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The American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages (AATSEEL) is an academic organization founded in 1941. AATSEEL holds an annual conference each January and publishes the Slavic and East European Journal (SEEJ), a peer-reviewed journal of Slavic studies.[1]

AATSEEL Book Awards

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Since 2000, the AATSEEL Publications Committee gives annual awards for scholarly contributions to Slavic language are given in various disciplines.

2025 Book Awards

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Prize Work Winner(s)
Best First Book Bruno Schulz and Galician Jewish Modernity Karen Underhill
Best Book in Literary Studies The Freest Speech in Russia: Poetry Unbound Stephanie Sandler
The Svetlana Boym Best Book in Cultural Studies An Imaginary Cinema: Sergei Eisenstein and the Unrealized Film Dustin Condren
Best Edited Multi-Author Scholarly Volume Red Migrations: Transnational Mobility and Leftist Culture after 1917 Philip Gleissner and Bradley A. Gorski (ed.)
Best Translation of Prose into English Red Pyramid: Selected Stories by Vladimir Sorokin Max Lawton
Best Translation of Poetry into English To the Letter by Tomasz Różycki Mira Rosenthal
Best Contribution in Pedagogy The Pushkin Project: Russia's Favorite Writer, Modern Evolutionary Thought, and Teaching Inner-City Youth David Bethea
Best Contribution in Second Language Acquisition The Cambridge Handbook of Slavic Linguistics Danko Šipka and Wayles Browne (ed.)

2024 Book Awards

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Prize Work Winner(s)
Best First Book Aleksandr Rodchenko: Photography in the Time of Stalin Aglaya Glebova
Best Book in Literary Studies Recording Russia: Trying to Listen in the Nineteenth Century Gabriella Safran
The Svetlana Boym Best Book in Cultural Studies Russian Style: Performing Gender, Power, and Putinism Julie Cassiday
Best Edited Multi-Author Scholarly Volume World Literature in the Soviet Union (ed.) Galin Tihanov, Anne Lounsbery & Rossen Djagalov
Best Literary Translation into English Firebird (translated with intro) Alissa Valles
Best Scholarly Translation into English Babyn Yar: Ukrainian Poets Respond Ostap Kin & John Hennessy
Best Book in Pedagogy Trauma and Truth: Teaching Russian Literature on the Chechen Wars Elena Pedigo Clark
Best Book in Second Language Acquisition Russian through Film: For Intermediate to Advanced Students Anna Kudyma, Irina Six & Irina Walsh [2]

2023 Book Awards

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Prize Work Winner(s)
Best Book in Cultural Studies Flowers Through Concrete: Explorations in Soviet Hippieland Juliane Fürst
Best Book in Literary Studies Blood of Others: Stalin's Crimean Atrocity and the Poetics of Solidarity Rory Finnin
Best Contribution to Language Pedagogy Pro-dvizhenie: Advanced Russian through Film and Media Alyssa DeBlasio
Best Contribution to Slavic Linguistics or Second Language Acquisition The Art of Teaching Russian Evgeny Dengub
Best First Book How the Soviet Jew Was Made Sasha Senderovich
Best Poetry Translation into English For the Shrew (trans.) Anna Sarkisovna Glazova; Alex Niemi (translator)
Best Prose Translation into English Kin Miljenko Jergović; Russell Scott Valentino (translator) [3]

2022 Book Awards

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Prize Work Winner(s)
Best Book in Literary Studies Internationalist Aesthetics: China and Early Soviet Culture Edward Tyerman [4]
The Svetlana Boym Best Book in Cultural Studies Men Out of Focus Marko Dumančić [5]
Best First Book Love for Sale: Representing Prostitution in Imperial Russia Colleen Lucey
Best Edited Multi-Author Scholarly Volume Theory in the “Post” Era: A Vocabulary for the 21st-Century Conceptual Commons Alexandru Matei, Christian Moraru, and Andrei Terian
Best Translation into English Temptation Mark Baczoni (translator)
Best Book in Linguistics Language Contact in the Territory of the Former Soviet Union Diana Forker & Lenore Grenoble
Best Book in Pedagogy (1) Etazhi: Second Year Russian Language and Culture Evgeny Dengub and Susanna Nazarova
Best Book in Pedagogy (2) Transformative Language Learning and Teaching Betty Lou Leaver, Dan Davidson, and Christine Campbell
  • The committee presented two awards in the Pedagogy category in 2022, as it was skipped during 2021

