Dr. Douglas McKnight wins 2021 Herbert-Steiner-Preis

Congratulations to Dr. Douglas McKnight (PhD 2020), recipient of the 2021 Herbert-Steiner-Preis, awarded by the Dokumentationsarchiv des österreichischen Widerstandes (DÖW) and the International Conference of Labour and Social History (ITH).

This prize is awarded yearly for outstanding scholarly contributions within the research fields Resistance/Persecution/Exile in the time of fascism and Nazi rule and Labor History. Dr. McKnight’s dissertation is titled Persecution and Resistance: The Carinthian Slovenes and Memories of the Second World War and the abstract can be read on the DÖW’s website.