American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies (AAASS) Honors Slavic Scholars
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CAMBRIDGE, MA November 9, 2007 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, will present its
annual awards on November 17, 2007, during the
39th National Convention held at the New Orleans
Marriott Hotel in New Orleans, Louisiana.
Two scholars receive the Associations highest
honorthe Distinguished Contributions to Slavic Studies Award:
Alexander M. Schenker, Professor Emeritus of
Slavic Linguistics at Yale University, receives
the award for his important contributions to the
field of Polish language and literature, for his
further scholarly work in 18th-century cultural
history, and for his pioneering role in shaping
the development of Slavic linguistics as a
scholarly field in the United States.
Richard S. Wortman, James Bryce Professor of
History at Columbia University, receives the
award in recognition of his extraordinary
scholarly accomplishments and his lifelong
dedication to the field of Russian history.
The following scholars receive the Associations
book prizes for their recently published monographs:
Alexei Yurchak, Associate Professor of
Anthropology at University of California,
Berkeley, receives 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 Everything Was Forever Until It Was
No More: The Last Soviet Generation, published by Princeton University Press.
Charles Gati, Senior Adjunct Professor in Russian
and Eurasian Studies, and Fellow at the Foreign
Policy Institute, at the The Paul H. Nitze School
of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins
University, receives 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 Failed Illusions: Moscow, Washington,
Budapest, and the 1956 Hungarian Revolt,
co-published by Woodrow Wilson Center Press and
Stanford University Press in the Cold War International History Project Series.
János Kornai, Allie S. Freed Professor of
Economics Emeritus at Harvard University and
Permanent Fellow Emeritus at Collegium Budapest,
receives the 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, for By Force of Thought:
Irregular Memoirs of an Intellectual Journey, published by the MIT Press.
Pieter M. Judson, Professor of History at
Swarthmore College, and Editor of the Austrian
History Yearbook, a journal for the History of
the Habsburg Monarchy and its successor states,
receives 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
Guardians of the Nation: Activists on the
Language Frontiers of Imperial Austria, published by Harvard University Press.
Two scholars share the AAASS/Orbis Books Prize
for Polish studies for the best book in any
discipline on any aspect of Polish affairs this year:
Marci Shore, Assistant Professor of History at
Yale University, receives the prize for Caviar
and Ashes: A Warsaw Generations Life and Death
in Marxism, 1918-1968, published by Yale University Press.
Genevieve Zubrzycki, Assistant Professor of
Sociology at the University of Michigan-Ann
Arbor, receives the prize for The Crosses of
Auschwitz: Nationalism and Religion in
Post-Communist Poland, published by the University of Chicago Press.
In addition, Emily Baran, PhD candidate in
History at the University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill, receives the AAASS Graduate Student
Essay Prize for an outstanding essay by a
graduate student in Slavic studies for Communism
or Armageddon?: Representation of the Jehovahs
Witnesses in the Soviet Press, 1954-1985 which
also won the Southern Conference on Slavic
Studies graduate student essay competition.
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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,
or visit: www.aaass.org, and click on "AAASS Prizes."
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