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And here is the Call for Applications for the AAASS book prizes 2005:
If you wish to nominate a book please ask the publisher to submit copies for consideration to the prize committee, or contact the AAASS National Office. For precise rules of eligibility for each prize and the mailing addresses for committee members, visit the Website.
Deadline for nominations is May 13, 2005.
The following book prizes will be awarded by the AAASS in 2005 ...
AAASS/Orbis Books Prize for Polish Studies for the best book in any discipline, on any aspect of Polish affairs. Only works originally published in English, outside of Poland, are eligible; the book must be a monograph, preferably by a single author, or by no more than two authors.
Committee: Andrzej Tymowski, Chair, American Council of Learned Societies; Brian Porter, U of Michigan; Bozena Shallcross, U of Chicago.

Ed A. Hewett Book Prize for an outstanding publication on the political economy of the centrally planned economies of the former Soviet Union and East Central Europe and their transitional successors. Only works originally published in English in the form of monographs, chapters in books, and substantial articles are eligible.
Committee: Peter Rutland, Chair, Wesleyan University; Vladimir Kontorovich, Haverford College; Mieke Meurs, American University.

Barbara Jelavich Book Prize for a distinguished monograph published on any aspect of Southeast European or Habsburg studies since 1600, or nineteenth- and twentieth-century Ottoman or Russian diplomatic history. The book must have been published in the United States; authors must be citizens or permanent residents of North America.
Committee: David Schimmelpenninck van der Oye, Chair, Brock University; Keely Stauter-Halsted, Michigan State U; Nicholas Miller, Boise State U.

Marshall Shulman Book Prize for an outstanding monograph dealing with the international relations, foreign policy, or foreign-policy decision-making of any of the states of the former Soviet Union or Eastern Europe. The book must have been published in the United States; authors must be American scholars or residents of the U.S.
Committee: Rawi Abdelal, Chair, Harvard Business School; Anna Grzymala-Busse, U of Michigan; Jack F. Matlock.

Wayne S. Vucinich Book Prize for the most important contribution to Russian, Eurasian, and East European studies in any discipline of the humanities or social sciences. Policy analyses, however scholarly, are not considered.
Committee: Mark Beissinger, Chair, U of Wisconsin; Istvan Deak, Columbia U; Monika Greenleaf, Stanford U.