A paper “Ink and Ire: The Revolutionary Impact of Russian Literature” by NES Professor Sultan Mehmood coauthored with Vladimir Avetian (Universite Paris-Dauphine) won the Armenian Economic Association Best Paper Award.
The paper explores how Russian literature during its Golden Age, one of the most impactful literary movements in the world history, may have influenced the political situation in the Russian Empire of the 19th century.
Sultan Mehmood has been working at the New Economic School since 2021. He holds a PhD in Economics from the Universite Paris-Dauphine. He is considered an emerging leader in the field of law and political economy.