- Best first book
- Best book in literary studies
- Best edited multi-author scholarly volume
- Best literary/scholarly translation into English
- Best book in linguistics and language pedagogy
- The Svetlana Boym Best Book in Cultural Studies Prize
Wednesday, April 22, 2026
Reminder: AATSEEL Book Award Nominations Due May 1
Wednesday, April 15, 2026
Friday, April 3, 2026
Nominations open for the 2026 Hans Rosenberg Book Prize of the Central European History Society
The Central European History Society is pleased to invite nominations for the 2026 Hans Rosenberg Book Prize. The prize recognizes the best book in Central European History published by a North American Scholar. The 2026 competition is limited to books with a 2025 copyright. Deadline for submissions: June 1, 2026.
The phrase “Central European” is understood to include all German-speaking countries as well as territories previously included within the German or Habsburg empires. Books that focus on the period after 1945 in Eastern Europe will need to engage with “German” and/or “Austrian” questions to be considered as “Central European” (rather than “Eastern European”). The current prize amount is $1,000.
Only books of a high scholarly quality should be nominated. Research accuracy, originality and literary merit are important factors in the review of the nominated monographs. Translations, edited collections, anthologies, memoirs and books that have been previously published will not be considered. Nomination submissions may be made by an author or a publisher. Publishers may submit as many entries as they wish.
To nominate a book, please send an email with the full publication information for each title to: RosenbergPrize@
One copy of each entry must be sent to each committee member and clearly labeled “Rosenberg Prize Entry.” Print copies are preferred; if only an e-copy is available, the submission will need to be arranged in advance with the committee members.
Please note: All entries must be postmarked by June 1, 2026 to be eligible for the 2026 competition. Entries will not be returned. The prize winner will be announced on the CEHS website in early December 2026 and recognized during the Society’s business meeting at the January 2027 AHA annual meeting in New Orleans.
Questions about the prize and eligibility may be directed to RosenbergPrize@
Friday, September 19, 2025
North American Dostoevsky Society Martinsen Conference Travel Award
The North American Dostoevsky Society invites applications for the Deborah A. Martinsen Conference Travel Award for 2025. Named for Deborah A. Martinsen, a former President of both the International and North American Dostoevsky Societies and preeminent Dostoevsky scholar, the Martinsen Award is a travel bursary to help graduate student or other precarious employed members of the North American Dostoevsky Society to defray costs associated with attending a conference to present their work on Dostoevsky. More information can be found here: https://bloggerskaramazov.com/
This cycle will support an award of up to $1000 towards the costs of attending the ASEEES conference in Washington, DC in November 2025. The submission deadline is Monday, September 29th, 2025, and successful applicants will be notified by Monday, October 6th, 2025. All NADS members who are based in North America and have had a paper accepted for the ASEEES conference that is significantly or wholly dedicated to Dostoevsky are invited to apply. Please submit your application to this Google form before midnight PST on Monday, September 29th, 2025: https://forms.gle/
This call can also be found on the website here: https://bloggerskaramazov.com/
Wednesday, January 17, 2024
PRIZE/AWARD: ACTR Professional Development Grant in Honor of Olga E. Kagan
Tuesday, August 23, 2022
Nominations: Early Slavic Studies Article Prize
Deadline: September 25, 2022
Dear Colleagues,
Professoressa Associata di Filologia slava
Università degli Studi di Milano
Dipartimento di Lingue, Letterature, Culture e Mediazioni
Piazza S. Alessandro 1
20123 Milano
Wednesday, June 9, 2021
Prize/Award: 2021 Marc Raeff Book Prize
Deadline: June 15, 2021
The Eighteenth-Century Russian Studies Association, an affiliate of the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES), is now accepting submissions for the 2021 Marc Raeff Book Prize. We encourage both presses and individual scholars to submit nominations to the members of the prize committee (listed below).
The Raeff Book Prize is awarded for a publication that is of exceptional merit and lasting significance for understanding Imperial Russia during the long 18th century. The recipient of the award will be recognized with a cash prize, which will be presented in November 2021 at the ASEEES annual convention in New Orleans. The award is sponsored by the ECRSA and named in honor of Marc Raeff (1923-2008), historian, teacher, and dix-huitiémiste par excellence.
