Heldt Prize Announcement

Period: eligible text published between Apr. 15, 2010 and Apr. 15, 2011. Publication dates for the Translation Prize are Apr. 15, 2009 to Apr. 15, 2011
Application deadline: May 15, 2011

The Association for Women in Slavic Studies invites nominations for the 2011 Competition for the Heldt Prizes, awarded for works of scholarship.

Nominations for the 2011 prizes will be accepted for the following categories:
 
1.     Best book in Slavic/Eastern European/Eurasian women's studies;
2.     Best article in Slavic/Eastern European/Eurasian women's studies;
3.     Best book by a woman in any area of Slavic/East European/Eurasian studies.
4.     Best translation in Slavic/Eastern European/Eurasian women’s studies.

One may nominate individual books for more than one category, and more than one item for each category. Articles included in collections as well as journals are eligible for the "best article" prize, but they must be nominated individually.  The prizes will be awarded at the AWSS meeting at the ASEEES National Convention in Washington, D.C. in November, 2011. To nominate any work, please send or request that the publisher send one copy to each of the four members of the Prize committee by 15 May 2011:
 
Karen Petrone, Heldt Prize Committee chairperson
Associate Professor of History
Department of History
University of Kentucky
Lexington, KY  40506-0027
 
Eliot Borenstein
Professor of Russian & Slavic Studies
New York University
1 Washington Square Village, Apt. 15-U
New York, NY 10012
 
Sibelan Forrester
Professor of Russian
Department of Modern Languages and Literatures
Swarthmore College
500 College Ave.
Swarthmore, PA  19081-1390
 
Martha Lampland
Associate Professor
Sociology and Science Studies
University of California, San Diego
9500 Gilman Drive
La Jolla, CA 92093-0533

e-mail: adele.lindenmeyr@villanova.edu