Professor Rory Finnin’s new book, Blood of Others: Stalin’s Crimean Atrocity and the Poetics of Solidarity (2022), has been shortlisted for the Laura Shannon Prize, which is recognized internationally as one of the leading book prizes in the field of European studies. The prize is sponsored by the Nanovic Institute for European Studies at the University of Notre Dame (USA).
Each year, the Nanovic Institute, which is part of the Keough School of Global Affairs at Notre Dame, gives this award to the author of the best book in European studies that transcends a focus on any one country, state, or people to stimulate new ways of thinking about contemporary Europe as a whole. The 2024 prize will be awarded to the best book in the humanities published in 2021 or 2022.
Joining Finnin on the list of finalists for the 2024 Laura Shannon Prize are:
- “Sculptors Against the State: Anarchism and the Anglo-European Avant-Garde” by Mark Antliff (Penn State University Press, 2021);
- “Eurasia Without Borders: The Dream of a Leftist Commons, 1919-1943” by Katerina Clark (Harvard University Press/Belknap Press, 2021);
- “Time’s Witness: History in the Age of Romanticism” by Rosemary Hill (Allen Lane of Penguin Press, 2021);
- “The Best Weapon for Peace: Maria Montessori, Education, and Children’s Rights” by Erica Moretti (University of Wisconsin Press, 2021).
The winning book will be selected by a jury of five leading scholars in European Studies and announced in January 2024.
Below Rory Finnin discusses Blood of Others in conversation with James Meek at the European Parliament Liaison Office in the United Kingdom. The book launch, coorganised by the Ukrainian Institute London, was held on 25 November 2022.
