Call for nominations for 2009 AAASS book prize competitions

[NewsNet (Jolanta Davis)]

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On behalf of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies,
I am pleased to announce the call for nominations for the Association's
eight book prize competitions. 

If you would like a book to be nominated, please contact the publisher and
ask them to submit it. For detailed information about each prize, the
eligibility criteria, and mailing addresses of committee members, please
see: http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~aaass/prizes.html and click on the name of
the prize.

.  Wayne S. Vucinich Book Prize
<http://www.fas.harvard.edu/%7Eaaass/prizes/vucinichprize.html>  is awarded
annually for the most important contribution to Russian, Eurasian, and East
European studies in any discipline of the humanities or social sciences.
(http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~aaass/prizes/vucinichprize.html)

.  University of Southern California Book Prize in Literary and Cultural
Studies <http://www.fas.harvard.edu/%7Eaaass/prizes/uscprize.html>  (a new
prize) is awarded annually for an outstanding monograph published on Russia,
Eastern Europe or Eurasia in the fields of literary and cultural studies.
(http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~aaass/prizes/uscprize.html)

.  Reginald Zelnik Book Prize in History
<http://www.fas.harvard.edu/%7Eaaass/prizes/zelnikprize.html>  (a new prize)
is awarded annually for an outstanding monograph published on Russia,
Eastern Europe or Eurasia in the field of history.
(http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~aaass/prizes/zelnikprize.html)

.  Davis Center Book Prize in Political and Social Studies
<http://www.fas.harvard.edu/%7Eaaass/prizes/davisprize.html>  is awarded
annually for an outstanding monograph on Russia, Eurasia, or Eastern Europe
in anthropology, political science, sociology, or geography.
(http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~aaass/prizes/davisprize.html)

.  Marshall Shulman Book Prize
<http://www.fas.harvard.edu/%7Eaaass/prizes/shulmanprize.html>  is 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.
(http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~aaass/prizes/shulmanprize.html)

.  Ed A. Hewett Book Prize
<http://www.fas.harvard.edu/%7Eaaass/prizes/hewettprize.html>  is 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.
(http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~aaass/prizes/hewettprize.html)

.  Barbara Jelavich Book Prize
<http://www.fas.harvard.edu/%7Eaaass/prizes/jelavichprize.html>  is 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.
(http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~aaass/prizes/jelavichprize.html)

.  AAASS/Orbis Books Prize for Polish Studies
<http://www.fas.harvard.edu/%7Eaaass/prizes/aaassorbisprize.html>  is
awarded annually for the best book in any discipline, on any aspect of
Polish affairs.
(http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~aaass/prizes/aaassorbisprize.html)

The deadline for all nominations is May 8, 2009. 

The names of the winners will be announced in the October 2009 issue of the
Association's newsletter, NewsNet and the prizes will be presented at the
AAASS National Convention in November 2009 in Boston, Massachusetts.
(http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~aaass/convention.html) 

If you have any questions about the Association's prizes, please do not
hesitate to contact me. 

Sincerely,
Jolanta Davis
AAASS Publications Coordinator and NewsNet Editor
AAASS
8 Story Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
Tel.: 617-495-0679
Fax: 617-495-0680
www.aaass.org


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