Please address all questions about the prize to Gregory Afinogenov (Committee Chair) at Gregory.Afinogenov@
Submissions must be made (see Nominating Instructions below) by June 15, 2021.
Eligibility
- The publication must be a monograph, translation, or reference work about any aspect of the long 18th century and focused 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 2020 or 2021.
- Books that were already nominated for the prize in 2020 are not eligible.
- Nominated works can be published in any language and in any format (analog or digital). If a work is in a language other than those known by the ECSRA Selection Committee members (English, Russian, Ukrainian, French, German), the committee will make a good-faith effort to solicit reports from qualified scholars who are conversant in that language.
- 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 18th century, here defined as the period from the last quarter of the 17th to the first quarter of the 19th century.
- Books that have received other prizes are eligible.
- Scholarly merit, originality, and felicity of style will be the main criteria for selection.
Nominating Instructions
- Any scholar in the field can nominate a book for the prize. Self-nominations are welcome.
- Nominations can be made by email to Gregory Afinogenov (Committee Chair) at Gregory.Afinogenov@
georgetown.edu or to any member of the ECRSA Prize Selection Committee (listed below). - Publishers: if you nominate a book, please send a printed copy to each ECRSA Prize Selection Committee member (addresses below); in exceptional circumstances, especially in the case of books from outside the US, UK, and the European Union a digital copy may be acceptable.
- Nominations must be received no later than 15 June 2021.
- The award winner will be announced in mid-October 2021.
Prize/Award: BASEES Women's Forum Prizes
Deadline: July 1, 2021
The Forum will offer three prize awards this coming year, for scholarly works of high quality either produced by a woman or which furthers knowledge about gender and diversity relevant to the East European, Russian and Eurasian
region, in the following categories:
a) A singly or jointly authored book OR a singly or jointly authored edited collection.
b) A scholarly article or book chapter.
c) A postgraduate conference paper, to be given at the BASEES conference
in 2022. (The deadline for nominations for the postgraduate paper prize
will be 1st March 2022. A copy of the paper should be submitted in advance of the conference.)
Works nominated for consideration must be of a scholarly character and
must be in English. Books and articles for the 2021-22 prize must have
a 2020 publication date. The authors of nominated works must at
the time of nomination be members or associate
members of BASEES. For book prize nominations, two copies of the
nominated work should be sent to the BASEES Women's Forum Prize
Committee at the following address (emailed PDF copies of articles and
book chapters are sufficient):
BASEES Women’s Forum Prize Committee
c/o Dr Julia Sutton-Mattocks
Department of Russian and Czech
University of Bristol
17 Woodland Road
Clifton
Bristol
BS8 1UP, U.K.
You may submit nominations using the official form. This can be found on the BASEES website, where you will also find further details about the prizes: http://basees.org/
Tuesday, February 23, 2021
Prize/Award: AAUS 2019-2020 Article Prize, Book Prize, and Translation Prize Competition
Deadline: Extended to February 28, 2021
American Association for Ukrainian Studies (AAUS) invites nominations (including self-nominations) for the next round of the AAUS Book, Article, and Translation Prizes. For this round, works published in 2019 and 2020 are eligible (as long as they were not nominated last year, as each work can be considered for a prize only once). Eligibility criteria are as follows. Deadline for nominated works to be received by members of the prize committees has been EXTENDED UNTIL FEBRUARY 28, 2021.
The AAUS Book Prize is awarded for the best scholarly monograph-length work in the field of Ukrainian history, politics, language, literature and culture published in English, preferably by a single author, but by no more than two. Textbooks, collections, bibliographies, reference works, and self-published books are ineligible. English translations of scholarly monographs published initially in another language will be considered on a case-by-case basis, but will generally not receive highest priority unless their content represents a major contribution to Ukrainian studies.
The AAUS Article Prize is awarded for the best article-length work in the field of Ukrainian history, politics, language, literature and culture published in English. Journal articles in peer-reviewed academic journals and chapters in scholarly collections are eligible.
