The Program in European Studies is a multifaceted, interdisciplinary program that seeks to broaden understandings of contemporary Europe and the diverse societies and cultures that constitute it. The faculty, who share a European focus in their scholarship and teaching, collectively encourage students to question assumptions about the region’s role in the world. The program thus provides a forum for deliberating over the challenges facing Europeans today and, in so doing, for reflecting on what Europe has been in the past and what it might be in the future.