CES 2009 Graduate Affiliates
CES aims to provide graduate students with a thought-provoking, lively community for European research and study. Graduate affiliates are encouraged to take part in all aspects of life at the Center, including conducting study groups, presenting conference papers, giving practice job talks and helping to host and introduce visiting politicians and academics at the Center's breakfast series. CES offers support for in-depth research through fellowships for year-long dissertation research abroad, as well as completion fellowships to students in Cambridge who are in the final year of writing their dissertations.
Graduate training is at the heart of the Center's mission and CES develops educators who go on to teach others about Europe at colleges and universities around the world. For over thirty years, the Center has been the preeminent American training ground for faculty and scholars of European politics, history and society. As the great émigré generation of the twentieth century retires, CES graduates are now central figures in the universities of the United States, preserving a knowledge base about Europe of increasing importance in a globalizing world.