Award Recipients (1991-present)
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| Year | Excellence in Teaching (Secondary) |
Excellence in Teaching (Post-Secondary) |
Distinguished Service to AATSEEL | Outstanding Contribution to the Profession |
Outstanding Contribution to Scholarship |
| 1991 | John Sheehan |
Barbara Monahan |
Zita Dabars | J. Thomas Shaw |
Victor Terras/Catherine Chvany |
| 1992 | Henry Ziegler |
Robert Baker |
Leon Twarog | Charles Gribble | Dean Worth |
| 1993 | George Morris | Irwin Weil | Lauren Leighton | Irene Thompson | Robert Jackson |
| 1994 | Will Poole | Leonard Polakiewicz | Christine Tomei | Charles Townsend | Rado Lencek |
| 1995 | Peter Merrill | Christopher Wertz | George Gutsche | Dan Davidson | Marina Ledkovsky |
| 1996 | Jane Shuffelton | Frank Miller | Ray Parrott | George Fowler | Felix Oinas |
| 1997 | Guenther Teschauer | Robert Beard | John Schillinger | Catherine Chvany | Vladimir Markov |
| 1998 | Marian Walters | Alexandra Baker | Barry Scherr | Richard Brecht | Hugh McLean |
| 1999 | Joyce Morgan | Arlene Forman | Don Jarvis | Ray Parrott | Simon Karlinsky |
| 2000 | Kathleen Dillon | Anna Lisa Crone | Steve Baehr (posthumous) | David Birnbaum | Robert Belknap |
| 2001 | Judith Wobst | Thomas Garza | None | Alex Rudd | Caryl Emerson |
| 2002 | Arthur Lisciandro | Emilia P. Hramova | None | Munir Sendich | Robert Maguire |
| 2003 | Martin Doyle | Olga Kagan | Jerry Ervin | Irwin Weil | David Bethea |
| 2004 | Elizabeth Sandstrom |
Masako Ueda Fidler |
George Fowler |
Irene Masing-Delic |
Alexander Schenker |
| 2005 | Ruth Edelman | Maria Carlson | Karen Evans-Romaine | Maria Lekic | William Mills Todd III |
| 2006 | James Sweigert | Richard Robin | Kathleen Dillon | Kenneth Lantz | Victor Erlich |
| 2007 | Paavo Husen | Irina Reyfman | Gerald Janecek | Beth Holmgren | Katerina Clark |
Citations for Recent Recipients
Outstanding Contribution to Scholarship
Katerina Clark
(citation written by Catharine Nepomnyashchy)
Katerina Clark is widely acknowledged as one of the foremost scholars in our field. During the past three decades, Professor Clark’s work has fundamentally redefined the study of Soviet literature and culture, inspiring the work of scholars who have followed her lead. Few books written by Slavists in the United States have had the immediate and ongoing revelatory impact, both here and abroad, on the course of Soviet literary and cultural studies of Professor Clark’s first book. The Soviet Novel: History as Ritual, the first major study to propose a compelling and theoretically astute paradigm for the study of Socialist Realism at the intersection of literature, history, and political mythopoesis. Into the third decade after its appearance, Professor Clark’s The Soviet Novel remains necessary reading for scholars of Soviet literature, culture, history and even anthropology and political science. The well respected biography, Mikhail Bakhtin, which Professor Clark co-authored with Michael Holquist, represents a scholarly contribution of equivalent significance in its nuanced contextualization of the life and works of one of the most complex figures in the twentieth-century Russian literary and intellectual traditions. Professor Clark’s third book, Petersburg, Crucible of Cultural Revolution, brilliantly reaffirms her ability to synthesize enormous amounts of material across disciplinary boundaries into a compelling and rich narrative of a crucially important topic. All of her writings, whether her books or her many articles and book chapters, are characterized by an exceptional elegance of expression which beautifully complements her clarity of vision and freshness of insight. Brilliant scholar, generous colleague, rigorous mentor, and consummate professional, Professor Clark has indeed “overfulfilled the quota” by any standards, justly earning the respect and admiration of our profession as represented by the award we confer on her today.
