Call for Nominations for 2007 AAASS Book Prizes

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Call for Nominations for 2007 AAASS Book Prizes

AAASS invites nominations for the 2007 Book 
Prizes. To be eligible, books must have been 
originally published in English in 2006 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. 
Textbooks, translations, bibliographies, and 
reference works are ineligible. The AAASS Book 
Prizes carry a cash award and will be presented 
at the Awards Ceremony during the 39th National 
Convention in New Orleans, LA, on Saturday, November 17, 2007.

If you wish to nominate a book please ask the 
publisher to submit copies for consideration to 
the prize committee, or contact the AAASS 
National Office, newsnet at fas.harvard.edu. For 
precise rules of eligibility for each prize and 
the mailing addresses for committee members, 
visit our Web site, www.fas.harvard.edu/~aaass/prizes.html

Deadline for nominations is May 4, 2007.

Wayne S. Vucinich Book Prize - awarded annually 
for the most important contribution to Russian, 
Eurasian, and East European studies in any 
discipline of the humanities or social sciences. 
Policy analyses, however scholarly, are not 
considered. Committee: Terry Martin, Chair, 
Harvard U, Bruce Grant, New York U, Caryl Emerson, Princeton U

Marshall Shulman Book Prize - awarded annually 
for an outstanding monograph dealing with the 
international relations, foreign policy, or 
foreign-policy decision-making of any of the 
states of the former Soviet Union or Eastern 
Europe. The book must have been published in the 
United States; authors must be American scholars 
or residents of the U.S. Committee: Matt 
Evangelista, Chair, Cornell U, Yoshiko Herrera, 
Harvard U, Jack F. Matlock, Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton U

Ed A. Hewett Book Prize - awarded annually 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. Only works originally 
published in English in the form of monographs, 
chapters in books, and substantial articles are 
eligible. Committee: Peter Murrell, Chair, U of 
Maryland, Gérard Roland, UC Berkeley, Elizabeth Dunn, U of Colorado

Barbara Jelavich Book Prize - awarded annually 
for a distinguished monograph published on any 
aspect of Southeast European or Habsburg studies 
since 1600, or nineteenth- and twentieth-century 
Ottoman or Russian diplomatic history. The book 
must have been published in the United States; 
authors must be citizens or permanent residents 
of North America. Committee: Maria Todorova, 
Chair, U of Illinois, Jeremy King, Mt. Holyoke College

AAASS/Orbis Books Prize for Polish Studies - 
awarded annually for the best book in any 
discipline, on any aspect of Polish affairs. Only 
works originally published in English, outside of 
Poland, are eligible; the book must be a 
monograph, preferably by a single author, or by 
no more than two authors. Committee to be announced.

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