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 2023 and 2024 were considered. We are delighted to congratulate the awardees 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:
Winner: Serhiy Bilenky, Laboratory of modernity: Ukraine between empire and nation, 1772–1914. McGill-Queen's Press-MQUP, 2023.
Honorable Mention: Waitman Wade Beorn, Between the Wires: The Janowska Camp and the Holocaust in Lviv. University of Nebraska Press, 2024.
Honorable Mention: Nataliya Kibita, The Institutional Foundations of Ukrainian Democracy: Power Sharing, Regionalism, and Authoritarianism. Oxford University Press, 2024.
TRANSLATION PRIZE:
Winner: Roman Ivashkiv and Sabrina Jaszi for their translation of Andriy Sodomora's The Tears and Smiles of Things (Academic Studies Press).
Honorable Mention: John Hennessy and Ostap Kin for their translation of Yuri Andrukhovych's Set Change (New York Review Books).
ARTICLE PRIZE:
Winner: Iryna Skubii, "Food Waste and Survival in Times of the Soviet Famines in Ukraine." Journal of Contemporary History 59.2 (2024): 234-252.
Honorable Mention: Iryna Tarku, "Remembering Soviet Terror in the Aftermath of the Donbas War: Mondegreen by Volodymyr Rafeyenko." The Legacies of Soviet Repression and Displacement. Routledge, 2023. 205-220.
LUBOMYR HAJDA GRADUATE STUDENT PAPER PRIZE:
Winner: Solomiia Skvortsova (Ukrainian Catholic University), "Creating a memory space in exile: The commemoration of Yevhen Konovalets' grave in Rotterdam, 1948–1998."
Honorable Mention: Micha Steiner (University of Basel), The UNR and the Jews. The People, the Policies, and the Pogroms.”