School Notes
Date posted: Dec 11, 2024
Nicole Eaton receives the Reginald Zelnik Book Prize in History for 'German Blood, Slavic Soil: How Nazi Königsberg Became Soviet Kalinigrad'
"Nicole Eaton's 2023 book, German Blood, Slavic Soil: How Nazi Königsberg Became Soviet Kaliningrad—an examination of the Baltic Sea port city’s ordeal through brutal 20th-century geopolitics—was the winner of the Reginald Zelnik Book Prize in History, presented annually by the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies for an outstanding monograph published on Russia, Eastern Europe, or Eurasia in the field of history. ASEEES also awarded her an honorable mention for the W. Bruce Lincoln Book Prize, which recognizes an author’s first published monograph or scholarly synthesis that is of exceptional merit and lasting significance for the understanding of Russia’s past.
In addition, Eaton received an honorable mention for the German Studies Association DAAD/GSA Prize for the Best Book in History and Social Science."
by Sean Smith | University Communications | November 2024