The Ronald and Eileen Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia at the University of Michigan is dedicated to the advancement and dissemination of interdisciplinary knowledge about, and promotion of public engagement with, the institutions, cultures, and histories of Europe and Eurasia. This is done in cooperation with our affiliated centers.
The Center for European Studies (CES), a constituent of the University of Michigan International Institute and the Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia, is a multi-disciplinary research, education, and outreach program dedicated to improving understanding of modern, integrated Europe at the University of Michigan (U-M). In 2001, CES received a grant from the European Commission to establish a European Union Center (EUC), and from 2005 to 2011 U-M’s EUC was designated a European Union Center of Excellence, one of ten in the United States. In collaboration with academic and research units across U-M, and institutions of higher education in the US and Europe, CES offers an array of public programs, funding opportunities, and innovative curricular outreach on Europe, and sponsors the visits of European scholars, artists, and professionals to U-M and southeastern Michigan.
The Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies (CREES) is one of the nation’s foremost institutes for interdisciplinary research and training on Russia, Central and Eastern Europe, and Eurasia. CREES is a long-time recipient of federal education funding as a National Resource Center for this broad world area. Regional strengths include Russia, Central Europe (especially Czech Republic and Poland), Southeastern Europe (notably former Yugoslavia), Central Asia, and the Caucasus.
The Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies (WCED) promotes scholarship to better understand the conditions and policies fostering transformations from authoritarian rule to democracy. WCED’s mission will evolve as the world changes, but its core commitment to understanding the conditions for democracy and freedom in Europe, Eurasia, and beyond, will remain the guiding principle.
