Recent Awardees
2024 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.
Ana Loter
Child Nutrition and Obesity in Poland
Jake Zajkowski
EU Agricultural Policy Investigation
Isabella Swope
Public Representations of Insects in the United Kingdom
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.
Gray Fuller
Slow Food: Agricultural Policy Project in Bra, Italy
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.
Edoardo Bollati
Movie Narratives and European Historical Mass Migration
Greta Schenke
Making the Metropole: Colonialism, State-Building and Nation-Making in Imperial Germany
Grace Okine
Between Two Stones: Palm Kernel Oil, Gender, and Colonized Extraction in World War II Ghana
Vaios Triantafyllou
Transition from Islamic to Liberal Institutions: Evidence from the Muslim minority in Greece
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.
Helena Crusius
Conditions of Possibility: Plural Worlds and Political Action
Judith Tauber
Violence, Consensus, and Cultural Depictions of 1960s-1970s Protests in Italy and France
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.
Savannah Emmons
Ut pictura poesis: Thinking with Images in Late Medieval Allegory
Rachel Cilia Werdmolder
Women of the bookshop: Jewish women in print in early modern Amsterdam
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.
Ewa Bachminska
European Bison and Co.: Research on Animals in Europe with a Focus on Bison
Frances Cayton
Civil Society and Illiberal Populist Incumbents
Madeleine Lemos
Rationalizing Fascism: Franco’s Regime at Home and Abroad
William Maines
Ports of Call: British Sailors, Shore Leave, and Experiences of the British World
Musckaan Chauhan
Loss after Loss: Europe, Caribbean, and a Historical Study of the Postcolonial Present
Abraham and Henrietta Brettschneider Oxford Exchange Fund
The purpose of the Abraham and Henrietta Brettschneider Oxford Exchange Fund is to facilitate academic exchanges between Cornell and Oxford University (UK). Read more about this award.
Andy Shin
Lessons from the UK's High-Speed Rail for California's Rail Project
Olivia Graves
Investigating Taxation and Coin Use in Roman Italy
Omobolanle Akinniyi
Birthing a Nation: Women, Nationalism and War in Biafra, 1966-1970
Savannah Whitehead
Exploring Ethnic Inequalities in Income, Education, and Social Mobility: A Comparative Study of the United States and the United Kingdom
Trisha Bhujle
Climate, Conflicts, and Conservation: Strengthening Social Science Research Skills Through the Cornell-Oxford Partnership
2023 Awardees
Undergraduate Awards
Frederic Conger Wood Research Fellowship
Claire Tempelman, Alexander Burnett, Andreas Psahos, Sam Straus, Mia-Lucia Barashenkov
Michael J. Harum Memorial Award for Students of Slavic Languages
Caleb Kimble
Susan Tarrow Fellowship for Research in Europe
Maya Mau
Graduate Awards
IES Graduate Research Grant
Kaitlin Findlay, Soul Han, Brandon Roy, Sophia Taborski, Alican Taylan, Eleanor Wright, Asya Uzmay
Luigi Einaudi Graduate Dissertation Fellowship
Matthew Finck, David Rubenstein
Manon Michels Einaudi Grant
Rachel Horner
Michele Sicca Research Grant
Stefan Ivanovski, Frances Cayton, Shirley Le Penne, Emir Yigit, Theodore Kellogg, Spencer Hadley, Evan Allen
Abraham and Henrietta Brettschneider Oxford Exchange Fund
Prof. Keith Tidball, Francine Barchett, Prof. Mabel Berezin, Prof. Bryn Rosenfield, Frances Cayton
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