European Studies

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History & Literature’s field of European Studies encourages students to connect nation-states to transnational trends and events in the history and literature of Europe. Students in the European Studies field study themes such as colonization and imperialism, the emergence of national and ethnic literatures, movements of labor and capital, the rights and representations of minorities, and the negotiation and representation of ethnic and cultural difference.

In addition to the requirements for all concentrators (5 tutorials and 1 course that satisfies the language requirement), students in the European Studies field complete the following requirements:

• 1 survey course on European history (the course should cover at least 100 years);
• 2 courses (1 history and 1 literature) on empire, diaspora, or transnational or comparative topics;
• 1 course focused on a period before 1900;
• 4 elective courses in European Studies, balanced between history and literature.

Browse our list of Courses That Count for European Studies, and use the European Studies Field Worksheet to plot your course of study.

Questions about the European Studies field should be directed to Assistant Director of Studies Emily Gowen.

Hannah Gadway '25

Field Worksheet: European Studies: Humor in British and Slavic\  Sophomore essay title: “To Jest at Death:” Black Humor as a Form of Dissent in Kurt Vonnegut’s Cat’s Cradle\  Junior essay title: Rejecting the Experiment: Humor as Defense in Mikhail Bulgakov’s The Heart of a Dog\  Senior thesis title: Laughter in the Mirror: The Reflective Use of Humor in Vladimir Nabokov's Campus Novels

Miles Herszenhorn '25

Field worksheet: European Studies - Global New Left movements

Sophomore essay title: The Soviet Union’s Culture Wars Weapon: How the USSR Used the Image of 19th Century Poet Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin to Accumulate Support in Africa

Junior essay title: When Journalism Becomes The Story: American Reporters Covering the USSR in Romm’s 1947 The Russian Question

Senior thesis title: STAGING DISSENT: Teatr.Doc as an alternative public sphere in Putin's Russia