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Dr. Oscar Sánchez-Sibony from the Department of History, the University of Macau (UM), was granted the “Robert C. Tucker／Stephen F. Cohen Prize” by the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ASEES) for his distinguished doctoral dissertation . The prize will be given only to the best doctoral dissertation among the papers submitted to the association. If there is no distinguished doctoral dissertation submission, the prize will be withheld.
Dr. Sánchez-Sibony’s award-winning paper entitled “Red Globalization: The Political Economy of Soviet Foreign Relations in the 1950s and 60s”, with in-depth analysis and unique perspective, was greeted with high praise. It was the only paper that received “Robert C. Tucker/Stephen F. Cohen Prize” this year.
The Robert C. Tucker/Stephen F. Cohen prize, is awarded annually (if there is a distinguished submission) to an outstanding English-language doctoral dissertation defended at an American or Canadian university in the tradition of historical political science and political history of the Soviet Union as practiced by Robert C. Tucker and Stephen F. Cohen. The prize is sponsored by the JKW Foundation.
Dr. Sánchez-Sibony says that he feels grateful for the superb guidance he received at the University of Chicago, and he feels special gratitude towards Dr. Sheila Fitzpatrick, whose willingness to work hard for her students made receiving such an award possible.
Dr. Sánchez-Sibony is a newly hired assistant professor at UM. He received his Ph.D degree from the University of Chicago. His work examines Soviet foreign policy in the light of the budding globalizing processes of the 1950s and 60s. He is currently working on a project of articles that seek to reintroduce questions of economy into the field of Soviet history, and is also working on a book manuscript based on the dissertation.
