Meng honored by Notre Dame for recent book

The University of Notre Dame’s Nanovic Institute for European Studies has awarded Michael Meng, assistant professor of history, the 2013 Laura Shannon Prize in Contemporary European Studies for his book, Shattered Spaces: Encountering Jewish Ruins in Postwar Germany and Poland, published by Harvard University Press (2011). The $10,000 prize is presented annually to the author of the best book in European studies that transcends a focus on any one country, state or people.