European Studies
Faculty of the Committee on European Studies
David Blackbourn, Coolidge Professor of History (Chair)
Peter J. Burgard, Professor of German
Pepper D. Culpepper, Associate Professor of Public Policy (Kennedy School)
Grzegorz Ekiert, Professor of Government
Niall Ferguson, Laurence A. Tisch Professor of History (FAS) and Professor of Business Administration (Business School) (on leave fall term)
Patrice Higonnet, Robert Walton Goelet Professor of French History
Stanley Hoffmann, Paul and Catherine Buttenwieser University Professor (on leave fall term)
Maya Jasanoff, Associate Professor of History
Mary D. Lewis, John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Social Sciences
Charles S. Maier, Leverett Saltonstall Professor of History
Cindy Skach
Judith Surkis, Associate Professor of History and of History and Literature
Daniel F. Ziblatt, Associate Professor of Government and of Social Studies
The Standing Committee on European Studies is the formal oversight body for the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies. It is comprised of those permanent faculty members who have 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 science, political economy, anthropology, sociology and cultural studies. Its 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 on Europe. At the same time, the Center supports several study groups that maintain a schedule of seminars and presentations by visiting scholars and speakers from the world of public affairs and it organizes periodic conferences and workshops on European affairs. It maintains a program for the study of Germany and Europe initially funded by the Federal Republic of Germany and now supported by the Center’s endowments. The Center is actively engaged in cooperation to advance European studies with other Harvard Faculties and Boston-area universities.