The AAUS is pleased to announce prize winners in the Best Book, Best Translation and Best Graduate Student Paper categories in this year's competition. Winner in the Best Article category will be announced later this year. For this round, works published in 2021 and 2022 were considered. We are delighted to congratulate the winners and we thank members of the selection committees for their hard work. The AAUS honored the prize winners at the AAUS business meeting during this year’s ASN Convention in New York.
BOOK PRIZE:
Co-winner: Rory Finnin, Blood of Others: Stalin's Crimean Atrocity and the Poetics of Solidarity (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2022).
Co-winner: Emily Channell-Justice, Without the State: Self-Organization and Political Activism in Ukraine (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2022).
TRANSLATION PRIZE:
Winner: Oksana Maksymchuk and Max Rosochinsky for their translation of “The Voices of Babyn Yar” by Marianna Kiyanovska (Harvard University Press, 2022).
Honorable mention: Patrick John Corness for his translation of “The Song of the Forest” by Lesia Ukrainka (Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies Press 2021)
LUBOMYR HAJDA GRADUATE STUDENT PAPER PRIZE:
Winner: Anastasia Leshchyshyn (McGill University), "Collective Violence through the Prism of Collective Memory: Insights from Russia’s War in Ukraine"
Honorable Mention: Sydney Shiller (University of Toronto), "Interethnic Political Relations in Pre-World War I Austrian Galicia”
ARTICLE PRIZE:
Winner: Paula Chan, "Patterns of Silence: French Witnesses of Nazi Crimes in Occupied Ukraine," Journal of Contemporary History
Honorable mention: Matthew D. Pauly, "Curative Mythmaking: Children's Bodies, Medical Knowledge, and the Frontier of Health in Early Soviet Odesa," East/West: Journal of Ukrainian Studies.