The 2020 Marc Raeff Book Prize
The Eighteenth-Century Russian Studies Association, an affiliate of the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES), is now accepting submissions for the 2020 Marc Raeff Book Prize. We encourage both presses and individual scholars to submit nominations to the members of the prize committee (listed below).
The Raeff Book Prize is awarded for a publication that is of exceptional merit and lasting significance for understanding Imperial Russia during the long 18th century. The recipient of the award will be recognized with a cash prize, which will be presented in November 2020 at the ASEEES annual convention in Washington. The award is sponsored by the ECRSA and named in honor of Marc Raeff (1923-2008), historian, teacher, and dix-huitiémiste par excellence.
Please address all questions about the prize to Alexander Martin (Committee Chair) at a.m.martin@nd.edu
Submissions must be made (see Nominating Instructions below) by June 15, 2020.
Eligibility:
- The publication must be a monograph, translation, or reference work about any aspect of the long 18th century and focused on any of the territories of the former imperial Russian state. Textbooks, festschrifts, and edited collections of essays are not eligible unless they constitute significant and innovative contributions to the field.
- The submitted work must bear a copyright date of 2019 or 2020.
- Books that were already nominated for the prize in 2019 are not eligible.
- Nominated works can be published in any language and in any format (analog or digital). If a work is in a language other than those known by the ECSRA Selection Committee members (English, Russian, French, German), the committee will make a good-faith effort to solicit reports from qualified scholars who are conversant in that language.
- The geographic area of study is broadly defined as the territories of the former imperial Russian state and the Soviet Union. The publication must deal in whole or in part with the long 18th century, here defined as the period from the last quarter of the 17th to the first quarter of the 19th century.
- Books that have received other prizes are eligible.
- Scholarly merit, originality, and felicity of style will be the main criteria for selection.
Nominating Instructions:
- Any scholar in the field can nominate a book for the prize. Self-nominations are welcome.
- Nominations can be made by email to Alexander Martin (Committee Chair) at a.m.martin@nd.edu or to any member of the ECRSA Prize Selection Committee (listed below).
- Publishers: if you nominate a book, please send a printed copy to each ECRSA Prize Selection Committee member (addresses below); alternatively, please provide a digital copy.
- Nominations must be received no later than 15 June 2020.
- The award winner will be announced in mid-October 2020.
2020 ECRSA Prize Selection Committee
Elena Marasinova
Ulitsa Dmitriia Ulianova 19, Institute of Russian History RAN
Moscow 117292 Russia
(Россия, Москва
117292 Улица Дмитрия Ульянова 19
Институт российской истории РАН)
lenamarassinova@gmail.com
Alexander Martin
Department of History
434 Decio Hall
Notre Dame, IN 46556
USA
a.m.martin@nd.edu
Derek Offord
23 Canynge Square
Bristol BS8 3LA
United Kingdom
Derek.Offord@bristol.ac.uk
Ilya Vinitsky
17 Springdale Road
Princeton NJ 08540
USA
vinitsky@Princeton.edu