Past Award Recipients

Past Recipients of the Heldt Prize

2012

Best Book by a Woman in any area of Slavic/East European/Eurasian Studies

Gail Kligman and Katherine Verdery, Peasants under Siege. The Collectivization of Romanian Agriculture, 1949-1962 (Princeton University Press, 2011)

Honorable Mention: Katerina Clark, Moscow, the Fourth Rome: Stalinism, Cosmopolitanism, and the Evolution of Soviet Culture, 1931-1941 (Harvard University Press, 2011)

Best book in Slavic/Eastern European/Eurasian Women's Studies

Beth Holmgren, Starring Madame Modjeska: On Tour in Poland and America (Indiana University Press, 2012)

Best Article in Slavic/Eastern European/Eurasian Women's Studies

Agnès Kefeli, "The Tale of Joseph and Zulaykha on the Volga Frontier: The Struggle for Gender, Religious, and National Identity in Imperial and Post-Soviet Russia," Slavic Review 70, No. 2 (Summer 2011)

2011

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)

2010

Best book in Slavic/Eastern European/Eurasian Women's Studies

Kristen Ghodsee, Muslim Lives in Eastern Europe, Princeton, 2010

Best Book by a Woman in any area of Slavic/East European/Eurasian Studies

Rebecca Manley, To the Tashkent Station: Evacuation and Survival in the Soviet Union at War, Cornell University Press, 2009

Best Article in Slavic/Eastern European/Eurasian Women's Studies

Adi Kuntsman, "'With a Shade of Disgust': Affective Politics of Sexuality and Class in Memoirs of the Stalinist Gulag," Slavic Review 68, No 2 (summer 2009)

2009

Best book in Slavic/Eastern European/Eurasian women's studies:

Christine Ruane, The Empire's New Clothes: A History of the Russian Fashion Industry, 1700-1917, Yale University Press, 2009

Best book by a woman in any area of Slavic/East European/Eurasian studies:

Olga Shevchenko, Crisis and the Everyday in Postsocialist Moscow, Indiana University Press, 2009

Best translation in Slavic/Eastern European/Eurasian women's studies:

Judith Deutsch Kornblatt, Divine Sophia: The Wisdom Writings of Vladimir Solovyov, including Annotated Translations by Boris Jakim, Judith Kornblatt, and Laury Magnus; Cornell University Press, 2009

Best article in Slavic/Eastern European/Eurasian women's studies:

Stephanie Sandler, "Visual Poetry after Modernism: Elizaveta Mnatsakanova," Slavic Review 76, No. 3 (Fall 2008), 610-41

2008

Best book by a woman in any area of Slavic/East European/Eurasian studies:

Catherine Wanner, Communities of the Converted: Ukrainians and Global Evangelism (Cornell University Press, 2007).

Best book in Slavic/Eastern European/Eurasian women's studies:

Eliot Borenstein, Overkill: Sex and Violence in Contemporary Russian Popular Culture (Cornell University Press, 2007).

Best article in Slavic/Eastern European/Eurasian women's studies:

Abby Schrader, "Unruly Felons and Civilizing Wives: Cultivating Marriage in the Siberian Exile System, 1822-1860," Slavic Review vol. 66, no. 2 (Summer 2007): 230-56.

2007

Best book by a woman in any area of Slavic/East European/Eurasian studies:

Valerie Kivelson, Cartographies of Tsardom, The Land and Its Meaning traces (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2007).

Best book in Slavic/Eastern European/Eurasian women's studies:

Marianne Kamp, The New Woman in Uzbekistan: Islam, Modernity, and Unveiling under Communism (Seattle, Washington: University of Washington Press, 2007).

Best article in Slavic/Eastern European/Eurasian women's studies:

Diana Greene, "The Menagerie or the Visitor's Pass? Aleksandra Zrazhevskaia and Praskov'ia Bakunina on Russian Women Writers," Carl Beck Papers (Pittsburgh, PA: Pittsburgh University Press, 2007.)

2006

Best book by a woman in any area of Slavic/East European/Eurasian studies:

Marci Shore, Caviar and Ashes: A Warsaw Generation's Life and Death in Marxism, 1918-1968 (Yale University Press, 2006).

Best book in Slavic/Eastern European/Eurasian women's studies:

Michele Rivkin-Fish, Women's Health in Post-Soviet Russia: The Politics of Intervention (Indian Unviersity Press, 2005).

