Recipients
2013 Laura Shannon Prize
Winner of the History and Social Sciences cycle
Shattered Spaces: Encountering Jewish Ruins in Postwar Germany and Poland
Author: Michael Meng
(Harvard University Press, 2011)
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2012 Laura Shannon Prize
Winner of the Humanities cycle
The Hebrew Republic: Jewish Sources and the Transformation of European Political Thought
Author: Eric Nelson
(Harvard University Press, 2010)
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2011 Laura Shannon Prize
Winner of the History and Social Sciences cycle
Kidnapped Souls: National Indifference and the Battle for Children in the Bohemian Lands 1900-1948
Author: Tara Zahra
(Cornell University Press, 2008)
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2010 Laura Shannon Prize
Winner of the Humanities cycle
Europe (in Theory)
Author: Robert M. Dainotto
(Duke University Press, 2007)
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Honorable Mentions
1989: The Struggle to Create Post-Cold War Europe
2011 Honorable Mention
Author: Mary Elise Sarotte
(Princeton University Press 2009)
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Cultural Capitals: Early Modern London and Paris
2010 Honorable Mention
Author: Karen Newman
(Princeton University Press 2007)
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Cosmopolitical Claims: Turkish-German Literatures from Nadolny to Pamuk
2010 Honorable Mention
Author: B. Venkat Mani
(Iowa University Press 2007)
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