Council on European Studies

Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse, 432.3423

Chair
Laura Engelstein

Director of Graduate Studies
Paul Bushkovitch (245 Luce Hall, 432.3423)

Professors
Bruce Ackerman (Law; Political Science), Vladimir Alexandrov (Slavic Languages & Literatures), Paul Bracken (Management; Political Science), Peter Brooks (Humanities; French), Paul Bushkovitch (History), David Cameron (Political Science), Katerina Clark (Slavic Languages & Literatures), Mirjan Dama•ska (Law), Laura Engelstein (History), Kai Erikson (Emeritus, Sociology), Robert Evenson (Economics), John Gaddis (History), Harvey Goldblatt (Slavic Languages & Literatures), Benjamin Harshav (Comparative Literature), Michael Holquist (Comparative Literature), Paul Kennedy (History), Joseph LaPalombara (Emeritus, Management; Political Science), John Merriman (History), William Nordhaus (Economics), William Odom (Adjunct, Political Science), Merton J. Peck (Economics), Susan Rose-Ackerman (Law), Frank Snowden (History), Ivan Szelenyi (Sociology), Frank Turner (History), Paolo Valesio (Italian Language & Literature), Tomas Venclova (Slavic Languages & Literatures), Miroslav Volf (Divinity), Jay Winter (History)

Associate Professors
Kevin Repp (History), Hilary Fink (Slavic Languages & Literatures), Lawrence King (Sociology; on leave)

Assistant Professors
John MacKay (Slavic Languages & Literatures), Timothy Snyder (History)

Lecturer
Slobodan Novak (Slavic Languages & Literatures)

Senior Lectors
Rita Lipson (Slavic Languages & Literatures), Constantine Muravnik (Slavic Languages & Literatures), George Syrimis (Hellenic Studies)

Participating Staff
Jonathan Brent (Yale University Press), Brian Carter (PIER), Tatjana Lorkovic´ (Library)

On July 1, 1999, the Council on West European Studies merged with the Council on Russian and East European Studies to create a new interdisciplinary body, the Council on European Studies. The Council on European Studies will formulate and implement new curricular and research programs reflective of current developments in Europe, broadly defined to encompass all states and peoples from Ireland to the Urals.

European Studies builds on existing programmatic strengths at the same time it serves as a catalyst for the development of new initiatives. Yale's current resources in European Studies are vast and include the activities of many members of the faculty who have teaching or research specialties in the area. Such departments as Economics, History, History of Art, Political Science, Slavic Languages and Literatures, and Sociology regularly offer courses with a European focus.

European Studies includes a master's degree program in Russian and East European Studies (see listing under Russian and East European Studies) and strongly supports the disciplinary and interdisciplinary study of Western Europe as well as Russia and Eastern Europe and the increasing interactions between them. European Studies is also the home of the newly organized program on Hellenic Studies, which beginning this year offers instruction in Modern Greek language, literature, and culture. The Council on European Studies will continue the efforts of both predecessors to promote and coordinate existing resources, including those in the professional schools, and to support individual and group research.

Currently, more than two hundred and fifty graduate students are working toward degrees with a European emphasis within the major disciplines of the humanities and the social sciences. As in the past, the chair and faculty members of the Council on European Studies and other Europeanist faculty are available to assist students with formulating a tailored interdisciplinary course of study.

The benefits provided to the Yale community by the new Council on European Studies include its affiliation with inter-university and international organizations that can offer specialized training programs and research grants for graduate students, support conferences among European and American scholars, and subsidize European visitors to Yale. The Fox International Fellowship Program offers generous fellowship support to qualified students who undertake research at specified institutions in the United Kingdom, Germany, France, and Russia, for example. Furthermore, the Council supplements the regular Yale curriculum with courses, lectures, and seminars by eminent European and American scholars, diplomats, and political officials. Each year, the European Commission sponsors a European Union Fellow at Yale. The Fellow during the 2001–2002 academic year was Brian McDonald, Principal Administrator in the European Commission’s Directorate General for Trade, who taught a course on trade policy and the WTO. During 2002–2003, the European Union Fellow will be a specialist in questions of health and consumer affairs related to the Euro and the EMU. Also in 2002–2003, European Studies will host the distinguished scholar Slobodan P. Novak, who will teach courses on South Slavic literatures and cultures and on Serbian and Croatian language.

The special objective of European Studies, spearheaded by the Council on European Studies, is to encourage research and discussion on projects of a pan-European nature or those involving comparison of developments among several countries. Thus, faculty are available to supervise work on European economic, political, and cultural integration, including studies of a specific topical character like labor migration between south and north, comparable problems of socialist or center parties in several countries, common tendencies in the national literatures or art of European countries, or common problems in the relations of European countries with other areas of the world.

Inquiries regarding European Studies should be addressed to the Council on European Studies, Yale University, PO Box 208206, New Haven CT 06520-8206.

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