Institute for European Studies
Aidan E. Kelly
Administrative Assistant
Aidan Kelly is the administrative assistant for the Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies and the Institute for European Studies. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in English literature and rhetoric from Binghamton University. She first came to Cornell in May 2018 as a program assistant in the College of Arts & Sciences.
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Spring Break Environmental Justice Program in London Info Session
September 26, 2024
5:30 pm
Learn more about this spring break opportunity in collaboration with Global Hub partner, King’s College London (KCL), this program examines London as a global financial capital, a center of health research and policy, and a site where the consequences of climate change, including extreme heat events, are distributed in radically uneven ways. Beginning as part of the spring semseter course, this program will prepare students for research topics related to issues of environmental justice. Student will travel onsite during spring break to conduct field work at various sites across the city and return to synthesize those experiences as part of their larger research projects.
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Institute for European Studies
Victoria Pihl Sørensen
IES Graduate Fellow 2024-2025
Victoria E. Pihl Sørensen is a Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Performing and Media Arts. Her doctoral research examines population control and eugenics in Danish popular culture from an anti-racist feminist point of view. She holds an MA in Women’s and Gender Studies from the CUNY Graduate Center. She recently published "'In Women’s Hands': Feminism, Eugenics, and Race in Interwar Denmark" (2023), in the feminist journal Women, Gender & Research.
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IES 2024 Awards and Fellowships
We are pleased to announce that the Institute for European Studies has awarded $100,000 in 2024 to graduate and undergraduate students.
Unearthing and Reckoning with Ukrainian History
September 4, 2024
12:00 pm
Uris Hall, G08
A Book Talk on Ukraine Is Not Dead Yet
Growing up in Cleveland in the final years of the Cold War, writer Megan Buskey understood little about her Ukrainian family’s traumatic history. It was only well into adolescence that she learned that her mother had grown up in a gulag exile settlement in Siberia because her grandparents had been deported there from their Ukrainian village after the Second World War.
As an adult, Megan spent years researching her family’s experience for her award-winning book, Ukraine Is Not Dead Yet: A Family Story of Exile and Return (ibidem, 2023). In this talk, Megan Buskey will discuss the political significance of Ukrainian family histories in light of the restrictions placed on memory during the Soviet period, share what she learned about her family’s experience, and connect their story to current politics, specifically Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
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Einaudi Center for International Studies
Institute for European Studies
One Way to Make Russia Pay for Ukraine? Take Its Money.
Nicholas Mulder, IES
This opinion piece quotes Cornell historian Nicholas Mulder's 2022 book, “The Economic Weapon: The Rise of Sanctions as a Tool of Modern War.”
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Trump Made MAGA Happen. JD Vance Represents Those Who Will Inherit It
Mabel Berezin, IES
“They will be able to play that constituency long after Trump,” says professor of arts and sciences in sociology, Mabel Berezin. “They don’t come out of the blue. There is an audience for what they have to say.”
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IES 2024 Awards and Fellowships
We are pleased to announce that the Institute for European Studies has awarded $100,000 in 2024 to graduate and undergraduate students. Our grants and fellowships support research in Europe and projects focused on European studies.
Our awardees study in a variety of disciplines, including Government, Romance Studies, History, Animal Science, Medieval Studies, Public Policy, Economics, and Near Eastern Studies. They will travel for research to Spain, the United Kingdom, Italy, Poland, Hungary, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Greece, and the Netherlands. Find more information about awardees and their projects on our website.
Congratulations to all winners of our awards, and best of luck with research and travel to Europe!
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Georgy Tarasenko
IES Graduate Fellow 2025-26
Georgy Tarasenko is a PhD student in the Department of Government at Cornell University. His major field of study is Comparative Politics, with minor fields in Political Thought and Methods. Previously, he was a researcher and lecturer at the Center for Institutional Studies at HSE University in Moscow and the Digital Humanities Center at ITMO University in Saint Petersburg.
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- Student
- IES Current Graduate Fellow
- PACS Past Graduate Fellow
- Graduate Student
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Email: gt298@cornell.edu
Chiara Visentin
IES Graduate Fellow 2025-2026
Chiara Visentin is a PhD candidate in the Medieval Studies Program at Cornell, with a background in philosophy and sociology. She is interested in the transformations of political cultures, identities and institutions in the central Middle Ages and especially the 12th century, with a focus on the Anglo-Norman and Angevin polities, extending between the British Isles and Western France, as well as their neighbors like Capetian France, and more distant but related polities such as Norman Sicily.
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- Student
- IES Current Graduate Fellow
- Graduate Fellow
- Graduate Student
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Email: cv284@cornell.edu