The accolades keep coming in for NIU historian Christine Worobec.
Worobec recently picked up the 2008 Outstanding Achievement Award from the Association for Women in Slavic Studies during the group’s 20th anniversary meeting in Philadelphia.
The award recognizes both exceptional scholarly and professional accomplishment throughout the recipient’s career, and dedicated mentoring of female students and colleagues. Past recipients have included Barbara Alpern Engel of the University of Colorado at Boulder, Stephanie Sandler of Harvard University and Nadezhda Azhgikina, secretary of the Russian Journalist Union.
Earlier this fall, Worobec was named one of the three inaugural recipients of the NIU Board of Trustees Professorships. That award also recognized the international recognition she has received for her scholarship and her continued efforts to engage students in her research and professional activities as well as to mentor graduate students and colleagues at other institutions.
Worobec, a former acting director of graduate studies in the Department of History, is among the world’s leading historians of tsarist Russia. She has won international praise for her interdisciplinary work exploring the extraordinary history of Russia’s common folk in the 18th and 19th centuries.
The Association for Women in Slavic Studies sponsors research and teaching for scholars of women’s studies and questions of gender analysis in Central/Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union.
Worobec is the only scholar in her field who has twice won the prestigious Heldt Prize from the association. The award is presented for the book of the year in Slavic, East European and Eurasian women’s and gender studies and the book of the year by a woman in any area of Slavic/East European/Eurasian Studies. Worobec has won in both categories.