The Interdisciplinary Studies Section (IDSS) awarded Natasha Wheatley's book The Life and Death of States: Central Europe and the Transformation of Modern Sovereignty the Felicia Krishna Hensel Book Award. The award recognizes a work that is an original and outstanding contribution to interdisciplinary studies, broadly defined. The award was also given to Elena Shih for Manufacturing Freedom: Sex Work, Anti-Trafficking Rehab, and the Racial Wages of Rescue.

In their citation, the prize committee noted Wheatley's book “impresses with its compelling historical argument” and “challenges us to rethink sovereignty in a world in which decolonization and the end of the Cold War continue to problematize and challenge state boundaries and identities in much of the world, and in which globalization continues to undermine modern meanings of statehood and stateness.”

Natasha Wheatley is Associate Professor of History.