Department of Near Eastern Studies
4111 Thayer Academic Building
202 South Thayer St.
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI 48104-1608, USA
tel. +1-734-647-0099
email: northrop
umich.eduContents of this page:
• CESS Book Awards
• CESS Best Graduate Student Paper
Award
In 2007, CESS established two CESS Book Awards, one for work in the History & Humanities and another for work in the Social Sciences. The competitions for these awards are held in alternate years, beginning in 2007 with the CESS History & Humanities Book Award.
Each year the CESS Book Award and a monetary prize of $500 is presented to the author of the research monograph, published in the preceding two years, that represents the most important contribution to Central Eurasian studies, or that holds the greatest potential for furthering scholarship on the Central Eurasian region. An interdisciplinary panel of three scholars of Central Eurasia, appointed annually by the CESS Executive Board, will consider scholarly merit, argumentative scope, and felicity of style in their deliberations.
Rules for the competition are as follows:
For the 2008 CESS Social Science Book Award competition, please ensure that three copies of the nominated book reach the current chair of the CESS Awards Committee at the following address by April 1, 2008:
Dr. Douglas Northrop
Department of Near Eastern Studies
4111 Thayer Academic Building
202 South Thayer St.
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI 48104-1608
Previous Awards
2007 - Marianne Kamp (University of Wyoming), The New Woman in Uzbekistan: Islam, Modernity, and Unveiling under Communism.
To promote new scholarship focusing on the history, politics, culture and societies of Central Eurasia, the Central Eurasian Studies Society has established the CESS Award for Best Graduate Student Paper. This award gives special recognition to a paper to be read by a graduate student at the CESS Annual Conference. The winner of the annual prize will receive $500 on attendance of the CESS Annual Conference, will be honored at the conference, and will be offered the opportunity to publish the paper in the Central Asia Survey. The prize is awarded only to a conference attendee, though there is no obligation to use the money for conference related costs. Any graduate student enrolled in a program towards a degree beyond the B.A. or first university diploma is eligible. The paper should be consistent with the framework of those presented at the CESS Annual Conference, addressing any topic in the humanities or social science study of Central Eurasia. The papers will be evaluated by a three-member jury representing a range of disciplinary approaches. The evaluation criteria include originality, appropriate use of sources, and quality of writing. The paper may be drawn from thesis work or intended for eventual publication, and should conform to standard academic guidelines in terms of style and presentation.
Papers must be submitted electronically. It is the responsibility of the paper writer to ensure that it is delivered in good order and on time. Papers (and any questions) should be sent to both of the Co-chairs of the Awards Committee, as follows:
Dr. Douglas Northrop
Department of Near Eastern Studies
4111 Thayer Academic Building
202 South Thayer St.
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI 48104-1608, USA
tel. +1-734-647-0099
email: northropumich.edu
Dr. Uli Schamiloglu
Department of Languages and Cultures of Asia
University of Wisconsin-Madison
tel. 1-608-262-7141 (office), 1-608-262-3012 (department)
email: uschamilwisc.edu
The submission deadline is Friday, August 15, 2008, 5:00 pm Eastern Time.
2007 - Julie McBrien (Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology), "On Push-Up Bras and Headscarves: Experiencing Multiple Modernities in Kyrgyzstan."
2006 - Madeleine Reeves (University of Cambridge), “States of Improvisation: Border-making as Social Practice in the Ferghana Valley.”
2005 - Joint award: Kenneth Michael Bauer (University of Oxford), “Development and State-Society Relations in Pastoral Tibet since the Reforms,” and Meghan Simpson (Central European University, Budapest) “Local Strategies in Globalizing Gender Politics: A Study of Women's Organizing in Contemporary Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan.”
2004 - Irina Liczek (New School University, New York), “Cultural Parameters of Gender Policy-making in Contemporary Turkmenistan.”
2003 - Fuad Aliev (Boston University), “Evaluating the Effect
of Primary Health Care Reforms on Access to Health Care in Ferghana Province,
Uzbekistan: The Role of Community-Based Surveys”;
Honorable Mention: Christiane Gruber (University of Pennsylvania), “The
Keir Miraj and Islamic Picture Recitation in the Fifteenth Century.”
2002 - Michael A. Reynolds (Princeton University/Harvard University), “Inchoate Nation Abroad: Tsarist Russia, Nation-Building, and the Kurds of Ottoman Anatolia, 1908-1914”; Honorable Mention: Alexander C. Diener (University of Wisconsin-Madison), “Settlement of the Returning Kazakh Diaspora: History, Climate, Social Networks, and the Nationalization of Social Space.”
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