Vladimir Hamed-Troyansky’s (Harriman Postdoctoral Research Fellow, 2018-19) Empire of Refugees: North Caucasian Muslims and the Late Ottoman State (Stanford University Press) has been awarded the W. Bruce Lincoln Book Prize and the Barbara Jelavich Book Prize by the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies.

The book was published in 2024 with the support of a Harriman First Book Subvention grant.

The book previously won a slew of other awards, including the 2025 Pacific Coast Branch Book Award, the 2025 Robert L. Jervis and Paul W. Schroeder Best Book Award, the 2025 Joseph Rothschild Prize in Nationalism and Ethnic Studies, the 2024 Alixa Naff Prize in Migration Studies, and the 2024 Gold Medal in the History (World) category of the Independent Publisher Book Awards.

Hamed-Troyansky is Assistant Professor of Global Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara.