Center for European Studies - Harvard University

Every year, the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies is pleased to host a number of Visiting Scholars from the US and abroad. The Center welcomes applications from post-doctoral social scientists and historians who are working on modern Europe.

The Harvard and CES communities provide an intellectually stimulating environment for scholars of modern Europe. Visitors take part in a weekly seminar that is an opportunity for them to present work in progress and receive feedback from colleagues in their field. In addition, the Center has a full program of talks, study group sessions and conferences in which visitors are encouraged to participate.

Scholars are admitted on a competitive basis for a period of at least three months and up to one year. Most will have their own source of funding such as sabbatical salary or grants since the Center does not generally provide funding for Visiting Scholars.

All questions and inquiries concerning Visiting Scholars should be addressed to the Executive Director of the Center, Dr. Patricia Craig at pcraig@fas.harvard.edu.

Important Dates

Visiting Scholar Application Deadline:
The deadline for 2008-2009 applications (Friday, March 7, 2008) has passed. Thank you for your applications! (more information)

DAAD for the John F. Kennedy Memorial Fellowship Application Deadline:
The deadline for the 2008-2009 academic year is December 1, 2008. Please visit the DAAD's website for application and fellowship details at their website.

2007-2008 Visiting Scholars

Announcements

New Visiting Scholar Publications

CES Visiting Scholar Wolfgang Gick recently had two articles accepted for publication in top-ranking scholarly journals. "Little Firms and Big Patents" will appear in the Journal of Economics and Management Strategy and "Delegated Contracting, Information, and Internal Control" will appear in Economics Letters

Cover of "A star pupil playing it safe in theEU: An inside view of the first Slovenian EU Council Presidency, January-June 2008"

Congratulations to Postdoctoral Fellow Manja Klemenc (ic(, who released a publication in January entitled "A star pupil playing it safe in the EU: An inside view of the first Slovenian EU Council Presidency, January-June 2008."

Cover of "The Romani Movement: Minority Politics and Ethnic Mobilization in Contemporary Central Europe"

Cover of "The Romani Movement: Minority Politics and Ethnic Mobilization in Contemporary Central Europe"

Visiting Scholar Peter Vermeersch recently released the paperback version of his new book "The Romani Movement: Minority Politics and Ethnic Mobilization in Contemporary Central Europe"
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Cover of Missionary Politics in Contemporary Europe

Cover of Missionary Politics in Contemporary Europe

Congratulations to post-doctoral fellow José Pedro Zúquete who recently released his new book, Missionary Politics in Contemporary Europe.

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Headshot of Claudia Leeb

Post-doctoral fellow Claudia Leeb recently had two articles accepted for publication: "Marx and the Gendered Structure of Capitalism" appeared in the Journal of Philosophy and Social Criticism while her work on "The Adornian Non-identical and the Lacanian Real: Two central Concepts for Feminist Political Theorizing" was accepted by Political Theory.

Visiting Scholar Awarded
Headshot of Kathrin Zippel

CES Visiting Scholar Kathrin Zippel is the co-winner of the 2007 American Political Science Association Victoria Schuck Award for the best book published on women and politics in the year 2006 for her book The Politics of Sexual Harassment: A Comparative Study of the United States, the European Union and Germany

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