Congratulations to Robinson Fellow, Rory Finnin, Professor of Ukrainian studies, for receiving the 2024 Laura Shannon Prize in Contemporary European Studies for his book “Blood of Others: Stalin's Crimean Atrocity and the Poetics of Solidarity,”.

The jury described Finnin's work as one that “forges breakthrough integrations between Slavic and Middle Eastern Studies to open up and adroitly explore a largely understudied ‘contact zone’ of imperial politics central to the ongoing re-shaping of European conflict today: Stalin’s 1944 forced deportation of Crimean Tatars.”

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