UT history Associate Professor Victor Petrov joined a celebrated group of scholars in his area of study this year as his recent book Balkan Cyberia earned the 2024 Barbara Jelavich Book Prize.
Barbara Jelavich was a distinguished and internationally respected scholar who published several works focusing on the same region that interests Petrov. The prize is awarded annually by the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies for a distinguished monograph published in the previous year on any aspect of Southeast European or Habsburg studies since 1600, or 19th- and 20th-century Ottoman or Russian diplomatic history. Past winners include historians Holly Case, Mary Neuburger, Larry Wolff, Pieter Judson, Deborah Coen, Tara Zahra, and Anastasia Karikasidou.