Alexandru Leşanu is the 2019-2020 Irmgard Coninx Prize Fellow for Transregional Studies in the framework of Prisma Ukraїna – Research Network Eastern Europe, a research program of the Berlin-based Forum Transregionale Studien. During the fellowship, he will work on his book manuscript Refining Lives and Defining Sugar in the Transnistrian Borderlands (1898-2003). On the TRAFO Blog he talks about his research interests and his project during the fellowship. Please read the interview here.