2021 Book Awards

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Prize Work Winner(s)
Best Book in Literary Studies Hunting Nature: Ivan Turgenev and the Organic World Thomas P. Hodge
Best Book in Cultural Studies Faster, Stronger, Higher, Comrades!: Sports, Art, and Ideology in Late Russian and Early Soviet Culture Tim Harte
Best First Book Psychomotor Aesthetics: Movement and Affect in Modern Literature and Film Ana Hedberg Olenina
Best Edited Multi-Author Scholarly Volume Comintern Aesthetics Amelia M. Glaser & Steven S. Lee
Best Literary Translation into English Journey from St. Petersburg to Moscow Andrew Kahn & Irina Reyfman [6]
Best Scholarly Translation into English Permanent Evolution: Selected Essays on Literature, Theory and Film by Yuri Tynianov Ainsley Morse & Philip Redko

2020 Book Awards

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Prize Work Winner(s)
Best Book in Literary Studies The Birth and Death of Literary Theory: Regimes of Relevance in Russia and Beyond Galin Tihanov
Best Book in Cultural Studies Plots Against Russia: Conspiracy and Fantasy after Socialism Eliot Borenstein [7]
Best First Book The Epistolary Art of Catherine the Great Kelsey Rubin-Detlev [8]
Best Edited Multi-Author Scholarly Volume Russian Performances: Word, Object, Action Julie Buckler, Julie Cassiday & Boris Wolfson
Best Literary Translation into English EEG: A Novel by Daša Drndić Celia Hawkesworth (trans.)
Best Contribution to Language Pedagogy Rodnaya Rech': An Introductory Course for Heritage Learners of Russian Irina Dubinina & Olesya Kisselev

2019 Book Awards

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Prize Work Winner(s)
Best Book in Cultural Studies To See Paris and Die Eleonory Gilburd [9]
Best First Book State of Madness: Psychiatry, Literature, and Dissent After Stalin Rebecca Reich
Best Edited Volume Being Poland: A New History of Polish Literature and Culture since 1918 Tamara Trojanowska, Joanna Niżyńska & Przemysław Czapliński (eds.)
Best Scholarly Translation The Queen’s Court and Green Mountain Manuscripts With Other Forgeries of the Czech Revival David L. Cooper (ed. & trans.)
Best Literary Translation Pan Tadeusz: The Last Foray in Lithuania by Adam Mickiewicz Bill Johnston (trans.)
Best Contribution to Language Pedagogy Panorama Benjamin Rifkin, Evgeny Dengub & Susanna Nazarova

2018 Book Awards

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Prize Work Winner(s)
Best Book in Literary Scholarship Lost in the Shadow of the Word: Space, Time, and Freedom in Interwar Eastern Europe Benjamin Paloff
Best Book in Cultural Studies The War Within: Diaries from the Siege of Leningrad Alexis Peri
Best Literary Translation into English City Folk and Country Folk by Sofia Khvoshchinskaya Nora Seligman Favorov (trans.)
Best Scholarly Translation Gulag Letters by Arsenii Formakov Emily D. Johnson (ed. & trans.)

2017 Book Awards

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Prize Work Winner(s)
Best Book in Literary/Cultural Studies Russian Realisms: Literature and Painting, 1840–1890 Molly Brunson
Best Book in Literary Criticism Lydia Ginzburg's Prose: Reality in Search of Literature Emily Van Buskirk
Best Literary Translation into English Written in the Dark: Five Poets in the Siege of Leningrad Polina Barskova (ed.); Translators: Ben Felker-Quinn, Eugene Ostashevsky, Matvei Yankelevich, Jason Wagner, Rebekah Smith, Anand Dibble, Ainsley Morse & Charles Swank
Best Scholarly Translation into English The Alexander Medvedkin Reader Translators: Nikita Lary & Jay Leyda
Best Book in Pedagogy Между нами Lynn DeBenedette, William J. Comer, Alla Smyslova & Jonathan Perkins
Best Book in Linguistics From the Bible to Shakespeare: Pantelejmon Kuliš (1819–97) and the Formation of Literary Ukrainian Andrii Danylenko

