Previous ESSA Annoucements

The EARLY SLAVIC STUDIES ASSOCIATION (ESSA) is pleased to announce that at its meeting on November 16, 2006, the annual ESSA Distinguished Scholarship Award was presented to Simon Franklin for his book Writing, Society and Culture in Early Rus, c.950-1300 (Cambridge University Press, 2002). A work of extraordinary erudition and methodological innovation, the book was awarded the prize in the category of "research in Early Slavic studies that applies concepts or methodologies that are broad, innovative, or not commonly used in the field."

The EARLY SLAVIC STUDIES ASSOCIATION is pleased to announce that at its meeting on December 6, 2004, the first annual ESSA Distinguished Scholarship Award was presented to Donald Ostrowski, David H. Birnbaum, and Horace G. Lunt for their production of The Povest vremennykh let : an interlinear collation and paradosis. The work was published in 2003 and is distributed by Harvard University Press for the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute.