Thursday, August 13, 2015
ASEEES Congratulates 2015 Distinguished Contributions Award Recipients
The Association for Slavic, East European, and Eursian Studies is honored to confer the 2015 Distinguished Contributions to Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies Award to Professor Archie Brown and Professor Alexander Rabinowitch. The Distinguished Contributions Award is the Association’s most prestigious honor that is bestowed on senior scholars who have helped to build and develop the field through scholarship, training, and service to the profession.
The landmark works by Archie Brown, Professor Emeritus of Politics at Oxford University, fundamentally shaped the study of Soviet and Russian domestic politics in the English-speaking world. To read the citation honoring Professor Brown’s work click here.
No historian has done more than Alex Rabinowitch, Professor Emeritus of History at Indiana University, to demythologize the history of the Russian Revolution, one of the most important events of the 20th century. To read Professor Rabinowitch’s citation click here.