At the 1985 annual meeting in Washington, D. C., the CSA adopted a motion by Stanley Winters to create an award to be given every two years for an outstanding article published, or accepted for publication, by a member of the Czechoslovak History Conference, now the Czechoslovak Studies Association. It was later determined to name the award in honor of Stanley Z. Pech.
Eligible is any article or essay (including a chapter in an edited volume) that concerns the history of Czechoslovakia, its successor states, or its predecessor provinces, and was published, or has been accepted for publication, by a CSA member in 2024 or 2025. The Pech Prize Committee welcomes submissions from all academic disciplines, provided that they contain a substantial historical component. Works may be submitted in either pdf or doc/docx format. If the work is scheduled for publication after 2025, it should be accompanied by evidence that it was accepted for publication during the years under consideration.
The current award is $300.
Email all entries by June 26, 2026 to the prize committee chair, John Paul Newman, at JohnPaul.Newman@mu.ie.
Current Committee Members
Alice Lovejoy, University of Minnesota
John Paul Newman (chair), Maynooth University
Peter Zusi, New York University