Institute for European Studies
Seed Grants
Details
The Einaudi Center's faculty seed grants launch international studies research and activities that show promise to grow and secure external follow-on funding.
Tenured and tenure-track Cornell faculty are eligible to apply. All disciplines and topics are welcome. Read about recent research Einaudi seeded.
Building International Studies Capacity
Einaudi Center seed grants support international studies research and collaborations that reach across world regions and bring together researchers who have deep knowledge in different regions and disciplines. The awards launch early-stage interdisciplinary research projects with clear plans for scaling up and securing external funding support.
"If you think about the issues of nationalism, climate change, threats to humanitarian aid—a lot of the things that are foremost on our minds these days are affecting not only the U.S. They really are very global. And at the same time as they’re global threats and interests, the forms they take and the abilities to address them differ a lot across different regions and across different peoples and places."
~ Ellen Lust, Einaudi Center Director
The Einaudi Center is dedicated to international studies. Our seed grants focus on complex global and regional issues and community-engaged methodologies across the social sciences, hard sciences, and humanities. Some research conducted abroad and international collaborations—while valuable—do not qualify for the awards.
Proposals must align with the mission and interests of at least one of our international studies programs. The application requires only your own thoughtful assessment of how your project might contribute to the work of one or more programs.
Proposals that engage with two or more geographical regions are eligible for larger awards of up to $25,000.
Eligibility
Tenured and tenure-track Cornell faculty in all colleges and schools are eligible to apply as individuals or teams. The Einaudi Center will not accept proposals from past awardees who failed to submit the required final report by the deadline stated in the award letter.
- Funding-eligible activities: Data collection, research assistance, travel, meetings
- Not eligible for funding: Salary offset, summer salary, computers and equipment, student stipends/tuition
Requirements
- All funds must be used within one year of the award date.
- You must submit a final report to the Einaudi Center director within one year of the award date. The report must include:
- A summary and assessment of the research and activities you accomplished.
- An update on your external follow-on funding proposal.
- A promotional paragraph written for nonspecialists (100 words maximum) describing the outcome and value of your project.
- The Einaudi Center must be acknowledged in all publications, promotion, and media coverage related to your funded research and activities. Please inform the Einaudi Center in advance of publications and other project outcomes.
How to Apply
Complete the seed grant funding application and submit a proposal including the following:
- Curricula vitae (CVs) for principal faculty
- Statement including objectives, activities, work plan, expected outputs, beneficiaries, and impact
- Human subjects approval, if relevant
- Detailed budget with justification of expenses
- Plans for pursuing future research and external funding support
Evaluation
All successful proposals will meet these criteria. The proposal:
- Shows a high likelihood of generating new knowledge of key economic, environmental, social, cultural, or political problems in the world.
- Includes clearly articulated deliverables.
- Includes a budget appropriate for planned activities.
- Includes a plan for obtaining full project funding to sustain and expand the research.
Questions?
Please email our academic programming staff if you have questions about the seed grant program or your application.
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Funding Type
- Award
Role
- Faculty
Program
Race and Racism Across Borders
Writing and Visual Art by Einaudi Students
Einaudi students reflect on personal experiences of racism and border crossings. Don't miss this powerful conversation at Global Cornell.
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Already enrolled as a European Studies Minor? Join us!
November 12, 2020
5:00 pm
If you’re already enrolled in the ES minor, join us on Thursday, November 12th at 5:00 pm (virtually) to learn what opportunities are available to you and to meet other students interested in European Studies.
Take a 2-minute mini-quiz to see how far along you are in completing the minor.
Have questions? Contact the Institute for European Studies directly for an advising appointment.
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Program
Einaudi Center for International Studies
Institute for European Studies
Learn more about becoming a minor in European Studies!
November 10, 2020
5:00 pm
The Institute for European Studies is excited to let you know that students currently enrolled in Comparative Literature, Government, History, History of Art, and Romance Studies courses have already completed the first requirements for a European Studies (ES) Minor.
Through an interdisciplinary curriculum, you can mold the ES Minor to your interests. You’ll have the opportunity to explore Europe’s past, present, and future and demonstrate a knowledge of European languages, culture, history, politics, and international relations.
The minor offers the chance to take courses across colleges on subjects that shape your understanding of a globalizing world, while also providing you with an area of expertise. You will gain critical thinking skills, language abilities, and helpful frameworks for assessing today’s most pressing issues in Europe and around the world.
Join us for an information session on Tuesday, November 10th at 5:00 pm to chat about your interests and learn more about the European Studies minor from IES faculty, staff, and student representatives.
If you’re already enrolled in the minor, join us on Thursday, November 12th at 5:00 pm to learn what opportunities are available to you and to meet other students interested in European Studies.
Take a 2-minute mini-quiz to see how far along you are in completing the minor.
Contact the Institute for European Studies directly for an advising appointment.
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Program
Einaudi Center for International Studies
Institute for European Studies
The Police and the Public: Global Perspectives (Lund Critical Debate)
December 9, 2020
6:30 pm
Protests against racism and police violence crescendoed in the United States and around the world in 2020. In the United States and internationally, how can we balance social justice, accountability, and personal freedom with demands for order and security?
This Lund Critical Debate brings together the United Nations’ police commissioner and a noted expert on political conflict resolution to discuss strategies—both inside and outside the policing framework—for public safety and law enforcement. The conversation will address current questions around security and policing, including political violence, racial injustice and Black Lives Matter, and global responses to unlawful use of force.
The panel welcomes questions in advance and during the event. Registration is required.
