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”