List of Awards
- AWSS Patrica Herlihy Graduate Research Prize
- 2024 AWSS Patricia Herlihy Graduate Research Prize Call for Nominations
The Association for Women in Slavic Studies is pleased to announce the call
for nominations for the Patricia Herlihy Graduate Research Prize, awarded
annually to fund promising graduate-level research (a) in any field of
Slavic/East European/Central Asian studies by a woman or (b) on a topic in
Women's or Gender Studies related to Slavic Studies/East Europe/Central Asia
by a scholar of any gender.
The Prize is supported by a recent endowment established in the name of Dr.
Patricia Herlihy by her colleagues, students, and family. Dr. Herlihy made
incredible contributions to the study of Ukraine and supported and mentored
generations of scholars across disciplines engaged in study on Ukraine and
its neighbors.
Graduate students who are currently enrolled and at any stage of master's or
doctoral level research are eligible. The award carries a cash prize of
$1000 that may be used to support expenses related to completion of a thesis
or dissertation, as well as travel, services, and/or materials. Nominations
and self-nominations are welcome. Recipients must be members of AWSS and, if
not current AWSS members, must join as a condition of the award. Winning
recipients should submit a report on their use of the funds to the Committee
Chair by August of the year following the receipt of the award.
A completed application consists of: (1) a 2-3 page proposal that explains
the project, how the funds will be used, and why this funding is necessary
for continued progress on the project; (2) a current curriculum vitae; (3) a
detailed budget and timeline; (4) two letters of recommendation. Application
materials in MSWord or PDF, letters of recommendation, and any questions
regarding the prize should be sent directly to the Committee Chair:
aorzoff@nmsu.edu.
Deadline: Applications must be complete by September 1, 2024 to be
considered for the award.
Herlihy Graduate Research Prize Committee:
Dr. Andrea Orzoff, Chair
Associate Professor of History
New Mexico State University
aorzoff@nmsu.edu
Dr. Magdalena Moskalewicz
Chicago, IL
magdamoskalewicz@gmail.com
Dr. Tetiana Vodotyka
Chief Editor of City: History, Culture, Society and Academic Director, MA in
Urban Development and Postwar Reconstruction Kyiv School of Economics
tvodotyka@kse.org.ua - AWSS Heldt Prizes
2024 AWSS Heldt Prizes – Call for Nominations
The Association for Women in Slavic Studies invites nominations for the 2024
competition for the Heldt Prizes, awarded for works of scholarship published
between 15 April 2023 and 15 April 2024. To be eligible for nomination, all
books and articles must be in English.
Nominations for the 2024 prizes will be accepted for the following
categories:
• Best book introducing new, innovative, and/or underrepresented
perspectives into any area of Slavic/East European/Eurasian studies. Open to
AWSS members.
• Best book in Slavic/East European/Eurasian women’s and gender studies.
• Best article in Slavic/East European/Eurasian women’s and gender studies.
Each Heldt Book Prize carries an award of $250. Prizes will be awarded at
the AWSS reception at the ASEEES National Convention in Boston in November
2024.
2024 Heldt Book Prizes
Instructions for nominating books. One may nominate individual books for
more than one category, and more than one item for each category. To
nominate any work, please send or request that the publisher send one paper
copy to each of member of the Book Prize Committee by 31 May 2024.
Please direct any questions to the Committee Chair, Dr. Michele Rivkin-Fish
at mrfish@unc.edu.
Heldt Book Prize Committee:
Dr. Michele Rivkin-Fish, Chair
Department of Anthropology
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill CB #3115 Alumni Building, room 301
Chapel Hill, NC 27599 USA mrfish@unc.edu
Dr. Marijeta Bozović
Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures Yale University
256 Ives St
Hamden CT 06518 USA
marijeta.bozovic@yale.edu
Dr. Dragana Obradović
Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures University of Toronto
21 Tichester Road, Unit 203
York, ON M5P 1P3 Canada
dragana.obradovic@utoronto.ca
Dr. Daria Mattingly
Department of History, Politics and
International Relations
University of Chichester
6 St Margarets Villas
Bradford on Avon, BA151DU
United Kingdom
d.mattingly@chi.ac.uk
Dr. Bojana Videkanić
Department of Fine Arts
University of Waterloo
62 Reding Rd.
Hamilton, ON L9G1M8 Canada
bojana.videkanic@uwaterloo.ca
2024 AWSS Heldt Prize for Best Article
in Slavic/East European/Eurasian women’s and gender studies The Association
for Women in Slavic Studies invites nominations for the 2024 competition for
the Heldt Article Prize. The Heldt Article Prize carries an award of $125.
Instructions for nominating articles. To be eligible for nomination, an
article or book chapter must be in English and published in either a journal
or edited volume between 15 April 2023 and 15 April 2024. Please send or
request that the publisher electronically send one pdf copy of the article
or book chapter (including title page and table of contents for book
chapters) to each of the four members of the article prize committee by 31
May 2024.
Prizes will be awarded at the AWSS reception at the ASEEES National
Convention in Boston in November 2024.
