WHAT'S HAPPENING AT CEMS

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Congratulations to CEMS alum, Max Gordon ('23–'24), on being awarded the 2025 GSAS Master’s Award for Academic Achievement in the Humanities! He is one of three students to be awarded by NYU GSAS for the most distinguished thesis or final project.
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Interested in keeping up to date with CEMS? Check out our Latest News section to see faculty and student achievements, grants, publications, conference appearances, and more!
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We are proud to be featured in the Council for European Studies' Campus Spotlight series! Learn about CEMS, its faculty, courses, research, student experiences, and what makes it such a special place to study Europe.

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A look inside the MA in European and Mediterranean Studies at NYU's CEMS
A look inside the MA in European and Mediterranean Studies at NYU's CEMS

FACULTY PUBLICATIONS

Recent publications by CEMS faculty

Energy and Power
Germany in the Age of Oil, Atoms, and Climate Change
Dr. Stephen Gross
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The Shadow of the Empress
Fairy-Tale Opera and the End of the Habsburg Monarchy
Dr. Larry Wolff
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Images on this website have been provided by past CEMS students: Nicholas Beck, Laura Bright, Kelly Davis, David Eichert, Simone Somekh, Athanasios Taskas, Carolyn Reid.

Undergraduate mosiac images by ©Huba: Courtesy of NYU Photo Bureau.

Graduate mosiac images by ©Hope and ©Stockbridge: Courtesy of NYU Photo Bureau.

Faculty Spotlight

CEMS faculty includes scholars in such fields as history, political science, philosophy, and anthropology, among others.

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Peter Baldwin

Global Professor

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Emma Rosenberg

Faculty Fellow, CEMS

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Stephen Gross

Director, Center for European and Mediterranean Studies; Professor of History & European Studies

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Tamsin Shaw

Associate Professor of European and Mediterranean Studies and Philosophy

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Alexander C.T. Geppert

Associate Professor of History and European Studies; Global Network Associate Professor

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Isabella Trombetta

Visiting Assistant Professor, CEMS

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Larry Wolff

Silver Professor; Professor of History; Former Director, CEMS; Former Executive Director, Remarque Institute; Co-Director NYU Florence

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