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R. John Rath Prize

The R. John Rath prize, a cash award, is given annually for the best article published in the Austrian History Yearbook. (The exception is the first award, for which articles in both the 2001 and the 2002 issues were eligible.) It is funded by the estate of the longtime Habsburg scholar and founding editor of the AHY, R. John Rath (1910-2001), and by contributions in his memory.

Previous winners:

• 2007: David Gerlach, for “Working with the Enemy: Labor Politics in the Czech Borderlands, 1945-48.” (Vol. 38)
• 2006: Alexander Maxwell, “Why the Slovak Language Has Three Dialects: A Study in Historical Perceptual Dialectology.” (Vol. 37)
• 2005: Jaroslav Miller: “Early Modern Urban Immigration in East Central Europe: A Macroanalysis.” (Vol. 36)
• 2004: Peter Urbanitsch, “Pluralist Myth and National Realities: The Dynastic Myth of the Habsburg Monarchy—a Futile Exercise in the Creation of Identity?” (Vol. 35)
• 2003: Cathleeen M. Giustino, “Municipal Activism in Late-Nineteenth-Century Prague: The House Numbered 207-V and Ghetto Clearance.” (Vol. 34)
• 2001-02: Catherine Albrecht, “The Rhetoric of Economic Nationalism in the Bohemian Boycott Campaigns of the Late Habsburg Monarchy.” (Vol. 32)