Erin Hutchinson

Erin Hutchinson holds a B.A. from Arizona State University, an M.A. from Harvard University, and a Ph.D. from Harvard University. Her dissertation received the 2021 Harold K. Gross Prize from the Harvard History Department and was a finalist for the 2021 Cohen-Tucker Dissertation Prize awarded by the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES). In 2020-2021 she was a postdoctoral fellow at the Harvard University Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies. She received a Cohen-Tucker Dissertation Research Fellowship from ASEEES to conduct research for the project in Russia, Ukraine, Armenia, and Moldova. Her first article, “Ivan Denisovich on Trial: Soviet Writers, Russian Identity, and Solzhenitsyn’s Failed Bid for the 1964 Lenin Prize” appeared in the Winter 2021 issue of the journal Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History. Her second article, "Gathering the Nation in the Village: Intellectuals and the Cultural Politics of Nationality in the Late Soviet Period," was published in The Russian Review in 2024.