Association for Slavic, East European,
and Eurasian Studies

(formerly the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies)

Prizes for scholars in Slavic, Eurasian, and East European studies

Please visit the ASEEES Prizes page for information on the 2011 ASEEES prize competitions!

The listings below announce prizes from other organizations available to scholars specializing in Slavic, Eurasian, and East European studies. Please read carefully rules for nomination and eligibility and visit the posted link to the sponsor's Web site for more information.

If you wish to post a listing to this page, or have any comments or suggestions, please e-mail the Publications Coordinator.

Linguistic Society of America ; Leonard Bloomfield Book Award

The Linguistic Society of America (LSA) is accepting nominations for its prestigious Leonard Bloomfield Book Award, given annually for the volume which makes the most outstanding contribution to the development of our understanding of language and linguistics. Nominations may be made by publishers of linguistic works as well as LSA members. With certain exceptions, all authors of nominated books must be current members of the Society. Books should have been published after February 28, 2011 but before May 31, 2012.

Four copies of any nominated volume should be sent by May 4, 2012 to the LSA Secretariat:

Attn: Leonard Bloomfield Book Award Committee
Linguistic Society of America
1325 18th St NW., Suite 211
Washington, DC 20036-6502

We encourage you to consider nominating yourself, a colleague, or – if you are a publisher – one of your linguistics titles for this award. Authors and publishers of winning books are invited to be recognized at the Awards Ceremony held during the LSA Annual Meeting.

For more on the Leonard Bloomfield Book Award and the LSA's other awards and honors, see https://lsadc.org/info/lsa-awards.cfm.

Society for Romanian Studies

The Society for Romanian Studies is pleased to announce the Fourth Annual Graduate Student Essay Prize competition for an outstanding unpublished essay or thesis chapter written in English by a graduate student in any social science or humanities discipline on a Romanian subject. The 2012 prize, consisting of $300, will be presented at the ASEEES National Convention in New Orleans. The competition is open to current M.A. and doctoral students or to those who defended dissertations in the academic year 2011-2012. If the essay is a seminar paper, it must have been written in 2011-2012. If the essay is a dissertation chapter, it should be accompanied by the dissertation abstract and table of contents. Essays/chapters should be between 25 and 50 pages double spaced, including reference matter. Expanded versions of conference papers are also acceptable if accompanied by a description of the panel and the candidate's conference paper proposal. Candidates should clearly indicate the format of the essay submitted. If you have questions, contact Margaret Beissinger at mhbeissi@Princeton.edu.

Please send a copy of the essay and an updated CV to each of the three members of the Prize Committee below. Submissions must be sent no later than July 1, 2012.

Society for Slovene Studies ; 2012 Velikonja Undergraduate and Lencek Graduate Paper Prizes

The Society for Slovene Studies invites submissions for its two paper prizes, the Joseph Velikonja Undergraduate Paper Prize and the Rado L. Lencek Graduate Paper Prize. Paper submissions are due in the fall of each year and should be send to Timothy Pogacar, President, Society for Slovene Studies, pogacar@bgsu.edu. Detailed information is available at www.slovenestudies.com.