call for nominations for Wayne S. Vucinich Book Prize

[Jolanta M. Davis]

Wayne S. Vucinich Book Prize
2001 Competition

The American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies (AAASS), in
conjunction with the Stanford University Center for Russian and East
European Studies, announces the 2001 competition for the Wayne S. Vucinich
Prize. The prize is awarded annually for a distinguished monograph in
Russian, Eurasian, and East European studies in any discipline of the
humanities, including literature, the arts, film, etc. Only
English-language books published in the U.S. in the previous year will be
considered. The first Vucinich prize was awarded in 1983.

Below is a list of the most recent winners:
2000 -- Peter Gatrell, A Whole Empire Walking: Refugees in Russia during
World War I (Indiana University Press)
1999 -- David D. Laitin, Identity in Formation: The Russian Speaking
Populations in the Near Abroad (Cornell University Press)
1998 -- Stephen E. Hanson, Time and Revolution: Marxism and the Design of
Soviet Institutions (University of North Carolina Press)
1997 -- Tomas Venclova, Aleksander Wat: Life and Art of an Iconoclast (Yale
University Press)
1996 -- Katerina Clark, Petersburg: Crucible of Cultural Revolution
(Harvard University Press); Andrzej Walicki, Marxism and the Leap to the
Kingdom of Freedom: The Rise and Fall of the Communist Utopia (Stanford
University Press)

Rules of Eligibility:
--The book must have been published in 2000;
--The book must be a monograph, preferably by a single author, or by no
more than two authors;
--Works may deal with any area of Eastern Europe, Russia, or Eurasia;
--The competition is open to works of scholarship in any discipline of the
humanities, including literature, the arts, film, etc. Contemporary policy
studies, however scholarly, cannot be considered;
--Textbooks, collections, translations, bibliographies, and reference works
are ineligible.

Wayne S. Vucinich Prize Committee and Nominating Instructions:

David McDonald
University of Wisconsin
Department of History
3211 Humanities
455 N Park Street
Madison, WI 53706

Greta Slobin
University of California
Stevenson College
Santa Cruz, CA 95064

Nancy Condee
University of Pittsburgh
Dept. of Languages & Literatures
mailing address:
6214 Wellesley Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15206

Sheila Fitzpatrick
University of Chicago
Department of History
mailing address:
5555 S. Everett Ave., Apt 15E
Chicago IL 60615

Book publishers, journal editors, or authors should send copies of eligible
works to the Chair and to each of the Committee members as soon as possible
for consideration for this year's prize. Nominations must be received no
later than May 11, 2001. Submissions should be clearly marked "Vucinich
Prize Nomination." Please enclose a self-addressed stamped envelope for
acknowledgment that your nomination was received.

The Vucinich Prize carries a cash award. The 2001 award will be announced
in November at the 33rd AAASS National Convention in Crystal City,
Virginia. Prize-winning books are publicized nationally and internationally
by the AAASS.


Jolanta M. Davis
Publications Coordinator and NewsNet Editor
American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies (AAASS)
8 Story Street
Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
tel.: (617) 495-0679
fax: (617) 495-0680
http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~aaass/

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