Sam Hirst, author and alum of the undergraduate history program at WashU, has recently received two prizes for his book, Against the Liberal Order: The Soviet Union, Turkey, and Statist Internationalism, 1919–1939.
Sam Hirst, author and alum of the undergraduate history program at WashU, has recently received two prizes for his book, Against the Liberal Order: The Soviet Union, Turkey, and Statist Internationalism, 1919–1939, published by Oxford University Press in 2024. The book received the European International History Prize (formerly the George Louis Beer Prize) from the American Historical Association and the Marshall Shulman Prize from the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies.
This publication was awarded the European International History Prize “in recognition of outstanding historical writing in European international history since 1895" (American Historical Association). It was selected for the Marshall Shulman Prize "for an outstanding monograph dealing with the international relations, foreign policy, or foreign-policy decision-making of any of the states of the former Soviet Union or Eastern Europe" (ASEEES).
Hirst received his BA in history from Washington University in St. Louis in 2004 and later completed his PhD in history at University of Pennsylvania. These awards highlight the impact of WashU history alumni working across academia.
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