Susan Tarrow Fellowship for Undergraduate Research in Europe
The Susan Tarrow Fellowship for Undergraduate Research in Europe was established in 2005 in honor of the former Associate Director of the Institute for European Studies. Susan Tarrow, Adjunct Associate Professor of French, received her MA in French and German from Oxford University, and her PhD in French and Italian from Cornell, after stints at both UC Berkeley and Yale. She has taught in the Department of Romance Studies, and has published on Camus, on Maghrebian and "beur" literature, and on Primo Levi. From 1985-2005, she was Associate Director of Cornell's Institute for European Studies. One of her priorities was to establish funding to enable Cornell students to pursue summer field research in Europe and to provide them with the intellectual and practical advising they needed at all stages of their project. Since 1985, IES has sponsored one hundred undergraduates through its undergraduate Summer Research Program.
Cornell Juniors are invited to submit applications to pursue summer research projects in Europe. Like the Wood Fellowships, this award supports the European Summer Research Program for undergraduate research in Europe. In light of Tarrow’s passion for France and Italy, students planning a project in those countries are particularly encouraged to apply, but the fellowship is open to all Europeanists. The selected student spends the spring semester prior to departure preparing the project under the guidance of an advisor. During the summer, the student spends 6-8 weeks of field study in Europe and on his/her return reports on the research results, often in the form of an honors thesis. The annual competition is conducted during the fall semester. Interested Cornell students should prepare a project proposal with the assistance of a faculty advisor in their major field. For additional information or advising, contact Sydney Van Morgan, Associate Director of the Institute for European Studies, at (607) 255-7592 or via email at sydney.vanmorgan@cornell.edu.