Recent Awardees
2023 Awardees
Undergraduate Awards
Frederic Conger Wood Research Fellowship
Established in 1993 with a generous bequest from the estate of Cornell alumnus and trustee, Frederic Conger Wood, this award supports research in Europe by undergraduates. Read more about this award.
Investigating Family Leave Policy in Denmark and Sweden from a Comparative Perspective
Alexander Burnett
Comparing the Land Practices and Models of Ideal Community within the Totnes Transition Town and Benedictine Monastic Orders in the United Kingdom
Andreas Psahos
Sam Straus
Unveiling the Industrial Revolution's Impact on Economic Systems
Mia-Lucia Barashenkov
Exoticism in the music of Spanish Romanticism
Michael J. Harum Memorial Award for Students of Slavic Languages
This award was established with generous contributions from Michael's family, the Institute for European Studies, and many others who loved and respected this extraordinary man. Read more about this award.
Caleb Kimble
Summer Russian Language and Area Studies Program in Daugavpils, Latvia
Susan Tarrow Fellowship for Research in Europe
This award was established in 2005 in honor of the former Associate Director of the Institute for European Studies from 1985-2005. One of Tarrow's priorities was to establish funding to enable Cornell undergraduate 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 projects. Read more about this award.
Maya Mau
Exploration into the Origins of Bicameralism in Political Thought
Graduate Awards
IES Graduate Research Grant
This award is available to graduate students in any field of study whose research is focused on the study of Europe and its global impact. Read more about this award.
Kaitlin Findlay
A Humanitarian Vision Lost: North American Practices of Forced Displacement and Humanitarian Oversight in the 1940s
Soul Han
Regional Dynamics of High-Tech Entrepreneurship: Comparing New York City and Lund-Malmo
Brandon Roy
Getting to the roots of plant virus transmission by a soil-borne vector
Sophia Taborski
Inscribing Violence: Curse Tablets in the Roman Empire
Alican Taylan
Africa Dreaming: The Eco-Colonial Imaginary of Early Modern Urban Planning in France
Eleanor Wright
Addressing the Lack of Arctic Environmental Policy Prioritization on the International Stage
Asya Uzmay
Building Blocks of Scarcity: Experimental building materials of independence
Luigi Einaudi Graduate Dissertation Fellowship
This award is a full-year or full semester fellowship available to graduate students in modern European government, history, economics, and related social science fields. Read more about this award.
Matthew Finck
Revolution Under the Stars: Astronomy, Astrology, and the Socialist Imaginary
David Rubinstein
Coal Town Cosmopolitanism: Jews, Germans, and Poles' Visions of Home in Postwar Wałbrzych
Manon Michels Einaudi Grant
This graduate research grant offered in the name of Manon Michels Einaudi honors the memory of a Cornell faculty wife and mother whose life exemplified much of the beauty of Western civilization. Read more about this award.
Rachel Horner
Sounding Valencian: Intrasemiotic Dynamics in the Falles Festival of Valencia, Spain
Michele Sicca Research Grant
This award was created by the late Mario Einaudi, Goldwin Smith Professor of International and Comparative Politics and former Director of the Center for International Studies. Michele Sicca was an anti-fascist physician with whom Professor Einaudi worked in exile during the Mussolini period. Read more about this award.
Stefan Ivanovski
Exploring Democratic Models of Ownership and Governance in the Tech Sector: A Study of Tech Worker Cooperative Ecosystems in the UK and Argentina
Frances Cayton
Elite Opinion and Cue Formation: Supply-based Explanations of the Populist Radical Right
Shirley Le Penne
Inheriting the Carceral: On the Incarceration of FLN Members and their Offspring in French Prisons
Emir Yigit
Theodore Kellogg
Economic Foreknowledge in Balzac, Zola, and Flaubert
Spencer Hadley
Towards an Alternative Genealogy of Germanophone Sound (and) Poetry
Evan Allen
Meaning in the Making: Epistemologies of Media, Labor, and Aesthetics in the Art of Roman Wall Painting
2022 Awardees
Undergraduate Awards
Frederic Conger Wood Research Fellowship
Madilyn Fulchiero, Melanie Marshall, Julia Pienkowska
Michael J. Harum Memorial Award for Students of Slavic Languages
Lia Sokol
Susan Tarrow Fellowship for Research in Europe
Zhiyuan Zhou
Graduate Awards
IES Graduate Research Grant
Frances Cayton, Matthew Finck, Shirley Le Penne, Jenna Martin, Anna Paola Passerini, Nora Siena, Morton Wan
Luigi Einaudi Graduate Dissertation Fellowship
Aimée Plukker
Manon Michels Einaudi Grant
Victoria Pihl Sorensen
Michele Sicca Research Grant
Kristie LeBeau, Theordora Serbanescu-Martin, Sara Stamatiades, Sophia Taborski, Thari Zweers, Isabel Choinowski
Abraham and Henrietta Brettschneider Oxford Exchange Fund
Mary Jane Dempsey, Amber Bal, Aalayna Greene, Ilham Nugraha
2021 Awardees
Undergraduate Awards
Frederic Conger Wood Research Fellowship
Chloe Tsui
Michael J. Harum Memorial Award for Students of Slavic Languages
Louisa Weldy, Alexander Symons
Susan Tarrow Fellowship for Research in Europe
Shirley Le Penne
Graduate Awards
IES Graduate Research Grant
Ani Chen, Mary Jane Dempsey, Rebecca Gerdes, Aslihan Gunhan, Nina Obermeier, Aimée Plukker, Ecem Saricayir, Jacqueline Tackett
Luigi Einaudi Graduate Dissertation Fellowship
Sena Aydin Bergfalk, Tessy Schlosser
Manon Michels Einaudi Grant
Samantha Heinle
Michele Sicca Research Grant
Juan-Jacques Aupiais, Labib Hossain, Due Fei, Craig Lyons, Michael Moynihan, John Un, Xinwei Xu
Sidney Tarrow Paper Prize
Emir Yigit
Abraham and Henrietta Brettschneider Oxford Exchange Fund
Darragh Hare, Jennifer Rabedeau, Samantha Wesner, Xuewen (Shelley) Yan, Katherine Zaslavsky