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Tuesday, January 25, 2022

ASEEES Congratulates the 2021 Affiliate Group Prize Winners

ASSOCIATION FOR WOMEN IN SLAVIC STUDIES

2021 Outstanding Achievement Award
Winner: Dr. Eve Levin, Professor Emerita, Department of History, U of Kansas

Mary Zirin Prize
Winner: Dr. Patrice Dabrowski

Heldt Prize for Best Book by a Woman in any area of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies
Winner: Francine Hirsch, Soviet Judgment at Nuremburg: A New History of the International Military Tribunal after World War II (Oxford UP, 2020)
  Honorable Mention: Maya Nadkarni, Remains of Socialism: Memory and the Futures of the Past in Postsocialist Hungary (Cornell UP, 2020)

Heldt Prize for best book in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Women’s and Gender Studies
Winner: Allison Leigh, Picturing Russia’s Men: Masculinity and Modernity in 19th-Century Painting (Bloomsbury, 2020)

Heldt prize for best translation in Slavic, East European, & Eurasian Women’s and Gender Studies
Winner: Halyna Hryn, Nina Murray, Askold Melnyczuk, Marco Carynnyk, and Marta Horban, translators. Your Ad Could Go Here by Oksana Zabuzhko, edited by Nina Murray (Amazon Crossing, 2020)
  Honorable Mention: Katherine E. Young, trans. Look at Him by Anna Starobinets (Three String Books, 2020)

Best article in Slavic, East European, & Eurasian Studies
Winner: Abby Holekamp, “Who are Vera and Tatiana?: The Female Russian Nihilist in the Fin de Siecle Imagination,” Representations, 150, 1 (2020): 1-31.
  Honorable Mention: Chelsi West Ohueri, “On Living and Moving with Zor: Exploring Racism, Embodiment, and Health in Albania,” Medical Anthropology, 40, 3 (2021): 241-53.

AWSS Herlihy Graduate Research Award
Nataliia Laas, Ph.D. Candidate in History at Brandeis University, “Market Research without a Market: Consumers, the State, and the Economy of Waste in the Soviet Union, 1947-1991”

THE BULGARIAN STUDIES ASSOCIATION

John D. Bell Memorial Book Prize
Winner: Maria Todorova, Imagining Utopia 1870s-1920s. The Lost World of Socialists at Europe’s Margins, (Bloomsbury, 2020)

CENTRAL EURASIAN STUDIES SOCIETY

2021 CESS Book Award in Social Sciences
Winner: David Leupold, Embattled Dreamlands: The Politics of Contesting Armenian, Kurdish and Turkish Memory (Routledge, 2020)

CZECHOSLOVAK STUDIES ASSOCIATION

CSA Best Book
Winner: Karla Huebner, Magnetic Woman: Toyen and the Surrealist Erotic (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2020)
  Honorable Mention: Anna Hájková, The Last Ghetto: An Everyday History of Theresienstadt (Oxford UP, 2020)

Emerging Scholars Essay Prize
Winner: Mira Markham, “Světlana: Partisans and Power in Post-War Czechoslovakia,” which is based on her 2019 Master’s Thesis in History (UNC-Chapel Hill.) The essay was published in Contemporary European History in January 2021.

EARLY SLAVIC STUDIES ASSOCIATION

ESSA Book Prize
Winner: Andrey V. Ivanov, A Spiritual Revolution: The Impact of Reformation and Enlightenment in Orthodox Russia, 1700-1825 (University of Wisconsin Press, 2020)
  Honorable Mention: Valerie A. Kivelson and Christine D. Worobec (ed.), Witchcraft in Russia and Ukraine, 1000–1900: A Sourcebook (NIU Press, 2020)

EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY RUSSIAN STUDIES ASSOCIATION

Marc Raeff Book Prize
Winner: Andrey V. Ivanov, A Spiritual Revolution: The Impact of Reformation and Enlightenment in Orthodox Russia, 1700–1825 (University of Wisconsin Press, 2020).

POLISH STUDIES ASSOCIATION

The Aquila Polonica Prize
Winner: Jessica C. Robbins, “Expanding Personhood beyond Remembered Selves: The Sociality of Memory at an Alzheimer’s Center in Poland,” Medical Anthropology Quarterly, Vol. 33, Issue 4, 483–500, ISSN 0745-5194, online ISSN 1548-1387.

HUNGARIAN STUDIES ASSOCIATION

2021 HSA Book Prize
Co-winner: Béla Bodó, The White Terror. Antisemitic and Political Violence in Hungary, 1919-1921 (Routledge, 2019)
Co-winner: Anita Kurimay, Queer Budapest. 1873-1961 (U of Chicago Press, 2020)
  Honorable Mention: Leslie Waters, Borders on the Move. Territorial Change and Ethnic Cleansing in the Hungarian-Slovak Borderlands, 1938-1948 (U of Rochester Press, 2020)

THE POLISH INSTITUTE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES OF AMERICA (PIASA)

Ludwik Krzyżanowski Award for best article published in The Polish Review in 2020
Winner: Anna Muller, “The Return: The Long Road Home of Female Concentration Camp Inmates” (vol. 65, no. 3)

Susanne Lotarski Distinguished Achievement Award
Winner: Roman Koropeckyj, Professor of Slavic Languages, Department of Slavic, East European and Eurasian Languages and Cultures at UCLA

Oskar Halecki Polish History Award
Co-winner: Molly Pucci, Security Empire: The Secret Police in Communist Eastern Europe (Yale UP, 2020)
Co-winner: Richard Butterwick-Pawlikowski, The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth 1733-1795: Light and Flame (Yale UP, 2020)

Bronisław Malinowski Award in Social Sciences
Winner: Geneviève Zubrzycki, Professor of Sociology and Director of the Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia, the Center for European Studies, and the Copernicus Program in Polish Studies, U of Michigan

Rachel Feldhay Brenner Award in Polish-Jewish Studies
Co-winner: Elyana Adler, Survival on the Margins: Polish Jewish Refugees in the Wartime Soviet Union (Harvard UP, 2020)
Co-winner: Adam Teller, Rescue the Surviving Souls: The Great Jewish Refugee Crisis of the Seventeenth Century (Princeton UP, 2020)

Anna M. Cienciala Award for best edited book in Polish Studies
Winner: Silvia G. Dapia, Gombrowicz in Transnational Context: Translation, Affect, and Politics, ed. Silvia G. Dapía (Routledge, 2019)

SOCIETY FOR ROMANIAN STUDIES

2021 Book Prize
Winner: Roxana-Talida Roman, The Edge of Europe – Heritage, Landscape and Conflict Archaeology: First World War Material Culture in Romanian Conflictual Landscapes (Bar Publishing, 2020)
  Honorable Mention: Péter Berta, Materializing Difference: Consumer Culture, Politics, and Ethnicity among Romanian Roma (University of Toronto Press, 2019)
  Honorable Mention: Călin Cotoi, Inventing the Social in Romania, 1848–1914: Networks and Laboratories of Knowledge (Ferdinand Schoeningh, 2020)

2021 Graduate Student Essay Prize
Winner: Alexandra Ciocănel (U of Manchester)
  Honorable Mention: Iemima Ploscariu (Dublin City University)

SLOVAK STUDIES ASSOCIATION

2021 Best Article/Book Chapter Prize
Winner: Marty Manor Mullins, “Forgotten Velvet: Understanding Eastern Slovakia’s 1989” in New Perspectives, the Interdisciplinary Journal of Central and East European Politics and International Relations, vol. 27, no. 3, 2019.

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