2011 Election Results

AWSS is pleased to announce the winners of the 2011 election for officers and board members:

  • Secretary (2012-2013): Heather Coleman, University of Alberta heather.coleman@ualberta.ca
  • Treasurer (2012-2013): Sarah Phillips, Indiana University sadphill@indiana.edu
  • Board Members (2012-2013): Sharon Kowalsky, Texas A&M University-Commerce; Cynthia Simmons, Boston College

The complete list of AWSS officers and Board members for 2012 is available here.

Now Available

Now Available: 2011 Edition of Current Bibliography of Publications in Slavic and East European Women’s and Gender Studies, compiled by June Pachuta Farris, Bibliographer for Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies.

Download the PDF of the bibliography

2011 Prize Competitions

The Association for Women in Slavic Studies is very pleased to announce the winners of its 2011 Prize Competitions.

Outstanding Achievement Award: Professor Marina Goldovskaya

Mary Zirin Prize for Independent Scholars: Dr. Stepanka Korytova

Heldt Prizes

Best Book by a Woman in any area of Slavic/East European/Eurasian Studies: Cristina Vatulescu, Police Aesthetics: Literature, Film & the Secret Police in Soviet Times (Stanford University Press, 2010)

Honorable Mention: Sarah D. Phillips, Disability and Mobile Citizenship in Postsocialist Ukraine (Indiana University Press, 2011)

Best book in Slavic/Eastern European/Eurasian Women's Studies: Eliyana R. Adler, In Her Hands: The Education of Jewish Girls in Tsarist Russia (Wayne State University Press, 2011)

Honorable Mention: Rochelle Goldberg Ruthchild, Equality and Revolution: Women's Rights in the Russian Empire, 1905-1917, University of Pittsburgh Press, 2010

Best Article in Slavic/Eastern European/Eurasian Women's Studies: Michelle Lamarche Marrese, "'The Poetics of Everyday Behavior' Revisited: Lotman, Gender, and the Evolution of Russian Noble Identity," Kritika 11, No 4 (fall 2010).

Best Translation in Slavic/Eastern European/Eurasian Women's Studies: Marian Schwartz for her translation of Ol'ga Slavnikova, 2017 (Overlook/Duckworth, 2010)

Graduate Essay Prize: Agnieszka Zajaczkowska (PhD candidate, Law and Society, University of Victoria, BC)

For complete details, please visit our Awards page.

AWSS Events at the 43rd Annual Convention of the Association for Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES)

November 17-20, 2011 Washington, DC

AWSS-Sponsored Panel

Saturday, November 19 @ 4:45pm-6:30pm, Empire Ballroom

12-15 Film Screening: Bitter Taste of Freedom: Anna Politovskaya, Directed by Marina Goldovskaya (Roundtable)

Chair: Adele Lindenmeyr, Villanova U; Part.: Herbert J. Eagle, U of Michigan; Marina Goldovskaya, UCLA; Helena I. Goscilo, Ohio State U; Vida Johnson, Tufts U; Jane Knox-Voina, Bowdoin College

Annual Meeting and Luncheon

Saturday, November 19 @ noon-2:00pm, Ambassador Ballroom

Boxed Lunches are available for purchase. Water and iced tea will be provided at no charge.

To Order:

1. Select your choice:

  • Boxed Lunch One: Roast Beef and Cheddar Cheese on a Kaiser Roll with Horseradish and Watercress
  • Boxed Lunch Two: Smoked Turkey and Swiss Cheese Rollup with Herbed Cream Cheese
  • Boxed Lunch Three: Pita Pocket with Lemon and Black Pepper Tuna Salad
  • Boxed Lunch Four: Portabello Hoagie with Fresh Mozzarella, Basil and Radicchio
  • Boxed Lunch Five: Chicken Caesar Salad with Garlic Croutons and Parmesan Cheese
  • Boxed Lunch Six: Classic Chicken Cobb Salad with Italian Dressing

All boxed lunches are served with sliced tomatoes, mesclun greens, dill pickle spear, homemade cole slaw, potato chips, kitchen sink brownie and a red delicious apple.

Send a check made out to Adele Lindenmeyr for $56.36. (The cost of the boxed lunch is $42, which with tax and service charge amounts to a cost per person of $56.36.)

Dr. Adele Lindenmeyr
Dean of Graduate Studies
Villanova University
Kennedy Hall
800 Lancaster Avenue
Villanova, PA 19085

Questions? Please contact Adele Lindenmeyr at adele.lindenmeyr@villanova.edu.

AWSS-L Listserv

The AWSS listserv, located at awss-l@h-net.msu.edu, is a service provided to AWSS members. The listserv carries bi-weekly job lists and daily announcements of interest to members as well as discussions on current topics and problems in Eurasian/Central/Eastern European women's studies. If you would like to post a job ad, please send the relevant information to Janine Holc (jholc@loyola.edu). June Pachuta Farris and other librarians and scholars are generous with research help.

To join, send a message to listserv@h-net.msu.edu with the text message: subscribe AWSS-L email address FirstName Surname (For example: subscribe AWSS-L dashkova@smolnyi.edu Ekaterina Dashkova)

Once you have subscribed, you will receive two useful messages detailing how to use the list.

The list is moderated, which means that messages you post will be delayed slightly before they are posted to all subscribers to AWSS-L. The moderators include: Inna Caron, Elizabeth Skomp, and Christine Worobec. Barbara Norton, Janet Hyer, Andrea Lanoux, Rebecca Gould, and Nicole Young are emerita moderators.

List users are reminded that the list exists for scholarly queries and discussion, and are asked to help establish and maintain good network etiquette.

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Aspasia: International Yearbook of Central, Eastern, and Southeastern European Women's and Gender History

AWSS members receive a 25% discount

ASPASIA is an English-language international peer-reviewed yearbook that brings out the best scholarship in the field of interdisciplinary women's and gender history focused on and produced in Central, Eastern, and Southeastern Europe. This region includes such countries as Albania, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Greece, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia, Moldova, Montenegro, Poland, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Turkey, and Ukraine. In these countries the field of women's and gender history has developed unevenly and has remained only marginally represented in the "international" canon. Through its contributions, ASPASIA transforms "European women's history" into more than Western European women's history, as is still often the case, and expands the comparative angle of research on women and gender to all parts of Europe.

For further information regarding manuscript submissions and subscriptions, click here.