The Joseph Rothschild Prize in Nationalism and Ethnic Studies

Holly Case Wins Rothschild Prize in Nationalism and Ethnic Studies

The Harriman Institute and ASN awarded the First Joseph Rothschild Prize in Nationalism and Ethnic Studies to Holly Case for Between States: The Transylvanian Question and the European Idea during World War (Stanford 2009).

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The Joseph Rothschild Prize in Nationalism and Ethnic Studies, sponsored by the Harriman Institute at Columbia University, is awarded annually by the ASN for an outstanding book published in the previous calendar year on Russia, Eastern Europe or Eurasia in which substantial attention is paid to questions of ethnicity and/or nationalism.

The name of the winner was announced at the 15th Annual ASN World Convention, held on April 15-17, 2010 at Columbia University, New York, NY.

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Rules of Eligibility
Rules of eligibility for the Joseph Rothschild Prize in Nationalism and Ethnic Studies are as follows:

  • The copyright date inside the book must list 2009 as the date of publication.
  • Authors may be of any nationality as long as the work is originally published in English.
  • Works may deal with any area of Russia, Eastern Europe, or Eurasia (including the Balkans, Central Europe, the Baltics, Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Moldova, Central Asia, the Caucasus, Turkey, Afghanistan, and China).
  • The competition is open to works of scholarship in any field, so long as substantial attention is paid to the study of nationalism and/or ethnicity, broadly defined.
  • Edited volumes, textbooks, translations, bibliographies, and reference works are ineligible.
  • Books by currently serving judges of the Joseph Rothschild Prize in Nationalism and Ethnic Studies, or by immediate family members of this group, are not eligible.