AAASS 2000 Book Prizes - call for nominations

[Jolanta M. Davis]

For those who do not receive AAASS NewsNet:

AAASS invites nominations for the 2000 Book Prizes. To be eligible books
must have been originally published in English in 1999 in the form of a
monograph, preferably by a single author, or by no more than two authors
(the Hewett Prize, however, may be awarded for chapters of books or
substantial articles). The AAASS Book Prizes carry a cash award and will be
presented at the Saturday evening Reception during the 32nd National
Convention in Denver, Colorado, 912 November 2000. General descriptions and
the names of the book prize committee members are given below.

For precise Rules of Eligibility for each prize and the mailing addresses
for committee members, please visit our web site at
<www.fas.harvard.edu/~aaass> or contact the AAASS national office at
jmdavis at fas.harvard.edu.
Deadline for all nominations is 12 May 2000.

AAASS/Orbis Polish Book Prize - For the best book in any discipline on any
aspect of Polish affairs
Halina Filipowicz (U of Wisconsin), Chair; Anna Cienciala (U of Kansas);
Izabela Kalinowska-Blackwood (SUNY, Stonybrook)

Ed A. Hewett Prize - For an outstanding publication on the political
economy of the centrally planned economies of the former Soviet Union and
East Central Europe and their transitional successors
Paul Gregory (U of Houston), Chair; Susan Linz (Michigan State); Peter
Rutland (Wesleyan U)

Barbara Jelavich Book Prize - For a distinguished monograph on any aspect
of Southeast European or Habsburg studies since 1600, or 19th- and
20th-century Ottoman or Russian diplomatic history
John Fine (U of Michigan), Chair; Dennison Rusinow (U of Pittsburgh);
George P. Majeska (University of Maryland)

Marshall Shulman Book Prize - For an outstanding monograph on international
behavior of the countries of the former Communist Bloc
Karen Dawisha (U of Maryland), Chair; William Taubman (Amherst U); Celeste
Wallander (Harvard U)

Wayne S. Vucinich Book Prize - For a distinguished monograph in Russian,
Eurasian, and East European studies in any discipline of the humanities
David McDonald (U of Wisconsin, Madison), Acting Chair; Peter Kenez (UC,
Santa Cruz), on leave; Greta Slobin (UC, Santa Cruz), replacement for 2000,
Nancy Condee (U of Pittsburgh)


Jolanta M. Davis
Publications Coordinator
American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies (AAASS)
8 Story Street
Cambridge, MA 021238
http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~aaass/

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