Please see below for information on an interesting book prize opportunity.
Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies
Harvard University
1730 Cambridge Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
Phone: 617-495-4037
Fax: 617-495-8319
http://daviscenter.fas.harvard.edu/
The Eighteenth-Century Russian Studies Association, an affiliate organization of the
Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES), is now accepting
submissions for the second annual Marc Raeff Book Prize; and we encourage your press to
submit relevant entries to the members of the prize committee (listed below).
The Raeff Book Prize is awarded annually for a publication that is of exceptional merit
and lasting significance for understanding Imperial Russia, particularly during the long
eighteenth-century. The recipient of the award will be recognized with a cash prize,
which will be presented in November 2012, during the ASEEES annual convention. The award
is sponsored by the ECRSA and named in honor of Marc Raeff (1923-2008), historian,
teacher, and dix-huitièmiste par excellence.
Eligibility:
* The publication must be a monograph, translation, or reference work about any aspect
of the long eighteenth century, on any of the territories of the former imperial Russian
state. Textbooks, festschrifts, and edited collections of essays are not eligible unless
they constitute significant and innovative contributions to the field.
* The submitted work must bear a copyright date of either one or two years preceding
the award year (e.g. for the 2012 competition the published copyright date should be 2011
or 2012).
* It can be published in any language read by members of the ECRSA Prize Selection
Committee (including Russian) and in any format (analog or digital).
* The geographic area of study is broadly defined as the territories of the former
imperial Russian state and the Soviet Union. The publication must deal in whole or in part
with the long eighteenth century, here defined as the period from the last quarter of the
seventeenth-century to the first quarter of the nineteenth-century.
* Books that have received other prizes are eligible.
* Scholarly merit, originality, and felicity of style will be the main criteria for
selection. Submissions from scholars who are less than five (5) years from receiving their
doctoral degree are particularly encouraged.
Nominating Instructions:
* Authors or publishers should send one copy of eligible publication to each ECRSA
Prize Selection Committee member (see addresses below) AND to the ASEEES main office.
* Submissions should be clearly marked "Marc Raeff Book Prize."
* Nominations must be received no later than 30 June 2012.
* Award winners will be personally notified of the award prior to 1 October 2012.
Composition of ECRSA Prize Selection Committee:
* George E. Munro
Virginia Commonwealth University
Department of History
813 S. Cathedral Place
Room 301
PO Box 842001
Richmond, VA 23284-2001
gemunro@vcu.edu<mailto:gemunro@vcu.edu>
* Steven A. Usitalo
Northern State University
Department of History and Geography
Tech Center 369
1200 South Jay Street
Aberdeen, SD 57401
steven.usitalo@northern.edu<mailto:steven.usitalo@northern.edu>
* Maria Di Salvo
Viale XI Febbraio 2
27100 PAVIA
Italy
Disalvomaria@libero.it<mailto:Disalvomaria@libero.it>
* Ernest Zitser, President, ECRSA [ex-officio]
Duke University
International & Area Studies Department
230 Bostock Library
Box 90195
Durham NC 27708-0195
ernest.zitser@duke.edu<mailto:ernest.zitser@duke.edu>