CREES congratulates the winner of the 2024 Ed A Hewett Book Prize, Ekaterina Pravilova, for her book, The Ruble: A Political History (Oxford University Press, 2023).
The Ed A Hewett Book Prize, established in 1994, is sponsored by CREES and awarded annually for an outstanding monograph on the political economy of Russia, Eurasia and/or Eastern Europe, published in the previous year. The Hewett Prize carries a cash award and is presented at the Association for Slavic, East European, & Eurasian Studies (ASEEES) Annual Convention.
Ed Hewett was a distinguished alumnus of the University of Michigan, (PhD, economics), a prominent scholar, a fine colleague, and an internationally respected member of the field. The Hewett Book Prize was established in 1994 in his honor to recognize and encourage the high standard of scholarship that he so admirably advanced in the area of his interests. CREES has sponsored the award since 2012.
See here for more information on the prize.