Panelists
Luís Carrilho, United Nations Police Adviser. He has served since November 2017 as police commissioner and director of the UN’s Police Division. He previously served as the police commissioner in multidimensional United Nations peacekeeping operations in Timor Leste, Haiti, and the Central African Republic.
Christian Davenport, Professor, Department of Political Science and Public Policy, University of Michigan. His research focuses on racism, social movements, and political conflict, including human rights violations, genocide, torture, political surveillance, and civil war. His most recent book is The Peace Continuum: What It Is and How To Study It (Oxford University Press, 2018).
Moderator
Sabrina Karim, Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies; Hardis Family Assistant Professor for Teaching Excellence, Department of Government, A&S. Her research focuses on conflict and peace processes, international involvement in post-conflict security, and state building in the aftermath of civil war.
About the Debate
This year’s Lund Critical Debate is hosted by the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies and Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies, part of the Einaudi Center. Established in 2008, the Einaudi Center's Lund Critical Debate Series is made possible by the generosity of Judith Lund Biggs ’57.
Additional Information
Program
Einaudi Center for International Studies
Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies
East Asia Program
Southeast Asia Program
Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Institute for African Development
Institute for European Studies
South Asia Program
Semi-Study Break: World Music of the Moment with Global Cornell
November 16, 2020
11:00 am
Celebrate International Education Week #IEW2020 with Global Cornell!
Join DJ Daniel Bass of WRFI's Monsoon Radio for world music of 2020—from coronavirus and mass incarceration, to migration, love, dancing, and beyond. Jonathan Miller of Homelands Productions cohosts.
For semi-finals: It's a semi-study break. See you there.
Registration is required.
Daniel Bass (South Asia Program) has been a radio DJ for nearly 30 years. As an undergraduate at Carleton College, he was music director of KRLX, the student-run radio station, and hosted a weekly show. In graduate school at the University of Michigan, he cohosted a weekly show of South Asian music on WCBN, the college/community radio station in Ann Arbor. In 2013, he started Monsoon Radio on WPKN in Bridgeport, Connecticut. He brought the show to Ithaca's WRFI in 2017. Monsoon Radio features music of South Asia, its influences and diasporas, branching out to music of the Indian Ocean and the Muslim world and fusions from all over the globe. Until the pandemic forced the show into hiatus, Monsoon Radio aired every other Tuesday night on WRFI, 88.1 FM, and wrfi.org.
Jonathan Miller's work as a journalist, writer, and editor has taken him to more than 20 countries in Asia, the Americas, Africa, Europe, and the Pacific. His radio and television reports have been broadcast on NPR, Marketplace, BBC, PBS NewsHour, and other outlets. As executive director of the journalism collective Homelands Productions, he has designed and produced multi-platform projects on cultural change, globalization and work, and the future of food. He serves as board chair of Ithaca City of Asylum. From 2016 to 2018 he was associate director of communication at the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies.
Register here: https://cornell.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_hjkj48IdQ7yEVetaG1QFlA
Additional Information
Program
Einaudi Center for International Studies
South Asia Program
Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Institute for African Development
Institute for European Studies
Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies
East Asia Program
Southeast Asia Program
Barrett Honored by National Geographic
Einaudi-Funded Researcher Studies Daily Life in Pompeii
Caitlín Barrett (IES) received a 2019 Einaudi seed grant to reconstruct a garden of Pompeii.
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IES Graduate Research Grant
Details
The IES Graduate Research Grant is available to graduate students in any field of study whose research is focused on the study of Europe.
Criteria
- Quality of the research proposal within the field
- Validity and feasibility of the project
- Research and professional qualifications
- Strength of academic performance and letter of recommendation
Requirements
- 4-5 page research proposal (double-spaced) with bibliography
- Project budget
- 1 letter of recommendation*
Winners receive up to $4,000 in funding, distributed through their bursar account. The IES Graduate Research Grant application is conducted together with the Manon Michels and Michele Sicca Grant competitions. Candidates submit a single application and are automatically considered for each of the awards.
Contact IES with questions about this award.
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Luigi Einaudi Graduate Dissertation Fellowship
Details
The Luigi Einaudi Graduate Dissertation Fellowship is a semester-long or year-long fellowship available to graduate students in modern European government, history, economics, and related social science fields. The award consists of a graduate student stipend for one or two semesters, in-absentia fees, and enrollment in Cornell's student health insurance plan.
Criteria
This fellowship is designed to enable graduate students to conduct field and archival research focused on Europe for an extended period (4-8 months). To be eligible, applicants must have completed the "A" exam in their department or have an exam date scheduled prior to submitting their application and have a dissertation project approved by their dissertation committee.
- Quality of the research proposal in a social science field
- Validity and feasibility of the applicant’s research project
- Research and professional qualifications
- Strength of the student’s academic performance and letters of recommendation
Requirements
- 8-10 page project proposal (double-spaced) with bibliography
- 2 letters of recommendation
Contact IES with questions about this award.
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Susan Tarrow Fellowship for Research in Europe
Details
The Susan Tarrow Fellowship for Research in Europe was established in 2005 in honor of the 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 need at all stages of their projects.
Undergraduate students from all fields of study are invited to submit applications to pursue research projects focused on Europe. In light of Tarrow’s passion for France and Italy, students planning a project in those countries are particularly encouraged to apply, though the fellowship is open to all Europeanists.
Requirements
- 4-5 page project proposal (double-spaced) with bibliography
- Budget listing estimated costs for airfare, lodging, food, etc.
- 1 letter of recommendation from Cornell Faculty
- Transcript
The winner will receive up to $4,000 in funding, distributed through their bursar account.
Contact IES with questions about this award.