Wayne S. Vucinich Book Prize

About this program

The Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES) annually awards a suite of prizes and awards—presented at its Annual Convention—to recognize outstanding scholarship and contributions across Russian, Eurasian, and East European studies, including multiple book prizes, an article prize, a dissertation prize, a graduate student essay prize, and distinguished service awards. Most research prizes are for English-language works published in the previous calendar year and cover specified fields (humanities, social sciences, political/social studies, political economy, literary and cultural studies, history, Polish and Ukrainian studies), with a dedicated prize for first monographs. Eligibility varies by award—for example, the article prize is for a junior scholar’s peer-reviewed English-language article, the dissertation prize requires an English-language doctoral dissertation defended at a U.S. or Canadian university, the graduate essay prize is limited to graduate students, and service awards recognize notable contributions by members, librarians, archivists, or curators.