Best Book recipients Heldt Prize

2011: cristina vatulescu, police aesthetics: literature, film & secret police in soviet times (stanford university press, 2010)
2010: kristen ghodsee, muslim lives in eastern europe: gender, ethnicity , transformation of islam in postsocialist bulgaria (princeton university press, 2010)
2010: rebecca manley, tashkent station: evacuation , survival in soviet union @ war, (cornell university press, 2009)
2009: christine ruane, empire s new clothes: history of russian fashion industry, 1700–1917, (yale university press, 2009)
2009: olga shevchenko, crisis , everyday in postsocialist moscow, (indiana university press, 2009)
2008: catherine wanner, communities of converted: ukrainians , global evangelism (cornell university press, 2007)
2008: eliot borenstein, overkill: sex , violence in contemporary russian popular culture (cornell university press, 2007)
2007: valerie kivelson, cartographies of tsardom, land , meaning traces (ithaca, ny: cornell university press, 2007)
2007: marianne kamp, new woman in uzbekistan: islam, modernity, , unveiling under communism (seattle, washington: university of washington press, 2007)
2006: marci shore, caviar , ashes: warsaw generation s life , death in marxism, 1918-1968 (yale university press, 2006)
2006: michele rivkin-fish, women s health in post-soviet russia: politics of intervention (indian university press, 2005)
2005: shana penn, solidarity s secret: women defeated communism in poland (university of michigan press, 2005)
2005: amy nelson (2004) music revolution: musicians , power in soviet russia isbn 978-0-271-02369-4
2003: paula michaels, curative powers: medicine , empire in stalin s central asia (university of pittsburgh press, 2003)
2001: christine worobec, possessed: women, witches, , demons in imperial russia
2000: nadieszda kizenko (2000) prodigal saint: father john of kronstadt , russian people isbn 978-0-271-01975-8 (hardcover), isbn 978-0-271-01976-5 (paperback) (review)
1995: irina livezeanu cultural politics in greater romania: regionalism, nation building, , ethnic struggle, 1918–1930 (cornell university press, 1995 , 2000 isbn 0-8014-8688-2)
1991: christine worobec, peasant russia: family , community in post-emancipation period