Visiting Researchers

2023-2024

Paolo Graziano (April 2024)

Paolo Graziano is Professor of Political Science and Public Policy at the University of Padua, Research Associate at the European Social Observatory, Brussels, and Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Surrey. He teaches Political Science, Political Communication and Public Management and Multilevel Governance. He has published five authored volumes and several edited volumes and journal special issues. His work on Europeanization, comparative welfare state policies, populism and political consumerism. He is planning to spend a month at Boston University working on a collaborative project with Sofia Perez, Associate Professor of Political Science.

Lucas Hellemeier (January 2024—April 2024)

Lucas Hellemeier is a PhD candidate in Political Science at the Free University of Berlin. During his four-month stay, funded by the Koch Foundation, Lucas will be pursuing dissertation research on the political economy of security and defense and in particular, the defense industrial decision making of European countries under conditions of US dominance in the defense industrial marketplace, in collaboration with Prof. Kaija Schilde.

Camilla Scarpellino (January 2024—June 2024)

Camilla Scarpellino is a PhD student in Law & Business at Luiss Guido Carli University in Rome, Italy. Ms. Scarpellino completed a law degree at “La Sapienza” University of Rome in 2018. Her research project concerns the civil liability of artificial intelligence systems and the search for regulatory solutions for the production, trade, and use of new technologies. Her project is supervised by Prof. Daniela Caruso.

Sara Tina (January 2024—June 2024)

Sara Tina is a PhD student in Civil Law at the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Milan, Italy. Ms. Tina has completed a MA degree in law with a thesis project in comparative private law looking at medical contractual and tortious liability during emergencies comparing legal systems in France, Italy, the UK, and the US. The research she will pursue at Boston University, in collaboration with Prof. Daniela Caruso, looks at legal aspects of the sharing economy.

2022-2023

Bojan Bugaric (September 2022—August 2022)

Bojan Bugaric is Professor of Law at the University of Sheffield. His research project – The Life and Death of Constitutional Democracies – examines the emergence and consolidation of authoritarian populism, as well as the development of various modes of resistance that counter autocratic impulses. In addition to correcting an important theoretical claim about the central role of legal institutions in defending liberal democracy, Prof. Bugaric’s project also has implications for how we think about the relationship between democracy, the rule of law and constitutionalism. The research project will also offer an empirical and practical analysis of different legal instruments, techniques and strategies, proving to successfully fend off populist attack on constitutional democracy.

Dorothy Estrada-Tanck (September 2022—August 2022)

Dorothy Estrada-Tanck is Assistant Professor of International Law and International Relations at the University of Murcia (Spain). She is currently pursuing a research project “Refugees Revitalizing Emptied Spain” in collaboration with Prof. Susan Akram, Director of the International Human Rights Clinic (IHRC) at the Boston University School of Law. The project intends to match depopulated villages in Spain with refugees who wish to live there, on the basis of international and EU law, and provide for their successful integration as well as for the development of abandoned areas in Spain.

Jacob Hickey (September 2022—November 2022)

Jacob Hickey is a PhD student in International Relations at Northumbria University. He received a MA with distinction in International Relations, Conflict, and Security from Northumbria University in 2021. His research interests include the role of ideas role of ideas and discourse in political analysis (discursive institutionalism), theories of European integration, and the EU’s foreign policy and international relationships. At Boston University, he will be working with Prof. Vivien Schmidt on a project entitled ‘‘De-Europeanisation through external norm contestation: China’s use of trade, investment, discourse, and coercion in the pursuit of an acquiescent Europe.”

Isabella Trombetta (January 2022—January 2023)

Isabella Trombetta holds a PhD from the Universita’ per Stranieri Dante Alighieri in Reggio Calabria, Italy, where she is from. Her doctoral research investigated the Mediterranean route to Europe from Libya. In her earlier studies at LUISS University, Rome, she explored the condition of second generations Italians in North America in relation to their heritage and their recognition as Italians. Her MA studies developed on her previous work investigating the peculiarity of international cultural heritage in migrant communities. After she graduated, she worked for a year in the S.P.R.A.R. (Service for protection of asylum seekers and refugees) of Sant’Alessio in Aspromonte, a project for migrant integration in Italy as well as with the search and rescue NGO SOS MEDITERRANEE, first as field communications officer on board the rescue ship Aquarius, and later as communications officer for the Italian branch of the network.

