The American Friends of the Documentation Center of Austrian Resistance/Vienna, supported by Center Austria: The Marshall Plan Center for European Studies at the University of New Orleans, are pleased to announce the 6th annual prize namend after Radomír Luža for an outstanding work in the field of Austrian and/or Czechoslovak World War II studies, particularly in the fields of diplomatic history, resistance and war studies. This prize carries a cash award and seeks to encourage research in the above mentioned fields focusing on the time period between the Anschluss and Munich Agreement (1938) and the end of the Second World War (1945) and its immediate aftermath in Central Europe.
To be eligible for the 2018 Radomir Luza Prize competition, the book or dissertation must have been published (or a dissertation defended) between January 1, 2017 and December 31, 2017. Authors must be citizens or resident aliens (holders of “green cards”) of the United States or Canada. Dissertations must have been awarded by a North American University. The language of the work must be English.
To be considered for the Radomir Luza Prize competition, please send a copy of your work electronically to: mbryant@bryant.edu
The deadline for submissions is August 15, 2018. The winner will be announced at the GSA conference in Pittsburgh, PA, September 27th-30th, 2018. The awarding will take place during the banquet of the GSA at Wyndham Grand Pittsburgh Downtown, on Friday evening.