SpeakerThéophile Deslauriers
– Ph.D. Student, Department of Politics, Princeton University; Visiting Student, Department of Government, Harvard University
ChairAbigail Modaff
– College Fellow in Social Studies, Harvard University; Thesis Workshop Organizer, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University
and
Michael Tworek
– Associate, History Department, Harvard University; Thesis Workshop Organizer, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University
SpeakerMike Savage
– Martin White Professor of Sociology, London School of Economics
DiscussantMiguel Centeno
– Musgrave Professor of Sociology & Vice Dean, School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University
and
Leslie McCall
– Associate Director, Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality & Presidential Professor of Sociology and Political Science, The Graduate Center, City University of New York (CUNY)
and
Branko Milanovic
– Research Professor & Senior Scholar, Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality, City University of New York (CUNY)
ChairMichèle Lamont
– Robert I. Goldman Professor of European Studies and Professor of Sociology and of African-American Studies, Harvard University; Faculty Associate, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University
and
Jonathan Mijs
– Associate Professor of Sociology, Boston University; Local Affiliate, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University
SpeakerMichael Koß
– Professor for the Political System of Germany and the EU, Leuphana University Lüneburg; Resident Faculty (Spring 2026), Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University; Visiting Scholar 2013-2014, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University
and
Thomas Zittel
– Professor for Comparative Politics, Goethe University; External Fellow, Mannheim Centre for European Social Research (MZES), University of Mannheim; Max Weber Chair in German and European Studies, NYU
ChairDaniel Ziblatt
– Director, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies & Eaton Professor of the Science of Government, Harvard University; Unit Director, Transformations of Democracy, WZB Berlin Social Science Center
ChairDerek J. Penslar
– William Lee Frost Professor of Jewish History, Harvard University; Resident Faculty & Seminar Chair, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University; Director, The Center for Jewish Studies, Harvard University
SpeakerKenneth Moss
– Harriet and Ulrich E. Meyer Professor of Jewish History and the College, University of Chicago
SpeakerCamille Robcis
– Professor of History and French, Department of History, Columbia University
DiscussantArthur Goldhammer
– Writer & Translator; Local Affiliate & Seminar Chair, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies (CES), Harvard University
ChairCharles Clavey
– Preceptor in Social Studies, Harvard University; Seminar Chair, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies (CES), Harvard University
ChairNicolas Prevelakis
– Associate Senior Lecturer on Social Studies & Assistant Director of Curricular Development, Center for Hellenic Studies, Harvard University; Faculty Associate & Seminar Co-chair, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University
SpeakerMary Elise Sarotte
– Professor of Global Affairs and Management; Director of the Brady-Johnson Program, Jackson School of Global Affairs, Yale University; Local Affiliate, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University
DiscussantMargaret MacMillan
– Professor of History, University of Toronto; Emeritus Professor of International History, Oxford University; Engelsberg Chair in History and International Affairs, IDEAS at the London School of Economics
