Francine Hirsch is an American historian, specializing in modern Europe with a focus on Russia and the Soviet Union. She is a recipient of the

Herbert Baxter Adams Prize The Herbert Baxter Adams Prize is an annual book prize of the American Historical Association. It is awarded for "a distinguished first book by a young scholar in the field of European history", and is named in honor of Herbert Baxter Adams, who ...

for her book, ''Empire of Nations: Ethnographic Knowledge and the Making of the Soviet Union'', as well as honors from the American Society of International Law, the Council of European Studies, and the

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for her work.

Education and career

Hirsch has a B.A. from

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, and completed her M.A. and Ph.D. from

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. She is currently a professor of history at

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Research and publications

Hirsch's first book, ''Empire of Nations: Ethnographic Knowledge and the Making of the Soviet Union'' (Cornell University Press, 2005) won the

, awarded by the

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, in 2007. ''Empire of Nations'' also won the Wayne S. Vucinich Book Prize, sponsored by the

(ASEEES) and

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, in 2006, and the

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Book Award, in 2006. (Russian translation: ''Империя наций. Этнографическое знание и формирование Советского Союза'', 2022) Her second book, ''Soviet Judgment at Nuremberg: A New History of the International Military Tribunal After World War II'' (New York: Oxford University Press, 2020) (Russian translation: ''Суд в Нюрнберге: Советский Союз и Международный военный трибунал'', 2023) is a history of the

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, and in 2021 won a Certificate of Merit from the American Society of International Law for "a preeminent contribution to creative scholarship".

References

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