J. Thomas Shaw Prize for Outstanding Paper

On Friday and Saturday, March 24 and 25, Slavic Studies held its annual graduate-student led Wisconsin Slavic Conference. The winner of the J. Thomas Shaw Prize for Outstanding Graduate Paper presented at this year’s conference was Marsel Khamitov for his “Performing/Preserving the Empire: Nationalism and Translation in Semyon Lipkin’s Dekada.” Honorable mention was given to Victoria Buyanovskaya for her paper titled “Escape from the Kunstkamera: Precarious Body and Resistance to Violence in Yuri Tynianov’s ‘Wax Persona’.”

Many thanks to this year’s jury—Prof. Yuliya Ilchuk (Stanford University), Prof. Melissa Miller (Colby College), and UW–Madison Profs. Andrew Reynolds and Irina Shevelenko—who had a challenging task given the quality of all the papers presented.