Postgrad Daria Mattingly Wins Best Doctoral Paper Prize at 2015 ASN Convention Daria Mattingly, a PhD candidate in the Department of Slavonic Studies working with supervisor Dr Rory Finnin, has won an award for the Best Doctoral Paper on Ukraine at the 2015 Association for the Study of Nationalities Convention in New York City. Her paper was entitled ‘“Idle, Drunk and Good for Nothing”: The Cultural Memory of the Holodomor Rank-and-File Perpetrator’. 

The Association for the Study of Nationalities (ASN) is the most significant scholarly association for the study of nationalism. It is dedicated to the promotion of knowledge and understanding of ethnicity, nationalism, and ethnic conflict, with a particular geographic focus on Central, Eastern, and Southeastern Europe, Russia, Ukraine, the Caucasus, and Eurasia. ASN is based at Columbia University. It publishes Nationalities Papers and, in collaboration with the Specialist Group on Ethnopolitics of the Political Studies Association, Ethnopolitics.   

Congratulations, Daria!