AWSS Announces 2011 Prizes

[Adele Lindenmeyr]

The Association for Women in Slavic Studies is very pleased to announce the winners of its 2011 Prize Competitions

The winners will be celebrated at the AWSS annual meeting and luncheon convention at the Association for Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies convention in Washington, DC, on Saturday, November 19, 2011 at its annual awards luncheon (noon to 2 pm, Ambassador Ballroom). Luncheon tickets are still available; please contact adele.lindenmeyr at villanova.edu<mailto:adele.lindenmeyr at villanova.edu>

Outstanding Achievement Award: Professor Marina Goldovskaya

Mary Zirin Prize for Independent Scholars: Dr. Stepanka Korytova

Heldt Prizes:

Best Book by a Woman in any area of Slavic/East European/Eurasian Studies: Cristina Vatulescu, Police Aesthetics: Literature, Film & the Secret Police in Soviet Times (Stanford University Press, 2010)
Honorable Mention: Sarah D. Phillips, Disability and Mobile Citizenship in Postsocialist Ukraine (Indiana University Press, 2011)

Best book in Slavic/Eastern European/Eurasian Women's Studies: Eliyana R. Adler, In Her Hands: The Education of Jewish Girls in Tsarist Russia (Wayne State University Press, 2011)
Honorable Mention: Rochelle Goldberg Ruthchild, Equality and Revolution: Women's Rights in the Russian Empire, 1905-1917, University of Pittsburgh Press, 2010
Best Article in Slavic/Eastern European/Eurasian Women's Studies: Michelle Lamarche Marrese, "'The Poetics of Everyday Behavior' Revisited: Lotman, Gender, and the Evolution of Russian Noble Identity," Kritika 11, No 4 (fall 2010).

Best Translation in Slavic/Eastern European/Eurasian Women's Studies: Marian Schwartz for her translation of Ol'ga Slavnikova, 2017 (Overlook/Duckworth, 2010)


Adele Lindenmeyr, Ph.D. | Dean of Graduate Studies, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences |
Villanova University | 800 Lancaster Avenue, Kennedy Hall, Villanova, PA 19085 |
Tel: 610.519.7093| Fax: 610.519.7096|www.gradartsci.villanova.edu<www.gradartsci.villanova.edu%20> | adele.lindenmeyr at villanova.edu<woo.cheng at villanova.edu>




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