Jan. 29, 1998 Contact Pauline Austin (541) 346-3129 EDUCATION NOTE EUGENE--A book by University of Oregon political scientist Jane Dawson has been named the best work published in 1996 in Soviet and post-Soviet policy studies. The American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies and the Harriman Institute of Columbia University awarded the Marshall Shulman Book Prize for 1997 to Dawson for her book, "Eco-Nationalism: Anti-Nuclear Activism and National Identity in Russia, Lithuania and Ukraine" published by Duke University Press. The society awards the Shulman prize annually for an outstanding monograph on Soviet and post-Soviet policy studies. In addition to the academic honor, Dawson will receive $1,000. The book examines the spectacular rise of the anti-nuclear power movement in the former Soviet Union during the early perestroika period, its unexpected successes in the late 1980s and its substantial decline after 1991. Dawson is a UO professor of political science, who specializes in post-Soviet and East European studies and comparative politics. She received a $32,000, two-year grant from the National Council for Soviet and East Eureopean Research in 1994 to support field research on a new project focusing on the mobilization of ethnicity in the Crimean region of Ukraine. -30- #G-6053/Higher Ed,OrDailies