Award Descriptions

1. Excellence in Teaching (secondary)


Awarded to individuals at any stage in their career whose imaginative, collaborative, and/or interdisciplinary teaching of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian languages, literatures, and/or cultures has enriched our syllabi and pedagogical practices and/or who have found creative and effective ways to inspire and enable more young people to embark on and to persist in the study of these subjects after graduation.



2. Excellence in Teaching (post-secondary)


Awarded to individuals at any stage in their career whose imaginative, collaborative, and/or interdisciplinary teaching of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian languages, literatures and/or cultures at the undergraduate or graduate levels has enriched our syllabi and pedagogical practices and/or who have found creative and effective ways to inspire and enable more students to embark on and to persist in the study of these subjects after graduation.



3. Distinguished Service to AATSEEL


Awarded to AATSEEL members at any stage in their career who have contributed to the programming or other activities of AATSEEL in a way that leads more people to study Slavic, East European, and Eurasian languages, literatures, and cultures nationwide, that substantively enriches and improves the teaching experiences and skills of our members, that provides access for our members to new research methodologies, resources, or archives, or that supports the organization itself in significant ways. (NB. This can include officers or non-officers, but current officers or staff are ineligible.)



4. Outstanding Contribution to the Profession


Awarded to individuals at any stage in their career whose scholarly and administrative leadership, collaboration, and/or mentoring has had a significant impact on the profession, especially in terms of opening up and sustaining new directions and new opportunities for our scholarship and our teaching and/or bringing the insights of our field to new audiences.



5. Outstanding Contribution to Scholarship


Awarded to individuals at any stage in their career whose substantial body of scholarship (as taken in the broadest possible sense, including but not limited to publications in refereed journals, monographs, etc.) charts or has charted a new course or program of study for our field and/or opens our field to new ideas and/or new audiences.