The AAUS awards annual prizes in three categories: Prize for the Best Book and Prize for the Best Article in the field of Ukrainian history, politics, language, literature and culture published in English, and Prize for Best Translation of a book-length literary work from Ukrainian into English. While nominations and self-nominations do not require AAUS membership, prize winners must be current members of the AAUS to receive the award. Winners of the latest round (for books works published in 2020 or 2021) of the AAUS prize competition are as follows:
The 2020-2021 Prize Winners:
BOOK PRIZE:
Co-winner: Yuliya Ilchuk, Nikolai Gogol: Performing Hybrid Identity (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2021).
Co-winner: Jessica Zychowicz, Superfluous Women: Art, Feminism, and Revolution in Twenty-First-Century Ukraine (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2020).
ARTICLE PRIZE:
Winner: John S. Earle, Solomiya Shpak, Anton Shirikov, and Scott Gehlbach, "The Oligarch Vanishes: Defensive Ownership, Property Rights, and Political Connections." Quarterly Journal of Political Science (September 28, 2021).
TRANSLATION PRIZE:
Winner: Ali Kinsella and Dzvinia Orlowsky for their translation of Eccentric Days of Hope and Sorrow by Natalka Bilotserkivets (Lost Horse Press, 2021).
Honorable mention: Oksana Maksymchuk, Max Rosochinsky, and Svetlana Lavochkina for their translation of Apricots of Donbas by Lyuba Yakimchuk (Lost Horse Press, 2021).