call for nominations for awards

[Benjamin Rifkin]

Dear SEELANGers:

I apologize for repeating this message, but many subscribers are off-list
during the summer.

The AATSEEL Committee on awards seeks nominations for the following awards:

CUMULATIVE AATSEEL AWARDS LIST

(General information and awards information prior to 1996 provided by Ray
Parrott.)

There are five (5) awards made each year, on occasion with multiple
recipients. These are the
        (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.
Additionally, the Publications Committee makes its own separate
presentations for scholarly publications and translations.

Please send nominations to Jane Gary Harris at

jgharris+ at pitt.edu

Please include a paragraph or two explaining why the individual is a good
choice for the award.

For your reference, you will find below a list of recent recipients of these
awards.

Thank you.

Ben Rifkin





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)
        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 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)
        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)

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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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