The Ohio State University

Midwest Slavic Association

Tucker/Cohen Prize--Deadline: April 15, 2013
The Robert C. Tucker/Stephen F. Cohen prize, sponsored by the JKW Foundation, is awarded annually (if there is a distinguisted submission) for an outstanding English-language doctoral dissertation defended at an American or Canadian university in the tradition of historical political science and political history of Russia or the Soviet Union as practiced by Robert C. Tucker or Stephen F. Cohen. The dissertation must be completed and defended during the calendar year prior to the award. The prize is awarded at the ASEEES Annual Convention in November.

Eligibility::

The dissertation must be defended at a university in the United States or Canada by a US citizen, Canadian citizen or permanent resident of the United States.

The dissertation must be completed and defended during the calendar year prior to the award (for example, the dissertation must have been defended in 2012 to be eligible for the 2013 competition).

The dissertation's primary subject and analytical purpose must be in the realm of the history of domestic politics, as broadly understood in academic or public life, though it may also include social, cultural, economic, international or other dimensions. The dissertation must focus primarily on Russia (though the topic may also involve other former Soviet republics) during one or more periods between January 1918 and the present.

A nomination will consist of a detailed letter from the dissertation's main faculty supervisor explaining the ways in which the work is outstanding in both its empirical and interpretive contributions, along with an abstract of 700-1000 words, written by the candidate, specifying the sources and general findings of the research. A faculty supervisor may nominate no more than one dissertation a year. By April 15 faculty supervisors should send each committee member listed above their letter and the 700-1000-word abstract. (Candidates may also initiate the nomination, but it must come from their advisers.) The committee will read this material and then request copies of the dissertations that best meet the criteria, as defined in the statement above.

Davis Student Travel Grant--Deadline: April 15, 2013
Kathryn W. Davis's generous donation to our organziation, combined with matching donations from ASEEES members, enables us to help subsidize travel costs for graduate students presenting papers at the 2013 ASEEES Convention. We are especially committed to subsidizing those graduate students who are attending the convention for the first time or who have no local institutional resources for travel support. Students may only receive ONE Davis Graduate Travel Grant over the course of their Graduate Studies.

Provisions & Eligibility:

The Davis Graduate Student Travel Grant is a merit- and need-based open competition. This one-time award funds travel for graduate students presenting papers at the 2013 ASEEES Convention.

Students working at either the master's or doctoral level in any field of Slavic, East European, or Eurasian Studies may apply;
Citizens of any country may apply;
All applicants must be members of ASEEES at the time of application.
Applications will be judged on intellectual merit with a broader view to disciplinary and regional balances. Preference is given to first-time presenters, though students who have presented in the past may also apply. Since our funding is limited and we wish to fund as many deserving applicants as possible, we urge applicants to be practical in estimating their travel and lodging budget. Please consider sharing a room with another graduate student at the convention hotel if feasible.

Deadline for applications: April 15, 2013. All applicants will be notified of their status by May 15, 2013.

All applicants must:

Complete the online Grant application form, which includes the paper abstract, tentative budget, and a statement of need [Online Form];
Submit curriculum vitae as an e-mail attachment to aseees@pitt.edu with the subject line: 2013 Davis Grant;
Make sure that advisor or department chair submits a scholarly letter of reference, which includes confirmation that departmental and/or institutional conference travel funds are insufficient. The letter should be sent to aseees@pitt.edu with the subject line: 2013 Davis Grant.

Awards will be disbursed upon presentation of receipts in the weeks following the convention.

Graduate Student Essay Prize--Deadline: April 29, 2013
The Graduate Student Essay Prize is awarded for an oustanding essay by a graduate student in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies.

Eligibility & Nominating Instructions:

ASEEES Regional Affiliates and Institutional Members are invited to hold their own competitions for best essay among their graduate students, and submit the winning paper to the ASEEES Grad Student Prize Committee.

Essays can be any of several formats:

Expanded versions of conference papers
Graduate level seminar papers
Master's Thesis Chapters
Dissertation Chapters
Submitters must clearly indicate the format of the essay submitted.

Essays should have a minimum word count of 7,500 and a maximum word count of 14,000 (25 to 50 pages approximately) inclusive of footnotes and bibliography.

Essays should be submitted to the ASEEES by the Chairs of the Regional Affiliates or the primary or secondary representatives of the Institutional Members. Graduate students whose institution is not an institutional member of the ASEEES or is not holding a competition this year, are advised to check the rules for their regional competition.

Submit to Brian Baer (bbaer@kent.edu) by April 29. Winners will be decided by early September.

Officers

President, Brian Baer
Brian Baer received his Ph.D. from Yale University in 1996 and is currently Professor of Russian Translation at Kent State University. His research interests include the translation and study of 19th and 20th century Russian literature, the use of discourse theory in translation studies, and the pedagogy of translation. He is the translator of Stories by Mikhail Zhvanetsky and Not Just Brodsky by Sergei Dovlatov. He is the author of articles on translation and translates works in the field of literature, political science and business. Currently, he is involved in editing and translating a volume of writings by Russian writers on translation for the Kent State University Press series in Translation Studies. Dr. Baer is a member of the American Translators Association.

Vice President:

Secretary:

Treasurer, Eileen Kunkler
Eileen Kunkler is the Assistant Director of the Center for Slavic and East European Studies at The Ohio State University. She received her MA degrees in Public Policy and Slavic and East European Studies from The Ohio State University in 2010.