Call for nominations for AAASS book prizes

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The American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies 
invites nominations for its seven book prizes:

1) 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.

2) NEW PRIZE - Davis Center Book Prize -- awarded annually an 
outstanding monograph on Russia, Eurasia, or Eastern Europe in 
anthropology, political science, sociology, or geography.

3) 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.

4) 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.

5) 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.

6) AAASS/Orbis Books Prize for Polish Studies -- awarded annually for 
the best book in any discipline, on any aspect of Polish affairs.

7) W. Bruce Lincoln Book Prize -- awarded biennially (in even 
numbered years) for an author's first published monograph or 
scholarly synthesis that is of exceptional merit and lasting 
significance for the understanding of Russia's past.

The deadline for nominations is May 2, 2008.

For detailed rules of eligibility and submission guidelines please see:
http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~aaass/prizes.html

Please feel free to contact me if you have any questions.

sincerely,
Jolanta Davis

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