The Juries
The winning book is selected by a jury of five eminent scholars in European studies, at least two of whom are prominent scholars serving at institutions other than the University of Notre Dame.
2018
James Chandler
Barbara E. & Richard J. Franke Distinguished Service Professor and Director of the Franke Institute for the Humanities
University of Chicago
William Donahue
John J. Cavanaugh, C.S.C. Professor of the Humanities
University of Notre Dame
Dennis Doordan
Professor of Architecture and Design and Associate Dean of Research, Scholarship, and Creative Work in the School of Architecture
University of Notre Dame
Heather Dubrow
John D. Boyd, S.J. Chair in the Poetic Imagination
Fordham University
Mark Lilla
Professor of Humanities
Columbia University
2017
George W. Breslauer
Faculty Director of the Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life and Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost, Emeritus
University of California, Berkeley
E. Mark Cummings
Professor and Notre Dame Chair in Psychology
University of Notre Dame
Geoff Eley
Karl Pohrt Distinguished University Professor of Contemporary History
University of Michigan
Patrick Griffin
Madden-Hennebry Professor of History
University of Notre Dame
Adele Lindenmeyr
Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and Professor of History
Villanova University
2016
Karl Ameriks
McMahon-Hank Professor of Philosophy
College of Arts and Letters, University of Notre Dame
John E. Hare
Noah Porter Professor of Philosophical Theology
Yale Divinity School, Yale University
Anne Lake Prescott
Senior Scholar and Emerita Helen Goodhart Altschul Professor of English
Barnard College, Columbia University
Ingrid Rowland
Professor of Architecture, University of Notre Dame Rome Global Gateway
School of Architecture, University of Notre Dame
Roger Scruton
Senior Fellow, Ethics & Public Policy Center in Washington, D.C.
2015
Doris Bergen
Chancellor Rose and Ray Wolfe Professor of Holocaust Studies
University of Toronto
Archie Brown, CMG, FBA
Emeritus Professor of Politics, St Antony’s College
University of Oxford
Anna Grzymala-Busse
Ronald and Eileen Weiser Professor of Political Science
University of Michigan
John Van Engen
Andrew V. Tackes Professor of Medieval History
University of Notre Dame
Michael Zuckert
Nancy R. Dreux Professor of Political Science
University of Notre Dame
2014
Russell A. Berman
Walter A. Haas Professor in the Humanities
Stanford University
Thomas Elsaesser
Professor of Film and Television Studies Emeritus
University of Amsterdam
Jennifer Herdt
Gilbert L. Stark Professor of Christian Ethics
Yale Divinity School
Peter Holland
McMeel Family Chair in Shakespeare Studies
University of Notre Dame
Alasdair MacIntyre
Professor of Philosophy Emeritus
University of Notre Dame
2013
Paolo Carozza
Professor of Law
Director of the Kellogg Institute for International Studies
University of Notre Dame
Harold James
Claude and Lore Kelly Professor in European Studies
Director, Program in Contemporary European Politics and Society
Princeton University
Jytte Klausen
Lawrence A. Wien Professor of International Cooperation
Brandeis University
Norman M. Naimark
Robert and Florence McDonnell Professor of Eastern European Studies
Director of the Division of International, Comparative, and Area Studies
Stanford University
Thomas F. X. Noble
Professor of History
University of Notre Dame
2012
Caryl Emerson
A. Watson Armour III University Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures
Princeton University
Don Howard
Professor of Philosophy
Director of the Reilly Center for Science, Technology, and Values
University of Notre Dame
Suzanne L. Marchand
Professor of History
Louisiana State University
Mark W. Roche
Rev. Edmund P. Joyce, C.S.C. Professor of German Language and Literature
University of Notre Dame
Paul Woodruff
Professor of Philosophy
Inaugural Dean of the School of Undergraduate Studies
University of Texas at Austin
2011
Nancy Bermeo
Nuffield Professor of Comparative Politics, Nuffield College
University of Oxford
Felipe Fernández-Armesto
William P. Reynolds Professor of History
University of Notre Dame
Laura Engelstein
Henry S. McNeil Professor of History
Yale University
James Sheehan
Dickason Professor in the Humanities, Emeritus
Stanford University
Catherine H. Zuckert
Nancy Reeves Dreux Professor of Political Science
University of Notre Dame
2010
Piero Boitani
Professor of Comparative Literature
University of Rome, La Sapienza
Theodore J. Cachey, Jr.
Albert J. Ravarino Family Director of Dante and Italian Studies
Professor and Chair of the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures
University of Notre Dame
Donald Crafton
Professor and Chair, Department of Film, Television & Theatre
University of Notre Dame
Margaret W. Ferguson
Professor of English
University of California, Davis
Christopher B. Fox
Professor of English
Director of the Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies
University of Notre Dame