Meyer Wins Book Award from Academic Society

Priscilla Meyer, professor of Russian language and literature, was awarded the University of Southern California Book Prize by the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies (AAASS) during their annual conference. The prize is awarded annually for an outstanding monograph published on Russia, Eastern Europe, or Eurasia in the field of literary and cultural studies.

Meyer is the author of How the Russians Read the French. She speaks about her book online here.

More than 2,100 scholars attended the conference.