ASEEES 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 award is presented in November at the ASEEES Annual Convention.
2012 Barbara Jelavich Book Prize Committee
The winner of the Jelavich Book Prize will be chosen by the following scholars:
- Charles King, Georgetown U; Committee Chair, 2011-2013
(mailing address):
Charles King
Dept. of Government
ICC 658
Georgetown University
Washington, DC 20057 - Mary Neuburger, University of Texas, Austin; 2012
(mailing address):
Mary Neuburger
1204 Georgian St.
Austin, TX 78756
- Tara Zahra, University of Chicago; 2012-2014
(mailing address):
Tara Zahra
University of Chicago
Social Sciences Building, Mailbox 85
1126 E. 59th Street
Chicago, IL 60637
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 (for example, the book must have been published in 2011 to be eligible for the 2012 competition), 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 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 “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 ASEEES main office a note with your e-mail address or a self-addressed stamped envelope or a postcard.
Winners of the Barbara Jelavich Book Prize
The following scholars received the Barbara Jelavich Book Prize in the past:
- 2011- Sean McMeekin for The Berlin-Baghdad Express: The Ottoman Empire and Germany's Bid for World Power (Belknap Press of Harvard University Press).
- 2010 - Holly Case for Between States: The Transylvanian Question and the European Idea during World War II (Stanford University Press)
- 2009 - Tara Zahra for Kidnapped Souls: National Indifference and the Battle for Children in the Bohemian Lands, 1900-1948 (Cornell University Press)
- 2008 - Deborah R. Coen for Vienna in the Age of Uncertainty: Science, Liberalism, and Private Life (University of Chicago Press)
- 2007 - Pieter M. Judson for Guardians of the Nation: Activists on the Language Frontiers of Imperial Austria (Harvard University Press)
- 2006 - Alison Frank for Oil Empire: Visions of Prosperity in Austrian Galicia (Harvard University Press)
- 2005 - Maureen Healy 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)