Announcement of Heldt Prize Competition 2012

[Adele Lindenmeyr]

The Association for Women in Slavic Studies invites nominations for the 2012 Competition for the Heldt Prizes, awarded for works of scholarship. To be eligible for nomination, all books and articles must be published between 15 April 2011 and 15 April 2012.



Nominations for the 2012 prizes will be accepted for the following categories:Best book in Slavic/Eastern European/Eurasian women's studies; Best article in Slavic/Eastern European/Eurasian women's studies; Best book by a woman in any area of Slavic/East European/Eurasian studies.



One may nominate individual books for more than one category, and more than one item for each category.  Articles included in collections as well as journals are eligible for the "best article" prize, but they must be nominated individually.  The prizes will be awarded at the AWSS meeting at the ASEEES National Convention in New Orleans in November 2012.

The translation prize, which is offered every other year, will be awarded next in 2013 for works published between

15 April 2011 and 15 April 2013.



To nominate any work, please send or request that the publisher send one copy to each of the four members of the Prize committee by 15 May 2012:



Karen Petrone, Heldt Prize Committee Chairperson

Professor and Chair

Department of History

University of Kentucky

Lexington, KY  40506-0027



Martha Lampland

Interim Director, Science Studies

Associate Professor, Sociology

University of California, San Diego

9500 Gilman Drive

La Jolla, CA 92093-0533



Cristina Vatulescu

Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature, Russian & Slavic Studies Department of Comparative Literature

New York University

19 University Place, 3rd Fl.

New York, NY 10003



William G. Wagner

Brown Professor of History

Williams College

33 Haley Street

Williamstown, MA  01267


Adele Lindenmeyr, Ph.D. | Dean of Graduate Studies, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences |
Villanova University | 800 Lancaster Avenue, Kennedy Hall, Villanova, PA 19085 |
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