Established in 2012 by the Mikhail Prokhorov Foundation and Academic Studies Press, the Historia Nova Prize for the Best Book on Russian Intellectual and Cultural History recognizes the best scholarly volume originally written and published in English within the preceding two years. The range of eligible genres has included single and collective-author monographs, collections of articles, and special thematic issues of scholarly journals.

Juried in the past three years by a five-person international team with logistical support from the Press, the Historia Nova prize seeks nominations from publishers, literary agencies, universities and university departments, journals, scholarly organizations, artistic unions, groups, and individuals.

Past winners have included:

2012: Katerina Clark, Moscow the Fourth Rome (Harvard University Press, 2011)

2013: Serhii Plokhii, The Cossack Myth: History and Nationhood in the Age of Empires (Cambridge University Press, 2012)

2014: Valerie Kivelson, Desperate Magic: The Moral Economy of Witchcraft in Seventeenth-Century Russia (Cornell University Press, 2013)

Nomination Details:

The 2015 Historia Nova award, to be announced at the November 2015 ASEEES convention (19-22 November, Philadelphia Marriott Downtown), will be chosen from nominations submitted to historianova@academicstudiespress.com until 1 June 2015.**

The Organizing Committee asks that publishers nominating their own titles send five complimentary copies of the book to:

Academic Studies Press
Attn: Historia Nova
28 Montfern Avenue
Brighton, MA 02135 USA

For more information, please visit www.historianova.com.