Pech Prize Winners

2020 PECH PRIZE WINNER (Articles published in 2018-2019)

Claire Morelon, “Sounds of Loss: Church Bells, Place and Time in the Habsburg Empire during the First World War,” Past & Present 244, no. 1 (August 2019): 194-234.

2018 PECH PRIZE WINNER (Articles published in 2016-2017)

Jakub Beneš, “The Green Cadres and the Collapse of Austria-Hungary in 1918,” Past and Present 236, No. 1 (August 2017), 207-241.

2016 PECH PRIZE WINNER (Articles published in 2014-2015)

David Z. Scheffel, for his “Belonging and Domesticated Ethnicity in Velký Šariš, Slovakia,” Romani Studies 5, Vol. 25, No. 2 (2015), 115-149.

2014 PECH PRIZE WINNER (Articles published in 2012-2013)

Thomas Ort, “Cubism’s Sex: Masculinity and Czech Modernism,” Austrian History Yearbook 44 (2013), 175-194.

2012 PECH PRIZE WINNER (Articles published in 2010-2011)

Tara Zahra, “Imagined Non-Communities: National Indifference as a Category of Analysis,” Slavic Review 69 (Spring 2010), 93-119.

2010 PECH PRIZE WINNER (Articles published in 2008-2009)

Paulina Bren, “Mirror, Mirror, on the Wall…Is the West the Fairest of Them All?: Czechoslovak Normalization and Its (Dis)contents,” Kritika 9, no. 4 (2008): 831-854.

2008 PECH PRIZE WINNER (Articles published in 2006-2007)

Sheilagh Ogilvie, “‘So that Every Subject Knows How to Behave’: Social Disciplining in Early Modern Bohemia,” Comparative Studies in Society & History, vol. 48, no. 1 (January 2006): 38-78.

2006 PECH PRIZE WINNER (Articles published in 2004-2005)
Peter Bugge, “The Making of a Slovak City The Czechoslovak Renaming of Pressburg/Pozsony/Presporok, 1918-1919,” Austrian History Yearbook 35 (2004): 205-227.

2004 PECH PRIZE WINNER (Articles published in 2002-2003)
Bruce R. Berglund, “Building a Church for a New Age: The Search for a Modern Catholic Art in Turn-of-the-century Central Europe,” Centropa, vol. 3 no. 3 (September 2003): 225-240.

2002 PECH PRIZE WINNER (Articles published in 2000-2001)

Katherine David-Fox, “Prague-Vienna, Prague-Berlin: The Hidden Geography of Czech Modernism,” Slavic Review, 59, no. 4 (Winter 2000) 735-760.

2000 PECH PRIZE WINNER (Article published in 1998-1999)

Karl F. Bahm, “Beyond the Bourgeoisie: Rethinking Nation, Culture and Modernity in Nineteenth-Century Central Europe,” Austrian History Yearbook, 29, part 1 (1998) 19-35.
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Igor Lukes, “The Slanský Affair: New Evidence,” Slavic Review, 58, no. 1 (Spring 1999) 160-187.

1998 PECH PRIZE WINNER (Articles published in 1995-1997)

Anna Drabek, “Die Frage der Unterrichtssprache im Königreich Böhmen im Zeitalter der Aufklärung,” Österreichische Osthefte 38 (1996) 329-355.

1995 PECH PRIZE WINNER (Articles published in 1993-1994)

Claire Nolte, “Our Brothers Across the Ocean: The Czech Sokol in America to 1914,” Czechoslovak and Central European Journal 2, no. 2 (Winter 1993) 15-37.

1993 PECH PRIZE WINNER (Articles published in 1991-1992)

Hillel Kieval, “The Social Vision of Bohemian Jews: Intellectuals and Community in the 1840s,” in Assimilation and Community: The Jews in Nineteenth-Century Europe, eds. Jonathan Frankel and Steven J. Zipperstein (Cambridge, New York: Cambridge University Press, 1992), 246-283.

1989 PECH PRIZE WINNER (Articles published in 1987-1988)

Owen V. Johnson, “Newspapers and Nation-building: The Slovak Press in Pre-1918 Slovakia,” in Bildungsgeschichte, Bevalkerungsgeschichte: Gesellschaftsgeschichte in den Bohmischen Landern und Europa, eds. Hans Lemberg et al. (Vienna: Verlag für Geschichte und Politik, 1988), 160-178.

1987 PECH PRIZE WINNER (Articles published in 1985-1986)

Kevin F. McDermott, “Dependence or Independence? Relations between the Red Unions and the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia, 1922-1929,” in East European History: Selected Papers of the Third World Congress for Soviet and East European Studies, ed. Stanislav J. Kirschbaum (Columbus, OH: Slavica Publishers, 1988), 157-183.