2016 Book Awards

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Prize Work Winner(s)
Best Book in Literary/Cultural Studies Uncensored: Samizdat Novels and the Quest for Autonomy in Soviet Dissidence Ann Komaromi
Best Literary Translation into English The Physics of Sorrow by Georgi Gospodinov Angela Rodel (trans.)
Best Scholarly Translation into English A Science Not for the Earth by Yevgeny Baratynsky Rawley Grau (trans.)

2015 Book Awards

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Prize Work Winner(s)
Best Book in Literary/Cultural Studies The First Epoch: The Eighteenth Century and the Russian Cultural Imagination Luba Golburt
Best Book in Linguistics Onomatopoeia in Czech Masako Ueda Fidler
Best Literary Translation into English High Tide by Inga Ābele Kaija Straumanis (trans.)
Best Scholarly Translation into English Moscow and Muscovites by Vladimir Gilyarovsky Brendan Kiernan (trans.)

2014 Book Awards

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Prize Work Winner(s)
Best Book in Literary/Cultural Studies When Art Makes News: Writing Culture and Identity in Imperial Russia Katia Dianina
Best Contribution to Language Pedagogy Russian-English Dictionary of Idioms (revised ed.) Sophia Lubensky
Best Literary Translation into English "I am a Phenomenon Quite Out of the Ordinary": The Notebooks, Diaries, and Letters of Daniil Kharms by Daniil Kharms Anthony Anemone & Peter Scotto (selected, trans. & ed.)
Best Scholarly Translation into English The Russian Folktale by Vladimir Propp Sibelan Forrester (ed. & trans.)

2013 Book Awards

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Prize Work Winner(s)
Best Contribution to Language Pedagogy Discovering Albanian 1: Textbook, Workbook, Audio Supplement Linda Mëniku & Héctor Campos
Best Book in Literary/Cultural Studies The Aesthetics of Anarchy: Art and Ideology in the Early Avant-Garde Nina Gurianova
Best Literary Translation into English The Letter Killers Club by Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky Joanne Turnbull & Nikolai Formozov (trans.)
Best Scholarly Translation into English A Herzen Reader by Alexander Herzen Kathleen Parthé (trans.)
Best Contribution to Slavic Linguistics The Syntax of Russian John Frederick Bailyn

2012 Book Awards

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Prize Work Winner(s)
Best Contribution to Language Pedagogy Ukrainian Through Its Living Culture Alla Nedashkivska
Best Book in Literary/Cultural Studies Moscow Prime Time: How the Soviet Union Built the Media Empire That Lost the Cultural Cold War Kristin Roth-Ey
Best Literary Translation into English Stone Upon Stone by Wiesław Myśliwski Bill Johnston (translator) (trans.)
Best Scholarly Translation into English Sobbing Superpower: Selected Poems of Tadeusz Różewicz by Tadeusz Różewicz Joanna Trzeciak (trans.)

2011 Book Awards

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Prize Work Winner(s)
Best Contribution to Language Pedagogy Using Russian Vocabulary Terence Wade
Best Contribution to Slavic Linguistics The Syntax of Argument Structure Leonard H. Babby
Best Book in Literary/Cultural Studies The Patriotism of Despair: Nation, War, and Loss in Russia Serguei Alex Oushakine
Best Literary Translation into English The Book of Things: Poems by Aleš Šteger Brian Henry (trans.)
Best Scholarly Translation into English No Love Without Poetry: The Memoirs of Marina Tsvetaeva's Daughter by Ariadna Efron Diane Nemec Ignashev (ed. & trans.)

