Book Prize Announcement: Hans Rosenberg Prize of the Central European History Society

Prize

Date: 

May 20, 2022 to July 31, 2022

Subject Fields: 

Early Modern History and Period Studies, Eastern Europe History / Studies, European History / Studies, German History / Studies, Modern European History / Studies

The Central European History Society (CEHS) is pleased to solicit nominations for the Hans Rosenberg Book Prize. This annual prize honors the best monograph in Central European history published in English by a permanent resident of North America. This year’s award is restricted to books with an imprint of 2021. Central European history is understood to include all German-speaking countries as well as areas previously included within the Habsburg monarchy. Translations, edited collections, anthologies, memoirs and books that have previously been published are ineligible for consideration for the Hans Rosenberg Prize. 

Nomination submissions may be made by an author or by a publisher. Publishers may submit as many entries as they wish. To nominate a book, please send an email with full publication information to: RosenbergPrize@centraleuropeanhistory.org. 

Upon receipt of this email, the nominator will be sent contact information for the three members of the prize committee. One copy of each entry must be sent to each committee member and clearly labeled “Rosenberg Prize Entry.” Print copies are preferred; if only an e-copy is available, please contact the committee members beforehand to arrange the submission format. 

Members of this year’s prize committee:
Caitlin Murdock, Chair (California State University Long Beach)
Janek Wasserman (University of Alabama)
Kelly Witmer (Sewanee: The University of the South) 

Please note: All entries must be received by July 31, 2022. Entries will not be returned. The award recipient will be announced on the CEHS website in December 2022 and recognized during the CEHS’s business meeting, held in conjunction with the January 2023 AHA annual meeting in Philadelphia.

Questions about the prize may be directed to RosenbergPrize@centraleuropeanhistory.org.

Contact Info: 

Anthony Steinhoff, Executive Director, Central European History Society

Contact Email: 

CEHSExecutiveDirector@gmail.com

URL: 

https://www.centraleuropeanhistory.org/?page_id=123

WAYLAND HAND BOOK PRIZE FOR FOLKLORE & HISTORY (deadline for submissions June, 1 2020)

The History and Folklore Section of the American Folklore Society (AFS) invites submissions for its biennial Wayland D. Hand Prize for an outstanding book that combines historical and folkloristic perspectives. A work offered for consideration can be an authored book, edited volume or reference work, or exhibition catalog published between June 1, 2018, and May 31, 2020. 

The prize honors Wayland D. Hand (1907–1986) who as president of the AFS and in his teaching and scholarship encouraged historical methodology in folklore research. The winner of the Wayland D. Hand Prize will receive 200 USD and an accolade from the AFS. The prize-winning book will be publicized at the annual meeting of the American Folklore Society in October and receive notice in the pages of the Folklore Historian, the annual publication of the History and Folklore Section of the AFS. For a list of previous winners, see https://www.afsnet.org/page/HistoryFolklore. 

Submissions can be from authors or publishers. Submit three copies of the book for judges on or before June 1, 2020 to:

Simon J. Bronner, Dean of the College of General Studies,

University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee,1500 North University Drive, Waukesha, WI 53188

The Women's Section of AFS Is Accepting Submissions for the 2017 Elli Köngäs-Maranda Professional Prize

Call for Submissions—Deadline July 31, 2017
Elli Köngäs-Maranda Prize
American Folklore Society, Women’s Section

The Women’s Section of the American Folklore Society awards an annual professional prize in honor of pioneering scholar Elli Köngäs-Maranda. The prize recognizes exemplary or innovative work on women’s traditional, vernacular, or local culture and/or feminist theory and folklore.

Eligible works include books, films, videos, exhibitions or exhibition catalogues, and sound recordings
Materials should have been published/produced no more than two years prior to the submission deadline
The EKM Professional Prize carries a cash award of $250
Please submit three copies of books, videos, etc., postmarked by July 31, 2017

The awards will be announced at the American Folklore Society Annual Meeting in Minneapolis, MN, October 18–21, 2017. Prize recipients need not be members of the Society.

