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 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 by a CSA member in the two years prior to the award. 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 and should be accompanied by evidence that they were accepted for publication during the years under consideration.
The prize winner, who will be announced at the ASEEES Convention, will receive an award in an amount established by the President of the Czechoslovak Studies Association with the approval of the Executive Committee within three months after the biennial election of officers.
Email all entries by June 20, 2024 to the prize committee chair, Benjamin Frommer, at b-frommer@northwestern.edu.
The current award is $300.
The next Pech Prize will be awarded in 2024 for articles published in 2022 and 2023
Prize committee: Benjamin Frommer (Chair of the Committee), Northwestern University, Phillip J. Howe, Adrian College, and Claire Morelon, University of Manchester
PECH PRIZE COMPETITION REGULATIONS
The rules for the award are:
- The amount of the prize shall be determined by the President of the Czechoslovak Studies Association with the concurrence of the Executive Committee within three months after the biennial election of officers.
- Essays submitted shall have been published or accepted for publication in a professional journal or a volume of essays and shall deal with topics of the peoples of Czechoslovakia within and without its historical boundaries.
- Other things being equal, the prize judges shall give preference to essays by recent Ph.D.s over others.
- Candidates for the prize may be identified by author self-nomination, submission by a Czechoslovak Studies Association member, or by members of the Stanley Z. Pech Prize Committee, with the criterion for eligibility being the author’s membership in the Czechoslovak Studies Association.
- The President of the Czechoslovak Studies Association shall, within three months of his/her election, appoint a Prize Committee of three members, including one member that he/she shall designate as chairperson, which Committee shall evaluate the submitted essays and transmit their decision to the President for announcement and presentation of the Prize at the next annual meeting of the Czechoslovak Studies Association.
- One prize only shall be awarded, and the name of the recipient shall be the only one to be made public, subject to the decision of the Committee.