2010 Book Awards

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Prize Work Winner(s)
Best Contribution to Language Pedagogy A Day Without Lying (День без вранья) by Viktoria Tokareva William J. Comer (ed.)
Best Contribution to Slavic Linguistics Celtic and Slavic and the Great Migrations: Reconstructing Linguistic Prehistory Jadranka Gvozdanović
Best Book in Literary/Cultural Studies Manufacturing Truth: The Documentary Moment in Early Soviet Culture Elizabeth Astrid Papazian
Best Translation into English The Little Golden Calf by Ilya Ilf & Evgeny Petrov Anne O. Fisher (trans.)

2009 Book Awards

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Prize Work Winner(s)
Best Contribution to Language Pedagogy Bosnian, Croatian, Serbian: A Textbook With Exercises and Basic Grammar Ronelle Alexander & Ellen Elias-Bursać
Best Contribution to Slavic Linguistics The Curzon Bible Cynthia Vakareliyska
Best Book in Literary/Cultural Studies Adam Mickiewicz: The Life of a Romantic Roman Koropeckyj
Best Translation into English The White Guard by Mikhail Bulgakov Marian Schwartz (trans.)

2008 Book Awards

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Prize Work Winner(s)
Best Contribution to Language Pedagogy The RAILS: Russian Advanced Interactive Listening Series Project Benjamin Rifkin, Shannon Spasova, Viktoria Thorstensson, Nina Familiant & Dianna Murphy
Best Contribution to Slavic Linguistics Linguistic Authority, Language Ideology, and Metaphor: The Czech Orthography Wars Neil Bermel
Best Book in Literary/Cultural Studies The House in the Garden: The Bakunin Family and the Romance of Russian Idealism John Randolph
Best Translation into English Oblomov by Ivan Goncharov Stephen Pearl (trans.)

2007 Book Awards

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Prize Work Winner(s)
Best Contribution to Language Pedagogy Rozmovljajmo! (Let's Talk!): A Basic Ukrainian Course with Polylogs, Grammar, and Conversation Lessons Robert A. DeLossa, R. Robert Koropeckyj, Robert Romanchuk & Alexandra Isaievych Mason
Best Contribution to Slavic Linguistics Contested Tongues: Language Politics and Cultural Correction in Ukraine Laada Bilaniuk
Best Book of Slavic Literary/Cultural Criticism The Same Solitude: Boris Pasternak and Marina Tsvetaeva Catherine Ciepiela
Best Translation into English The Railway by Hamid Ismailov Robert Chandler (trans.)

2006 Book Awards

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Prize Work Winner(s)
Best Contribution to Language Pedagogy Macedonian = Makedonski jazik: A Course for Beginning and Intermediate Students (2nd ed.) Christina E. Kramer
Best Book in Slavic Linguistics A Reference Grammar of Russian Alan Timberlake
Best Book of Slavic Literary/Cultural Criticism Five Operas and a Symphony: Words and Music in Russian Culture Boris Gasparov
Best Translation into English Diary, 1901–1969 by Kornei Chukovsky Michael Henry Heim (trans.);

2005 Book Awards

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Prize Work Winner(s)
Best Contribution to Language Pedagogy (1) The Case Book for Russian Laura A. Janda & Stephen J. Clancy
Best Contribution to Language Pedagogy (2) Modern Russian Culture: A Course of Ideas and Images (multimedia CD-ROM/DVD) Lauren G. Leighton
Best Book in Linguistics Language and Identity in the Balkans: Serbo-Croat and its Disintegration Robert D. Greenberg
Best Book in Literary/Cultural Scholarship Summerfolk: A History of the Dacha, 1710–2000 Stephen Lovell
Best Translation into English Dreams and Stones by Magdalena Tulli Bill Johnston (trans.)
  • The committee presented two awards in the Language Pedagogy category in 2005.

