AWSS Outstanding Achievement Award, 2000

[Sibelan Forrester]

Dear Friends and Colleagues,

The Association for Women in Slavic Studies is pleased to announce
the winner of the 2000 AWSS Outstanding Achievement Award in the
field of Slavic, East European and Central Asian Women's Studies.
The winner of this year's award has published scholarly monographs
and anthologies on Russian history, literary translations, Russian
women's and gender studies, Slavic cultural studies, and anthologies
and criticism of Russian and other Slavic literatures -- many of
which have been honored by AWSS, but never in her name:  Dr. Janet
Rabinowitch of Indiana University Press.

As the colleague who nominated her pointed out, "Although Janet
Rabinowitch has not authored feminist or gender-focused scholarship
within Slavic Studies, no other specialist has PUBLISHED so many
works in the field as has Janet during her twenty-two years with
Indiana UP.  Janet's PhD in Russian Studies (Georgetown University,
1965) and her wide-ranging activities within the Association of
American University Presses (in addition, of course, to her own taste
and intelligence) make her an outstanding critical reader of the
manuscripts she receives, sends out for review, and sees through
production.  She has been called 'the premier editor in our field'
and has played a pioneering role in gender studies, starting with
Barbara Heldt's THE TERRIBLE PERFECTION, published in 1987.  Janet
was willing to take risks with submissions focused on women when
other editors still shrank from doing so, and her energetic
dedication to precisely those issues and qualities that the
Association for Women in Slavic Studies represents in a sense qualify
her as one of the most notable members of the organization.  The list
of Slavic gender and feminist publications she has sponsored is
formidable and certainly unequalled among university press editors.
For her long-standing commitment to scholarship on Slavic womanhood
she has earned a unique place among us, and this award acknowledges
just how valuable that place is to all of us."

This award carries a Life Membership in AWSS, an expression of our
esteem and our enthusiastic support fro Dr. Rabinowitch's continuing
work in the field.

Respectfully submitted,

Sibelan Forrester

for the Committee:

Christine Ruane, AWSS Vice President and President Elect
Stephanie Sandler, AWSS Past President
Sibelan Forrester, AWSS President

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