Natasha Wheatley's book, The Life and Death of States: Central Europe and the Transformation of Modern Sovereignty, was an honorable mention for the 2024 Robert L. Jervis and Paul W. Schroeder Best Book Award, given by the American Political Science Association. The Jervis-Schroeder Award recognizes the best book or edited volume in history or political science that makes a contribution to international politics or international history. In their citation, the jury committee called The Life and Death of States a “deep, original, and provocative work” that "examines the 19th-century remaking and early 20th-century unmaking of the Hapsburg Empire to expose and explore the centrality of this case for broader questions related to states and sovereignty and to the constitution of the interstate international political order over the past 150 years."

The Life and Death of States was also an honorable mention for the 2023 Morris D. Forkosch Book Prize from the Journal of the History of Ideas. The prize recognizes the best first book in intellectual history.

Natasha Wheatley is Associate Professor of History.