Award Winners:
1) Best book:
Paolo Sartori, Pavel Shabley. Eksperimenty imperii: adat, shariat i proizvodstvo znanii v Kazakhskoi stepi (Experiments of the Empire: Adat, Sharia and the Production of Knowledge in the Kazakh Steppe). Mosow: New Literature Review, 2019. 280 p. ISBN: 978-5-4448-1145-0 (in Russian).
Special mention: Dmitry Shumsky. Beyond the Nation-State: The Zionist Political Imagination from Pinsker to Ben-Gurion. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2019. 297 pp. Bibliography. Index. ISBN: 978-0-300-23013-0.
2) Best article in a peer-reviewed academic journal or chapter in a scholarly collection:
David G. Anderson and Dmitry Arzyutov, “The Etnos Archipelago Sergei M. Shirokogoroff and the Life History of a Controversial Anthropological Concept," Current Anthropology, Volume 60, Issue 6 (2019): 741–773.
Special mention: Heather Coleman, “From Kiev across All Russia: The 900th Anniversary of the Christianization of Rus’ and the Making of a National Saint in the Imperial Borderlands," Ab Imperio, Volume 19, Issue 4 (2018): 95–129 (March 2019).
Congratulations to the winners!
The call for nominations for the 2020 publication awards will be announced in the fall.