European Studies
Faculty of the Committee on European Studies
Charles S. Maier, Krupp Foundation Professor of European Studies (Chair)
Jose Alvarez-Junco, Associate of the Center for European Studies
Seyla Benhabib, Professor of Government (on leave 2000-01)
Suzanne Berger, Associate of the Center for European Studies
David Blackbourn, Coolidge Professor of History
Peter J. Burgard, Professor of German (on leave 2000-01)
Pepper Dagenhart Culpepper, Assistant Professor of Public Policy (Kennedy School)
Grzegorz Ekiert, Professor of Government (on leave spring term)
Laura Frader, Associate of the Center for European Studies
Guido G. Goldman, Associate of the Center for European Studies
Peter A. Hall, Harvard College Professor, Frank G. Thomson Professor of Government, and Director of the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies (on leave 2000-01)
Patrice Higonnet, Robert Walton Goelet Professor of French History
Stanley Hoffmann, Paul and Catherine Buttenwieser University Professor (on leave fall term)
Richard M. Hunt, Senior Lecturer on Social Studies
Torben Iversen, Professor of Government
Richard Locke, Associate of the Center for European Studies
Andrew Moravcsik, Professor of Government
Susan Pedersen, Professor of History and Dean for Undergraduate Education
Paul Pierson, Professor of Government
Louise M. Richardson, Associate Professor of Government (on leave 2000-01)
George Ross, Associate of 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 S. Hrushevs’kyi Professor of Ukrainian History
Joseph Weiler, Manley Hudson Professor of Law (Law School)
The Standing Committee on European Studies is the formal oversight body for the Minda de Gunzberg Center for European Studies. It is comprised of those permanent faculty members who have their offices in the Center and selected other representatives of FAS and of other universities in the Boston area who remain active in the study and teaching of modern Europe.
For over thirty years, the Center for European Studies has offered an interdisciplinary program designed to enhance the knowledge and understanding of political, social, economic, and cultural developments in modern Europe. Its members’ intellectual approaches encompass history, political economy and political
theory and diverse approaches to cultural studies. Its geographical purview includes all the regions of Europe as well
as the institutional structures within individual countries and the European Union. The Center funds undergraduate thesis travel, dissertation fellowships, and offers several post-doctoral fellowships. Its quarters in Busch Hall provide office space for faculty, visiting scholars, and doctoral students working in close affiliation with resident faculty members. At the same time, the Center supports several study groups, some organized by country,
others by topic, that maintain a full schedule of seminars and presentations by visiting scholars and speakers from the world of public affairs. In 1989, CES was chosen by the Federal Republic of Germany to receive significant support for a ten-year program
for the study of Germany and Europe, which currently continues under the Center’s own funding. It also participates in an interdisciplinary program for the study of modern France
and together with representatives from the Law School, the John F. Kennedy School of Government, and the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, is a constituent partner in the European Union Center at Harvard University. The Center has always sought to cooperate with other Boston area universities, and MIT representatives and students have had an institutional
connection from its outset.