ASEEES News

Tuesday, January 21, 2025

ASEEES congratulates the 2024 Affiliate Award and Prize Recipients

Association for Women in Slavic Studies 

Outstanding Achievement Award 

Winner: Jane Costlow 

Heldt Prize for best book in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian women’s and gender studies 

Winner: Janine P. Holc, The Weavers of Trautenau: Jewish Female Forced Labor in the Holocaust (Brandeis University Press, 2023) 

Honorable Mention: Zorica Siročić, Festivals as Reparative Gender Politics: Millenial Feminism in Southeastern Europe (Routledge, 2023)

Heldt Prize for best book introducing new, innovative, and/or underrepresented perspectives into any area of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian studies 

Winner: Harriet Murav, As The Dust of the Earth: The Literature of Abandonment in Revolutionary Russia and Ukraine (Indiana University Press, 2024) 

Honorable Mention: Katarzyna Nowak, Kingdom of Barracks: Polish Displaced Persons in Allied-Occupied Germany and Austria, (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2023) 

Honorable Mention: Oksana Sarkisova and Olga Shevchenko, In Visible Presence: Soviet Afterlives in Family Photos (MIT Press, 2023)

Heldt Prize for best article in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian women’s and gender studies 

Winner: Elana Resnick, “The Intimacy of Labor Street Sweeping and the Pleasures of Anything Else,” Public Culture 35, 2 (2023): 233-254. 

Honorable Mention: Tereza Hendl, Olga Burlyuk, Mila O’Sullivan and Aizada Arystanbek, “(En)Countering epistemic imperialism: A critique of ‘Westsplaining’ and coloniality in dominant debates on Russia’s invasion of Ukraine,” Contemporary Security Policy 45, 2 (2024):171-209.

Mary Zirin Prize for Independent Scholars 

Winner: Aleksandra Jakubczak, for her outstanding research at the intersection of Jewish Studies, Eastern European History, and gender and migration studies 

Patricia Herlihy Graduate Research Prize 

Winner: Gehad Abaza, “Contentions of (Un)Belonging: Gender, Homemaking, and Statecraft in Abkhazia” 

Graduate Essay Prize 

Winner: Nicolette van den Bogerd, “Writing Music After The Holocaust: Survivor Identity And Memory In The Works Of Polish Jewish Composers” 

Central Eurasian Studies Society 

Book Award: History & Humanities 

Co-Winner: Adrienne Edgar, Intermarriage and the Friendship of Peoples: Ethnic Mixing in Soviet Central Asia (Cornell University Press, 2022) 

Co-Winner: Dilnoza Duturaeva, Qarakhanid Roads to China A History of Sino-Turkic Relations (Brill, 2022) 

Book Award: Social Sciences 

Winner: Joldon Kutmanaliev, Intercommunal Warfare and Ethnic Peacemaking: The Dynamics of Urban Violence in Central Asia (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2023) 

Honorable Mention: Yerkebulan Sairambay, New Media and Political Participation in Russia and Kazakhstan: Exploring the Lived Experiences of Young People in Eurasia (Lexington Books, 2023) 

Early Slavic Studies Association 

Article Prize 

Winners: Justin Willson and Ashley Morse, “Transferring Jerusalem to Moscow: Maksim Grek’s Letter and Its Afterlife,” The Russian Review 82 (2023): 248–262. 

North American Society for Serbian Studies  

Book Prize 

Winner: Dubravka Đurić, The Politics of Hope (After the War): Selected and New Poems, translated and edited, with an interview, by Biljana D. Obradović (Roof Books, 2024) 

Polish Studies Association 

Dissertation Award 

Winner: Ewelina Sikora, “Table set for diplomats: food, drink, and politics in Poland-Lithuania’s diplomatic relations, 1674–1696” 

Honorable Mention: Aleksandra Jakubczak, “(Sex)Worker, Migrant, Daughter: The Jewish Economics of Sex and Mobility, 1870-1939” 

Honorable Mention: Leah Valtin-Erwin “The Shop Across the Border: Western European Retail and the Making of Post–Communist (Super–)Market Societies in Eastern Europe, 1989—1999” 

Syllabus Award  

Winner: Agnieszka Jeżyk, “The Other in Other Europe: Poland’s Racial and Ethnic Other” (University of Washington) 

Slovak Studies Association 

Best Book in the humanities and social sciences about Slovakia 

Winner: Denisa Nešťáková, Be Fruitful and Multiply: Slovakia’s Family Planning Under Three Regimes (1918-1965) (Verlag-Herder Institut, 2023) 

Society for Armenian Studies  

Der Mugrdechian SAS Outstanding Book Award 

Co-Winner: Talar Chahinian, Stateless: The Politics of the Armenian Language in Exile (Syracuse University Press, 2023)  

Co-Winner: Ari Şekeryan, The Armenians and the Fall of the Ottoman Empire: After Genocide, 1918–1923 (Cambridge University Press, 2023)  

 Honorable Mention: Vartan Matiossian, The Politics of Naming the Armenian Genocide: Language, History, and ‘Medz Yeghern’ (I.B. Tauris, 2022) 

SAS Outstanding Dissertation Award 

Winner: Victoria Abrahamyan, “Between the Homeland and the Hostland: (Re)Claiming the Armenian Refugees in French Mandatory Syria, 1918-1946” 

Honorable Mention:  Jennifer Manoukian, “In Search of Purity: Language, Ideology and Global Intellectual Movements in Ottoman Armenian History, 1750-1915”  

Honorable Mention: Nora Lessersohn, “The Sultan of New York: Instructive Entertainment and Ottoman Armenian Politics in Nineteenth Century America (1818-1895)” 

Society for Romanian Studies 

Annual Graduate Student Essay Prize 

Winner: Miruna Chirila, “Identities in Romania Post-Same Sex Marriage Ban Referendum: Negotiating Queerness” 

Keith Hitchins Dissertation Prize 

Co-Winner: Keith Harrington, “Exploring the Internal Dynamics of the Transnistrian Separatist Movement, 1989-1992” 

Co-Winner: George Andrei, “Our Struggle for Existence: Negotiating Forestry, Rural Citizenship, and Statebuilding in Modern Romania” 

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