previous awards

[Benjamin Rifkin]

Dear Colleagues:

Yesterday I posted to SEELANGs a message regarding AATSEEL awards, on the
request of the chair of the AATSEEL awards committee, soliciting nominations
for the awards to be given at our conference in December in San Francisco:

        (1) Award for Excellence in Teaching at the Secondary Level;
        (2) Award for Excellence in Teaching at the Postsecondary Level;
        (3) Joe Malik Award for Outstanding Service to AATSEEL;
        (4) Award for Distinguished Contribution to the Profession; and
        (5) the Award for Outstanding Achievement in Scholarship.

I asked that all nominations should be sent to Jane Gary Harris by e-mail,
surface mail, telephone or fax (Slavic Dept., U. of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh,
PA  15260; phone 412 624-5708; fax 412 624 9714; e-mail jgharris+ at pitt.edu)
and that nominations include a paragraph or two specifying the achievements
of the person nominated.

Since posting that message, I have received a request to provide the names
of previous award winners.

Jerry Ervin and Ray Parrott have provided the following information.
Numbers in parentheses correspond to the numbers of the prizes listed above.

1991 AWARDS:
        (1) John Sheehan, Winter Park High School, Winter Park, Florida;
        (2) Barbara Monahan, Brown University;
        (3) Zita Dabars, Friends School, Baltimore, Maryland
        (4) J. Thomas Shaw, University of Wisconsin-Madison;
        (5) Victor Terras, Brown University; Catherine Chvany, M.I.T.


1992 AWARDS:
        (1) Henry Ziegler, Princeton High School, Cincinnati, Ohio;
        (2) Robert Baker, Middlebury College, Vermont;
        (3) Leon Twarog, Ohio State University; Helen Yakobson, George
Washington University;
        (4) Charles Gribble, Ohio State University'
        (5) Dean Worth, UCLA.


1993 AWARDS:
        (1) George Morris, St. Louis University H.S., St. Louis, MO;
        (2) Irwin Weil, Northwestern University;
        (3) Lauren Leighton, University of Illinois-Chicago;
        (4) Irene Thompson, George Washington University;
        (5) Robert Jackson, Yale University.


1994 AWARDS:
        (1) Will Poole (retired), Lincoln H.S., Portland, OR;
        (2) Leonard Polakiewicz, U. of Minnesota-Minneapolis;
        (3) Christine Tomei, American University;
        (4) Charles Townsend, Princeton University;
        (5) Rado Lencek, Columbia University.


1995 AWARDS:
        (1) Peter Merrill, Phillips Academy, Andover, MA;
        (2) Christopher Wertz, University of Iowa;
        (3) George Gutsche, U. of Arizona; Ernest Scatton, SUNY-Albany;
        (4) Dan Davidson, Bryn Mawr College/ACTR;
        (5) Marina Ledkovsky, Barnard College (Columbia); Michael Mikos, U.
of Wisconsin-Milwaukee


1996 AWARDS:
        (1) Jane Shuffelton, Brighton High School
        (2) Frank Miller, Columbia University
        (3) Ray Parrott, University of Iowa
        (4) George Fowler, Indiana University
        (5) Felix J. Oinas, Indiana University (Emeritus)

1997 AWARDS:
        (1)  Gunther Teschauer, Tenafly HS
        (2)  Robert Beard, Bucknell University
        (3)  John Schillinger, American University
        (4)  Catherine V. Chvany, MIT (emerita)
        (5)  Vladimir Markov UCLA (emeritus)

In addition to the awards listed above, the Publications Committee gave the
following awards in 1996 and 1997:

1996

        Outstanding Book in Literary Studies:  David Bethea, University of
Wisconsin - Madison
        Outstanding Work in Linguistics:  Steven Franks, Indiana University
        Outstanding Translation:  Stanislaw Baranczak, Harvard University;
Clare Cavanagh, University of Wisconsin - Madison
        Special Achievement Award:  Genevra Gerhart


1997

       Best scholarly book: Clare Cavanagh, Osip Mandelstam and the
Creation of Tradition (Princeton UP, 1995)
        Best book in Slavic or East European Linguistics: Selected Essays
of Catherine V. Chvany, eds. Olga Yokoyama and Emily Klenin (Slavica, 1996)
        Best translation from a Slavic or Eastern European Language: H.T.
Willetts, Isaac Babel 1920 Diary, ed. Carol J. Avins (Yale UP, 1995)

The Publications Committee awards are considered in a separate process from
the consideration of the five awards specified above.

The AATSEEL awards committee thanks all association members for their
consideration of nominations for these awards.

Ben Rifkin




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Benjamin Rifkin

Associate Professor of Slavic Languages
Coordinator of Russian-Language Instruction

Department of Slavic Languages & Literatures
University of Wisconsin-Madison
1432 Van Hise Hall, 1220 Linden Dr.
Madison, WI  53706  USA

voice:  608/262-1623
fax:  608/265-2814
e-mail:  brifkin at facstaff.wisc.edu

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