PhD alumna Oksana Dudko has been awarded the Ab Imperio Award 2025 for the Best Study in New Imperial History and the History of Diversity in Northern Eurasia up to the late twentieth century. The prize recognizes her outstanding chapter on Ukrainian–Jewish relations, “Coexistence and Violence: The Ukrainian Galician Army, Jewish Soldiers, and Pogroms,” from her dissertation “Recycled Soldiers”: Wars, Violence, and Nationhood in Ukraine, 1914–1920.
The award is presented by Ab Imperio Quarterly, an international peer-reviewed journal dedicated to new imperial history and the interdisciplinary study of nationalism and diversity in the post-Soviet space.
Reflecting on the significance of this recognition, Oksana notes:
I am honoured to receive this award and grateful to my supervisor and committee members, who were a great source of inspiration throughout my work. I am very glad that my research has been recognized, and it feels especially meaningful these days, at a time when the study of the logic of war and violence has become even more pressing.
Oksana defended her PhD on January 13, 2026, and is now an Assistant Professor cross-appointed between the Department of German and Slavic Studies and the Department of Political Science at the University of Manitoba.
She would like to acknowledge the support of her supervisor, Professor Emeritus Piotr Wróbel, and her committee members, Professors Lynne Viola and Doris Bergen.
