Center Profiles & Contacts
Center for European Studies
The Center for European Studies was established in 1994 to advance understanding of events currently shaping Western Europe.
The Center has four components:
- A National Resource Center funded by the U.S. Department of Education.
- A European Union Center of Excellence, one of ten such centers in the US, funded by the European Commission.
- The Transatlantic Masters program, a unique graduate program run in consortium with six European universities.
- An undergraduate major in Contemporary European Studies (the “EURO Major").
For faculty and graduate students, CES funds ten research working groups, many of which have participants at other US and European universities. A full listing of groups, conferences, and papers is at our website. We host visiting fellows from the European Commission and the German Academic Exchange (DAAD), as well as doctoral/post-doctoral researchers and scholars from around the world for short periods of research, usually in collaboration with our Europeanist faculty members.
CES funds the development of new campus courses on contemporary Europe and runs a distance learning collaborative project with North Carolina State University and UNC-Charlotte where upper division courses on the EU are shared across campuses and are available on the web with video streaming. We also house the Languages Across the Curriculum program, which is run in collaboration with other Area Studies centers on campus.
CES runs numerous programs for public outreach and teacher development including public lectures, film series as well as web-based original curriculum materials. We regularly offer workshops for professional development of teachers and maintaining web resources for best practices in foreign language teaching. With the help of a US Department of Education grant, CES funds the teaching of Modern Greek and Dutch languages on campus.