2021-2022

Ioannis Kalpouzos (September 2021—August 2022)

Dr. Ioannis Kalpouzos is a Visiting Professor at Harvard Law School and co-founder of the Global Legal Action Network (GLAN). He has taught at King’s College and City, University of London, at the University of Notre Dame and Boston University School of Law. He specializes in public international law, international criminal law, the law of war and human rights law. He has worked on the themes of war & occupation, environmental justice, supply chains & accountability, as well as migration & border violence. Presently he is working on evidence in the law of targeting and on the history of the legal concept of war involving non-state armed groups.

Isabella Trombetta (January 2022—January 2023)

Ezgi Yildiz (January 2022—January 2023)

Ezgi Yildiz holds a PhD in International Relations with a Minor in International Law (summa cum laude avec félicitations du jury) from the Graduate Institute, Geneva. She conducts interdisciplinary research on international relations and international law and specialize in international courts, human rights, and ocean governance. Her research has been funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation’s Doc CH, Early Postdoc Mobility, and Spark grants. Previously she was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at Harvard Kennedy School and a Visiting Fellow at the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies at Harvard University. she has also spent time as a Fellow at the Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen (IWM, Institute for Human Sciences) in Vienna.

2020-2021

Andrew Aguilar (October 2020–August 2021)

Andrew Aguilar is a PhD student at the Center for International Studies (CERI), Sciences Po Paris. Mr. Aguilar’s research is on the rise of the Security-Integration axis regarding Muslim migrants in France and Britain. He sees the response to recent terrorist attacks across Europe as symptomatic of a larger, more pressing issue in French and British policymaking. In sum why security consistently brings up the ‘failure of integration,’ caused by immigrant’ populations practicing, identifying, or perceived as Muslim. Looking at the historical developments with regard to State – Religion relations in France and Britain, he asks why national states identify ‘integration’ a key factor of domestic security while at the same time claiming that they need to secure important socioeconomic integration processes – the school, neighborhood, and workplace – from the threats posed by their own Muslim immigrant citizens.

Christina Bain (January 2020–January 2021)

Christina Bain is the former and founding Director of Babson College’s Initiative on Human Trafficking and Modern Slavery. She is also the former and founding Director of the Harvard Kennedy School’s Program on Human Trafficking and Modern Slavery within the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy. Christina’s work and research on human trafficking currently concentrates on the role of business, entrepreneurship, and innovation; converging areas of illicit trade; technology as a facilitator and combatant of human trafficking; and organ trafficking. Through her work with organizations like the World Economic Forum, Global Initiative against Transnational Organized Crime (and initiatives and collaborations such as RESPECT , Tech Against Trafficking, and the Modern Slavery Map), UN, OECD, OSCE, and individual governments, she has worked more specifically on trafficking within the European context, as well as globally. Christina has served in a variety of roles with the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council Network; is a member of the Global Initiative Network of Experts with the Global Initiative against Transnational Organized Crime; and is a member of the OECD Task Force on Countering Illicit Trade.

Elizaveta Kuznetsova (September 2019–August 2020)

Elizaveta Kuznetsova is a research fellow at the Centre for International Policy Analysis at City, University of London. Before completing her PhD in International Relations, she worked as a broadcast journalist in Russia and the United Kingdom. She holds degrees in journalism from Moscow State University and City, University of London. Working at the intersection of International Relations and Media Studies, Elizaveta specializes on public diplomacy, Russian foreign policy and its international 24-hour broadcaster RT (formerly, Russia Today). Through comparative analyses of RT and CNN, she has developed a theory of counter-framing. In the academic year 2019-20, Elizaveta will carry out her project ‘Russian Public Diplomacy Today: RT and kontrpropaganda’ that will explore the Soviet roots in Russia’s contemporary propaganda abroad.

John Logan (March 2020–March 2021)

John Logan is professor and director of Labor and Employment Studies at San Francisco State University and a visiting fellow at the UC Berkeley Labor Center (where he previously worked as Research Director). Between 1999-2008, he was an assistant and associated professor of Comparative Employment Relations in the School of Management at the London School of Economics, and a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute for Labor and Employment at UCLA.

Nicholas R. Micinski (September 2020-May 2021)

Nicholas R. Micinski is ISA’s 2019-2020 James N. Rosenau Postdoctoral Fellow. Nick’s research focuses on international cooperation on migration and how states use refugee policies—such as refugee resettlement, expulsion, and aid—as a foreign policy tool. This year Nick will be affiliated as a visiting researcher at the Center for the Study of Europe, Boston University, and Royal Holloway, University of London. Nick received his M.A., M.Phil., and Ph.D. from the Graduate Center at the City University of New York, and his B.A. from Michigan State University.

Elena Shabliy (January 2020–January 2021)

Elena V. Shabliy graduated with honors from Lomonosov Moscow State University and received a Master of Liberal Arts degree and an Interdisciplinary Ph.D. from Tulane University. She was a Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard University in 2018, Visiting Scholar at Harvard University in 2015-2017, 2019-2020, and Visiting Scholar at Columbia University in 2017-2019. She is the editor of Representations of the Blessed Virgin Mary in World Literature and Art (Lexington, 2017), co-editor of Emancipation Women’s Writing at the Fin de Siècle (Routledge, 2018), co-editor of Renewable Energy: International Perspectives on Sustainability (Palgrave, 2019), and co-editor of Global Perspectives on Women’s Leadership and Gender (In)Equality (Palgrave, 2020).

Dimitrios Skiadas (March 2021–August 2021)

Dimitrios Skiadas is a Professor of European and International Studies and Jean Monnet Chair at the University of Macedonia in Greece. Prof. Skiadis is an innovative scholar focused on questions of importance to contemporary European politics and democracy. He is the author of eleven books and many articles and chapters in books focused on questions of democracy, EU governance as it relates to fiscal matters, and the problems of migration, with a forthcoming book entitled EU Migration Governance: Budgeting and Spending in Times of Crisis as Seen by the European Court of Auditors. The focus of his research is on the institutional, legal and political consequences of the EU legal order, as exemplified in the EU Budget and the relevant schemes. His analysis will center on the concept developed by Vivien Schmidt of ‘throughput legitimacy’ (procedural legitimacy), although it will also examine questions of political (‘input’) and performance(‘output’) legitimacy.

Alexia Tizzano (October 2019–October 2020)

Alexia Tizzano is a member of the External Services legal relations team at the European Commission in Belgium. Currently she is providing key legal advice on files on EU sanctions, including fundamental rights, on defense and on counter terrorism. She has pleaded before the Court of Justice of the European Union, representing the European Commission, in a terrorism case involving an Egyptian movement listed as a terrorist organization. She has also drafted written submissions in sanctions cases, concerning Syria and Russia’s actions destabilizing the situation in Ukraine. At Boston University she will focus on a research project concerning migration in Europe with a special focus on women and girls beginning with a study of the legal framework for protecting women and girl migrants followed by an analysis of the implementation of that legal framework accompanied by case studies.

Anna Winestein (November 2019–October 2020)

Anna Winestein studied modern history at the University of Oxford. She is a historian of Russian art and theater, an independent curator, and a cultural entrepreneur, active in cultural development and diplomacy between the US and Russia, as well as other former Soviet states. She is currently executive director of the Ballets Russes Cultural Partnership and Associate at Harvard University’s Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies. Previously, she has served as creative director for the Hermitage Museum Foundation in New York. She is co-editor and co-author of The Ballets Russes and the Art of Design and translator of Alexander Tcherepnin: Saga of an Emigre Composer. In 2011, she was a cultural envoy to Kazakhstan for the US State Department.

2019-2020

Andrew Aguilar (October 2019–September 2020)

Christina Bain (January 2020–January 2021)

Roman Balaz (November 2019–June 2020)

Roman Balaz is a researcher at the Institute for Public Policy and Social Work at Masaryk University in the Czech Republic. His long-term research topics are structural conditions for high-quality and effective social work performance, migrant integration in multi-level settings and social work assessment. During his stay at the BU, in collaboration with Prof. Vivien Schmidt, he will carry on research on a Fulbright project titled “Who Governs? Divergences in Approaches to Migrant Integration and Consensus-Seeking”. In the cases of Boston, Cambridge and Somerville, he will strive for understanding the ideational conflict among local governments, decentralized agencies, influential local movements and central government during approaching the problems connected with immigration into the sanctuary city. In addition to that, he will endeavor to discover how these organizations reflect the process of consensus-seeking on how to approach the problems connected with immigration and migrant integration.

Barbara Boschetti (July 2019–September 2019)

Barbara Boschetti is a member of the Faculty of Political and Social Sciences and Associate Professor of Administrative Law at the Catholic University of Milan (Italy). During her third stay with us, Prof. Boschetti will carry on research on a project titled “Migration and human rights in the EU: new resilient regulatory strategies” in collaboration with Prof. Daniela Caruso and Prof. Cathie Jo Martin. Boschetti’s research on the constitutional/legal resilience challenges brought about by massive migration will benefit through conversations with Prof. Daniela Caruso given her expertise in EU law and her studies on the principle of fairness, disadvantaged parties and connected distributive trade-off, and, Prof. Cathie Jo Martin, whose work on inequalities and the shifting role of institutional and market players is key to understanding how the law may respond to threats and changes associated with massive migration in the EU.

Liliana Cornetta (January 2020–June 2020)

Liliana Cornetta has degrees in Italian and French Law from Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne and Università degli Studi di Firenze, Florence, Italy. She has worked at UNESCO and at the Court of Human Rights in the Hague. Her focus is on European Union (EU) Law and International Public Law respecting outer space legislation, with a particular focus on data protection and privacy. While at the Center of the Study of Europe, Liliana plans to continue her research on the use of outer space for commercial purposes, EU cybersecurity, and rules on data protection and privacy in Europe and the United States.

Patrycja Dabrowska-Klosinska (January 2020-February 2020)

Patrycja Dabrowska-Klosinska is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Research Fellow pursuing a research project THEMIS, entitled “Protecting Human Rights and Public Health in Global Pandemics”, at the Health & Human Rights Unit, School of Law, Queen’s University Belfast, Northern Ireland. The project’s key objective is to map comparatively judicial standards of review applied by EU and US courts when deciding on individual rights and public health protection measures (for example, quarantines, treatment); and further examine how these standards could improve the human rights protection in the WHO’s International Health Regulations. During her stay at BU CSE, Patrycja will benefit through conversations with Prof. Daniela Caruso, given her expertise in comparative law, jurisprudence and intersections between law and medicine; and with colleagues expressing interest in global health safety. Formerly, Patrycja was a member of the EU law team at the Center for Europe, University of Warsaw (2007-19), where she researched and taught EU law and governance after completing her PhD at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy.

Isaac Garcia-Guerrero (September 2019–August 2020)

Isaac Garcia-Guerrero graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison with a Ph.D. in modern Spanish cultural studies. He researches the formation of modern Spanish national identity along with the vexed relationships that Iberian peoples have with their Muslim and Sephardic heritages. As his current scholarly project shows, to fully understand those problematic relationships, it is necessary to consider the situation of the Iberian Peninsula both as existing between Europe and North Africa and as viewed through the European colonial episteme of the Enlightenment project. This way, by breaking with the view of so-called Spanish exceptionality, and taking viewing the Peninsula in a broader context, we can understand the formation of multiple modern Iberian identities. Works related to his project have appeared in venues such as Revista de Estudios Hispánicos and Hispanic Review. While at Boston University, he will be working on an associated book manuscript, The Invention of Andalusia: Degeneration, Race, and Social Inclusiveness in Modern Spain (1808-1931).

Elizaveta Kuznetsova (September 2019–August 2020)

John Logan (March 2020–March 2021)

Nicholas Micinski (June 2019–May 2020)

Vladimir Petrovic (September 2019–August 2020)

Vladimir Petrovic researches mass political violence and strategies of dealing with its legacy. He graduated from Contemporary history (Faculty of Belgrade: BA and MPhil) and Comparative history of Central and Southeastern Europe (Central European University: MA and PhD), completing his postgraduate studies at the NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Amsterdam.

His latest book The Emergence of Historical Forensic Expertise: Clio takes the Stand (Routledge, 2017) examines the role of historians and social scientists as expert witnesses in some of the most dramatic legal encounters of the 20th century. Petrovic was himself working in this intersection between history and law, both in the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia and in the Serbian War Crimes Prosecutor’s Office. He published extensively on ethnic cleansing in the Balkans and attempts to undo its legacy, as well as on the history of nonalignment during the Cold War. He is a Senior Researcher at the Institute for Contemporary History in Belgrade, as well as Visiting Professor at History and Legal Department of Central European University. At Boston University, he teaches in the Core.

Magnus Rasmussen (October 2019–November 2019)

Magnus Bergli Rasmussen is Associate Research Professor at the Institute for Social Research (Norway) and Assistant Professor at the University of Oslo. His research concerns the role played by international and domestic organizations in shaping the development of labor market regulation. He takes a long-term historical perspective and uses extensive original data-collection. At Boston University he will be studying the historical role played by revolutionary fright among elites as an explanatory factor in the expansion of labor market regulation following the Bolshevik revolution. He will also be investigating how the communist party model formulated by Lenin as an entry requirement at the second Comintern meeting shaped party institutionalization.

Emma Rosenberg (October 2019–September 2020)

Emma Rosenberg is a fourth year PhD candidate in the Department of Political Science at Notre Dame. Her research focuses on religion and politics, more specifically, the interaction between religious minorities and the state, with a regional focus on Central Europe. Her dissertation project explores the use of religious rhetoric by right-wing populist parties and employs a mixed methods approach relying heavily on critical junctures, comparative historical analysis, and a survey experiment. She received her B.A. in Medieval Studies and History from the University of Chicago and a Masters in Law and Diplomacy from the Fletcher School at Tufts University. Prior to returning for her Masters, Emma worked for the City of Chicago as Director of Communications for a City Councilman and on campaigns in the Chicagoland area.

Lina Seitzl (September 2019–December 2019)

Lina Seitzl is a Research Assistant and PhD candidate in the School of Economics and Political Science at the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland. Seitzl’s research covers globalization, technological change, and de-industrialization impacts on the institutions that constitute coordinated capitalism. She argues that less coordination, deregulation and the declining coverage of worker groups characterize coordinated capitalism today. She is interested in how training occupations within collective skill formation systems react to changing skill requirements that develop in response to technological change and globalization.

Elena Shabliy (January 2020–January 2021)

Elena V. Shabliygraduated with honors from Lomonosov Moscow State University and received a Master of Liberal Arts degree and an Interdisciplinary Ph.D. from Tulane University. She was a Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard University in 2018, Visiting Scholar at Harvard University in 2015-2017, 2019-2020, and Visiting Scholar at Columbia University in 2017-2019. She is the editor of Representations of the Blessed Virgin Mary in World Literature and Art (Lexington, 2017), co-editor of Emancipation Women’s Writing at the Fin de Siècle (Routledge, 2018), co-editor of Renewable Energy: International Perspectives on Sustainability (Palgrave, 2019), and co-editor of Global Perspectives on Women’s Leadership and Gender (In)Equality (Palgrave, 2020).

Alexia Tizzano (October 2019–October 2020)

Anna Winestein (November 2019–October 2020)

2018-2019

Andrew Aguilar (August 2018–June 2019)

Ivana Isailovic (September 2018–June 2019)

Ivana Isailovic is a researcher at Northeastern University School of Law and a Lecturer in the Northeastern University Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Department. Her current research focusses on work-life balance measures in the EU and the US and their application to temporary workers in increasingly segmented labor markets. It builds on prior research on how EU work-life balance measures interact with the evolutions of economic structures and paradigms in the EU. The project sits at the intersection of law, gender studies, and political economy and hence fits within the interdisciplinary and comparative work of the Center for the Study of Europe.

