Michele U. Fratianni, W. George Pinnell Professor and Chair of Business Economics and Public Policy, PhD Ohio State University, 1971. International macroeconomic policy cooperation, European monetary system, economics of international organizations. E-mail username: fratiann.

Roy Gardner, Chancellor's Professor of Economics and Remak Professor of West European Studies, PhD, Cornell University, 1975. Economics of European integration, economics of post-communist transition. E-mail username: gardner.

Kim Huynh, Assistant Professor, PhD, Queen's University, 2004. Western European household portfolio choice, social security, and the role of housing investment. E-mail username: kphuynh.

George von Furstenberg, Professor, PhD, Princeton University, 1967. Insurance aspects of monetary union, the contribution of financial development to the industry structure of economic growth, evaluation methods and practices for social services. E-mail username: vonfurst.

Luise P. McCarty, Associate Professor, PhD, Florida State University, 1990. Metaphysical and epistemological issues in the philosophy of Wittgenstein and contemporary continental philosophy (Gadamer, Heidegger, Arendt) with application to multiculturalism, feminism and aesthetics. E-mail username: lmccarty.

Fritz Breithaupt, Associate Professor, PhD, Johns Hopkins University, 1996. E-mail username: fbreitha.

Toivo Raun, Professor, PhD, Princeton University, 1969. History of the Baltic peoples and states, agrarian reform and agrarian political parties in interwar Estonia, literacy and its impact in Estonia. E-mail username: raunt.

Christine Ogan, Professor, School of Informatics, School of Journalism, PhD, University of North Carolina, 1976. Intersection of communication technologies and international communication. E-mail username: ogan.

Hannah L. Buxbaum, Professor, School of Law, JD, Cornell Law School, 1992; LLM, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität, Heidelberg, Germany 1993. German/US comparative law, private international law. E-mail username: hbuxbaum.

Jack Bielasiak, Professor, PhD, Cornell University, 1975. East European and post-Soviet politics, public opinion on European integration in the candidate countries of Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union. E-mail username: bielasia.

Aurelian Craiutu, Assistant Professor, PhD, Princeton University, 1999. European political thought, democratic theory and consolidation, transitions to democracy, civic culture, political learning, conceptions of patriotism and nationalism. E-mail username: acraiutu.

Michael D. McGinnis, Professor, PhD, University of Minnesota, 1985. International conflict, civil war, institutional analysis, governance, and democracy. E-mail username: mcginnis.

Elinor Ostrom, Arthur F. Bentley Professor, Political Science; Co-Director of the Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis; Co-Director, Center for the Study of Institutions, Population, and Environmental Change, PhD, University of California, Los Angeles, 1965. Gender issues in post-communist societies, how institutional rules affect the structure of action situations within which individuals face incentives, make choices, and jointly affect each other. E-mail username: ostrom.

Brian Rathbun , Assistant Professor, Political Science, PhD, University of California, Berkeley, 2002. Foreign policy; European integration and the European Union; European political parties; international relations theory; human rights; interwar year relations among Britain, France and Germany. E-mail username: rathbunb.

Nina Srinivasan Rathbun, Research Associate and Lecturer, PhD, University of California, Berkeley, 2003.  Transitions to democracy, Eastern European post-communist politics, development of autonomous government institutions, independent media, nonproliferation.  E-mail username: nrathbun.

Robert Rohrschneider, Professor, PhD, Florida State University, 1989. European Union, comparative politics of industrialized democracies, the link between institutions and attitudes and behavior, political culture, democratization, global environmental movements, elections and political parties, political elites, German politics, research methodology. E-mail username: rrohrsch.

William Scheuerman, Professor, Political Science and Affiliated Professor Law , PhD, Harvard University, 1993. Modern political thought, legal theory, democratic theory, 20th century continental political and social thought, and globalization. E-mail username: wscheuer.

Abdulkader Sinno, Assistant Professor, Ph.D. University of California Los Angeles, 2002. Strategy and organization in politicized group conflicts, parliamentary settings, and transnational relations. E-mail username: asinno.

Beate Sissenich, Assistant Professor, PhD, Cornell University, 2003. EU state-building in Central and Eastern Europe, mechanisms of rule transfer, transnational networks and the state, regional integration and state formation, the transfer of EU social policy to Poland and Hungary. E-mail username: bsisseni.

David Audretsch, Professor, PhD, University of Wisconsin, 1980. Globalization and development in Eastern Europe, links between entrepreneurship, government policy, innovation, economic development and global competitiveness. E-mail username: daudrets.

Matthew Auer, Associate Professor, PhD, Yale University, 1996. Environmental politics in the Baltic states and East Europe, comparative energy policy, foreign aid and sustainable development, forestry policy. E-mail username: mauer.

Lois Wise, Professor, PhD, Indiana University, 1982. Impact of public management reform on the bureaucracy, impact of globalization and EU agreements on internal labor market systems of civil service systems, cross-national study of evaluation of public management reform, employment policies and practices including innovations, pay reforms, the effects of diversity on organizational performance, methodological studies of the quality of research link diversity and work organizations. E-mail username: wisel.

Frank Emmert, Professor, PhD, University of Maastricht, 1998. European Union law; institutional law and general principles of the EU; economic freedoms in the internal market of the EU; legal remedies in EU law; EU monetary union; EU external trade law; European Union and the challenge of enlargement; moot court in European Union law; decision-making in the EU. Email: femmert

John McCormick, Professor, PhD, Indiana University, 1990. Politics of the European Union; political simulations: model European Union. Email: jmccormi

Indiana University South Bend

Neovi Karakatsanis, Professor, PhD, The Ohio State University, 1996. European politics, comparative politics, international relations, international political economy. Email: nkarakat

David Ransel , Co-Director, European Union Center of Excellence, Robert F. Byrnes Professor, Department of History, and Director, Russian and East European Institute; PhD, Yale University, 1969. History of politics and society in Russia. E-mail username: ransel.

Patricia McManus, Interim Co-Director, European Union Center of Excellence, Associate Professor of Sociology; PhD, Duke University, 1996. Comparative sociology; social stratification and inequality over the life course, the political sociology of the welfare state, immigration. E-mail username: pmcmanus.

 

David Ransel	Patricia McManus	Per Nordahl
Co-Directors, EU Center of Excellence		Assistant Director

                Per Nordahl, Assistant Director, European Union Center of Excellence; PhD,      

                Umeå University, 1994. His dissertation addressed immigration and social

                networking among Swedes in the United States. After receiving a teacher's

                diploma in 1996, Nordahl headed several research projects on international

                migration and the formation of ethnic identities. Between 2002-2006 served as

                Director of the Swedish Emigrant Institute, where he initiated and managed

                a number of EU projects. Nordahl recently concluded an external evaluation of

                the project "Vocational Training for Non-European Immigrants," an EU-funded

                initiative with partners from six different EU countries. Email username:

                pnordahl.

                Amy Luck, Graduate Assistant; MA/MS candidate in Russian and East

                European Studies and International and Comparative Education. Post-

                communist education, international NGOs, Romanian child welfare.

                E-mail username: aluck.