Announcing the CESS Book Awards in History/Humanities and Social Sciences

[John Schoeberlein]

Announcing the CESS Book Awards

The Central Eurasian Studies Society is pleased to announce the
establishment of two new CESS Book Awards, one for work in the History
& Humanities and another for work in the Social Sciences.  The
competitions for these awards will be held in alternate years,
beginning in 2007 with the CESS History & Humanities Book Award.

Each year the CESS Book Award and a monetary prize of $500 will be
presented to the author of the research monograph, published in the
preceding two years, that represents the most important contribution
to Central Eurasian Studies, or that holds the greatest potential for
furthering scholarship on the Central Eurasian region.  An
interdisciplinary panel of three scholars of Central Eurasia,
appointed annually by the CESS Executive Board, will consider
scholarly merit, argumentative scope, and felicity of style in their
deliberations.

Rules for the competition are as follows:

  - Books must be scholarly monographs based on original research and
    published in English during the two calendar years preceding the award
    (as measured by the printed copyright date).  For example, books with
    a publication date of 2005 or 2006 may be considered for the 2007
    History & Humanities competition; books with a publication date of
    2006 or 2007 may be considered for the 2008 Social Science competition.

  - Books may be submitted for one competition only, and no book may be
    considered more than once.

  - Scholarly monographs translated into English from other languages
    are eligible for consideration.

  - Edited volumes, new editions of previously published books,
    bibliographies, dictionaries and textbooks are not eligible.

  - Nominations may be made by either the publisher or the author.  In
    order for a book to be considered, three copies must be received by
    April 1 of the year of the competition.

  - Authors need not be members of CESS to be nominated, but must
    become members by the nomination deadline (April 1) to be considered.

  - The winning author will receive the monetary prize and a
    certificate of award at an awards ceremony held at the annual CESS
    conference.  The results will also be announced in the Central
    Eurasian Studies Review.

For the 2007 CESS History & Humanities Book Award competition, please
ensure that three copies of the nominated book reach the current chair
of the CESS Awards Committee at the following address by April 1, 2007:

Professor Douglas Northrop
Department of Near Eastern Studies
4111 Thayer Academic Building
202 South Thayer St.
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI 48104-1608

Full info about CESS Awards: http://cess.fas.harvard.edu/CESS_Awards.html


  

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