Marc Raeff Prize
Past Recipients of the Raeff Book Prize
The 2023 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 2023 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 the Russian Empire during the long 18th century. The recipient of the award will be recognized with a cash prize, which will be presented in November 2023 during the ASEEES annual convention in Philadelphia. 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 Andrey Ivanov (Committee Chair) at ivanovan@uwplatt.edu
Submissions should be made (see Nominating Instructions below) by June 15, 2023.
Eligibility
- The publication must be a monograph (single author or multi-author), 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.
- The submitted work must bear a copyright date of 2022 or 2023.
- Books that were already nominated for the prize in 2022 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, German, French, Italian), 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, though preference is given to books fully devoted to the period, defined here as 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 Andrey Ivanov, Committee Chair 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 2023.
- The award winner will be announced in mid-October 2023.
2023 ECRSA Prize Selection Committee
Andrey Ivanov (Committee Chair)
Associate Professor of History
142 Gardner Hall
1 University Plaza
University of Wisconsin - Platteville
Platteville, WI 53818
(for digital copies/e-books - ivanovan@uwplatt.edu)
Kirill Kochegarov
Institute of Slavic Studies
Russian Academy of Sciences
Leninskii Prospekt, 32-A
119334 Moscow
Russia
(for digital copies/e-books - kirill-kochegarow@yandex.ru)
Erica Camisa Morale
Via privata Portoferraio, 4
20141 Milano (MI)
Italia
(for digital copies/e-books - camisamo@usc.edu)
Prof. Dr. Ricarda Vulpius
Schopenhauerstr. 60
14129 Berlin
Germany
(for digital copies/e-books - rvulpius@uni-muenster.de)