Outstanding Contribution to the Profession
Beth Holmgren
(written by Todd Armstrong)
Beth Holmgren joined Duke University’s Department of Slavic and Eurasian Studies as Professor in 2006, after a distinguished thirteen years at University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. A prolific scholar, Holmgren has published on a wide range of issues in Russian and Polish literature including important contributions to research on gender and women’s studies. She is the author of Women’s Works in Stalin’s Time: On Lidiia Chukovskaia and Nadezhda Mandelstam (1993); Rewriting Capitalism: Literature and the Market in Late Tsarist Russia and the Kingdom of Poland (1998); co-editor and translator (with Helena Goscilo) of Anastasiia Verbitskaia’s Keys to Happiness (1999); editor of The Russian Memoir: History and Literature (2003); and co-editor (with Helena Goscilo) of Russia.Women.Culture (1996) and Poles Apart: Women in Modern Polish Culture (2006). Beth’s service to the field is second to none, and her work as member and past-president of the American Association of Women in Slavic has been instrumental in the success of that organization. Her election as vice-president/president elect of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, the largest national organization of American specialists in interdisciplinary Slavic studies, clearly recognizes her far-reaching contributions to our profession.
Distinguished Service to AATSEEL
Gerald Janecek
(written by Jane Hacking)
It is with great pleasure that we honor Professor Gerald Janecek for his Distinguished Service to AATSEEL. Professor Janecek, through his extended and varied work with the Association's Slavic and East European Journal has made a major and lasting contribution to our organization and to the field of Slavic Studies. Professor Janecek served two stints on the editorial board of SEEJ, once in the 1980s and a second time between 1995-2000. In between these two periods, he served for five years as Review Editor (1989-1994). In 2001 he assumed the position of Editor. As many of us recall, he was faced with the daunting task of bringing the journal back on schedule, and he worked tirelessly to do so producing extra volumes each year. At the same time he displayed a commitment to the highest quality of review and the timely turnaround of submissions. The 50th Anniversary issue of SEEJ, which appeared in Spring 2006, is exemplary of Professor Janecek¹s vision. As Editor he sought from the AATSEEEL membership reflections on the past, present and future of the profession. The volume he produced demonstrates appreciation for the rich traditions of our association and represents the diverse trends of the disciplines that constitute our intellectual work. It embodies Professor Janecek¹s contribution to AATSEEL and the profession.
Excellence in Teaching (Post-Secondary)
Irina Reyfman
(written by Margo Rosen)
In acknowledgement and appreciation of Irina Reyfman, whose efforts on many fronts have contributed over many years to the exciting and intellectually rewarding atmosphere at Columbia University’s Department of Slavic Languages and to advancement in the field of Russian literary scholarship; for the fundamental and hugely positive role she plays in her students’ development as scholars and teachers while imposing on herself the highest, most demanding standards in teaching, scholarship and service; for her inimitable style in attacking all problems and opportunities without delay in order to bring them to a swift, fair and successful conclusion; for her incisive, unremitting criticism and support of her students’ work, always nudging them beyond their comfort zone in scholarship while simultaneously going beyond the call of duty in helping them meet the challenges of their academic programs and prepare for a professional career; for her infectious love of eighteenth century Russian literature, even Radishev, and for her scholarship and teaching that open Russian writing and thought of every era to others; for her innovative approach to teaching, always finding fresh, more effective approaches in venues both inside and out of the classroom and always harnessing the synergy of students’ needs and interests; for her generosity in including and acknowledging students as colleagues she consults in the process of her research; and above all for her true grace and humility as a scholar and human being. Never seeking the limelight, always giving one hundred percent, when thanked she responds simply, “That’s my job.”
Excellence in Teaching (Secondary)
Paavo Husen
(written by Jane Shuffelton)
It takes a talented teacher to teach talented students, as Paavo Husen does at Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy. Paavo brings commitment and innovative approaches to his teaching, so that his students achieve strong results in Russian. His students perform wonders on the National Russian Essay Contest, for example. He serves on the development committee for the Prototype AP® Russian Language and Culture course and exam and has contributed resource materials for AP® teachers, including an article on "Peer teaching in a thematic unit on Russian fairy tales" . He has participated in ACTR summer teacher institutes for Russian teachers at Bryn Mawr and in Moscow, consulted with the Illinois State Board of Higher Education on Russian teaching standards, and developed a website on Russian at his school. One of his students wrote of Paavo's teaching: "I do not consider Russian at IMSA to be a class. Rather, I see it as an experience – or a set of experiences – which help to improve my learning, social, and problem-solving skills." Clearly this gifted teacher makes his classroom a memorable and meaningful place for his students. Paavo Husen receives the AATSEEL award for excellence in teaching at the pre-college level.
Last updated 08/22/2007.