalinist Central Asia (Cornell University Press, 2004).
- 2006 - Benjamin Nathans received the award for Beyond the Pale: The Jewish Encounter with Late Imperial Russia (University of California Press)
