European Studies
Faculty of the Committee on European Studies
Peter A. Hall, Harvard College Professor and Frank G. Thomson Professor of Government (Chair)
Suzanne Berger, Associate of the Center for European Studies
David Blackbourn, Coolidge Professor of History
Peter J. Burgard, Professor of German
Pepper Dagenhart Culpepper, Assistant Professor of Public Policy (Kennedy School) (Kennedy School)
Grzegorz Ekiert, Professor of Government (on leave 2001-02)
Laura Frader, Associate of the Center for European Studies
Guido G. Goldman, Associate of the Center for European Studies
Peter Eli Gordon, Assistant Professor of History and of Social Studies (on leave 2002-03)
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
Torben Iversen, Professor of Government
Charles S. Maier, Krupp Foundation Professor of European Studies
Andrew Moravcsik, Professor of Government
Susan Pedersen, Professor of History
Paul Pierson, Professor of Government
Louise M. Richardson
George Ross, Associate of the Center for European Studies
Cindy Skach, Assistant Professor of Government
Theda Skocpol, Victor S. Thomas Professor of Government and of Sociology (on leave spring term)
Tony Smith, Associate in the Center for European Studies
Roman Szporluk, Mykhailo S. Hrushevs’kyi Professor of Ukrainian History (on leave fall term)
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.