Ce prix de l’Association canadienne des slavistes a été créé en 2014 et est commandité par les éditeurs Taylor & Francis. Il est remis chaque année au meilleur livre académique dans le domaine des études slaves, est-européennes et eurasiennes publiées au cours de l’année civile précédente par un auteur canadien (citoyen ou résident permanent).  

La gagnante du prix 2025

Nous sommes heureux d’annoncer que le prix Taylor & Francis pour le meilleur livre en études slaves, est-européennes et eurasiennes de l’Association canadienne des slavistes 2024 a était décerné à Dr. Natalie Cornett pour The Politics of Love: Gender and Nation in Nineteenth-Century Poland (Cornell UP, 2024).

Dans son rapport final, le comité du prix pour le meilleur livre offre la mention suivante : « The Politics of Love investigates nineteenth-century Polish nationalism from the point of view of gender politics. It focuses on the “Enthusiasts” (Entuzjastki), a group of educated women who came together in the years between Poland’s two great uprisings to engage with the important social and political issues of the day. Cornett’s book is very timely; it examines not only a particular historical context, but more broadly the problems of what has become known as intersectionality in contemporary political discourse. She examines the ways in which the Polish intelligentsia’s single-minded focus on the independence struggle allowed it to dismiss other social questions, such as the role of women in a future, independent Poland. Cornett shows both the reputational damage that the Enthusiasts suffered as a result of their attempts to widen the scope of the nationalist cause and the compensatory nature of the close relationships they shared with each other. Beautifully written, melding together social and intellectual history, and drawing on a kaleidoscope of different perspectives and sources, the book brings a forgotten group of women to the centre of the stage, allowing their voices to be heard and providing a new and immensely valuable perspective onto the history of Poland’s independence movement in the nineteenth century. In the process, it has much to contribute to contemporary debates about nationalism, gender, intersectionality, and the patriarchy. »

Merci aux membres du comité du prix du livre (Dr. Kate Holland, Dr. Piotr Wrobel, and Dr. Serhy Yekelchyk) pour leur travail et, bien sûr, félicitations aux Dr. Natalie Cornett !

Liste des anciens gagnants du prix

2024: Natalie Kononenko, Ukrainian Ritual on the Prairies: Growing a Ukrainian Canadian Identity (Montréal and Kingston: McGill-Queen’s UP, 2023)

2023: Ann Komaromi, Soviet Samizdat: Imagining a New Society (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2022).

2022: John-Paul Himka, Ukrainian Nationalists and the Holocaust: OUN and UPA’s Participation in the Destruction of Ukrainian Jewry, 1941-1944 (Stuttgart: Ibidem Press, 2021)

2021: Megan Swift, Picturing the Page: Illustrated Children’s Literature and Reading under Lenin and Stalin (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2020)

2020: Jeff Sahadeo, Voices from the Soviet Edge: Southern Migrants in Leningrad and Moscow (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2019)

2019: Zina Gimpelevich, The Portrayal of Jews in Modern Bielarusian Literature (Montréal and Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2018)

2018: Lynne Viola, Stalinist Perpetrators on Trial: Scenes from the Great Terror in Soviet Ukraine (New York: Oxford University Press, 2017).

2017: Max Bergholz, Violence as a Generative Force: Identity, Nationalism, and Memory in a Balkan Community (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2016).

2016: Myroslav Shkandrij, Ukrainian Nationalism: Politics, Ideology, and Literature, 1929-1956 (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2015).

2015: Alan Barenberg, Gulag Town, Company Town: Forced Labor and its Legacy in Vorkuta (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2014).