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Prizes

The annual ESSA Book Prize and the ESSA Article Prize are awarded at the annual ESSA meeting at the ASEEES convention, and the winners are announced in the Newsletter. An additional ESSA Translation Prize is also awarded occasionally. Nominations may be made by members in good standing during the call for nominations. All nominated books, articles, and translations must be by ESSA members in good standing.

CALL FOR NOMINATIONS – EARLY SLAVIC STUDIES BOOK PRIZE

Published: July 11th 2023
Dear Colleagues,
 
The Early Slavic Studies Association (ESSA) announces its prize for the best book in the field of Early Slavic Studies for 2023. Books published between September 1, 2021 and August 31, 2023 will be eligible for the award. The prize committee is also willing to consider a special award for best translation of primary source material in the field, to be awarded at the committee's discretion.
 
All nominated works must be in English. The committee will accept both nominations and self-nominations. Authors must be members of ESSA in good standing. Please contact our secretary, Ashley Morse here to confirm your eligibility. All nominations should be sent to the chair of the prize committee, Maria Grazia Bartolini (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.), by Sunday, September 24, 2023.

Winner of the Early Slavic Studies Association Article Prize

Published: November 29th 2022

The winner of this years' article prize is Mirela Ivanova's article "Inventing and ethnicising Slavonic in the long ninth century", in Journal of Medieval History 47,4-5 (2021).

Mirela Ivanova's "Inventing and Ethnicising Slavonic in the Long Ninth Century" puts forward a fresh argument based on careful theoretical consideration and detailed historical reflection. Using the "ideological model of literacy" that was developed by the most recent scholarship on literacy studies, the article challenges the ethnodriven model found in most accounts of the invention of Slavonic, showing that the ethnicity of Slavonic does not emerge in the earliest accounts of the alphabet's creation and that the invention myth is cast in new, ethnicized light only in the Life of Methodios, mainly as a response to the crisis in episcopal authority and papal patronage faced by the Methodian milieu. In integrating the invention of Slavonic into broader sociopolitical and intellectual praxis, Ivanova makes a precious contribution to our field in the broadest possible sense. The work is interdisciplinary and innovative and makes a clear intervention into existent historiography, chiming in on a topical issue in Early Slavic Studies and indeed in Slavic Studies more generally. 

Honorable Mention

Tomasz Grusiecki’s article, “Close Others: Poles in the Visual Imaginary of Early Modern Amsterdam”, uses visual materials depicting Polish people and costume to engage with theoretical ideas about exoticism and Otherness. The work applies Piotrowski’s idea of the “close other” to shed light on Western European attitudes towards Poles in the early modern period. Grusiecki writes eloquently and deploys critical theory with precision. Drawing on fresh materials, he contests convincingly binary theories of cultural difference. Overall, the article not only produces a series of engaging close analyses of visual sources, but it also crafts a nuanced argument that has broad cross-cultural significance. 

CALL FOR NOMINATIONS – EARLY SLAVIC STUDIES ARTICLE PRIZE

Published: June 28th 2022

The Early Slavic Studies Association (ESSA) announces its prize for the best article in the field of Early Slavic Studies for 2022. Articles published between September 1, 2020 and August 31, 2022 will be eligible for the award. The prize committee is also willing to consider a special award for best translation of primary source material in the field, to be awarded at the committee’s discretion.

All nominated works must be in English. The committee will accept both nominations and self-nominations. Authors must be members of ESSA in good standing. Please contact our secretary, Ashley Morse here to confirm your eligibility. All nominations should be sent to the chair of the prize committee, Maria Grazia Bartolini (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.) by Sunday, September 25, 2022.

ESSA Book Prize Winners 2021

Published: January 12th 2022

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2020 ESSA Publication Prize Winners

Published: February 9th 2021

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2019 ESSA Book and Article Prize Winners

Published: January 23rd 2020

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