Heldt Prize is a literary award

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  from the Association for Women in Slavic Studies named in honor of Barbara Heldt. The award has been given variously in the following categories:

• Best book in Slavic/Eastern European/Eurasian Women's Studies
• Best Book by a Woman in Any Area of Slavic/Eastern European/Eurasian Studies
• Best Translation by a Woman in Any Area of Slavic/Eastern European/Eurasian Studies
• Best article in Slavic/Eastern European/Eurasian Women's studies

Christine Worobec is the only twice recipient of the award.

Best Book recipients

• 2011: Cristina Vatulescu, Police Aesthetics: Literature, Film & the Secret Police in Soviet Times (Stanford University Press, 2010)
• 2010: Kristen Ghodsee
  Kristen R. Ghodsee
  Kristen Ghodsee is an American ethnographer and the John S. Osterweis Associate Professor of Gender and Women's Studies at Bowdoin College. She is known primarily for her ethnographic work on post-communist Bulgaria as well as being a key player in the field of postsocialist gender studies...
  
  , Muslim Lives in Eastern Europe: Gender, Ethnicity and the Transformation of Islam in Postsocialist Bulgaria (Princeton University Press, 2010)
• 2010: Rebecca Manley, To the Tashkent Station: Evacuation and Survival in the Soviet Union at War, (Cornell University Press, 2009)
• 2009: Christine Ruane, The Empire's New Clothes: A History of the Russian Fashion Industry, 1700-1917, (Yale University Press, 2009)
• 2009: Olga Shevchenko, Crisis and the Everyday in Postsocialist Moscow, (Indiana University Press, 2009)
• 2008: Catherine Wanner, Communities of the Converted: Ukrainians and Global Evangelism (Cornell University Press, 2007)
• 2008: Eliot Borenstein, Overkill: Sex and Violence in Contemporary Russian Popular Culture (Cornell University Press, 2007)
• 2007: Valerie Kivelson, Cartographies of Tsardom, The Land and Its Meaning traces (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2007)
• 2007: Marianne Kamp, The New Woman in Uzbekistan: Islam, Modernity, and Unveiling under Communism (Seattle, Washington: University of Washington Press, 2007)
• 2006: Marci Shore, Caviar and Ashes: A Warsaw Generation's Life and Death in Marxism, 1918-1968 (Yale University Press, 2006)
• 2006: Michele Rivkin-Fish, Women's Health in Post-Soviet Russia: The Politics of Intervention (Indian University Press, 2005)
• 2005: Shana Penn, Solidarity's Secret: The Women who Defeated Communism in Poland (University of Michigan Press, 2005)
• 2005: Amy Nelson (2004) "Music for the Revolution: Musicians and Power in Early Soviet Russia" ISBN 978-0-271-02369-4
• 2001: Christine Worobec, "Possessed: Women, Witches, and Demons in Imperial Russia"
• 2000: Nadieszda Kizenko (2000) "A Prodigal Saint: Father John of Kronstadt and the Russian People" ISBN 978-0-271-01975-8 (hardcover), ISBN 978-0-271-01976-5 (paperback) (review)
• 1995: Irina Livezeanu
  Irina Livezeanu
  Irina Livezeanu is a Romanian-born American historian. Her research interests include Eastern Europe, Eastern European Jewry, the Holocaust in Eastern Europe, and modern nationalism. Several of her publications deal with the history of Romania, Moldova, and Bessarabia. Since 1996, she is Associate...
  
   "Cultural Politics in Greater Romania: Regionalism, Nation Building, and Ethnic Struggle, 1918–1930" (Cornell University Press, 1995 and 2000 ISBN 0801486882)
• 1991: Christine Worobec, "Peasant Russia: Family and Community in the Post-Emancipation Period"

See also

• Slavistics
  Slavistics
  Slavic studies or Slavistics is the academic field of area studies concerned with Slavic areas, Slavic languages, literature, history, and culture. Originally, a Slavist or Slavicist was primarily a linguist or philologist who researches Slavistics, a Slavic or Slavonic scholar...
  
  

1999 Christine D. Tomei, Russian Women Writers, New York : Garland Publishing, 1999.
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