AAASS announces its 2005 prize winners

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American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies (AAASS) Honors 
Slavic Scholars at its National Convention in Salt Lake City, Utah

CAMBRIDGE, MA ­ November 17, 2005 ­ The American Association for the 
Advancement of Slavic Studies (AAASS), the leading private, nonprofit 
organization dedicated to the advancement of knowledge about Russia, 
Central Eurasia, and Eastern and Central Europe, presented its annual 
awards on November 5, 2005, during the 37th National Convention held at the 
Grand and Little America Hotels in Salt Lake City, Utah.

Two gentlemen received the Association’s highest honor­the Distinguished 
Contributions to Slavic Studies Award:
István Deák, Seth Low Professor Emeritus at Columbia University, accepted 
the award for his lifetime accomplishments in scholarship, teaching, and 
service.
David Obey, Democratic Congressman from Wisconsin’s 7th District, was 
recognized for his service to higher education and his support for Slavic 
studies.

Yuri Slezkine, Professor of Russian History at the University of 
California, Berkeley, received the Wayne S. Vucinich Book Prize awarded for 
the most important contribution to Russian, Eurasian, and East European 
studies in any discipline of the humanities or social sciences, for The 
Jewish Century, published by Princeton University Press.

Kate Brown, Assistant Professor of History at the University of Maryland 
Baltimore County, received an honorable mention from the Vucinich Book 
Prize committee for A Biography of No Place: From Ethnic Borderland to 
Soviet Heartland, published by Harvard University Press.

Stanley G. Payne, Professor Emeritus at the University of Wisconsin, 
Madison, received the 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, for The Spanish Civil War, the Soviet Union, and 
Communism, published by Yale University Press.

Wade Jacoby, Associate Professor of Political Science and Director of the 
Center for the Study of Europe at Brigham Young University, received an 
honorable mention from the Shulman Book Prize committee for The Enlargement 
of the European Union and NATO: Ordering from the Menu in Central Europe, 
published by Cambridge University Press.

Elizabeth C. Dunn, Assistant Professor of Geography and International 
Affairs at the University of Colorado at Boulder, received two prizes for 
Privatizing Poland: Baby Food, Big Business, and the Remaking of Labor, 
published by Cornell University Press­The 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, as well as the AAASS/Orbis Books Prize for Polish 
studies for the best book in any discipline on any aspect of Polish affairs.

Maureen Healy, Assistant Professor of History at Oregon State University, 
received the Barbara Jelavich Book Prize for a distinguished monograph on 
any aspect of Southeast European or Habsburg studies since 1600, or 
nineteenth- and twentieth-century Ottoman or Russian diplomatic history, 
for Vienna and the Fall of the Habsburg Empire: Total War and Everyday Life 
in World War I, published by Cambridge University Press.

Charles King, Chair of the Faculty and Ion Ratiu Associate Professor in the 
School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University, received an honorable 
mention from the Jelavich Book Prize committee for The Black Sea: A 
History, published by Oxford University Press.

Nicholas Ganson, Ph.D. candidate in History at the University of North 
Carolina at Chapel Hill, received the Graduate Student Essay Prize for an 
outstanding essay by a graduate student in Slavic studies for "Exploring 
the Causes of Child Mortality during the Soviet Famine of 1946-1947."

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For additional information about the AAASS, the awards presentation, an 
electronic version of this press release, full text of the citations for 
the awards, and contact information for prize winners or publishers, please 
contact: Dmitry Gorenburg, Executive Director of AAASS, tel.: 617-496-9412, 
e-mail: gorenbur at fas.harvard.edu, Web site: www.aaass.org.



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