Call for 2005 AAASS book prize nominations

[Jolanta Davis]

Call for Nominations for 2005 AAASS Book Prizes

American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies (AAASS) invites
nominations for its 2005 Book Prizes. To be eligible, books must have been
originally published in English in 2004 in the form of a monograph,
preferably by a single author, or by no more than two authors. The Hewett
Prize, however, may be awarded for chapters of books or substantial
articles. Textbooks, translations, bibliographies, and reference works are
ineligible. The AAASS book prizes carry a cash award and will be presented
at the Awards Presentation reception during the 37th National Convention in
Salt Lake City, Utah, on Saturday, November 5, 2005.

If you wish to nominate a book please ask the publisher to submit copies
for consideration to the prize committee, or contact the AAASS National
Office, aaass at fas.harvard.edu. For precise rules of eligibility for each
prize and the mailing addresses for committee members, visit our Web site,
www.aaass.org.

Deadline for nominations is May 13, 2005.

The following book prizes will be awarded by the AAASS in 2005:

AAASS/Orbis Books Prize for Polish Studies for the best book in any
discipline, on any aspect of Polish affairs. Only works originally
published in English, outside of Poland, are eligible; the book must be a
monograph, preferably by a single author, or by no more than two authors.
Committee: Andrzej Tymowski, Chair, American Council of Learned Societies,
e-mail: atymowski at acls.org; Brian Porter, U of Michigan; Bozena Shallcross,
U of Chicago.

Ed A. Hewett Book Prize 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. Only works
originally published in English in the form of monographs, chapters in
books, and substantial articles are eligible. Committee: Peter Rutland,
Chair, Wesleyan University, e-mail: prutland at wesleyan.edu; Vladimir
Kontorovich, Haverford College; Mieke Meurs, American University.

Barbara Jelavich Book Prize 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. The book must
have been published in the United States; authors must be citizens or
permanent residents of North America. Committee: David Schimmelpenninck van
der Oye, Chair, Brock University, e-mail: dschimme at brocku.ca; Keely
Stauter-Halsted, Michigan State U; Nicholas Miller, Boise State U.

Marshall Shulman Book Prize 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. The book
must have been published in the United States; authors must be American
scholars or residents of the U.S. Committee: Rawi Abdelal, Chair, Harvard
Business School, e-mail: rabdelal at hbs.edu; Anna Grzymala-Busse, U of
Michigan; Jack F. Matlock.

Wayne S. Vucinich Book Prize for the most important contribution to
Russian, Eurasian, and East European studies in any discipline of the
humanities or social sciences. Policy analyses, however scholarly, are not
considered. Committee: Mark Beissinger, Chair, U of Wisconsin, e-mail:
beissinger at polisci.wisc.edu; Istvan Deak, Columbia U; Monika Greenleaf,
Stanford U.


Jolanta M. Davis
AAASS Publications Coordinator and NewsNet Editor

American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies (AAASS)
8 Story Street
Cambridge, MA
tel.: 617-495-0679
fax: 617-495-0680
Web site: www.fas.harvard.edu/~aaass

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