Opportunities for Students in Russian
and East European Studies at U.Va.
Annually outstanding students interested in Russian and East European Studies have the following further development and award opportunities:
The Vladimir A. Pertzoff Prize for Russian
and East European Studies
The Vladimir A. Pertzoff Prize was donated by Margaret H. Pertzoff in honor of her late second husband, Vladimir A. Pertzoff, a Russian emigré, Harvard-trained biochemist, and author of a book on the translation of scientific texts from Russian. Margaret Pertzoff earned a Ph.D. in Russian-Soviet history at U.Va. in 1968 and became a professor of Russian and European history at Randolph-Macon Women’s College (now Randolph College), where she taught from 1967 to 1998.
2011 - Lauren C. Tortorella
2010 - Joseph W. Siler
2009 - Ajdin Muratovic
2008 - Erin A. Franklin
2007 - Elizabeth Retter
2006 - Cammeron H. Girvin
2005 - Emily P. Goldman
2004 - Julia D. Greble
2003 - Alexis K. Black
2002 - Catherine M. Borden
2000 – Maureen Elizabeth Thorson
1999 – David B. Hansen
1998 – Joshua Bernard Sandbulte
1997 – Sarah Marie Lenti
1996 – Martha H. Stack
1995 – Cynthia L. Rosenburgh
1993 – Eva C. Kapeller
1992 – Erika J. Warner
1991 – Scott A. Heitland
1990 – Eric R. Reinhardt
1989 - Maureen R. Aspinwall
The Thomas T. Hammond Prize for Russian
and East European Studies
The Thomas T. Hammond Prize was donated by Nancy Hammond Brannock in memory of her late husband, Thomas T. Hammond (1920-1993), U.Va.’s first professor of Russian history, who taught at the University for over forty years (1949-1991) and founded the Center for Russian and East European Studies. Mr. Hammond was the author of a number of books on the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, including Yugoslavia: Between East and West (1954), Lenin on Trade Unions and Revolution, 1893-1917 (1957), Soviet Foreign Relations and World Communism: A Selected, Annotated Bibliography (1965), Witnesses to the Origins of the Cold War (1982), and Red Flag over Afghanistan (1984).
2011 - Lauren C. Tortorella
2010 - Olga Zeveleva
2009 - Ajdin Muratovic1
2008 - Maria Tchijov
2007- Hannah Woolf
2006 - Caitlin Stapleton
2005 - Patrick D. Bradshaw
2002 - no award given
2001 - John Corcoran
2000- Michael Andruchow
1999- Angela M. Thaler
1998 - William Brooks Wheeler
1997 - Rhonda Bowman
1996 - Oliver Straubenmueller
1994 - Ronald S. Barry1994