aaus-list @ ukrainianstudies.org -- [aaus-list] AAUS awards 2006-2007 prizes for best book,best article and best translation

[Alexandra Hrycak <hrycaka@reed.edu>]

The American Association for Ukrainian Studies (AAUS) awards were 
announced on Saturday, April 12, 2008 at the AAUS meeting held during 
the ASN annual conference in New York City. The AAUS is pleased to 
announce the following individuals have been given awards for their 
recent contributions to the field of Ukrainian studies. Please join us 
in congratulating them on their success.

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The 2006-2007 AAUS Prize for Best Book in the fields of Ukrainian 
history, politics, language, literature, and culture was awarded to the 
following co-winners:

Vitaly Chernetsky, Assistant Professor, Department of German, Russian, 
and East Asian Languages at Miami University for
Mapping Postcommunist Cultures: Russia and Ukraine in the Context of 
Globalization (Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2007)

Catherine Wanner, Associate Professor of History and Anthropology,
the Department of History at the Pennsylvania State University for 
Communities of the Converted: Ukrainians and Global Evangelism (Ithaca, 
New York: Cornell University Press, 2007)

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The 2006 AAUS Prize for Best Article in the fields of Ukrainian history, 
politics, language, literature, and culture was awarded to following 
individuals and works:

  First prize:

Alexandra Hrycak, Associate Professor of Sociology at Reed College for 
"Foundation Feminism and the Articulation of Hybrid Feminisms in 
Post-Socialist Ukraine," East European Politics and Societies 20.1 
(2006): 69-100

  Second prize:

Natan M. Meir, Lecturer, School of Humanities, University of Southampton 
for "Jews, Ukrainians, and Russians in Kiev: Intergroup Relations in 
Late Imperial Associational Life," Slavic Review, Vol. 65, No. 3 
(Autumn, 2006), pp. 475-501


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The AAUS 2006-2007 Prize for Best Translation from Ukrainian into 
English was awarded to Michael Naydan, Professor of Slavic Languages and 
Literatures at the Pennsylvania State University for his forthcoming 
translation of Bohdan Ihor Antonych, The Grand Harmony (Lviv: Litopys 
Publishers, 2007).