ASEEES Announces 2019 Prize Winners

THE ASSOCIATION CONGRATULATES THE WINNERS OF THE 2019 ASEEES PRIZES

Distinguished Contributions to Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies Award

David Ransel, Professor Emeritus of History at Indiana University, Bloomington

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

Eleonory Gilburd, To See Paris and Die: The Soviet Lives of Western Culture (Harvard University Press)

Honorable Mention: Sarah Cameron, The Hungry Steppe: Famine, Violence, and the Making of Soviet Kazakhstan (Cornell University Press)

Honorable Mention: Victoria Smolkin, A Sacred Space Is Never Empty: A History of Soviet Atheism (Princeton 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

Maria Taroutina, The Icon and the Square: Russian Modernism and the Russo-Byzantine Revival (Penn State University Press)

Honorable Mention: Edyta M. Bojanowska, A World of Empires: The Russian Voyage of the Frigate Pallada (Belknap Press of Harvard University Press)

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

Sarah Cameron, The Hungry Steppe: Famine, Violence, and the Making of Soviet Kazakhstan (Cornell University Press)

Honorable Mention: Natalia Nowakowska, King Sigismund of Poland and Martin Luther: The Reformation before Confessionalization (Oxford 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

Artemy M. Kalinovsky, Laboratory of Socialist Development: Cold War Politics and Decolonization in Soviet Tajikistan (Cornell 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

Eleonory Gilburd, To See Paris and Die: The Soviet Lives of Western Culture (Harvard University Press)

Honorable Mention: Benn Steil, The Marshall Plan: Dawn of the Cold War (Oxford University Press)

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

Artemy M. Kalinovsky, Laboratory of Socialist Development: Cold War Politics and Decolonization in Soviet Tajikistan (Cornell 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

Will Smiley, From Slaves to Prisoners of War: The Ottoman Empire, Russia and International Law (Oxford University Press)

Honorable Mention: William D. Godsey, The Sinews of Habsburg Power: Lower Austria in a Fiscal-Military State 1650-1820 (Oxford University Press)

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

Jochen Böhler, Civil War in Central Europe, 1918-1921: The Reconstruction of Poland (Oxford University Press)

Natalia Nowakowska, King Sigismund of Poland and Martin Luther: The Reformation before Confessionalization (Oxford University Press)

Shortlist: Marcin Wodziński, Hasidim: Key Questions (Oxford University Press), and Łukasz Szulc, Transnational Homosexuals in Communist Poland: Cross-Border Flows in Gay and Lesbian Magazines (Palgrave)

Omeljan Pritsak Book Prize in Ukrainian Studies recognizes a distinguished book in the field of Ukrainian studies

Maria G. Rewakowicz, Ukraine’s Quest for Identity: Embracing Cultural Hybridity in Literary Imagination, 1991-2011 (Rowman and Littlefield)

Honorable Mention: Nicholas Denysenko, The Orthodox Church in Ukraine: A Century of Separation (Northern Illinois University 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

Sarah Cameron, The Hungry Steppe: Famine, Violence, and the Making of Soviet Kazakhstan (Cornell University Press)

Honorable Mention: Elizabeth McGuire, Red at Heart: How Chinese Communists Fell in Love with the Russian Revolution (Oxford University Press)

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

Elly Brinkley, “‘I Protest Wherever I Can’: The Belarus Free Theatre and Cross-Border Arts Activism,” MA in Arts Politics, NYU

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 Tucker and Cohen, defended at an American or Canadian university

Louis Porter, “Cold War Internationalisms: The USSR in UNESCO, 1945-1967,” UNC at Chapel Hill

CLIR Distinguished Service Award

Harry M. Leich, Russian Area Specialist at the Library of Congress (retired)

Prize winners will be recognized during the ASEEES Annual Convention award ceremony on Monday, November 25, 6:30pm, in San Francisco, CA. The event is open to the public. Full citations will be printed in the convention program.