2008 Election Results
Balloting for the 2008 CESS elections, which closed on 15 April, yielded the following new leaders for our organization:
Peter Finke, President-Elect
Professor of Social Anthropology, University of Zurich, SwitzerlandCynthia Werner, Executive Board Member
Associate Professor of Anthropology, Texas A&M University, U.S.A.Victoria Clement, Executive Board Member
Assistant Professor of History, Western Carolina University, U.S.A.Website interruption
The CESS website was intentionally taken off-line from approximately 4:30 p.m. Thursday, February 28 until 3:30 p.m. Friday, February 29 for technical reasons. We apologize for the inconvenience and will restore missing portions of the site as soon as possible.CESS has a New Treasurer and Secretary
CESS is pleased to announce the confirmation of Sylvia Babus (Industrial College of the Armed Forces, Washington, DC) as CESS Treasurer, and Kimairis L. Toogood (George Mason University, Fairfax, VA) as CESS Secretary.CESS is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2007 Book Award and Best Graduate Student Paper Award
The Book Award went to Marianne Kamp (University of Wyoming) for her monograph, The New Woman in Uzbekistan: Islam, Modernity, and Unveiling under Communism. The Graduate Student Paper Award went to Julie McBrien (Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology) for her paper "On Push-Up Bras and Headscarves: Experiencing Multiple Modernities in Kyrgyzstan."Eighth CESS Annual Conference held at the University of Washington-Seattle, Oct. 18-21, 2007
Many thanks to those of you who made this year's conference a great success! The 2007 Annual Conference was hosted by the University of Washington-Seattle.The program is still online.
The CESS Secretariat Has a New Director
The CESS Secretariat has moved to its new host at Miami University's Havighurst Center.The new Executive Director is Dr. Daniel Prior.
The new contact information is:
Central Eurasian Studies Society
Havighurst Center, Harrison Hall
Miami University
Oxford, Ohio 45056, U.S.A.
Tel.: +1/513-529-0241 Fax: +1/513-529-0242
CESS
muohio.eduCESS Establishes Relationship with Central Asian Survey
From 2007, CESS members are eligible to subscribe to Central Asian Survey at the much-reduced annual rate of $40. CESS is also represented on Central Asian Survey's Editorial Board and International Advisory Board (see details).The order form is available here in .pdf format (84K).
CESS Elections for President-Elect and Executive Board Completed and New Honorary Members Announced
On April 5, 2007, CESS announced the newly elected members of the Executive Board -- Philippe Forêt and Deniz Kandiyoti -- and President-Elect, Edward Lazzerini. In addition, the CESS Board elected four new Honorary Members: C. Edmund Bosworth, Boris Anatol'evich Litvinskii, Vladimir Aronovich Livshits and Morris Rossabi. See the announcement for details.Annual CESS Book Award Competition Is Announced
In February 2007, CESS announces its new competiton for the annual CESS Book Award. The award honors the work that represents the most important contribution to Central Eurasian studies, or that holds the greatest potential for furthering scholarship on the Central Eurasian region. In alternate years, awards are granted in a) History & Humanities, and b) Social Sciences, beginning with History & Humanities in 2007. The deadline for submissions for 2007 is April 1, 2007. For details, see the CESS awards webpage, or contact the 2007 Book Awards Committee Chair: Dr. Douglas Northrop <northropumich.edu>.Annual CESS Award for Best Graduate Student Conference Paper
An award honoring the best graduate student paper contributed to CESS Annual Conference is granted annually by the CESS Awards Committee. The deadline for submissions for 2007 is Sept. 21, 2007. The 2006 award recipient was Madeleine Reeves. For details, see the CESS awards webpage, or contact the Awards Committee Co-chairs: Dr. Douglas Northrop <northropumich.edu>
and Dr. Uli Schamiloglu <uschamilwisc.edu>.