The AAUS is pleased to announce prize winners in the Best Book, Best Translation, Best Article and Best Graduate Student Paper categories in this year's competition. For this round, works published in 2022 and 2023 were considered. We are delighted to congratulate the winners and we thank members of the selection committees for their hard work. The AAUS will honor the prize winners at the AAUS business meeting during this year’s ASN Convention in New York.
BOOK PRIZE:
Megan Buskey’s Ukraine Is Not Yet Dead (Ibidem/Columbia University Press, 2023)
TRANSLATION PRIZE:
Winners: Vitaly Chernetsky and Iryna Shuvalova for their translation of Winter King by Ostap Slyvynsky (Lost Horse Press, 2023)
Honorable mention: John Hennessy and Ostap Kin for their translation of Babyn Yar: Ukrainian Poets Respond (Harvard University Press, 2023)
ARTICLE PRIZE:
Tereza Hendl, Olga Burlyuk, Mila O’Sullivan, and Aizada Arystanbek, "(En)Countering Epistemic Imperialism: A Critique of “Westsplaining” and Coloniality in Dominant Debates on Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine," Contemporary Security Policy 45, no. 2 (December 2023): 171-209.
LUBOMYR HAJDA GRADUATE STUDENT PAPER PRIZE:
Winner: William Debnam (Columbia University), "The Anxieties of Late-Stage Ukrainianisation: Mykola Kulish’s 'Myna Mazailo' and Valerian Pidmohylʹnyi’s 'A Little Touch of Drama'"
Honorable mention: Silviya Nitsova (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill), "Oligarchic Networks of Influence and Legislatures in Developing Democracies: Evidence from Ukraine”