Please direct any questions to the Committee Chair, Dr. Lea Horvat at
lea.horvat@uni-jena.de.
Heldt Article Prize Committe:
Dr. Lea Horvat, Chair
Department of Cultural History and Cultural Anthropology Friedrich Schiller
University Jena lea.horvat@uni-jena.de
Dr. Orysia Kulick
Departments of Political Studies and of German and Slavic Studies University
of Manitoba Orysia.Kulick@umanitoba.ca Dr. Jānis Ozoliņš Latvijas Mākslas
akadēmija / Art Academy of Latvia janis.ozolins@lma.lv
Dr. Natalia Plagmann
Department of Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures University of
Colorado Boulder Natalia.Plagmann@colorado.edu- AWSS Mary Zirin Prize
- 2024 AWSS Mary Zirin Prize for Independent Scholars of Slavic Studies --
Call for Nominations
The Association for Women in Slavic Studies is pleased to announce the call
for nominations for the Mary Zirin Prize in recognition of an independent
scholar in the field of Slavic Studies. This award of $500 is named for Mary
Zirin, who, working as an independent scholar, produced and encouraged
fundamental works in Slavic/East European Women's Studies, founded the Women
East-West newsletter, and was instrumental in the development of AWSS. The
Zirin Prize is open to scholars of any gender in Slavic, East European and
Eurasian Studies. We particularly encourage applications from those whose
scholarship or service focuses on women's or gender studies and encourages
the nomination of candidates from all career stages. For the purpose of this
award, an independent scholar is defined as a scholar who is not employed at
an institution of higher learning, or who is employed at a university or
college but is not eligible to compete for institutional support for
research (for example, those teaching under short-term contracts or working
in administrative posts). We welcome nominations from Central and Eastern
Europe and from Eurasia.
Nominations must include: (1) a nomination letter, no more than two pages
long, double-spaced; (2) the nominee's updated curriculum vitae; (3) a
sample publication (e.g., article or book chapter). The nomination letter
should describe the scholar's contribution to the field, as well as work in
progress.
Please direct all inquiries and nomination materials to Zirin Prize
Committee Chair, Dr. Vanja Petricevic (vpetricevic@fgcu.edu ) .
Deadline: Nominations (including self-nominations) will be accepted until
September 1, 2024.
Mary Zirin Prize Committee:
Dr. Vanja Petricevic, Chair
Department of Political Science and Public Administration Florida Gulf Coast
University vpetricevic@fgcu.edu
Dr. Andrea Orzoff
History Department
New Mexico State University
aorzoff@nmsu.edu
Dr. Darya Tsymbalyuk
darya.tsymbalyuk@gmail.com - AWSS Undergraduate and Graduate Essay Prizes
- 2024 AWSS Student Essay Prizes
Call for Nominations
The Association for Women in Slavic Studies is pleased to announce the call
for submissions for the 2024 Undergraduate Essay Prize and the 2024 Graduate
Essay Prize.
The Undergraduate Essay Prize recognizes outstanding essays in Slavic/East
European/Eurasian women's and gender studies written by an undergraduate
student in any discipline based at any tertiary institution worldwide.
Submissions must: (1) be in English, (2) have been written while the author
was a degree-seeking undergraduate, (3) have been submitted and assessed for
an undergraduate class between August 1, 2023 and August 31, 2024, (4) be of
3,000-5,000 words in length, (5) be accompanied by a nomination letter from
the instructor of the course for which the essay was written. The instructor
must be a current member of AWSS. Letters of nomination, accompanied by an
electronic copy of the essay in either Word or PDF, should be sent
electronically to each of the committee members listed below. Be sure to
include both the permanent mailing address and email contact information for
the student.
The Graduate Essay Prize is awarded to the author of a chapter or
article-length essay on any topic in any field or area of Slavic/East
European/Eurasian Studies written by a woman-identifying scholar, or on a
topic in Slavic/East European/Eurasian Women's or Gender Studies written by
a scholar of any gender. The Graduate Essay Prize carries an award of $500.
This competition is open to current doctoral students and to those who
defended a doctoral dissertation in 2023-2024. If the submission is a
seminar paper, it must have been written during the 2023-2024 academic year;
if a dissertation chapter, it should be accompanied by the dissertation
abstract and table of contents. Previous submissions and published materials
are ineligible. Essays should be no longer than 50 double-spaced pages,
including reference matter, and in English (quoted text in any other
language should be translated). Please send a copy of the essay and an
updated CV to each member of the Prize Committee as email attachment.
Deadline for both prizes: Completed submissions must be received by
September 1, 2024.
Please direct any questions to Student Essay Prize Committee Chair, Dr.
Melissa Bokovoy: mbokovoy@unm.edu
Dr. Melissa Bokovoy, Chair
Department of History
University of New Mexico
mbokovoy@unm.edu
Dr. Yelena Furman
Department of Slavic, East European and Eurasian Languages and Cultures
University of California Los Angeles yfurman@humnet.ucla.edu
Dr. Jessica Zychowicz
Director, Fulbright Ukraine
& Institute of International Education, Kyiv Office Jzychowicz@iie.org
Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies