Stepanka Korytova receives 2011 Zirin Prize

Stepanka Korytova, Associate Faculty in the Labor Studies program, on the IU Bloomington campus, is the 2011 recipient of the Zirin Prize by the Association for Women in Slavic Studies (AWSS). The Zirin Prize “aims to recognize the achievements of independent scholars and to encourage their continued scholarship and service in the fields of Slavic or Central and Eastern European Women\'s Studies.”

The Zirin Prize Committee presented the award to Dr Korytova based “on both her track record of innovative scholarship and a current research agenda that promises to make an important intervention in Slavic women’s studies.” Dr Korytova has “amassed an impressive record of scholarship, including monographs in both English and Czech on immigration to the United States from the Czech and Slovak lands. She complicates the story of the American immigrant experience by focusing our attention on immigrants as not only recipients of charitable aid for newcomers, but as providers of assistance to members in their communities.”

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