Vivien Ann Schmidt
Vivien Ann Schmidt
Department of International Relations
Boston, Massachusetts 02215
154 Bay State Rd.
Room 201
(617) 358-0192
(617) 358-0190 fax
vschmidt@bu.edu
people.bu.edu/vschmidt
Director, Center for International Relations; Jean Monnet Professor of European Integration; Professor of International Relations. (BA, Bryn Mawr College; MA, PhD, University of Chicago)
Specialization: European Political Economy, European Integration, European Politics, France.
Vivien A. Schmidt is Jean Monnet Chair of European Integration and Professor of International Relations at Boston University. She received her BA from Bryn Mawr College and her MA and PhD from the University of Chicago. She is also Visiting Professor at Sciences Po, Paris, has been Professor at the University of Massachusetts, and visiting professor at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Vienna, the European University Institute in Florence, the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies in Cologne, the Universities of Paris and Lille, and visiting scholar at Nuffield College, Oxford University and at Harvard University, where she is currently a faculty affiliate in the Center for European Studies.
Schmidt has published widely in the areas of European political economy, institutions, and democracy, and political theory. Recent books include: Democracy in Europe: The EU and National Polities (Oxford 2006), The Futures of European Capitalism (Oxford 2002), Welfare and Work in the Open Economy (2 vols, with F. W. Scharpf, Oxford 2000), and From State to Market? The Transformation of French Business and Government (Cambridge 1996). She has also published over one hundred articles and chapters in books, the latest of which have appeared in World Politics, Journal of Common Market Studies, Annual Review of Political Science, and European Political Science Review.
Recent awards and distinctions include an honorary doctorate from the Free University of Brussels (ULB) (December 2008); the Franqui Interuniversity Chair for Foreign Scholars, held at the Free University of Brussels and Louvain (January to June 2007); a French Council for Scientific Research award as a Visiting Researcher at the Center for the Study of Politics (CEVIPOF) of Sciences Po (July-Dec. 2007); a Rockefeller Foundation Residency grant at the Bellagio Center (July-Aug. 2003); and a Fulbright EU Research Award held at Oxford University (2001). She is also past head of the European Union Studies Association-USA.
Professor Schmidt’s personal website can be found at: people.bu.edu/vschmidt.
Professor Schmidt teaches the following courses:
Topics in European Politics and Culture (IR 452)
Social Europe: Identity, Citizenship, and the Welfare State (IR 551)
Globalization and Contemporary Capitalism in Advanced Industrialized Nations (IR 596)