European Studies
Faculty of the Committee on European Studies
Charles S. Maier, Krupp Foundation Professor of European Studies (Chair)
Seyla Benhabib, Professor of Government
Suzanne Berger, Professor of the History of Science (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
David Blackbourn, Coolidge Professor of History (on leave fall term)
Grzegorz Ekiert, Professor of Government
Thomas Ertman, Frederick S. Danziger Associate Professor of Government
Laura Frader, Associate in the Center for European Studies
Guido G. Goldman, Director of the Program for the Study of Germany and Europe
Peter A. Hall, Frank G. Thomson Professor of Government
Patrice Higonnet, Robert Walton Goelet Professor of French History
Stanley Hoffmann, Paul and Catherine Buttenwieser University Professor
Richard M. Hunt, Senior Lecturer on Social Studies
Richard Locke, Associate in the Center for European Studies
Andrew Moravcsik, Professor of Government (on leave fall term)
Susan Pedersen, Professor of History
Paul Pierson, Professor of Government (on leave fall term)
Robert D. Putnam, Stanfield Professor for International Peace
Louise M. Richardson, Associate Professor of Government
George Ross, Associate in the Center for European Studies
Theda Skocpol, Victor S. Thomas Professor of Government and of Sociology
Tony Smith, Associate in the Center for European Studies
Roman Szporluk, Mykhailo Hrushevs’kyi Professor of Ukrainian History and Director of the Ukrainian Research Institute
Joseph Weiler, Manley Hudson Professor of Law (Law School)
The Committee on European Studies includes the faculty and selected associates of the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies. The Center was founded in 1969 with the mission of encouraging research and teaching on modern Europe across departmental lines. It includes three major programs (the Program for the Study of Germany and Europe, the Program for the Study of Modern France, and the Program for East and Central Europe) as well as study groups on specific issues that organize seminars and bring guest speakers. At its Busch Hall building, at 27 Kirkland Street, the Center provides office space for selected doctoral candidates working on European topics along with faculty, post-doctoral fellows and visiting European scholars.
The Center’s main objective has been the training of new generations of teachers and scholars concerned with Europe. Through the funding provided to the German and French programs as well as an endowment furnished by the Krupp foundation, the Center awards undergraduate summer research grants and dissertation fellowships for graduate students. Different CES faculty share in turn the teaching of the European Studies seminar, which is usually listed as a course for credit by the Department of Government, and takes up a special topic each year.
Some of the major intellectual themes and research interests currently pursued by faculty and students at the Center include the history and development of the European Union, issues of migration, citizenship, and gender, the organization of business and labor, political parties and the welfare state in the various European societies. National study groups follow developments in individual European countries. Topics in cultural history political economy, and political theory, are featured frequently in Center seminars and discussions. A monthly calendar lists these scheduled events.
The Center has a library located in Busch Hall, which holds basic reference works, selected monographs, journals, and air editions of major European newspapers.