DIRECTOR OF THE CENTER:
Associate Professor K. Fleming

The Center for European and Mediterranean Studies supports and promotes the study of contemporary Europe, both West and East, within the College and the Graduate School of Arts and Science and between the latter and the professional schools of the University. It complements existing European programs in both the humanities and the social sciences, such as the Institute of French Studies, the program in Italian studies coordinated by the Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò, and the Alexander S. Onassis Program in Hellenic Studies, by offering courses and lectures on other major Western European societies and cultures as well as on Central and Eastern Europe. It also offers courses, research opportunities, and noncurricular lectures and seminars on the European Community and on European issues that transcend national borders. Normally the Center does not offer courses in subjects that are covered by other departments. The Center offers an undergraduate major and minor in European studies as well as a Master of Arts program.

The programs, activities, and funding opportunities offered by the Center and listed below are partly supported by funds from a grant provided by the U.S. Department of Education, which in 1991 designated the Center, along with the Institute for the Study of Europe at Columbia University, as a National Resource Center for Western Europe. The two units operate together as the New York Consortium for European Studies in outreach efforts toward other schools and colleges in the region, research planning, and sharing of visiting lecturers. Cooperation within this consortium permits graduate students to cross-register for courses at our partner institution. The grant also funds the Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowship Program, which provides full-year and summer language-study fellowships for graduate students in various disciplines who are conducting research on Western Europe.

The Center represents the University in the Council for European Studies, a national association of European programs, and in expanding relations with similar programs in European universities.

Faculty

K. Fleming, Associate Professor, History, Program in Hellenic Studies, Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies; Director, Center for European and Mediterranean Studies; Associate Director, Remarque Institute; Director, Alexander S. Onassis Program in Hellenic Studies. Ph.D. 1996 (history), California (Berkeley); M.A. 1989 (history of religions), Chicago; B.A. 1988 (religion), Barnard College/Columbia.
Post-Byzantine and modern Greek history; western Ottoman provinces; Mediterranean and Greek Jewry.

Sylvia Maier, Assistant Professor/Faculty Fellow. Ph.D. 2001 (political science), M.A. 1999 (political science), Southern California; B.A. 1994 (political science), Vienna.
Politics of immigration in Europe; Islam-state relations in Europe; cultural diversity and identity.

Michael Minkenberg, Max Weber Professor of German and European Studies (2007-2009). Ph.D. 1989 (political science), Heldelberg; M.A. 1984 (American government), Georgetown.
Immigration, nationalism, and the politics of citizenship; radical right in liberal democracies; religion and politics in Western societies.

Martin A. Schain, Professor, Politics. Ph.D. 1971, Cornell; B.A. 1961, New York.
French politics; immigration.

ADJUNCT FACULTY

Elise Langan, Adjunct Instructor. Ph.D. 2000, New York; M.S. 1992, Southern California, B.S. 1977, Northwestern.
European Union education policy; access to higher education for minorities in France.

ADVISORY COMMITTEE

Ulrich Baer, German, Comparative Literature; Ruth Ben-Ghiat, Italian Studies; Dalton Conley, Sociology; James D. Fernández, Spanish and Portuguese Languages and Literatures; John Joseph Lee, History; Judith Miller, French; Liana Theodoratou, Program in Hellenic Studies.