Heldt Prize

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Heldt Prize is a literary award from the Association for Women in Slavic Studies named in honor of Barbara Heldt. ^[1] The award has been given variously in the following categories:

• Best book in Slavic/Eastern European/Eurasian women's studies
• Best Book by a Woman in Any Area of Slavic/Eastern European/Eurasian Studies
• Best Translation by a Woman in Any Area of Slavic/Eastern European/Eurasian Studies
• Best article in Slavic/Eastern European/Eurasian women's studies

Christine Worobec is the only twice recipient of the award.^[2]

[edit] Best Book recipients

• 2005: Amy Nelson (2004) "Music for the Revolution: Musicians and Power in Early Soviet Russia" ISBN: 978-0-271-02369-4
• 2001: Christine Worobec, "Possessed: Women, Witches, and Demons in Imperial Russia"
• 2000: Nadieszda Kizenko (2000) "A Prodigal Saint: Father John of Kronstadt and the Russian People" ISBN: 978-0-271-01975-8 (hardcover), ISBN: 978-0-271-01976-5 (paperback) (review)
• 1995: Irina Livezeanu "Cultural Politics in Greater Romania: Regionalism, Nation Building, and Ethnic Struggle, 1918–1930" (Cornell University Press, 1995 and 2000 ISBN 0801486882)
• 1991: Christine Worobec, "Peasant Russia: Family and Community in the Post-Emancipation Period"

[edit] References

1. ^ "Women East-West", Newsletter of the Association for Women in Slavic Studies, issue 86, Winter 2005-2006
2. ^ "Worobec to speak about women in old-time Russia", The Daily Barometer, October 27, 2003