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Paula Michaels is a specialist in twentieth-century medical history, with a particular interest in Russian and Central Asian history. Her book Lamaze: An International History won the Francis Richardson Keller-Sierra Prize for Best Book in Women's History from Western Association of Women Historians. It also received honourable mention for the Heldt Prize from the Association for Women in Slavic Studies and was shortlisted for the New South Wales Premier's Prize in history. Curative Powers: Medicine and Empire in Stalin's Central Asia (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2003) won the Heldt Prize and was a finalist for the PEN Center USA Literary Award. Michaels is the recipient of numerous grants, including from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, the American Council of Learned Societies, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the National Institutes of Health. She teaches history and international studies at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia.
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