Research Assistantship - Apply Now

We have an open Research Assistant position for undergraduate students in history. This position is an opportunity to work with CES Resident Faculty Mary D. Lewis, Robert Walton Goelet Professor of French History and Director of Undergraduate Studies at the Harvard History Department on a new course entitled “France under Nazi Occupation."
Director's Message

CES Director Daniel Ziblatt welcomes the CES community ahead of the new academic year.
Warnings From Weimar: Why Bargaining With Authoritarians Fails

“Extremism never triumphs on its own. It succeeds because others enable it” - CES Director Daniel Ziblatt in Foreign Affairs.
How Mainstream Politicians Erode Norms

A new study by Daniel Ziblatt shows how center-right politicians erode democractic norms more through rhetoric than their far-right counterparts.