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...Europhiles have a new opportunity to pursue their studies and to interact with Harvard academics working in European fields. Through new initiatives targeted at undergraduates, such as a newly-created undergraduate advisory board and improved grant systems for European research projects, the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies (CES) is seeking to broaden its involvement with the undergraduate community...
Inhabiting an Italianate villa nestled between William James Hall and the biology labs, the CES has long been a valuable and important resource at Harvard. Under its roof are hosted literature, history, government and economics scholars, as well as year-long fellows, who together make valuable contributions to the field of European studies. Recent guests at the CES have included such figures as Ignacio Arias, the Spanish ambassador to the United Nations; Niall Fergusson, a professor of history at New York University who will join Harvard’s faculty in July; and Lionel Jospin, former prime minister of France...
This bounty, however, has so far been reserved for the graduate and post-graduate community, attracting a strong class of Ph.D. students in European studies each year and providing sizable grants for graduate research. Although officially the doors of the CES are open to all members of the Harvard community, it is rare for an enterprising undergraduate who enters 27 Kirkland St. Those disoriented College students who wish to study European issues from art history to contemporary geopolitics are often unaware that the Center exists. There is no community through which students in different concentrations but with similar interests...
This academic year, however, the directors of CES have decided to harness the undergraduate potential. They have formed an undergraduate advisory board from students interested in Europe who study English, social studies, history, literature, Slavic studies, government and economics. Through the advisory board, CES hopes to inform the college about its activities and to attract more undergraduates to participate in its work...
...their own networking abilities—asking friends of friends, talking to professors or boldly contacting organizations themselves. As part of the new initiative, the undergraduate advisory board is seeking to establish an internship network and to grant funding for students to pursue work on the continent. The first CES career panel is slated for April 19, to offer a glimpse of life after Harvard and the variety of opportunities in the European field...