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News
Nominations Now Open for the 2025 AWSS Heldt Prizes
(Due May 31, 2025)
Other Prize and Award announcements forthcomiing
- AWSS Barbara Heldt Prizes
- Mary Zirin Prize for Independent Scholars of Slavic Studies
- AWSS Patricia Herlihy Graduate Research Prize
- AWSS Outstanding Achievement Award
- AWSS Graduate Essay Prize
- AWSS Undergraduate Prize
Statement From the Board in Response to the Ongoing Russian War on Ukraine (August 2023)
The Association for Women in Slavic Studies (AWSS) continues to deplore and to condemn Russia’s horrific and ongoing war on Ukraine. Our institutional mission remains unchanged. AWSS is dedicated to promoting research and teaching in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian women’s, gender, and sexuality studies, and to the support of scholars who identify as women or LGBTQIA. We are committed to the study of this multinational, multi-confessional, and multiethnic region across various disciplines and support all scholars who wish to improve the general public’s understanding of women, gender, and sexuality and are committed to challenging sexist, homophobic, transphobic, racist, classist, ableist, and ageist structures that reproduce injustice.
AWSS recognizes that funds for scholarship and research in our field have for many years often been disproportionately allocated to the study of Russia and the Russian imperial project. We believe that it is necessary also to allocate funds in support of scholarship on the diverse communities (national, ethnic, or otherwise defined) that at one time or another have been part of Eastern European, Russian, or Soviet imperial space. AWSS will continue to prioritize its own funding to support those scholars who are at the greatest risk and who share our mission. Statement from February 2022: The Association for Women in Slavic Studies (AWSS) condemns the recent Russian invasion of Ukraine
AWSS is Community.
AWSS Bibliographies: Fifteen Years of Compiling Scholarly Resources on Women, Gender, and Sexuality
Special Issue on Decolonization
Semi-Annual bibliographies and special issues have been a regular feature of the AWSS newsletter and website for many years. In 2022, AWSS compiled a special issue of the bibliography on Ukraine. Our most current issue was inspired by the 2023 ASEEES Convention's broadly defined theme of "DECOLONIZATION" "across time, place, field, and institutional setting." Viewed as not only a contemporary and historical force, "Decolonization" in this context also applies to "current research, teaching, and professional practices." As can be seen by this bibliographical compilation, which brings together the latest scholarship over the past ten or so years, the word "decolonization" and its variants have become more prevalent but not completely supplanted in the fruitful conversations that have emerged since Russia's ruthless full-scale invasion in February 2022. By bringing materials together in one place, this bibliography is intended to foster further those conversations. Its creation was made possible in part by the 2023 financial support of an ASEEES internship for Caroline Prout. Caroline has just been awarded her 2024 MA in Global Studies (with a concentration in Russian, Eurasian and East European Studies) at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. AWSS heartily congratulates Caroline on her many accomplishments, including the compilation of this issue. No bibliography can be exhaustive. Please send omissions or corrections to Christine Worobec
(worobec@niu.edu)
We foster community through regular gatherings at annual and biennial conferences, collaboration with other affiliate organizations, frequent communication through our listserv as well as informal networking opportunities. We also connect with our members via social media. Please find us on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.
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Herlihy Prize Fundraising
In 2020 AWSS launched a fundraising effort to support a graduate research prize in honor of Patricia Herlihy and her incredible contributions to both the study of Ukraine as well as her support for multiple generations of scholars across disciplines engaged in study on Ukraine and its neighbors. Please consider making a donation to support the future of the field and honor the memory of a scholar who did so much to shape the field and her discipline. Select the Herlihy Prize For Graduate Research option on the drop-down menu through the Paypal link below.
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awss prizes and awards
AWSS awards prizes to scholars at all stages of their careers. We support the work of individuals who embody our organization's values and mission each year through the following awards.
- The Graduate Research and Graduate Essay Prizes are awarded to scholars at the beginning of their careers.
- The Mary Zirin Prize recognizes independent scholars.
- The Outstanding Achievement Award is given to senior scholars for their mentoring and scholarship.
- The Heldt Prizes recognize outstanding books and articles in several categories.