The AAUS Translation Prize is awarded for the best translation into English of a book-length literary work originally published in Ukrainian.
Please submit nominations via the AAUS website by clicking on the relevant link to nominate a book, article or translation for the AAUS Prize. Copies or e-copies of nominated books (monographs and translations) must be sent to all members of the current AAUS Book Prize and AAUS Translation Prize committees, respectively. Mailing addresses of committee members are listed on the website. Works nominated for the Article Prize need to be submitted and uploaded via the website. Please direct any questions to the respective committees at book_prize@ukrainianstudies.org, article_prize@ukrainianstudies.org, translation_prize@ukrainianstudies.org. Prize winners will be announced by early May during the ASN Convention at Columbia University, New York (6-8 May, 2021).
Prize/Award: NYU Jordan Center's 2021 Grad Student Essay Competition
Deadline: April 15, 2021
The Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia and All the Russias are pleased to announce the second annual Graduate Student Essay Competition. Enter for a chance to get published on the blog and win cash prizes!
We invite 750-1200 word submissions from full- or part-time M.A. and Ph.D. students from any accredited academic institution in the United States, on any topic and sub-discipline within Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies, broadly defined.
Cultural criticism; public-facing treatments of scholarly work; political analysis; book, film, or event reviews; and more are welcome.
All submissions must be in English and observe the blog’s submission guidelines and full competition rules.
Essays are due no later than April 15th at 11:59 PM EST and must be submitted via this Google form.
Seven (7) winners will be selected based on their pieces’ originality, clarity, and argumentation, as well as their correspondence to the blog’s general tone and interests as stipulated in the submission guidelines linked above. Winners will receive, respectively, $500 (first prize); $250 (second prize); $100 (third prize); and $50 (runners-up). Winners and runners-up will have their essays published in All the Russias.
Competition results will be announced by Summer 2021.
Please direct any questions to alltherussias@gmail.com.
Tuesday, February 9, 2021
CFA: 2021 National Post-Secondary Russian Essay Contest
Deadline: February 10, 2021 (registration)
The American Council of Teachers of Russian is pleased to announce the 2021 National Post-Secondary Russian Essay Contest! Registration for the contest is open now. The contest should be held from February 15th to the 25th, and all essays must be submitted by Feb. 28th.
Please note that, barring any COVID-related setbacks, we hope to announce the essay contest results by mid-April. For more registration details and more information about the administration of the contest this year, please visit the ACTR website.
Nina Bond, Franklin & Marshall College
Jennifer Bown, Brigham Young University
Alla Smyslova, Columbia University
Friday, January 29, 2021
Prize/Award: Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Folklore Studies Association (SEEFA)
Deadline: May 31, 2021
Two student paper prizes are being offered by the Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Folklore
Studies Association (SEEFA):
1) The SEEFA Award for the Best Undergraduate Research Paper (an honorarium of US $50)
2) THE SEEFA Award for the Best Graduate Research Paper (an honorarium of US $100)
Winning papers will be considered for publication in SEEFA’s peer-reviewed journal, Folklorica. Eligible submissions, whether published or unpublished, must be grounded in the disciplines of folkloristics, ethnology or related fields and based on original research connected to any region of Eastern Europe, Eurasia or its diaspora. Submissions must have been written for a university course within the 12-month period preceding the submission deadline of May 31.
Submission Package:
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A copy of the paper formatted according to the Folklorica style sheet https://journals.ku.edu/
folklorica/about/submissions# stylesheet, with the author’s name removed from the paper to ensure blind adjudication - A cover sheet including the title as well as the name of the author, instructor, course and institution for which the paper was written; indicate if the paper has been published or submitted for publications
- A short Curriculum Vitae or biographical statement
- A note from an Instructor/Supervisor endorsing the submission (this should be emailed directly by the Instructor/Supervisor separately from the rest of the package)
Application packages should be emailed as PDF documents to President of SEEFA, Dr. Mariya Lesiv, mlesiv@mun.ca, and include “SEEFA Graduate Student Paper Prize” or “SEEFA Undergraduate Student Paper Prize” in the subject line.
Winners will be announced at the SEEFA’s annual meeting during the ASEEES convention.
