We are excited to share the 2025 CES Annual report! You can access the report here.
In the introduction, Executive Director Abby Lewis writes:
“It has been a great pleasure serving this organization as the Executive Director over the past year. This academic year has been a challenging one, both on the world stage and for higher education on both sides of the Atlantic. Despite these challenges, this year has marked an important year of growth and a move towards stability for CES. We’ve laid the foundation for the growth and revitalization of CES and look forward to seeing these efforts bear fruit in the coming academic years. We are excited to rededicate ourselves to supporting professional development activities and networking opportunities across our Academic Consortium.
We are especially proud to highlight the following milestones this year:
1. Successful move to Temple University as CES’s new institutional home:
During the 2024 academic year, CES moved its base of operations to Temple University in Philadelphia, PA. Philadelphia has proven to be a perfect home for CES, creating opportunities for new partnerships with local universities and globally focused non-profit organizations, including the World Affairs Council of Pennsylvania and the Global Philadelphia Association, among others. We look forward to expanding our partnerships in the region in the years to come.
2. Institutional Member Growth:
This academic year, we added several new CES Institutional Members and welcomed many returning institutional members back into CES. We also debuted new institutional member benefits, including a conference registration discount for all conference attendees affiliated with an institutional member.
3. Resumption of core CES awards:
For the first time since 2022, we reopened nominations for the European Studies Book Award. We also awarded the First Article Prize, SAE-CES Pre-Dissertation Fellowship, Small Events Grant, Carolina de Miguel Moyer Young Scholar Award, and the Undergraduate Paper Prize.
4. New partnerships:
This year, we established new partnerships that will support CES programming, including a new lecture series with the George L. Mosse Program.
We couldn’t do this without the support of CES’s academic community, including our individual members, members of our Academic Consortium, and our Research Networks.”