Deadline: 14 December, 2012
Open to: authors of the books published in the previous calendar year on Russia, Eastern Europe or Eurasia in which substantial attention is paid to questions of ethnicity and/or nationalism
Prize: the name of the winner will be announced at the 17th Annual ASN World Convention, to be held April 18-20, 2013 at Columbia University, New York, NY
Description
The Association for the Study of Nationalities and the Harriman Institute are pleased to announce the call for nominations for the Joseph Rothschild Prize in Nationalism and Ethnic Studies.
The Joseph Rothschild Prize in Nationalism and Ethnic Studies, sponsored by the Harriman Institute at Columbia University, is awarded annually by the ASN for an outstanding book published in the previous calendar year on Russia, Eastern Europe or Eurasia in which substantial attention is paid to questions of ethnicity and/or nationalism.
The name of the winner will be announced at the 17th Annual ASN World Convention, to be held April 18-20, 2013 at Columbia University, New York, NY.
Eligibility
Rules of eligibility for the Joseph Rothschild Prize in Nationalism and Ethnic Studies are as follows:
- The copyright date inside the book must list 2012 as the date of publication.
- Authors may be of any nationality as long as the work is originally published in English.
- Works may deal with any area of Russia, Eastern Europe, or Eurasia (including the Balkans, Central Europe, the Baltics, Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Moldova, Central Asia, the Caucasus, Turkey, Afghanistan, and China).
- The competition is open to works of scholarship in any field, so long as substantial attention is paid to the study of nationalism and/or ethnicity, broadly defined.
- Edited volumes, textbooks, translations, bibliographies, and reference works are ineligible
- Books by currently serving judges of the Joseph Rothschild Prize in Nationalism and Ethnic Studies, or by immediate family members of this group, are not eligible.
How to apply?
Send one copy of each eligible monograph to each Committee member (adresses you can find on the Official Website) AND to the ASN office at:
Rothschild Book Prize Nomination
c/o Roland Spickermann
Book Review Editor, Nationalities Papers
Dept. of History
University of Texas – Permian Basin
4901 East University
Odessa TX 79762-0001
USA
Nominations must be received no later than December 12, 2012. (The organizers will accept books with a 2012 publication date that are published after December 12, as long as they are mailed no later than January 13, 2013.)
Submissions should be clearly marked “Rothschild Book Prize Nomination”.