Call for entries: Marc Raeff Book Prize in 18th C Russian Studies

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 second annual Marc Raeff Book Prize; and we encourage your press to submit relevant entries to the members of the prize committee (listed below).


The Raeff Book Prize is awarded annually for a publication that is of exceptional merit and lasting significance for understanding Imperial Russia, particularly during the long eighteenth-century.  The recipient of the award will be recognized with a cash prize, which will be presented in November 2012, during the ASEEES annual convention.  The award is sponsored by the ECRSA and named in honor of Marc Raeff (1923-2008), historian, teacher, and dix-huitièmiste par excellence. 
Eligibility:


The publication must be a monograph, translation, or reference work about any aspect of the long eighteenth 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 either one or two years preceding the award year (e.g. for the 2012 competition the published copyright date should be 2011 or 2012).
It can be published in any language read by members of the ECRSA Prize Selection Committee (including Russian) and in any format (analog or digital).
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 eighteenth century, here defined as the period from the last quarter of the seventeenth-century to the first quarter of the nineteenth-century.
Books that have received other prizes are eligible.
Scholarly merit, originality, and felicity of style will be the main criteria for selection. Submissions from scholars who are less than five (5) years from receiving their doctoral degree are particularly encouraged.
Nominating Instructions:  


Authors or publishers should send one copy of eligible publication to each ECRSA Prize Selection Committee member (see addresses below) AND to the ASEEES main office.
Submissions should be clearly marked “Marc Raeff Book Prize.”
Nominations must be received no later than 30 June 2012. 
Award winners will be personally notified of the award prior to 1 October 2012.
http://www.ecrsa.org/index.html

CFP: Russia’s Great War and Revolution, 1914–1922

Russia’s Great War and Revolution, 1914–1922:
The Centennial Reappraisal


If you are a professional historian or graduate student doing high-quality research on any aspect of Russia’s history between 1914 and the early 1920s, please contact us now.


We are an international collective of over 40 Russian, American, British and other scholars, and we aim to maximise the use of archival resources to produce a comprehensive scholarly reappraisal of Russia’s world-changing experience of war and revolution between 1914 and the early 1920s, 100 years after the events themselves.


Taking the period 1914-22 as a continuum of conflict, we have identified five core organizational themes for analysis: military affairs; international affairs; the home front; the empire; and culture. Particular concerns are to extend our knowledge of Russia’s Great War, which has been overshadowed in the historiography by the 1917 revolutions and their aftermath, and to explore how the Great War experience helped to shape Russia’s development between 1917 and the early 1920s.


The resultant series of about a dozen books will be fully peer-reviewed and available in both printed and electronic forms. The audiences are professional historians, graduate students and senior-level undergraduate students. Publication is scheduled for 2014–2017.


Additionally, we are developing a permanent public website for non-scholarly audiences, especially high schools, that will have accessible digests of our chapters together with illustrations, maps and selected source documents.
Our books and website will be published in English and, subject to funding, in Russian.


The series editors are:
Professor David McDonald, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
Dr John Steinberg, Georgia Southern University, USA
Dr Anthony Heywood, University of Aberdeen, Scotland, UK
For further information please click on the link.


If you are interested in contributing a chapter, contact us now by email. Please put the acronym RGWR in the subject line and send this information to the series editors:
* your full name, title and institutional affiliation
* your email address
* a short description of your proposed chapter (150 words)
* the title of your proposed chapter
http://www.basees.org.uk/CFP5.shtml

Postdoctoral Research Asst in Russian Cultural History, Uni of Oxford

The University of Oxford is seeking to appoint a postdoctoral research
assistant for two years from 1 October 2012.


The successful candidate will assist Professor Zorin and Professor Schönle
(Queen Mary University of London) in their Leverhulme funded research
project, 'The Creation of a Europeanized Elite in Russia: Public Role and
Subjective Self'. The project seeks to provide a cultural history of the
first Russian Europeanized elite from its emergence during the ‘Petrine
reforms’ until 1825. The individual will conduct research in areas related
to the project, will organise meetings of the research team and will liaise
with consultants working on the project in Russia.

The job details and further particulars can found at: 
https://www.recruit.ox.ac.uk/pls/hrisliverecruit/erq_jobspec_version_4.jobsp
ec?p_id=102306

Prof. Andrei Zorin and Prof. Andreas Schönle

New Blog on Teaching Russian History

Blog on Teaching Russian History by Karl Qualls

I would like to announce a new blog on the teaching of Russian history:

http://blogs.dickinson.edu/teachinghistory/

Each month 2-3 scholars will discuss how they teach a particular topic in survey courses and seminars. The intent is to generate discussion on methods, resources, and more. Suggestions for topics or contributors please contact Karl Qualls at quallsk[at]dickinson.edu

New posts and updates will also be announced via Twitter: @prof4russia

This month's theme is teaching the Gulag with guest authors Steven Barnes and Wilson Bell.

This blog was founded by Karl Qualls, Associate Professor of Historyat Dickinson College.

Karl  has  received the Constance and Rose Ganoe Memorial Award for Inspirational Teaching, Gamma Sigma Alpha National Honor Society Professor of the Year, and Student Senate Professor of the Year.

He is the author of numerous articles and chapters, including a chapter in the textbook Russia and Western Civilization: Cultural and Historical Encounters (M.E. Sharpe, 2003) written in collaboration with his colleagues at Dickinson College. He is also author of the monograph From Ruins to Reconstruction: Urban Identity in Soviet Sevastopol after World War II (Cornell, 2009).

He teaches Russian, German, Italian, and eastern European histories, as well as courses on European dictators, urban history, historical methods, the Holocaust, and more.