Best article in Slavic/Eastern European/Eurasian women's studies:

Elizabeth Jones Hemenway, "Mothers of Communists-Women Revolutionaries and the Construction of a Soviet Identity" in Helena Goscilo and Andrea Lanoux, eds., Gender and National Identity in Twentieth-Century Russian Culture (Northern Illinois University Press, 2006)

Best translation in Slavic/Eastern European/Eurasian women's studies:

Sibelan Forrester, American Scream: Palindrome Apocalypse (Ooligan Press, 2005).

2005

Best book by a woman in any area of Slavic/East European/Eurasian studies:

Amy Nelson, Music for the Revolution: Musicians and Power in Early Soviet Russia (Pennsylvania State University Press, 2004).

Best book in Slavic/Eastern European/Eurasian women's studies:

Shana Penn, Solidarity's Secret: The Women who Defeated Communism in Poland (University of Michigan Press, 2005).

Best article in Slavic/Eastern European/Eurasian women's studies:

Michele Rivkin-Fish, "'Change Yourself and the Whole World Will Become Kinder': Russian Activists for Reproductive Health and the Limits of Claims Making for Women," Medical Anthropology Quarterly 18, no. 3 (2004): 281-304.

Past Outstanding Achievement Award Recipients

  • Barbara Engel (1996)
  • Helena Goscilo (1997)
  • Patricia Herlihy (1998)
  • Diana Burgin (1999)
  • Janet Rabinowitch (2000)
  • Olga Yokohama (2001)
  • Stephanie Sandler (2002)
  • Adele Lindenmeyr (2003)
  • Anna Lisa Crone (2004)
  • Brenda Meehan (2005)
  • Nadia Azhgikhina (2006)
  • Gitta Hammarberg (2007)
  • Christine Worobec (2008)
  • Beth Holmgren (2009)
  • Mihaela Miroiu (2010)
  • Marina Goldovskaya (2011)

Mary Zirin Prize Past Recipients

  • Stepanka Korytova (2011)
  • Marilyn Schwinn Smith (2010)
  • Elena Shulman (2009)
  • Pavla Frýdlová (2008)
  • Lisa Alzo and Virginia Parobek (2002)
  • Linda Edmondson and Sonia Ketchian (2001)
  • Judith Vowles (2000)
  • Elena Ivanovna Trofimovna and Kazimiera Janina Cottam (1999)

Graduate Research Prize Past Recipients

  • Agnieszka Zajaczkowska (PhD candidate, Law and Society, University of Victoria, BC), for interdisciplinary ethnographic fieldwork exploring the decision-making processes pertaining to women's involuntary admissions to psychiatric institutions in Poland. (2011)
  • Roland Clark, History, University of Pittsburg (2009)
  • Dorota M. Lech, research on Poland's response to sex trafficking reforms (2007)
  • Simone Ispa-Landa, master's thesis research, "Suspended Causality: Cultures of Intimacy among Two Cohorts of Russian Women" (2005)
  • Ania Plomien, research on the integration of East European countries into the European Union and its consequences for the status of women in those countries (2003, as "Pre-dissertation Prize" as the prize was previously titled)

Graduate Essay Prize Past Recipients

  • Chiara Bonfiglioli (University of Utrecht), for "From Comrades to Traitors: The Cominform Resolution of 1948," which is chapter 5 of her recently defended dissertation, "Revolutionary Networks. Women's Political and Social Activism in Cold War Italy and Yugoslavia (1945-1957)." (2012)
  • Maryna Y. Bazylevych, Ph.D., Anthropology, SUNY Albany, 2010, with the chapter "'Beautiful' Medicine and Feminism: Women and the Practice of Post-socialist Biomedicine in Millennial Ukraine" from her recently defended dissertation. (2010)
  • Faith C. Hillis, Ph.D., History, 2009, Yale University, "State, Society, and Capitalism in the Southwest Borderlands" (chapter 1 from her dissertation, "Between Empire and Nation: Urban Politics, Community, and Violence in Kiev, 1863-1907") (2009)
  • Anna Kuxhausen, "The Modern Miracles of Breastfeeding: Raising the Nation on Mothers' Milk" (2007)
  • Anna Urasova, "Saving Private Sychev: Russian Masculinities in Crisis" and Jelena Subotic, "Confronting the Past When the Past Is Not Yet Over: Transitional Justice in Serbia" (2006)
  • Christina Vatulescu, "The Politics of Estrangement" (2005)
  • Elena Shulman, "'Bol'sheviki Were Never Ascetics!': Female Morale and Communist Morality" (2004)