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SUNY NAMED WINNER OF 2013 DISTINGUISHED CONTRIBUTIONS AWARD
COMMUNITY | AUGUST 20, 2013 4:26 PM
BOSTON - The Distinguished Contributions to Slavic, East European
and Eurasian Studies Award (SEEES), which honors senior scholars
who have helped to build and develop the field through scholarship,
training and service to the profession, is presented annually, with
the prize going this year to Ronald Grigor Suny, the Charles Tilly
collegiate professor of social and political history and director of
the Eisenberg Institute of Historical Studies at the University of
Michigan and emeritus professor of political science and history at
the University of Chicago.
Suny is a renowned historian and political scientist interested
across the Eurasian field in both spatial and temporal terms. He is
particularly noted for his studies of the Caucasus in the Soviet and
post-Soviet period: he was the first holder of the Alex Manoogian Chair
in Modern Armenian History at the University of Michigan (1981-1995),
and the founder and director of the Armenian Studies Program there. He
is the author of seven scholarly monographs, including The Baku
Commune 1917-1918 (Princeton University Press, 1972); The Making of
the Georgian Nation (Indiana University Press, 1988, 1994); Looking
Toward Ararat: Armenia in Modern History (Indiana University Press,
1993); The Revenge of the Past (Stanford University Press, 1993);
and The Soviet Experiment (Oxford University Press, 1998). He is also
the editor of many collections of essays, including Making Workers
Soviet (Cornell University Press, 1994); A State of Nations: Empire
and Nation-making in the Age of Lenin and Stalin (Oxford University
Press, 2001) and A Question of Genocide: Armenians and Turks at the
End of the Ottoman Empire (Oxford University Press, 2011).
Suny's provocative and pioneering work on nationalism is an obligatory
citation not just across the Eurasian studies field, but also beyond,
and he has recently also made contributions to the developing field
of history of emotions.
Suny has served as chairman of the Society for Armenian Studies. He
has also served on the editorial boards of Slavic Review, International
Labor and Working-Class History, International Journal of Middle East
Studies, The Armenian Review, Journal of the Society for Armenian
Studies, Armenian Forum and Ab Imperio. He was elected president of
the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies for
the year 2006.
Regarded with affection by former students and colleagues alike, he is
a model of collegiality, and an exemplum, in the truly international
scope of his interests, for the Association of Slavic, East European
and Eurasian Studies in its post-Soviet and post-Cold War present.
The Award will be presented on November 23, at the ASEEES 45th Annual
Convention, in Boston.
- See more at:
http://www.mirrorspectator.com/2013/08/20/suny-named-winner-of-2013-distinguished-contributions-award/#sthash.Yzw86s04.dpuf
COMMUNITY | AUGUST 20, 2013 4:26 PM
BOSTON - The Distinguished Contributions to Slavic, East European
and Eurasian Studies Award (SEEES), which honors senior scholars
who have helped to build and develop the field through scholarship,
training and service to the profession, is presented annually, with
the prize going this year to Ronald Grigor Suny, the Charles Tilly
collegiate professor of social and political history and director of
the Eisenberg Institute of Historical Studies at the University of
Michigan and emeritus professor of political science and history at
the University of Chicago.
Suny is a renowned historian and political scientist interested
across the Eurasian field in both spatial and temporal terms. He is
particularly noted for his studies of the Caucasus in the Soviet and
post-Soviet period: he was the first holder of the Alex Manoogian Chair
in Modern Armenian History at the University of Michigan (1981-1995),
and the founder and director of the Armenian Studies Program there. He
is the author of seven scholarly monographs, including The Baku
Commune 1917-1918 (Princeton University Press, 1972); The Making of
the Georgian Nation (Indiana University Press, 1988, 1994); Looking
Toward Ararat: Armenia in Modern History (Indiana University Press,
1993); The Revenge of the Past (Stanford University Press, 1993);
and The Soviet Experiment (Oxford University Press, 1998). He is also
the editor of many collections of essays, including Making Workers
Soviet (Cornell University Press, 1994); A State of Nations: Empire
and Nation-making in the Age of Lenin and Stalin (Oxford University
Press, 2001) and A Question of Genocide: Armenians and Turks at the
End of the Ottoman Empire (Oxford University Press, 2011).
Suny's provocative and pioneering work on nationalism is an obligatory
citation not just across the Eurasian studies field, but also beyond,
and he has recently also made contributions to the developing field
of history of emotions.
Suny has served as chairman of the Society for Armenian Studies. He
has also served on the editorial boards of Slavic Review, International
Labor and Working-Class History, International Journal of Middle East
Studies, The Armenian Review, Journal of the Society for Armenian
Studies, Armenian Forum and Ab Imperio. He was elected president of
the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies for
the year 2006.
Regarded with affection by former students and colleagues alike, he is
a model of collegiality, and an exemplum, in the truly international
scope of his interests, for the Association of Slavic, East European
and Eurasian Studies in its post-Soviet and post-Cold War present.
The Award will be presented on November 23, at the ASEEES 45th Annual
Convention, in Boston.
- See more at:
http://www.mirrorspectator.com/2013/08/20/suny-named-winner-of-2013-distinguished-contributions-award/#sthash.Yzw86s04.dpuf