Marc Raeff Prize
Past Recipients of the Raeff Book Prize
The 2022 Marc Raeff Book Prize
The Eighteenth-Century Russian Studies Association, an affiliate organization of the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES), is now accepting submissions for the 2022 annual 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 2022 during the ASEEES annual convention in Chicago. The award is sponsored by the ECRSA and named in honor of Marc Raeff (1923-2008), historian, teacher, and dix-huitièmiste par excellence.
Please address all questions about the prize to Amanda Ewington (Committee Chair) at amewington@davidson.edu
Submissions should be made (see Nominating Instructions below) by June 15, 2022.
Eligibility
- The publication must be a monograph, translation, or reference work about any aspect of the long 18th century, 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 2021 or 2022.
- Books that were already nominated for the prize in 2021 are not eligible.
- Nominated works can be published in any language and in any format (analog or digital). If a nominated work is in a language other than those known by the ECSRA Selection Committee members (English, Russian, Ukrainian, French, German), the committee will make a good faith effort to solicit reports from qualified scholars in the field 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 century 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 Amanda Ewington, Committee Chair (amewington@davidson.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); in exceptional circumstances, especially in the case of books from outside the US, UK, and the european Union, a digital copy may be acceptable.
- Nominations must be received no later than 15 June 2022.
- The award winner will be announced in mid-October 2022.
2022 ECRSA Prize Selection Committee
Gregory Afinogenov
850 Quincy St NW
Apt 621
Washington, DC 20011
Gregory.Afinogenov@georgetown.edu
Amanda Ewington (Committee Chair)
218 Fairview Lane
Davidson, NC 28036
amewington@davidson.edu
Andrey Ivanov
Associate Professor of History
142 Gardner Hall
1 University Plaza
University of Wisconsin - Platteville
Platteville, WI 53818
ivanovan@uwplatt.edu
Lena 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
Ricarda Vulpius
Schopenhauerstr. 60
14129 Berlin
Germany
rvulpius@uni-muenster.de