Friday, May 10, 2019
Prize/Award: 2019 Canadian Association of Slavists/Taylor & Francis Book Prize
Rules of eligibility for the Canadian Association of Slavists/Taylor and Francis Bo
- The copyright date inside the book must list the previous calendar year as the date of publication (the book must have been published in 2018 to be eligible for the 2019 competition).
- The book must be in the form of a monograph, preferably by a single author, or by no more than two authors.
- Authors must be citizens or permanent residents of Canada.
- The work must originally be published in French or English either in or outside Canada.
- Works may deal with any aspect of Slavic, East European, or Eurasian Studies (languages, literatures, cinemas, cultures, visual arts, politics, history, etc.).
- Textbooks in the strict sense of the word do not qualify, but a broad interpretive work of a major period or area qualifies.
- Translations, bibliographies, reference works, edited volumes, and smaller works such as pamphlets are not eligible.
Nomination for the prize can come from an author, a third party, or a publisher. There is no limit on the number of entries a publisher may submit.
james.krapfl@mcgill.ca
paul.robinson@uottawa.ca
serhy@uvic.ca
Friday, March 1, 2019
Prize/Award: The International Vladimir Nabokov Society
The International Vladimir Nabokov Society is delighted to announce a new group of prizes, generously funded by the Vladimir Nabokov Literary Foundation. Applications are encouraged for all eligible work. There are prizes for undergraduate and post-graduate work, for PhDs, for articles, and for books. The deadline for submission is April 30th. Details are at:
https://thenabokovian.org/
Enquiries should be sent to nabokovprizes@yahoo.com
Thursday, February 28, 2019
Michigan Graduate Consulting Club: 5th Annual Midwest Case Competition
To register for the case competition, please visit our registration page. REGISTRATION FOR THE CASE COMPETITION IS FREE OF CHARGE.
- Register teams here by Sunday, March 10th 11:59 pm EST.
- Case problem distributed to teams via email on Wednesday, March 13th 6:00 pm EST.
- First-round case response is due by Wednesday, March 20th 11:59 pm EST.
- Finalists notified via email by Monday, March 25th 6 pm EST.
- Final round presentation edits are due by Wednesday, March 27th 11:59 pm EST.
- Finalists present to a judging panel of our sponsors in Ann Arbor, MI on Friday, March 29th.
- Team size is limited between 2 to 5 group members; each team must include 1 graduate student (PhDs, MDs, JDs, Post-Doc, or non-MBA master).
- No faculty/advisor support
- Students can be from any discipline, and having a diverse team is encouraged and possibly helpful.
- Deliverables
- First round: 1-3 page executive summary and an additional 12 to 15 pages of a PowerPoint presentation in support of the summary, substantiating any analysis you may do
- Final round: 30-minute PowerPoint presentation to the panel of judges from our sponsors
- For final presentations on March 29th, all the students are not required to be present, though full team participation is highly encouraged.
- All finalist teams are invited to attend the exclusive networking events on March 29th.
Thursday, October 18, 2018
Call for Nominations: AATSEEL Awards
As Past President of AATSEEL (2017-18), it is my pleasure to invite nominations for awards in the following five award categories:
• Excellence in Teaching (Secondary);
• Excellence in Teaching (Post-Secondary);
• Distinguished Service to AATSEEL;
• Outstanding Contribution to the Profession;
• Outstanding Contribution to Scholarship.
If you would like to nominate someone, please first verify that your candidate has not already won an AATEEEL award in the relevant category (nomination to another category is fine). Then, by November 30, please submit your nomination to the awards committee. The nomination should include the prize category; a brief testimonial and rationale as to why the candidate deserves the award; and the candidate’s academic affiliation and email. You can both check the list of past recipients and submit your nomination through the linked form that is available at:
http://www.aatseel.org/about/
Please note that candidate must be a member of AATSEEL to accept the award. We strongly encourage recipients to be present at the award ceremony (February 7-10, 2019 at the JW Marriott New Orleans in New Orleans, Louisiana).
We welcome nominations in smaller fields, international nominations, and other perceived professional lacunae. I look forward to your nominations.
