Wednesday, January 14, 2026
ASEEES Congratulates the 2025 Affiliate Award and Prize Recipients
Association for Women in Slavic Studies
Outstanding Achievement Award
Winner: Karen Petrone (University of Kentucky)
Heldt Prize for best book in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian women’s and gender studies
Winner: Alissa Klots, Domestic Service in the Soviet Union: Women’s Emancipation and the Gendered Hierarchy of Labor (Cambridge University Press)
Heldt Prize for best book introducing new, innovative, and/or underrepresented perspectives into any area of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian studies
Winner: Magdalena Kazubowski-Houston, Randia’s Quiet Theatre: Performing Care and Activism with a Romani Elder (McGill-Queen’s University Press)
Honorable Mention: Masha Salazkina, Romancing Yesenia: How a Mexican Melodrama Shaped Global Popular Culture (University of California Press)
Honorable Mention: Cristina Vatulescu, Reading the Archival Revolution: Declassified Stories and Their Challenges (Stanford University Press)
Heldt Prize for best article in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian women’s and gender studies
Winner: Olena S. Dmytryk, “Communicating community: Early Internet and trans* digital cultures in Ukraine and beyond,” Intersections: East European Journal of Society and Politics
Honorable Mention: Eralda L. Lameborshi, “‘My Body, My Choice, My Country, My Voice’: Kosovar Film, Women’s Rights, and Postwar Trauma,” Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society
Mary Zirin Prize for Independent Scholars
Winner: Svitlana Biedarieva, independent art historian, artist, and curator
Honorable Mention: Megan Buskey, independent writer
Honorable Mention: Kathleen Cioffi, independent theater historian
Patricia Herlihy Graduate Research Prize
Winner: Anna Kozlova (Carleton University)
Graduate Essay Prize
Winner: Kim Yehbohn Lacey (Washington University in St. Louis), for the dissertation chapter “Home Is Where We Are”
Honorable Mention: Masha Bratishcheva (History, Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, Ph.D. 2025), for the essay “Beyond the ‘Woman Question’: Female Gender, Authorship and the Rise of the Early Women’s Movement in the Russian Empire during the Era of the Great Reforms”
Bulgarian Studies Association
John D. Bell Memorial Book Prize
Winner: Lilia Topouzova, Unsilencing: The History and Legacy of the Bulgarian Gulag (Cornell University Press)
Central Eurasian Studies Society
Book Award
Winner: Vladimir Hamed-Troyansky, Empire of Refugees: North Caucasian Muslims and the Late Ottoman State (Stanford University Press)
Winner: Marianne Kamp, Collectivization Generation: Oral Histories of a Social Revolution in Uzbekistan (Cornell University Press)
Czechoslovak Studies Association
Book Prize
Winner: Rosamund Johnston, Red Tape: Radio and Politics in Czechoslovakia, 1945-1969 (Stanford University Press)
Winner: Claire Morelon, Streetscapes of War and Revolution. Prague, 1914-1920 (Cambridge University Press)
Emerging Scholar Prize
Winner: Jonathan Parker (UT Austin), “Recruitment, Manpower, and the Nationality Issue in Slovakia”
Eighteenth-Century Russian Empire Studies Association
Marc Raeff Book Prize
Winner: Tilman Plath, Peters “unsichtbare Hand”? Außenhandelspolitik und ökonomisches Denken im Russland des 18. Jahrhunderts. Quellen und Studien zur Baltischen Geschichte (Böhlau)
Polish Studies Association
Aquila Polonica Prize
Winner: Louisa M. McClintock, “In the Shadow of the Crematoria: Investigating Mass Atrocities in Poland, 1944–1945,” The Journal of Modern History
Honorable Mention: Jagoda Wierzejska, “Artistic Forms of Shaping Ukrainian National Identity by Leon Getz,” Nationalities Papers
Graduate Student Research Award
Winner: Łukasz Kiełpiński (University of Warsaw), “From Warsaw Uprising to Black Panthers: How Edward Laudański Became Edouard de Laurot”
Slovak Studies Association
Best Article or Book Chapter Award
Winner: Veronika Szeghy-Gayer, “Former Hungarian civil servants on the territory of Slovakia amid the first years of the Czechoslovak Republic, 1919-24: a case study on the status regulation of teachers and postal employees,” European Review of History
Honorable Mention: Martin Pácha, “Between Repression, Chaos and Uncertainty: Religious Minorities in Early Communist Czechoslovakia” Contemporary European History
Society for Armenian Studies
Best Conference Paper Award
Winner: Aram Ghoogasian (University of California, Los Angeles), “Blood, Sweat, and Tears: Learning to Read at Midcentury”
Winner: Arthur Ipek (New York University), “Ecce philomela obispoensis (Tenny Arlen and her contribution to contemporary Armenian poetry)”
Society for Romanian Studies
Graduate Student Essay Prize
Winner: Bogdan Vișan (Alexandru Ioan Cuza University), “The Overlap of Literary Zones: Interlingual World-making in East-Central Europe”