Vivien Ann Schmidt

Professor of Political Science

Office: IR 201
Phone: 617.358.0192
E-mail: vschmidt@bu.edu
Education: BA, Bryn Mawr College; MA, PhD, University of Chicago
Areas of Specialization: European Political Economy, European Integration, European Politics, France

Jean Monnet Professor of European Integration, Founding Director of the Center for the Study of Europe, Director of the Center for International Relations; Professor of International Relations and Political Science. (BA, Bryn Mawr College; MA, PhD, University of Chicago)

Vivien A. Schmidt’s research and teaching focus broadly on the areas of comparative political economy, institutions, and democracy, with a regional specialization on the European Union and its member-states, and an interest in theories of institutional change. Recent books include Debating Political Identity and Legitimacy in the European Union (co-ed., Routledge, 2011), Democracy in Europe (Oxford 2006), and The Futures of European Capitalism (Oxford 2002). She has held Visiting Scholar awards at the Free University Berlin, the French National Research Council, and the Rockefeller Center at Bellagio as well as Fulbright Fellowships at Oxford University and the University of Paris, and a Volkswagen grant at the Max Planck Institute, Cologne.

Professor Schmidt received an honorary doctorate from the Free University of Brussels (ULB) in 2008, was awarded the Franqui Interuniversity Chair of Belgium in 2007, and was named a Jean Monnet Chair by the European Union Commission in 2001. She is also past head of the European Union Studies Association-USA.    Before coming to BU she was Professor at the University of Massachusetts Boston, and has been a visiting professor at Sciences Po—Paris, Copenhagen Business School, Roskilde University, IMT Institute for Advanced Studies Lucca, the Institute for Advanced Studies in Vienna, the European University Institute in Florence. She is also a faculty affiliate at Harvard University, Center for European Studies, where she chairs the EU Studies group.

Professor Schmidt’s personal website can be found at: people.bu.edu/vschmidt.

Professor Schmidt regularly teaches the following courses:
European Integration (IR 550)
Social Europe: Identity, Citizenship, and the Welfare State (IR 551)
Globalization and Contemporary Capitalism in Advanced Industrialized Nations (IR 596)
The Political Economy of the European Union (IR 760)
Topics in European Politics and Culture (IR 452)