*Update: The winners of 2025 book prize have been announced on the dedicated page.
The Society for Romanian Studies invites nominations for the Eighth Biennial SRS Book Prize awarded for the best scholarly book published in English in the humanities or social sciences, on any subject relating to Romania or Moldova and their diasporas.
To be eligible,
- books must have been published between 1 January 2023 and 31 December 2024 as indicated by the copyright date
- books may be in any academic field, with a predominant focus on Romanian or Moldovan subject matter (including subjects relating to the activities of non-Romanian ethnic groups on Romanian or Moldovan territory). Edited books, translations, reprints or new editions of works published before 2023, and non-scholarly books are not eligible
- the author of the submitted book must be an SRS member.
The prize carries with it an award of $500. Either authors or publishers of books may make submissions. Submissions should be sent to the SRS prize committee by October 15th, 2025
Three copies of each submitted book should be sent by mail, one copy directly to each committee member at the addresses below. Questions or inquiries can be sent to the committee chair, Constantin ARDELEANU, via email at cardeleanu@nec.ro. The award will be announced in March 2026.
SRS Book Prize Committee Members:
| Maria ASAVEI Associate Professor Charles University, PragueU Krize 8, Praha 5, 15800, Czech Republic Email:maria.asavei@fsv.cuni.cz | Constantin ARDELEANU Researcher Institute for South-East European Studies, New Europe College Str. Plantelor 21, 023971Bucharest, RomaniaEmail: cardeleanu@nec.ro | Alexandru SAVOAIA Assistant professor Faculty of History, “Alexandru Ioan Cuza” University of Iași, Bd. Carol I no. 11, 700506 Iași, Romania Email: alex.savoaia@gmail.com |
About the SRS Book Prize:
For details of the Prize and past winners please see: https://srstudies.org/awards-prizes/