Alexis Peri
Alexis Peri is an American historian. She received her PhD from the University of California, Berkeley and currently teaches Russian and Soviet history at Boston University. Her book The War Within (Harvard University Press, 2017), based on diaries from the Siege of Leningrad, won the 2018 Pushkin House Book Prize and the 2018 University of Southern California Book Prize in Literary and Cultural Studies. It also received an Honorable Mention for the 2018 Reginald Zelnik Book Prize in History. Her next major project is tentatively titled Dear Unknown Friend: Soviet and American Women Discover the Power of the Personal and explores the phenomenon of pen-friendships between Soviet and American women during the Second World War and the Cold War.[1]
Awards
[edit]- 2018 - Pushkin House Best English-language non-fiction book - The War Within[2]
- 2018 - AATSEEL Best Book in Cultural Studies - The War Within[3][4]
- 2018 - USC Book Prize in Literary and Cultural Studies for The War Within[5]
References
[edit]- ↑ Bio Boston University
- ↑ Michele A. Berdy (June 15, 2018). "Pushkin House Celebrates Russia on the Page". The Moscow Times. The Moscow Times. Retrieved February 20, 2026.
- ↑ "Book Prize Winners for 2018". American Association of Teachers of Slavic and Eastern European Languages. American Association of Teachers of Slavic and Eastern European Languages. Retrieved February 20, 2026.
- ↑ "The War Within: Diaries from the Siege of Leningrad". Harvard University Press. Retrieved February 20, 2026.
- ↑ "Alexis Peri – 2018 Recipient, USC Book Prize in Literary and Cultural Studies". Association for Slavic, East European, & Eurasian Studies. Association for Slavic, East European, & Eurasian Studies. Retrieved February 20, 2026.
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