2022

Honorable Mention: Olena Palko
Title: Making Ukrainian Soviet: Literature and Cultural Politics under Lenin and Stalin (Bloomsbury Publishers)

In Making Ukraine Soviet: Literature and Cultural Politics under Lenin and Stalin, Olena Palko skillfully challenges center-periphery assumptions about institutional centers of gravity for framings of Ukrainian and early Soviet literary production, by her transnational coverage of Ukraine and its fascinating debates over cultural politics.

Winner: Yuliya Ilchuk