BC Bookmarks

Associate Professor of History Nicole Eaton has won honors for her 2023 book German Blood, Slavic Soil: How Nazi Königsberg Became Soviet Kaliningrad (Cornell University Press). The book offers a deep exploration of this port city on the Baltic Sea—the only city to be ruled by both Hitler and Stalin. She is winner of the Reginald Zelnik Book Prize in History, presented annually by Association for Slavic, East European, & Eurasian Studies in recognition of an outstanding monograph published on Russia, Eastern Europ, or Eurasia in the field of history. The ASEEES also awarded her a W. Bruce Lincoln Book Prize honorable mention. The W. Bruce Lincoln Book Prize honors an author’s first published monograph or scholarly synthesis that is of exceptional merit and lasting significance for the understanding of Russia’s past. In addition, she is the recipient of a DAAD/GSA Prize for the Best Book in History and Social Sciences honorable mention from the German Studies Association. The DAAD/GSA citation describes German Blood, Slavic Soil as “sharply and lucidly written, a pleasure to read and think about. Particularly impressive as a debut book, this is a brilliant and original contribution to several different kinds of literature, one which scholars will be able to read with profit for many years to come.”