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The Davis Center Book Prize in Political and Social Studies, established in 2008, and sponsored by the Kathryn W. and Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies at Harvard University, is awarded annually for an outstanding monograph published on Russia, Eurasia, or Eastern Europe in anthropology, political science, sociology, or geography in the previous calendar year.
The Davis Center Book Prize carries a cash award. The award is presented in November at the ASEEES National Convention.
2012 Davis Center Book Prize in Political and Social Studies Committee
The winner of the Davis Center Book Prize will be chosen by the following scholars:
- Lynne Haney, New York University, Committee Chair; 2010-2012
(mailing address):
Lynne Haney
Professor of Sociology
New York University
295 Lafayette Street, 4th floor
New York, New York 10012 - Jennifer Dickinson, University of Vermont; 2010-2012
(mailing address):
Jennifer Dickinson
509 Williams Hall
Department of Anthropology
University of Vermont
Burlington, VT 05405 - Regina Smyth, Indiana University; 2011-2013
(mailing address):
Regina Smyth
Department of Political Science
Indiana University
210 Woodburn Hall
1100 E 7th St
Bloomington, IN 47405
Rules of eligibility
Rules of eligibility for the Davis Center book prize competition are as follows:
- The copyright date inside the book must list the previous year as the date of publication (for exampple, the book must have been published in 2011 to be eligible for the 2012 competition)
- The book must be originally in the form of a monograph, preferably by a single author, or by no more than two authors
- Authors may be of any nationality as long as the work is originally published in English
- Works may deal with any area of Russia, Eurasia, or Eastern Europe
- The competition is open to works of scholarship in anthropology, political science, sociology, or geography, and also to social science works that cross strict disciplinary boundaries
- 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 ASEEES main office (address in the footnote; electronic notifications to newsnet@pitt.edu). Nominations must be received no later than May 7.
Submissions should be clearly marked “Davis Center Book Prize Nomination.” If you would like to receive an acknowledgment that your nomination was received please enclose with the copy mailed to the ASEEES main office a note with your e-mail address or a self-addressed stamped envelope or a postcard.
Winners of the Davis Center Book Prize
- Bruce Grant for The Captive and the Gift: Cultural Histories of Sovereignty in Russia and the Caucasus (Cornell University Press)
- Douglas Rogers for The Old Faith and the Russian Land: A Historical Ethnography of Ethics in the Urals (Cornell University Press)
2011 - Kristen Ghodsee for Muslim Lives in Eastern Europe: Gender, Ethnicity, and the Transformation of Islam in Postsocialist Bulgaria (Princeton University Press)
Honorable Mention: Sarah Phillips for Disability and Mobile Citizenship in Postsocialist Ukraine (Indiana University Press)
2010 - Olga Shevchenko for Crisis and the Everyday in Post-Socialist Moscow (Indiana University Press).
Honorable Mentions:
2009 - Jessica Allina-Pisano for The Post-Soviet Potemkin Village: Politics and Property Rights in the Black Earth, published by Cambridge University Press.
- Scott Gehlbach for Representation through Taxation: Revenue, Politics Development in Postcommunist States (Cambridge University Press)
- Charles King for The Ghost of Freedom: A History of the Caucasus (Oxford University Press)
Honorable Mentions:
2008 - Philip G. Roeder for Where Nation-States Come From? Institutional Change in the Age of Nationalism (Princeton University Press).
- Zsuzsa Gille for From the Cult of Waste to the Trash Heap of History (Indiana University Press)
- Catherine Wanner for Communities of the Converted: Ukrainians and Global Evangelism (Cornell University Press )
Honorable Mentions:
Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies