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The ASEEES Wayne S. Vucinich Book Prize, sponsored by the Association for Slavic Studies, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES) 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 in English in the United States in the previous calendar year.
The ASEEES Vucinich Book Prize carries a cash award. The award is presented in November at the Annual Convention.
2012 ASEEES Wayne S. Vucinich Book Prize Committee
The winner of the Wayne S. Vucinich Book Prize will be chosen by the following scholars:
- Stephanie Sandler, Harvard University; Committee Chair; 2010-2012
(mailing address):
Stephanie Sandler
76 Snell St.
Amherst, MA 01002 - Keith Darden, Yale University, 2012-2014
(mailing address):
Keith Darden
Yale University
Department of Political Science
P.O. Box 208301
Rosenkranz Hall, 115 Prospect Street
New Haven, CT 06520-8301
- Zsuzsa Gille, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; 2012-2014
(mailing address):
Zsusza Gille
U of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
326 Lincoln Hall, MC 454
602 St. Wright St.
Urbana, IL 61801
- Peter Holquist, University of Pennsylvania; 2012-2014
(mailing address):
Peter Holquist
3 Snowden Road
Bala Cynwyd, PA 19004
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 (for example, the book must have been published in 2011 to be eligible for the 2012 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.
- Authors may be of any nationality as long as the work is originally published in English in the United States.
- 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 “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 ASEEES main office a note with your e-mail address or a self-addressed stamped envelope or a postcard.
Winners of the ASEEES Vucinich Book Prize
The following scholars received the Vucinich Book Prize in the past:
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2011 - Matthew Jesse Jackson for The Experimental Group: Ilya Kabakov, Moscow Conceptualism, Soviet Avant Gardes (University of Chicago Press)
- Short-Listed:
Paulina Bren, The Greengrocer and his TV: The Culture of Communism after the 1968 Prague Spring (Cornell University Press)
Gabriella Safran, Wandering Soul: The Dybbuk's Creator, S. An-sky (Harvard University Press)
Timothy Snyder, Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin (Basic Books)
Christina Vatulescu, Police Aesthetics: Literature, Film and the Secret Police in Soviet Times (Stanford University Press) -
2010 - Miriam Dobson for Khrushchev's Cold Summer: Gulag Returnees, Crime, and the Fate of Reform after Stalin (Cornell University Press)
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2009 - Laurie Manchester for Holy Fathers, Secular Sons: Clergy, Intelligentsia and the Modern Self in Revolutionary Russia ( Northern Illinois University Press)
honorable mention: Peter Andreas for Blue Helmets and Black Markets: The Business of Survival in the Siege of Sarajevo (Cornell University Press)
- 2008 - Adeeb Khalid for Islam after Communism: Religion and Politics in Central Asia (University of California Press)
- honorable mentions:
- Chad Bryant received an honorable mention for Prague in Black: Nazi Rule and Czech Nationalism (Harvard University Press)
- John Randolph received an honorable mention for A House in the Garden: The Bakunin Family and the Romance of Russian Idealism (Cornell University Press)
- 2007 - Alexei Yurchak for Everything Was Forever Until It Was No More: The Last Soviet Generation (Princeton University Press)
honorable mentions:- 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 for Empire of Nations: Ethnographic Knowledge and the Making of the Soviet Union (Cornell University Press);
honorable mention:
- Christina Kiaer, 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 Siècle 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)