Undergraduate students from Public Policy, History, Anthropology, and Information Science will use IES funds to travel for research to the United Kingdom, Italy, France, Poland, Spain, and the Netherlands. Graduate awardees also span Cornell disciplines, with students from Government, History, Architecture, Anthropology, Near Eastern Studies, Global Development, City and Regional Planning, and Romance Studies using research awards to study various aspects of European cultures, societies, and politics in Spain, Germany, Poland, Italy, the United Kingdom, Russia, France, and Bosnia Herzegovina. Our largest award, the IES Luigi Einaudi Dissertation Fellowship, will fully fund one semester of field research for two graduate students: Frances Cayton (Government), who will travel to Poland in Fall 2025 for research on her project on civil society and backsliding incumbents, and Christopher Mingo (History), who will spend Spring 2026 in Italy researching the domestic and international political origins of Fascist Italy’s wars of imperial expansion. Find more information about the winners of our awards on our Recent Awardees page. We congratulate all IES awardees and wish them a productive summer and year ahead.