2004 Book Awards

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Prize Work Winner(s)
Best Contribution to Language Pedagogy Russian for Russians Olga Kagan, Tatiana Akishina & Richard Robin
Best Book in Linguistics A Grammar of Contemporary Polish Oscar E. Swan
Best Book in Literary/Cultural Scholarship Speaking in Soviet Tongues: Language Culture and the Politics of Voice in Revolutionary Russia Michael S. Gorham
Best Translation into English Soul by Andrei Platonov Translators: Robert Chandler, Elizabeth Chandler, Olga Meerson with Jane Chamberlain, Olga Kouznetsova and Eric Naiman

2003 Book Awards

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Prize Work Winner(s)
Best Contribution to Language Pedagogy The Russian Context: The Culture behind the Language Eloise M. Boyle & Genevra Gerhart (eds.)
Best Book in Linguistics Reanimated Voices: Speech Reporting in a Historical-Pragmatic Perspective Daniel E. Collins
Best Book in Literary/Cultural Scholarship Russian Pulp: The Detektiv and the Russian Way of Crime Anthony Olcott
Best Translation into English Milosz's ABC's by Czesław Miłosz Madeline G. Levine (trans.)

2002 Book Awards

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Prize Work Winner(s)
Best Contribution to Language Pedagogy Business Russian (web resource) ACTR
Best Book in Linguistics A Historical Phonology of the Slovene Language Marc Leland Greenberg
Best Book in Literary/Cultural Scholarship (1) Up from Bondage: The Literatures of Russian and African American Soul Dale E. Peterson
Best Book in Literary/Cultural Scholarship (2) Rewriting the Jew: Assimilation Narratives in the Russian Empire Gabriella Safran
Best Translation into English Selected Essays by Vyacheslav Ivanov Robert Bird (trans.); Michael Wachtel (ed.)
  • The committee presented two awards in the Literary/Cultural Scholarship category in 2002.

2001 Book Awards

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Prize Work Winner(s)
Best Contribution to Language Pedagogy The Learning and Teaching of Slavic Languages and Cultures Olga Kagan, Benjamin Rifkin & Susan Bauckus (eds.)
Best Book in Linguistics Syntax of Negation in Russian: A Minimalist Approach Sue Brown
Best Book in Literary/Cultural Scholarship Men Without Women: Masculinity and Revolution in Russian Fiction, 1917–1929 Eliot Borenstein
Best Translation into English Selected Poems of Nikolay Zabolotsky by Nikolay Zabolotsky Daniel Weissbort (trans.);

2000 Book Awards

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Prize Work Winner(s)
Best Contribution to Language Pedagogy 12 Chairs Interactive (CD-ROM) and related multimedia projects Slava Paperno
Best Book in Linguistics A Handbook of Slavic Clitics Steven Franks & Tracy Holloway King
Best Book in Literary/Cultural Scholarship The Literary Lorgnette: Attending Opera in Imperial Russia Julie A. Buckler
Best Translation into English Road-Side Dog by Czesław Miłosz Czesław Miłosz & Robert Hass (trans.)

See also

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References

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  1. ^ About AATSEEL, AATSEEL, retrieved September 19, 2013
  2. ^ "KU Kudos: Faculty and staff achievements, April 2025". KU News. The University of Kansas. April 4, 2025. Retrieved February 19, 2026.
  3. ^ "Book Prize Winners for 2023". American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages (AATSEEL). AATSEEL. 2023. Retrieved February 19, 2026.
  4. ^ "Edward Tyerman (Slavic Ph.D. '14) Awarded AATSEEL Prize for Best Book in Literary Studies". Harriman Institute. Columbia University. February 19, 2023. Retrieved February 19, 2026.
  5. ^ "WKU faculty member's book wins award". WKU News. Western Kentucky University. March 23, 2023. Retrieved February 19, 2026.
  6. ^ "Professor Kahn wins 2021 AATSEEL Book Prize". Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages, University of Oxford. University of Oxford. February 22, 2022. Retrieved February 19, 2026.
  7. ^ "Eliot Borenstein — NYU Faculty Profile". New York University. Retrieved February 19, 2026.
  8. ^ "Kelsey Rubin-Detlev — USC Profile (AATSEEL Best First Book Award)". University of Southern California Dornsife. Retrieved February 19, 2026.
  9. ^ "To See Paris and Die: The Soviet Lives of Western Culture — AATSEEL Prize Winner". Harvard University Press. Retrieved February 19, 2026.
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