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European Studies—Chairs and Directors

Chair of the Standing Committee on European Studies: Daniel Ziblatt

Faculty of the Standing Committee on European Studies

Rawi Abdelal, Herbert F. Johnson Professor of International Management (Business School)
Stephen Ansolabehere, Frank G. Thomson Professor of Government
Sven Beckert, Laird Bell Professor of History
Jonathan H. Bolton, Howard Mumford Jones Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures
Peter J. Burgard, Professor of German
Daniel P. Carpenter, Allie S. Freed Professor of Government
Grzegorz Ekiert, Laurence A. Tisch Professor of Government
Alison Frank Johnson, Professor of History and of Germanic Languages and Literatures
Peter E. Gordon, Amabel B. James Professor of History
Peter A. Hall, Krupp Foundation Professor of European Studies
Torben Iversen, Harold Hitchings Burbank Professor of Political Economy
Maya Jasanoff, Coolidge Professor of History (on leave 2025-2026)
Michele Lamont, Robert I. Goldman Professor of European Studies and Professor of Sociology and of African and African American Studies
Mary D. Lewis, Robert Walton Goelet Professor of French History
Christoph Mikulaschek, Assistant Professor of Government (on leave fall term)
Derek Penslar, William Lee Frost Professor of Jewish History (on leave spring term)
Serhii Plokhii, Mykhailo S. Hrushevs’kyi Professor of Ukrainian History (on leave fall term)
Vincent Pons, Byron Wein Professor of Business Administration (Business School)
Pia Raffler, Assistant Professor of Government
Mathias Risse, Berthold Beitz Professor in Human Rights, Global Affairs and Philosophy (Kennedy School)
Dante Roscini, MBA Class of 1952 Professor of Management Practice of Business Administration (Business School)
David Spreen, Assistant Professor of History

Additional Information

The Standing Committee on European Studies is the formal oversight body for the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies. It comprises those permanent faculty members who have offices in the Center and selected other representatives of FAS and of other universities in the Boston area who remain active in the study and teaching of modern Europe.

For additional information, please visit https://ces.fas.harvard.edu.