Kevin M. F. Platt
Edmund J. and Louise W. Kahn Term Professor in the Humanities
Chair, Program in Comparative Literature and Literary Theory
Past President, AATSEEL
Wednesday, June 20, 2018
CFS: NAATPl Instructor Award for Exemplary Teaching and Learning Materials in Polish
The NAATPl Award aims to recognize and promote outstanding resources designed to enhance teaching and learning at all levels of instruction (K-16). The Award carries an amount of $500 and a Certificate of Recognition.
Submission Guidelines & Criteria
All Polish language teachers (K-16) who teach in the US and Canada, and are NAATPl members, are eligible to submit their teaching materials. To become a NAATPl member please visit our website at NAATPl or send an email to naatplorganization@gmail.com.
Criteria:
Submitted materials should meet the following criteria:
1. Creative and innovative supplement to existing materials
2. Based on authentic materials, if applicable/relevant to the task/purpose
3. Methodologically well organized, with clearly designed pre- and post-task activities, and teacher’s instructions
4. Tested in practice (e.g. has been used during class time and adjustments/edits have been considered)
5. Accessible online or submitted electronically to Anna Szawara szawara@uic.eduwith a subject line ‘LASTNAME Instructor Award Materials’ (e.g. SMITH Instructor Award Materials)
6. Based on the ACTFL standards (noting which specific level of proficiency and skills the materials target)
7. Non-infringing on any copyrights
Preferences will be given to technology-enhanced language learning materials, made freely available on the web.
Examples of Projects/Materials:
1. Instructional video clips with mini-lectures presenting grammar topics in English, examples in Polish, and topic-related exercises
2. Online reading comprehension materials with a set of pre-and post-task activities, with clearly defined language levels and skill sets they target
3. Interactive self-correcting online exercises(i.e. tests, quizzes)
4. Culture-focused units/lesson plans that include various culture oriented tasks and topic specific vocabulary
5. Video interviews with native speakers supplemented with transcripts and exercises
Submission Deadline:December 15, 2018
Award Winner Announcement:February 8, 2019 (AATSEEL annual convention/NAATPl meeting)
NAATPl Award Committee:
1. Anna Szawara, University of Illinois, Chicago (Award Committee Coordinator)
2. Erik Houle, The University of Chicago
3. Bernadeta Kamińska, University of Texas at Austin
4. Bożena Nowicka McLees, Loyola University Chicago (ex officio)
5. Ewa Małachowska-Pasek, University of Michigan (2018-2019 NAATPl President, ex officio)
In case of any questions related to the submission process please contact the Award Committee Coordinator, Anna Szawara szawara@uic.edu
Monday, June 18, 2018
Prize/Award: Hungarian Studies Association, Mark Pittaway Prize 2018
the Mark Pittaway Prize for best scholarly article or book
chapter in Hungarian studies, to be awarded in December
2018.
The award committee is seeking nominations or submissions
of scholarly articles or book chapters in any field or discipline
of Hungarian studies, published in English in 2016 or 2017.
(Articles or books with a publication date of 2018 will be
eligible in 2020.)
The goal of HSA prizes is to recognize quality scholarship
in Hungarian studies. The prize committee particularly
encourages submissions of new findings and original
scholarship by junior scholars who expand the field and
will benefit from the prize early in their careers. The
prize is named in memory of historian Mark Pittaway,
who passed away in 2010.
Send nominations or submissions, including a PDF of
the article or book chapter if possible, to the award
committee: Robert Nemes, Department of History,
Colgate University (rnemes@colgate.edu); Alexander
Vari, Department of Social Sciences, Marywood
University (vari@marywood.edu); and Jeff Pennington,
Institute of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies,
University of California, Berkeley
(jpennington@berkeley.edu). In the e-mail with your
nomination or submission, please include a full
bibliographic citation of the work. All nominations and
submissions should be sent to the award committee
no later than September 1, 2018.
We understand that copyright rules apply, and we
will only use the electronic copy for the purpose of
adjudicating submissions for the award.
The Hungarian Studies Association will announce the
recipient of the Mark Pittaway Prize in December 2018
at its annual meeting in Boston, Massachusetts.