Thursday, October 06, 2016

ASEEES Announces 2016 Prize Winners

The Association Congratulates the Winners of the 2016 ASEEES Prizes

Distinguished Contributions to Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies Award

John Bowlt, Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Southern California

Wayne S. Vucinich Book Prize for the most important contribution to Russian, Eurasian, and East European studies in any discipline of the humanities or social sciences

Ronald Grigor Suny, “They Can Live in the Desert but Nowhere Else”: A History of the Armenian Genocide (Princeton University Press)

Honorable Mention: Michael Kunichika, “Our Native Antiquity”: Archaeology and Aesthetics in the Culture of Russian Modernism (Academic Studies Press)

Honorable Mention: Douglas Rogers, The Depths of Russia: Oil, Power, and Culture after Socialism (Cornell University Press)

University of Southern California Book Prize in Literary and Cultural Studies for outstanding monograph published on Russia, Eastern Europe or Eurasia in the fields of literary and cultural studies

Stephen Lovell, Russia in the Microphone Age: A History of Soviet Radio, 1919-1970 (Oxford University Press)

Honorable Mention: Alice Lovejoy, Army Film and the Avant-Garde: Cinema and Experiment in the Czechoslovak Military (Indiana University Press)          

Reginald Zelnik Book Prize in History for outstanding monograph published on Russia, Eastern Europe or Eurasia in the field of history

Adeeb Khalid, Making Uzbekistan: Nation, Empire, and Revolution in the Early USSR (Cornell University Press)

Honorable Mention: Eileen Kane, Russian Hajj: Empire and the Pilgrimage to Mecca (Cornell University Press)

Davis Center Book Prize in Political and Social Studies for outstanding monograph on Russia, Eurasia, or Eastern Europe in anthropology, political science, sociology or geography

Douglas Rogers, The Depths of Russia: Oil, Power, and Culture after Socialism (Cornell University Press)

Ed A Hewett Book Prize for outstanding publication on the political economy of Russia, Eurasia and/or Eastern Europe

Douglas Rogers, The Depths of Russia, Oil, Power, and Culture after Socialism (Cornell University Press) 

Honorable Mention: Susanne Wengle, Post-Soviet Power: State-led Development and Russia’s Marketization (Cambridge University Press)

Barbara Jelavich Book Prize 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

Jelena Batinić, Women and Yugoslav Partisans: A History of World War II Resistance (Cambridge University Press)

Honorable Mention: Robert Donia, Radovan Karadžić: Architect of the Bosnian Genocide (Cambridge University Press) 

Marshall Shulman Book Prize for an outstanding monograph dealing with the international relations, foreign policy, or foreign-policy decision-making of any of the states of the former Soviet Union or Eastern Europe

Eileen Kane, Russian Hajj: Empire and the Pilgrimage to Mecca (Cornell University Press)

Honorable Mention: Lauri Malksoo, Russian Approaches to International Law (Oxford University Press)

Kulczycki Book Prize in Polish Studies for the best book in any discipline, on any aspect of Polish affairs. 

Iryna Vushko, The Politics of Cultural Retreat: Imperial Bureaucracy in Austrian Galicia, 1772-1867 (Yale University Press)

Honorable Mention: Lech Mróz, Roma-Gypsy Presence in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, 15th-18th Centuries (CEU Press)  

W. Bruce Lincoln Book Prize for an author’s first published monograph or scholarly synthesis that is of exceptional merit and lasting significance for the understanding of Russia’s past, published in the previous two years.

Rebecca Mitchell, Nietzsche’s Orphans:  Music, Metaphysics, and the Twilight of the Russian Empire (Yale University Press)

Robert C. Tucker/Stephen F. Cohen Dissertation Prize for an outstanding English-language doctoral dissertation in Soviet or Post-Soviet politics and history in the tradition practiced by Robert C. Tucker and Stephen F. Cohen, defended at an American or Canadian university

Leah Daphne Goldman, “Art of Intransigence: Soviet Composers and Art Music Censorship, 1945-1957,” University of Chicago, 2015

ASEEES Graduate Student Essay Prize for an outstanding essay by a graduate student in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies

Anca Mandru, “The ‘Socialist Intellectual Brotherhood’ and the Nationalist Challenge,” PhD Candidate in the Department of History at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 

The prize winners will be recognized during the ASEEES Annual Convention award ceremony on Saturday, November 19, 7:00pm, in Washington, D.C.  The event is open to the public.  The prize citations will be printed in the convention program.