Vladimir Hamed-Troyansky’s Empire of Refugees wins multiple awards

This year, Vladimir Hamed-Troyansky's (CREEES Globalizing Eurasia grant recipient ‘13; Stanford University, PhD ’18) Empire of Refugees: North Caucasian Muslims and the Late Ottoman State (Stanford University Press, 2024) won numerous professional awards including the W. Bruce Lincoln Book Prize, the Barbara Jelavich Book Prize, the Joseph Rothschild Prize in Nationalism and Ethnic Studies, the Pacific Coast Branch Book Award, and the Robert L. Jervis and Paul W. Schroeder International History and Politics Prize, among others. Based on archival research conducted in over 10 countries, Empire of Refugees sheds new light on the resettlement of Muslim refugees from the north Caucasus in the Ottoman Empire during the late 19th-early 20th century

Vladimir Hamed-Troyansky, Associate Professor of Global Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara and 2023-2024 Visiting Faculty Fellow at the Stanford Humanities Center, completed his PhD in History at Stanford University in 2018. While a student in 2013, Hamed-Troyansky received a Globalizing Eurasia grant from CREEES to travel to Bulgaria, Georgia, and Turkey to conduct doctoral research on refugees in Ottoman Syria during the late 19th century.