Seminar Chairs

CES seminars and lectures play an integral part in ensuring that discussions at the Center encompass multiple disciplines and topic areas. The following is a listing of CES seminar chairs for 2020-2021. A listing of all event series and annual lectures can be found here.

Stephen Ansolabehere

Frank G. Thompson Professor of Government, Harvard University; CES Seminar Co-chair, Harvard University

David Armitage

Lloyd C. Blankfein Professor of History, Harvard University; CES Faculty Associate & Seminar Co-chair, Harvard University

Ann Blair

Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor & Director of Undergraduate Studies, Harvard University; CES Seminar Co-chair, Harvard University

Julian Bourg

Associate Professor of History, Boston College; CES Seminar Co-chair & Local Affiliate, Harvard University

James Cronin

Professor of History, Boston College; CES Seminar Co-chair & Local Affiliate, Harvard University

Grzegorz Ekiert

Laurence A. Tisch Professor of Government, Harvard University; Director, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University

Alison Frank Johnson

Professor of History, Harvard University; CES Resident Faculty & Seminar Co-chair, Harvard University

Mark Franklin

John R. Reitemeyer Professor Emeritus of International Politics, Trinity College; CES Seminar Co-chair & Local Affiliate, Harvard University

Arthur Goldhammer

Writer & Translator; CES Local Affiliate & Seminar Co-chair, Harvard University

Peter E. Gordon

Amabel B. James Professor of History, Harvard University; CES Resident Faculty & Seminar Co-chair, Harvard University; Faculty Affiliate, Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures, Harvard University; Faculty Affiliate, Department of Philosophy, Harvard University

Nathan Grau

Ph.D. Student in International History, Harvard University; Graduate Student Affiliate & Seminar Coordinator, CES, Harvard University

Peter A. Hall

Krupp Foundation Professor of European Studies, Harvard University; CES Resident Faculty & Seminar Co-chair, Harvard University

Torben Iversen

Harold Hitchings Burbank Professor of Political Economy, Harvard University; CES Faculty Associate & Seminar Co-chair, Harvard University

Maya Jasanoff

Coolidge Professor of History, Harvard University; CES Resident Faculty & Seminar Co-chair, Harvard University

Karl Kaiser

Fellow, Project on Europe and the Transatlantic Relationship, Harvard Kennedy School; Seminar Co-chair, CES, Harvard University

David Kennedy

Manley O. Hudson Professor of Law, Harvard Law School; CES Seminar Co-chair & Faculty Associate, Harvard University

James Kloppenberg

Charles Warren Professor of American History, Harvard University; Co-Chair, Harvard Colloquium for Intellectual History, CES, Harvard University

Hans-Helmut Kotz

CES Resident Faculty & Seminar Co-chair, Harvard University

Michèle Lamont

Professor of Sociology and African-American Studies, Harvard University; Robert I. Goldman Professor of European Studies, Harvard University; Director, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs; CES Seminar Co-chair & Faculty Associate, Harvard University

Laura Levine Frader

Professor of History, Northeastern University; CES Seminar Co-chair & Local Affiliate, Harvard University

Mary D. Lewis

Robert Walton Goelet Professor of French History, Harvard University; CES Resident Faculty & Seminar Co-chair, Harvard University

Cathie Jo Martin

Professor of Political Science, Boston University; Local Affiliate & CES Seminar Co-chair, Harvard University

José Manuel Martinez Sierra

Jean Monnet ad Personam Professor in EU Law and Government, Director General, UPF-Barcelona School of Management; CES Local Affiliate & Seminar Co-chair, Harvard University

Myra Marx Ferree

Alice H. Cook Professor of Sociology (Emerita), University of Wisconsin-Madison; CES Local Affiliate & Seminar Co-chair, Harvard University

Elaine Papoulias

CES Executive Director, Harvard University

Derek J. Penslar

William Lee Frost Professor of Jewish History, Harvard University; CES Resident Faculty & Seminar Chair, Harvard University

Nicolas Prevelakis

Lecturer on Social Studies, Harvard University; Assistant Director of Curricular Development, Center for Hellenic Studies, Harvard University; CES Seminar Co-chair, Harvard University

Dante Roscini

Professor of Management Practice, Harvard Business School; CES Seminar Co-chair & Faculty Associate, Harvard University

Muriel Rouyer

Adjunct Professor of Public Policy, Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation, Harvard Kennedy School; CES Local Affiliate & Seminar Co-chair, Harvard University

Sebastián Royo

Professor of Political Science & Legal Studies and Vice President of International Affairs, Suffolk University; CES Local Affiliate & Seminar Co-chair, Harvard University

Vivien A. Schmidt

Jean Monnet Professor of European Integration and Professor of International Relations and Political Science, Boston University; CES Local Affiliate & Seminar Co-chair, Harvard University

Daniel Smith

Associate Professor, Department of Government, Harvard University; CES Seminar Co-chair & Faculty Associate, Harvard University

Kathleen Thelen

Ford Professor of Political Science, MIT; CES Faculty Associate & Seminar Co-chair, Harvard University

Natasha Warikoo

Professor of Sociology, Tufts University; CES Seminar Co-chair, Harvard University

Daniel Ziblatt

Eaton Professor of the Science of Government, Harvard University; CES Resident Faculty & Seminar Co-chair, Harvard University; Unit Director, Transformations of Democracy, Berlin Social Science Center (WZB)

Kathrin Zippel

Professor of Sociology, Northeastern University; CES Local Affiliate & Seminar Co-chair, Harvard University