Rothschild Prize
Joseph Rothschild
The Joseph Rothschild Prize in Nationalism and Ethnic Studies is awarded annually by the Association for the Study of Nationalities for an outstanding book published in the previous calendar year on Russia, Eastern Europe or Eurasia (including the Balkans, Central Europe, the Baltics, Ukraine, Belarus, Moldova, Central Asia, the Caucasus, Turkey, Afghanistan, and China) in which substantial attention is paid to questions of ethnicity and/or nationalism. Theoretical works on ethnicity and nationalism that are relevant to the region also will be considered.
Nominations must be received no later than December 16, 2024. (We will accept books with a 2024 publication date that are published after December 16, 2024 as long as they are received no later than January 17, 2025.)
Archive of Previous Winners:
2024 Rothschild Prize
Joldon Kutmanaliev, Intercommunal Warfare and Ethnic Peacemaking
2023 Rothschild Prize
Adrienne Edgar, Intermarriage and the Friendship of Peoples / Rory Finnin, Blood of Others: Stalin’s Crimean Atrocity and the Poetics of Solidarity
2022 Rothschild Prize
Emily Greble, Muslims and the Making of Modern Europe
2021 Rothschild Prize
Krista Goff, Nested Nationalism
2020 Rothschild Prize
Jelena Subotic, Yellow Star, Red Star.
2019 Rothschild Prize
Sarah Cameron, Hungry Steppe.
2018 Rothschild Prize
Evgeny Finkel, Ordinary Jews.
2017 Rothschild Prize
Max Bergholz, Violence as a Generative Force.
2016 Rothschild Prize
Edin Hajdarpasic, Whose Bosnia?
2015 Rothschild Prize
Madeleine Reeves, Border Work.
2014 Rothschild Prize
David Frick, Kin, Kith, and Neighbors.
2013 Rothschild Prize
Sener Akturk, Regimes of Ethnicity and Nationhood.
2012 Rothschild Prize
Roger Petersen, Western Intervention in the Balkans.
2011 Rothschild Prize
Carter Vaughn Findley, Turkey, Islam, Nationalism, and Modernity.
2010 Rothschild Prize
Holly Case, Between States.
