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Akwugo Emejulu is a Professor of Sociology at the Department of Sociology at the Warwick University. Before entering academia, she worked in a variety of grassroots roles – as a community organiser, a trade union organiser and a participatory action researcher – in both the United States and in Britain. She joined the University of Warwick in 2017 after being a Senior Lecturer at the University of Edinburgh. Akwugo Emejulu is the co-director of the Centre for Education for Racial […]

Michelle Egan is Professor and Jean Monnet Chair Ad Personam in the School of International  Service, American University as well as Affiliate Faculty Member at the Department of History, Coordinator of the European and Russian Studies Program and Faculty Advisor for the European Studies Certificate. Michelle Egan is past Chair of EUSA, the European Union Studies Association, the largest professional association focusing on European integration and has received a number of fellowships from Bosch Foundation, German Marshall Fund, Howard Foundation, […]

Burkard Eberlein is Professor of Strategic Management/Public Policy at the Schulich School of  Business, York University. He holds a MA and a PhD from the University of Konstanz (Germany) and a MSc from the London School of Economics. Eberleins current research focuses on regulatory organizations and arrangements that have emerged on the global level to address cross-border challenges such as climate change or social and environmental standards of production in global value chains. He examines the roles and the interaction […]

Juliette Dupont is PhD candidate in political science at Université de Montréal since September 2016. She holds a master’s degree in International and European affairs from Sciences Po Lille and worked for a year in French parliament (Senate). Her thesis, supervised by Frédéric Mérand and Sabine Saurugger (Sciences Po Grenoble), is provisionally entitled “The politics of (un)desirability: contrasted uses of Schengen visa policy”. It compares the differences in the implementation of Schengen visa policy by European actors in China and […]

Carolyn M. Dudek, PhD is Professor and Chair of the Department of Political Science and Director of European Studies. She specializes in comparative politics with regional focuses in Europe and Latin America. She is the author of EU Accession and Spanish Regional Development: winners and losers, P.I.E., Peter Lang Press, which explores regional economic development and the domestic impact of European Union policies, including agricultural, fishing and cohesion policies. In addition, she has published articles and chapters on: EU migration […]

Ben Crum is Professor of Political Science at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. He is also the director of the VU School of Governance and a work package leader in the Horizon2020 RECONNECT project (‘Reconciling Europe with its Citizens through Democracy and Rule of Law’). Crum studied political science at the University of Amsterdam and the London School of Economics, and holds a PhD from the European University Institute Florence. Before joining the Vrije Universiteit in 2004, he worked at the […]

Mattias Derlén is a Professor of Law at Umeå University in Sweden. During the Fall 2016 semester, he was a Visiting Professor of Law at the Moritz College of Law (Ohio State University), through a collaboration with the Swedish Foundation for International Cooperation in Research and Higher Education.   Research Interests: European Law; Constitutional Law; Language Policy; European Court of Justice; Swedish politics

David Cleeton joined Illinois State University having served as Associate Provost and Economics Department Chair at Oberlin College; Dean of Social Sciences and Business at Christopher Newport University; and in a visiting faculty position at Ohio State University. His research appears in the American Economic Review, Public Finance Quarterly, Quarterly Review of Economics and Business, Health Care Financing Review, and the Southern Economic Journal. He is co-author (with Nobel Laureate Robert C. Merton and Zvi Bodie) of the textbook Financial […]

Marc Cheng has been the Executive Director of the European Union Centre in Taiwan (EUTW) since 2010. Before he joined the Centre he was the deputy director of Research at the foundation on Asia-Pacific Peace Studies (APS), a prominent think tank based in Taipei.  In 2010, Marc Cheng was selected as Taiwan participant in the New Generation Seminar (NGS), hosted by East-West Center in Honolulu, Hawaii. In 2006, he stayed at the Henry Stimson Center in Washington DC as a […]

Julian Campisi recently completed his PhD in Political Science at York University (2018). He is a postdoctoral researcher at Glendon College and Lecturer at the University of Toronto. His research interests are predominantly in the field of political risk analysis in emerging and developed economies, and the methodologies that underpin risk assessments in the private and public realms. He focuses on how this intersects in the applied sense with institutions, democratic and economic development. He also studies the determinants of […]

Laurie Buonanno currently works at the Department of Political Science, State University of New York College at Buffalo. Laurie does research in Comparative Public Policy, Comparative Public Administration, the European Union, Migration Policy, and local (applied) public administration. Her most recent publication is “Zahariadis, N. and L. Buonanno (eds) (2018) The Routledge Handbook of European Public Policy”.   Research Interests: Political science; Comparative politics; Public policy and public administration; Transatlantic governance; Migration Policy; Local public administration; Identity and ethnic studies

Jeremy Bierbach is originally from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. After graduating from Georgetown University in Washington, DC in 1996 with a bachelor’s degree in linguistics, Jeremy worked as an IT specialist for several years. In 2001, Jeremy emigrated to the Netherlands, and in 2003, he changed his career direction and began studying law at the University of Amsterdam, where he earned a bachelor’s degree in Dutch law in 2006 and a master’s degree in constitutional and administrative law in 2007. Jeremy subsequently […]

Francisco Beltran is a Lecturer in Comparative Politics at the Department of Political Science, University of Toronto. Previously. He has been a Visiting Researcher at the Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung (WZB), a Visiting Professor at the Munk School for Global Affairs and Public Policy, a Research Fellow at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, and a Lecturer at the Department of Political Science, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Barcelona, and the Department of Government, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid. Francisco Beltran obtained his PhD in Political Science at the UAM, […]

Dr. Tuna Baskoy is Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Politics and Public Administration, and a member of the Yeates School of Graduate Studies, at Ryerson University. In addition to a PhD in Political Science from York University (completed in May 2006), Tuna holds Master of Arts Degree in Political Science and Public Administration from Bilkent University, and a Bachelor of Science Degree in Sociology from Middle East Technical University, both of which are located in Ankara, Turkey. […]

Rufat Babayev is a Lecturer in European Law at the University of Leicester and joined the School of Law in January 2013. Prior to the appointment at Leicester, he worked as a lecturer and tutor at Durham University and as an associate lecturer at the University of Central Lancashire where he taught EU Constitutional Law and EU Internal Market Law. Rufat Babayev completed his Ph.D. at Durham University, where he was awarded with a Doctoral Fellowship. His doctorate examined the role […]

Attila Antal (1985) is holding a PhD in political science. He is a senior lecturer at Eötvös Loránd University, Faculty of Law, Institute of Political Science and a coordinator at the Social Theory Research Group at Institute of Political History. He is doing his contemporary research in political theory of populism, social and critical theory, theory of democracy, green political thought, constitutionalism, political history. Research Interests:Populism and Democracy; Social and Critical Theory; Theories of Democracy; Biopolitics; Political Thought; Constitutionalism; Political History; […]