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 2021-2022. A listing of all event series and annual lectures can be found here.

Stephen Ansolabehere

Frank G. Thompson Professor of Government, Harvard University; Seminar Co-chair, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, 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 & Chair, Department of History, Harvard University; Seminar Co-chair, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University

Julian Bourg

Associate Professor of History, Boston College; Local Affiliate & Seminar Co-chair, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, 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; Resident Faculty & Seminar Co-chair, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University

Peter E. Gordon

Amabel B. James Professor of History, Harvard University; Resident Faculty & Seminar Co-chair, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University; Faculty Affiliate, Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures, Harvard University; Faculty Affiliate, Department of Philosophy, Harvard University

Peter A. Hall

Krupp Foundation Professor of European Studies, Harvard University; Resident Faculty & Seminar Co-chair, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University

Maya Jasanoff

Coolidge Professor of History, Harvard University; Resident Faculty & Seminar Co-chair, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University

Karl Kaiser

Fellow, Project on Europe and the Transatlantic Relationship, Harvard Kennedy School; Seminar Co-chair, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University

James Kloppenberg

Charles Warren Professor of American History, Harvard University; Seminar Co-chair, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University

Hans-Helmut Kotz

Visiting Professor of Economics, Harvard University; Resident Faculty & Seminar Co-chair, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University

Michèle Lamont

Robert I. Goldman Professor of European Studies and Professor of Sociology and of African-American Studies, Harvard University; Faculty Associate & Seminar Co-chair, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University

Laura Levine Frader

Professor Emeritus, Northeastern University; Seminar Co-chair & Local Affiliate, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University

Mary D. Lewis

Robert Walton Goelet Professor of French History, Harvard University; Resident Faculty & Seminar Co-chair, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University

Tsiona Lida

Ph.D. Student in History, Harvard University; Graduate Student Affiliate & Seminar Coordinator, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University

Myra Marx Ferree

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

Jonathan Mijs

Assistant Professor of Sociology, Boston University; Veni Fellow, Erasmus University Rotterdam; Seminar Co-chair, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University

Derek J. Penslar

William Lee Frost Professor of Jewish History, Harvard University; Resident Faculty & Seminar Chair, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, 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 of Business Administration, Harvard Business School; Faculty Associate & Seminar Co-chair, CES, Harvard University

Sebastián Royo

Professor of Political Science & Provost and Vice President of Academic Affairs, Clark 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

Kathleen Thelen

Ford Professor of Political Science, MIT; Faculty Associate & Seminar Co-chair, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University

Daniel Ziblatt

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

Kathrin Zippel

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