Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Studies in Slavic Languages and Literatures Winners
2021–22
- Mikhail Epstein, Emory University, for Ideas against Ideocracy: Non-Marxist Thought of the Late Soviet Period (1953–1991) (Bloomsbury, 2022)
- Rory Finnin, University of Cambridge, for Blood of Others: Stalin’s Crimean Atrocity and the Poetics of Solidarity (Univ. of Toronto Press, 2022)
2019–20
- Rossen Djagalov, New York University, for From Internationalism to Postcolonialism: Literature and Cinema between the Second and Third Worlds (McGill-Queen’s Univ. Press, 2020)
- Honorable mention: Anne Lounsbery, New York University, for Life Is Elsewhere: Symbolic Geography in the Russian Provinces, 1800–1917 (NIU Press / Cornell Univ. Press, 2019)
- Honorable mention: Jessica Zychowicz, Institute for International Education, Ukraine, for Superfluous Women: Art, Feminism, and Revolution in Twenty-First-Century Ukraine (Univ. of Toronto Press, 2020)
2017–18
- Leonid Livak, University of Toronto, for In Search of Russian Modernism (Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 2018)
- Honorable mention: Eleonory Gilburd, University of Chicago, for To See Paris and Die: The Soviet Lives of Western Culture (Belknap Press of Harvard Univ. Press, 2018)
- Honorable mention: Andrew Kahn, University of Oxford; Mark Lipovetsky, Columbia University; Irina Reyfman, Columbia University; and Stephanie Sandler, Harvard University, for A History of Russian Literature (Oxford Univ. Press, 2018)
2015–16
- Alice Lovejoy, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, for Army Film and the Avant Garde: Cinema and Experiment in the Czechoslovak Military (Indiana Univ. Press, 2015)
- Emily Van Buskirk, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, for Lydia Ginzburg’s Prose: Reality in Search of Literature (Princeton Univ. Press, 2016)
- Honorable mention: Liza Knapp, Columbia University, for Anna Karenina and Others: Tolstoy’s Labyrinth of Plots (Univ. of Wisconsin Press, 2016)
2013–14
- Irina Paperno, University of California, Berkeley, for “Who, What Am I?”: Tolstoy Struggles to Narrate the Self (Cornell Univ. Press, 2014)
2011–12
- Jonathan Bolton, Harvard University, for Worlds of Dissent: Charter 77, the Plastic People of the Universe, and Czech Culture under Communism (Harvard Univ. Press, 2012)
- Honorable mention: Alexander Etkind, University of Cambridge, for Internal Colonization: Russia’s Imperial Experience (Polity, 2011)
2009–10
- Nancy Condee, University of Pittsburgh, for The Imperial Trace: Recent Russian Cinema (Oxford Univ. Press, 2009)
- Honorable mention: William Nickell, University of Chicago, for The Death of Tolstoy: Russia on the Eve, Astapovo Station, 1910 (Cornell Univ. Press, 2010)
2007–08
- Edyta M. Bojanowska, Harvard University, for Nikolai Gogol: Between Ukrainian and Russian Nationalism (Harvard Univ. Press, 2007)
- Honorable mention: Andrew Kahn, University of Oxford, for Pushkin’s Lyric Intelligence (Oxford Univ. Press, 2008)
2005–06
- Julie A. Buckler, Harvard University, for Mapping St. Petersburg: Imperial Text and Cityshape (Princeton Univ. Press, 2005)
- Honorable mention: Olga Matich, University of California, Berkeley, for Erotic Utopia: The Decadent Imagination in Russia's Fin de Siècle (Univ. of Wisconsin Press, 2005)
2003–04
- Vladimir E. Alexandrov, Yale University, for Limits to Interpretation: The Meanings of Anna Karenina (Univ. of Wisconsin Press, 2004)
- Honorable mention: Harsha Ram, University of California, Berkeley, for The Imperial Sublime: A Russian Poetics of Empire (Univ. of Wisconsin Press, 2003)
2001–02
- Irina Sirotkina, Russian Academy of Sciences, for Diagnosing Literary Genius: A Cultural History of Psychiatry in Russia, 1880–1930 (Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 2001)
1999–2000
- Gabriella Safran, Stanford University, for Rewriting the Jew: Assimilation Narratives in the Russian Empire (Stanford Univ. Press, 2000)
1997–98
- Harriet Murav, University of California, Davis, for Russia's Legal Fictions (Univ. of Michigan Press, 1998)
1995–96
- Alexander M. Schenker, Yale University, for The Dawn of Slavic: An Introduction to Slavic Philology (Yale Univ. Press, 1995)
1993–94
- Robert Maguire, Columbia University, for Exploring Gogol (Stanford Univ. Press, 1994)
- Honorable mention: Monika Greenleaf, Stanford University, for Pushkin and Romantic Fashion: Fragment, Elegy, Orient, Irony (Stanford Univ. Press, 1994)