Laura Shannon Prize Lecture
Laura Shannon Prize Lecture
One of the preeminent prizes in European studies, the Laura Shannon Prize is awarded annually to the author of the best book in European studies that transcends a focus on any one country, state, or people to stimulate new ways of thinking about contemporary Europe as a whole. Established and supported by Mrs. Laura Shannon and her husband Michael ’58 of Houston, Texas, the prize carries an award of $10,000. It forms a significant part of the Nanovic Institute’s mission, rewards and elevates scholarship, and connects a growing community of jurors and past winners.
2022 - "The Literary ‘Me Too’ of the 18th Century: Women’s Writing and the Capital of Virtue"
Pamela L. Cheek - Professor of French and Comparative Literature at the University of New Mexico
November 3, 2022
2021 - "The Unsettling of Europe: How Migration Reshaped a Continent"
Peter Gatrell - Professor of Economic History, University of Manchester
February 8, 2022
2020 - “Translation and Closed Borders: The Case of the Soviet Union at Mid-20th Century”
Eleonory Gilburd - Associate Professor of History and the College, University of Chicago
February 11, 2021
2019 - “Telling Histories of Violence without Borders”
Max Bergholz - Associate Professor of History, Concordia University in Montreal
November 21, 2019
2018 - “Bodies Visible and Invisible: Nationalism and Necro-Politics of the Jewish Cemetery...”
Thomas W. Laqueur - Helen Fawcett Professor of History Emeritus, University of California, Berkeley
September 10, 2018
2017 - “Religious Nationalism and Populism in Europe”
Anna Grzymała-Busse - Michelle and Kevin Douglas Professor of International Studies, Stanford University
September 18, 2017
2016 - “Socrates in Bosnia”
Mark Thompson - Reader in Modern History, University of East Anglia
September 27, 2016
2015 - “How Europe Went to War in 1914”
Sir Christopher Clark - Regius Professor of History, St. Catharine’s College, University of Cambridge
November 19, 2015
2014 - “A Life Between Cultures in Twentieth-Century France: Louis Massignon’s Islamic Catholicism”
Jerrold Seigel - William R. Kenan, Jr., Professor of History Emeritus, New York University
November 12, 2014
2013 - “Why Do We Remember? On Ambiguities of Cosmopolitan Memory in Contemporary Central Europe”
Michael Meng - Associate Professor of Modern German History, Clemson University
October 17, 2013
2012 - “‘The Lord Alone Shall Be King of America’: European Hebraism & the Republican Turn of 1776”
Eric Nelson - Robert M. Beren Professor of Government, Harvard University
Nov 15, 2012
2011 - “Displacement, Humanitarianism, and Ethnic Cleansing in 20th Century Europe”
Tara Zahra - Homer J. Livingston Professor of East European History and the College, University of Chicago
October 6, 2011
2010 - “Europe in Theory”
Roberto M. Dainotto - Professor of Literature, Italian and International Comparative Studies, Duke University
Sep 23, 2010
2023 - "The Peace Conundrum in European History"
Stella Ghervas - Professor of History and the Eugen Weber Chair in Modern European History at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
November 2, 2023