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The Wayne S. Vucinich Book Prize sponsored by the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies (AAASS) and the Stanford University Center for Russian and East European Studies, is awarded annually for the most important contribution to Russian, Eurasian, and East European studies in any discipline of the humanities or social sciences published English in the United States in the previous calendar year.
The Vucinich Book Prize carries a cash award. The 2009 award will be presented in November at the National Convention in Boston, Massachusetts.
2009 Wayne S. Vucinich Book Prize Committee
The winner of the 2009 Wayne S. Vucinich Book Prize will be chosen by the following scholars:
- Francine Hirsch, University of Wisconsin, Madison; 2009-2011
(mailing address):
Francine Hirsch
University of Wisconsin-Madison
4124 Mosse Humanities Bldg
455 N Park St
Madison, WI 53706
- Irina Paperno, University of California, Berkeley; 2008-2010
(mailing address):
Irina Paperno
Professor
Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures Mail Code 2979
6303 Dwinelle Hall
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley CA 94720-2979 - Valerie Sperling, Clark University; 2009-2011
(mailing address):
Valerie Sperling
Department of Government and International Relations
Clark University
950 Main Street
Worcester MA 01610 - Catherine Wanner, Pennsylvania State University; 2009-2011
(mailing address):
Catherine Wanner
Alt-Lietzow 44, 3. Stock
10587 Berlin
GERMANY
Rules of eligibility
Rules of eligibility for the Vucinich book prize competition are as follows:
- The copyright date inside the book must list the previous calendar year as the date of publication (the book must have been published in 2008 to be eligible for the 2009 competition)
- The book must be a monograph, preferably by a single author, or by no more than two authors
- Works may deal with any area of Eastern Europe, Russia, or Eurasia
- The competition is open to works of scholarship in any discipline of the social sciences or humanities (including literature, the arts, film, etc.). Policy analyses, however scholarly, cannot be considered
- Textbooks, collections, 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 “Wayne S. Vucinich 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 Wayne S. Vucinich Book Prize Winner
The 2008 Wayne S. Vucinich Book Prize was presented to Adeeb Khalid for Islam after Communism: Religion and Politics in Central Asia published by the University of California Press.
The prize committee also decided to recognize two honorable mentions:
- Chad Bryant received an honorable mention for Prague in Black: Nazi Rule and Czech Nationalism published by Harvard University Press
- John Randolph received an honorable mention for A House in the Garden: The Bakunin Family and the Romance of Russian Idealism, published by Cornell University Press. (A House in the Garden was also the winner of the 2008 W. Bruce Lincoln 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)
Previous winners of the AAASS Vucinich Book Prize
The following scholars received the Vucinich Book Prize in the past:
(to read the citation for the award, please click on the winner's name; to connect to the publisher's web page with more information about the book, please click on the title)
- 2007 - Alexei Yurchak received the award for Everything Was Forever Until It Was No More: The Last Soviet Generation (Princeton University Press)
The 2007 Vucinich Book Prize Committe would also recognized five other contenders on its 2007 Vucinich Book Prize short list:- Robert Crews, For Prophet and Tsar: Islam and Empire in Russia and Central Asia (Harvard University Press)
- Jochen Hellbeck, Revolution on My Mind: Writing a Diary Under Stalin (Harvard University Press)
- Valerie Kivelson, Cartographies of Tsardom: The Land and its Meanings in Seventeenth-Century Russia (Cornell University Press)
- Ethan Pollock, Stalin and the Soviet Science Wars (Princeton University Press)
- Marci Shore, Caviar and Ashes: A Warsaw Generation's Life and Death in Marxism, 1918-1968 (Yale University Press)
- 2006 - Francine Hirsch received the award for
Empire of Nations: Ethnographic Knowledge and the Making of the Soviet Union (Cornell University Press);
In addition, Christina Kiaer received an honorable mention for Imagine No Possessions: The Socialist Objects of Russian Constructivism (MIT Press) - 2005 - Yuri Slezkine, The Jewish Century (Princeton University Press)
- 2004 - William Taubman, Khrushchev: The Man and His Era (W.W. Norton)
- 2003 - Benjamin Nathans, Beyond the Pale: The Jewish Encounter with Late Imperial Russia (University of California Press)
- 2002 - Terry Martin, The Affirmative Action Empire: Nations and Nationalism in the Soviet Union, 1923-1939 (Cornell University Press)
- 2001 - Alaina Lemon, Between Two Fires: Gypsy Performance and Romani Memory from Pushkin to Post-Socialism (Duke University Press)
- 2000 - Peter Gatrell, A Whole Empire Walking: Refugees in Russia during World War I (Indiana University Press)
- 1999 - David D. Laitin, Identity in Formation: The Russian Speaking Populations in the Near Abroad (Cornell University Press)
- 1998 - Stephen E. Hanson , Time and Revolution: Marxism and the Design of Soviet Institutions (University of North Carolina Press)
- 1997 - Tomas Venclova, Aleksander Wat: Life and Art of an Iconoclast (Yale University Press)
- 1996 - Katerina Clark, Petersburg: Crucible of Cultural Revolution (Harvard University Press); and Andrzej Walicki, Marxism and the Leap to the Kindgom of Freedom: The Rise and Fall of the Communist Utopia (Stanford University Press)
- 1995 - David Holloway, Stalin and the Bomb: The Soviet Union and Atomic Energy, 1939-1956 (Yale University Press)
- 1994 - Gale Stokes, The Walls Came Tumbling Down: The Collapse of Communism in Eastern Europe (Oxford University Press)
- 1993 - Laura Engelstein, The Keys to Happiness: Sex and the Search for Modernity in Fin de Siecle Russia (Cornell University Press)
- 1992 - John P. LeDonne, Absolutism and Ruling Class: The Formation of the Russian Political Order, 1700-1825 (Oxford University Press)
- 1991 - Istvan Deak, Beyond Nationalism: A Social and Political History of the Habsburg Officer Corps, 1848-1918 (Oxford University Press)
- 1990 - Richard Stites, Revolutionary Dreams: Utopian Vision and Experimental Life in the Russian Revolution (Oxford University Press)
- 1989 - Piotr S. Wandycz, The Twilight of French Eastern Alliances 1926-1936: French-Czechoslovak-Polish Relations from Locarno to the Remilitarization of the Rhineland (Princeton University Press)
- 1988 - Allan K. Wildman, The End of the Russian Imperial Army: The Road to Soviet Power and Peace, volume 2 (Princeton University Press)
- 1987 - William Edward Brown, History of Russian Literature of the Romantic Period (Ardis Publishers)
- 1986 - Jeffrey Brooks, When Russia Learned to Read: Literacy and Popular Culture, 1861-1917 (Princeton University Press)
- 1985 - Ivo Banac, The National Question in Yugoslavia: Origins, History, Politics (Cornell University Press)
- 1984 - Terence Emmons, The Formation of Political Parties and the First National Elections in Russia (Harvard University Press)
- 1983 - John R. Lampe and Marvin R. Jackson, Balkan Economic History, 1550-1950: From Imperial Borderlands to Developing Nations Indiana University Press)
