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)
