Professor McMann’s book, Corruption as a Last Resort: Adapting to the Market in Central Asia, received honorable mention for the Ed A Hewett Book Prize, awarded for outstanding publication on the political economy of Russia, Eurasia and/or Eastern Europe.  The prize is awarded by The Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies. 

Ed Hewett was a distinguished alumnus of the University of Michigan, (PhD, economics), a prominent scholar, a fine colleague, and an internationally respected member of the field. The Hewett Book Prize was established in 1994 in his honor to recognize and encourage the high standard of scholarship that he so admirably advanced in the area of his interests, and was sponsored by the National Council for Eurasian and East European Research from 1994 to 2012.