aaus-list @ ukrainianstudies.org -- [aaus-list] Call for Nominations: Vucinich Book Prize, AAASS 7.5.10

[Andreas Umland <andreumland@yahoo.com>]

The American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies (AAASS) invites nominations for the 2010 Wayne S. Vucinich Book Prize for the most important contribution to Russian, Eurasian, and East European studies  in any discipline of the humanities or social sciences.

Rules of eligibility for the Vucinich book prize competition are as follows:

* The copyright date inside the book must list the previous calendar year as the date of publication (the book must have been published in 2009 to be eligible for the 2010 competition)

* The book must be a monograph, preferably by a single author, or by no more than two authors

* Works may deal with any area of Eastern Europe, Russia, or Eurasia

* The competition is open to works of scholarship in any discipline of the social sciences or humanities (including literature, the arts, film, etc.). Policy analyses, however scholarly, cannot be considered

* Textbooks, collections, translations, bibliographies, and reference works are ineligible.

To nominate a title, please send one copy of eligible monograph to each Committee member AND to the AAASS main office:

Valerie Sperling

Department of Government and International Relations

Clark University

950 Main Street

Worcester MA 01610

Francine Hirsch

University of Wisconsin-Madison

4124 Mosse Humanities Bldg

455 N Park St

Madison, WI 53706

Stephanie Sandler

76 Snell St.

Amherst, MA 01002

Catherine Wanner

Department of History

108 Weaver Building

The Pennsylvania State University

University Park, PA 16802

AAASS

Book Prizes

8 Story Street

Cambridge, MA 02138

Nominations must be received no later than May 7, 2010.

Submissions should be clearly marked “Wayne S. Vucinich Book Prize Nomination.” If you would like to receive an acknowledgment that your nomination was received please enclose with the copy mailed to the AAASS main office a note with your e-mail address or a self-addressed stamped envelope or a postcard.

Jolanta M. Davis
NewsNet Editor and Publications Coordinator
American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies (AAASS)
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Cambridge, MA 02138
tel.: 617-495-0679
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