Please direct all submissions and questions to:

Victoria Harkavy
c/o CiS
9812 Falls Road #114-#146
Potomac, MD 20854

vharkavy@masonlive.gmu.edu

About Elli Köngäs-Maranda

Internationally renowned feminist folklorist Elli Kaija Köngäs-Maranda was born in Finland in 1932. She studied Finnish folklore at the University of Helsinki and did her doctoral dissertation at Indiana University (1963) on Finnish-American folklore. She held various research positions, and taught at the University of British Columbia (1970–1976) and at Laval University from 1976 until her premature death on November 1, 1982. She was elected a Fellow of the American Folklore Society in 1978. Academically, she was known for her structural analysis of traditional culture, demonstrating precision and mathematical intellect, but also for her eloquent writing. She published extensively and in English, French, Finnish, German, and Russian. Her feminism was particularly evident in her research and writing on the Lau people, based on fieldwork conducted between 1966 and 1976. In 1983, the American Folklore Society Women’s section inaugurated two prizes in her memory, one for student work and one for professional work, funded by highly successful auctions, T-shirt sales, the making and raffling of a quilt, and, most recently, the sale of note cards commemorating that quilt. For more information about Elli Köngäs-Maranda, see Felix J. Oinas, “Elli Kaija Köngäs Maranda: In Memoriam.” Folklore Forum 15 #2 (1982): 115–123.

Call for Submissions - Elli Köngäs-Maranda Student Prize - Deadline October 1, 2016

The Women's Section of the American Folklore Society awards an annual student prize in honor of pioneering scholar Elli Köngäs-Maranda. The prize recognizes exemplary or innovative work on women's traditional, vernacular, or local culture and/or feminist theory and folklore.
Eligible works include undergraduate and graduate student papers up to thirty (30) pages in length. Entrants must be currently enrolled in a degree program as of the submission deadline or have been enrolled as of the previous academic year.
The EKM Student Prize carries a cash award of $100.00
Please submit one digital copy formatted as a PDF  via email or one hard copy postmarked by October 1, 2016.
The awards will be announced at the American Folklore Society Annual Meeting in Miami, FL, October 19-22, 2016. Prize recipients need not be members of the Society.
Please direct all submissions and questions to:
Victoria Harkavy
c/o CiS
9812 Falls Road #114-#146
Potomac, MD 20854
    vharkavy@masonlive.gmu.edu

About Elli Köngäs-Maranda
Internationally renowned feminist folklorist Elli Kaija Köngäs-Maranda was born in Finland in 1932. She studied Finnish folklore at the University of Helsinki and did her doctoral dissertation at Indiana University (1963) on Finnish-American folklore. She held various research positions, and taught at the University of British Columbia (1970-1976) and at Laval University from 1976 until her premature death on November 1, 1982. She was elected a Fellow of the American Folklore Society in 1978. Academically, she was known for her structural analysis of traditional culture, demonstrating precision and mathematical intellect, but also for her eloquent writing. She published extensively and in English, French, Finnish, German, and Russian. Her feminism was particularly evident in her research and writing on the Lau people, based on fieldwork conducted between 1966 and 1976. In 1983, the American Folklore Society Women's section inaugurated two prizes in her memory, one for student work and one for professional work, funded by highly successful auctions, T-shirt sales, the making and raffling of a quilt, and, most recently, the sale of note cards commemorating that quilt. For more information about Elli Köngäs-Maranda, see Felix J. Oinas, "Elli Kaija Köngäs Maranda: In Memoriam." Folklore Forum 15 #2 (1982): 115-123

Submissions for the 2016 Elli Köngäs-Maranda Professional Prize Must Be Postmarked by August 1

The Women’s Section of the American Folklore Society is pleased to announce that we are currently accepting submissions for the 2016 Elli Köngäs-Maranda Professional Prize. The EKM Professional Prize is awarded annually to publications and/or productions in Folklore, Ethnomusicology, Anthropology, or related disciplines that consider women’s traditional, vernacular or local culture and/or feminist theory and folklore. The deadline for submissions for the Professional Prize has been extended by one day to August 1, 2016, as July 31 falls on a Sunday.

The EKM Professional Prize carries a cash award of $250. If you have any publications and/or productions you would like us to consider for this prize, please send me three copies of the book, video, or other media, postmarked by August 1, 2016. Digital editions are welcome.

Eligible works include books, films, videos, exhibitions or exhibition catalogues, and sound recordings.

Materials should have been published/produced no more than two years prior to the submission deadline.

The awards will be announced at the American Folklore Society Annual
Meeting in Miami, FL, October 19-22, 2016. Prize recipients need not be
members of the Society.

Please direct all submissions and questions to:

Victoria Harkavy
c/o CiS
9812 Falls Road #114-#146
Potomac, MD 20854
 vharkavy@masonlive.gmu.edu

Sincerely,
Victoria L. M. Harkavy
Chair, 2016 EKM Prize Committee, AFS Women’s Section
vharkavy@masonlive.gmu.edu