Congratulations to Dr. Ania Aizman for receiving the Association of Women in Slavic Studies' 2017 Graduate Essay Award for her essay "The Considerable Anarchism of the Present Moment: Post-Soviet Russian Philosophy in Search of a New (Old?) Avant-Garde". The essay forms the first chapter of her recently submitted dissertation Every Step a New Movement: Anarchism in the Stalinist-era Literature of the Absurd and its Post-Soviet Implications.