Heldt Prize


The Heldt Prize is a literary award from the Association for Women in Slavic Studies named in honor of Barbara Heldt. 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.

Best Book recipients

  • 2022: Jadwiga Biskupska. Survivors: Warsaw under the Nazi Occupation. Cambridge University Press, 2022.
  • 2022: Katalin Fábián, Janet Elise Johnson, and Mara Lazda. Routledge Handbook of Gender in Central-Eastern Europe and Eurasia.
  • 2021: Francine Hirsch. Soviet Judgment at Nuremberg: A New History of the International Military Tribunal after World War II
  • 2021: Allison Leigh, Picturing Russia’s Men: Masculinity and Modernity in 19th-Century Painting
  • 2020: Jennifer J. Carroll, Narkomania: Drugs, HIV, and Citizenship in Ukraine
  • 2020: Olga Peters Hasty, How Women Must Write: Inventing the Russian Woman Poet
  • 2019: Kateřina Lišková, Sexual Liberation, Socialist Style: Communist Czechoslovakia and the Science of Desire, 1945-1989
  • 2019: Hannah Pollin-Galay, Ecologies of Witnessing: Language, Place, and Holocaust Testimony
  • 2018: Edyta Materka, Dystopia's Provocateurs: Peasants, State, and Informality in the Polish-German Borderlands. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2017
  • 2017: Iveta Jusová & Jirina Šiklová, eds. Czech Feminisms: Perspectives on Gender in East Central Europe
  • 2017: Rebecca Gould, Writers and Rebels: The Literature of Insurgency in the Caucasus
  • 2016: Lisa Kirschenbaum, International Communism and the Spanish Civil War: Solidarity and Suspicion
  • 2016: Keely Stauter-Halsted. The Devil's Chain: Prostitution and Social Control in Partitioned Poland
  • 2015: Luba Golburt, The First Epoch: The Eighteenth Century and the Russian Cultural Imagination
  • 2015: Valerie Sperling, Sex, Politics, and Putin: Political Legitimacy in Russia
  • 2014: Jenny Kaminer, Women with a Thirst for Destruction: The Bad Mother in Russian Culture.
  • 2014: Kate Brown. Plutopia: Nuclear Families, Atomic Cities, and the Great Soviet and American Plutonium Disasters
  • 2013: Karen Petrone, The Great War in Russian Memory
  • 2013: Judith Pallot and Laura Piacentini, with the assistance of Dominique Moran, Gender, Geography, and Punishment. The Experience of Women in Carceral Russia
  • 2012: Gail Kligman and Katherine Verdery, Peasants under Siege. The Collectivization of Romanian Agriculture, 1949-1962
  • 2012: Beth Holmgren, Starring Madame Modjeska: On Tour in Poland and America
  • 2011: Cristina Vatulescu, Police Aesthetics: Literature, Film & the Secret Police in Soviet Times
  • 2010: Kristen Ghodsee,
  • 2010: Rebecca Manley, To the Tashkent Station: Evacuation and Survival in the Soviet Union at War,
  • 2009: Christine Ruane, The Empire's New Clothes: A History of the Russian Fashion Industry, 1700–1917,
  • 2009: Olga Shevchenko, Crisis and the Everyday in Postsocialist Moscow,
  • 2008: Catherine Wanner, Communities of the Converted: Ukrainians and Global Evangelism
  • 2008: Eliot Borenstein, Overkill: Sex and Violence in Contemporary Russian Popular Culture
  • 2007: Valerie Kivelson, Cartographies of Tsardom, The Land and Its Meaning traces
  • 2007: Marianne Kamp, The New Woman in Uzbekistan: Islam, Modernity, and Unveiling under Communism
  • 2006: Marci Shore, Caviar and Ashes: A Warsaw Generation's Life and Death in Marxism, 1918-1968
  • 2006: Michele Rivkin-Fish, Women's Health in Post-Soviet Russia: The Politics of Intervention
  • 2005: Shana Penn, Solidarity's Secret: The Women who Defeated Communism in Poland
  • 2005: Amy Nelson "Music for the Revolution: Musicians and Power in Early Soviet Russia"
  • 2003: Paula Michaels, Curative Powers: Medicine and Empire in Stalin's Central Asia
  • 2001: Christine Worobec, "Possessed: Women, Witches, and Demons in Imperial Russia"
  • 2000: Nadieszda Kizenko "A Prodigal Saint: Father John of Kronstadt and the Russian People" ,
  • 1995: Irina Livezeanu "Cultural Politics in Greater Romania: Regionalism, Nation Building, and Ethnic Struggle, 1918–1930"
  • 1991: Christine Worobec, "Peasant Russia: Family and Community in the Post-Emancipation Period"

    Literature

  • Women and Gender in Central and Eastern Europe, Russia, and Eurasia: A Comprehensive Bibliography Volume I: Southeastern and East Central Europe Volume II: Russia, the Non-Russian Peoples of the Russian / Mary Zirin, Irina Livezeanu, Christine D. Worobec, June Pachuta Farris - Routledge, 2015 - P. 2010.
Category:Non-fiction literary awards