Niilo Kauppi (January 2019–June 2019)

Niilo Kauppi is research director at the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS). He teaches at Sciences Po Strasbourg and the universities of Lausanne and Luxembourg. Kauppi is a former President of the Finnish Political Science Association and vice-chair of ECPR (European Consortium for Political Research), and president of the jury of its Mattei Dogan Prize in Political Sociology. With David Swartz (Boston University), he is convener of the ECPR Standing Group in Political Sociology. Kauppi is the author and editor of 11 books and over 70 articles in political sociology, European politics, social theory and intellectual history. His current research interests include higher education policies and knowledge governance. At Boston University, he will be investigating the dynamics of higher education governance in Europe.

Zuzana Novakova (September 2018–February 2019)

Zuzana Novakova is a PhD researcher at the International Institute of Social Studies (ISS) in the Hague, Erasmus University in Rotterdam. Her thesis title is Crises Management and Transitions in the European Neighborhood: How Far Beyond the Liberal Transition Paradigm? Her other affiliations include Visiting Researcher at Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence at the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, FutureLab Europe fellow at the European Policy Centre in Brussels, and Associate Expert at the East European Security Research Initiative. At Boston University she will pursue her research on the political economy of the European Union’s neighborhood policy, with a particular thematic focus on Eastern Europe and the crises in Ukraine. She is engaging with discursive institutionalism in approaching the discourses of EU institutional players as the key stepping stone of her theoretical framework. Her stay at Boston University is funded by a Fulbright award.

Anna Winestein (October 2018–October 2019)

Anna Winestein recently completed her doctoral dissertation in modern history at the University of Oxford. She is a historian of Russian art and theater, an independent curator, and a cultural entrepreneur, active in cultural development and diplomacy between the US and Russia, as well as other former Soviet states. She is currently executive director of the Ballets Russes Cultural Partnership and Associate at Harvard University’s Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies. Previously, she has served as creative director for the Hermitage Museum Foundation in New York. She is co-editor and co-author of The Ballets Russes and the Art of Design and translator of Alexander Tcherepnin: Saga of an Emigre Composer. In 2011, she was a cultural envoy to Kazakhstan for the US State Department. This coming year, Anna is working on an extensive project called Migration + Memory about Jewish artists and creatives in the Russian and Soviet Empires, which includes an exhibition, concerts, screening series and more.

2017-2018

Barbara Boschetti (July 2017–September 2017)

Barbara Boschetti is a member of the Faculty of Political and Social Sciences and Associate Professor of Administrative Law at the Catholic University of Milan (Italy). During her second stay with us, Prof. Boschetti will carry on research on a project titled “Competition and public goals in public contracts: who sets the bar and how do they strike a balance?” in collaboration with Prof. Daniela Caruso. Boschetti’s research involves analysis of decision making procedures with a particular focus on changes affecting affecting the structure of administrative proceedings in EU and EU member state sectoral legislations. It goes beyond traditional leading cases to include legislation related to free marketization of services and products, supervision of insurance companies, controls on migration and immigration, regulation of the production and distribution of pharmaceuticals, public contract laws, issues of food safety, and regulation of urban planning and development.

Ying-Hsueh Chen (April 2018)

CHEN Ying-Hsueh is a Ph.D. student in public law at Université Paris Nanterre (Center of Legal Theory and Analysis). Ms. Chen’s thesis is centered on equality and affirmative action policies of France, the USA and Taiwan. It focuses particularly on relative policies in political representation, higher education and employment. She is in receipt of funding from the ‘Institut des Amériques’, a French scientific institute for American studies. Prof. Daniela Caruso has agreed to supervise Ms. Chen’s research stay.

Niels Fuglsang (September 2017–December 2017)

Niels Fuglsang teaches the Department of Business and Politics at Copenhagen Business School. Before beginning his PhD studies, he worked in Danish politics. Fuglsang’s project is studying the increasingly important role of economic models in policy making processes: how are ideas put into mathematical equations and then used to promote institutional change? Do ideas become more powerful when black boxed in models, because they appear “objective/scientific”? And does this contribute to explaining the resilience of neoliberal ideas?

Gerry van der Kamp-Alons (August 2016–July 2018)

Gerry van der Kamp-Alons holds a PhD in International Relations from the Department of Political Science and Public Administration, Institute for Management Research, Radboud University, Netherlands, where she holds an assistant professorship. Dr. Alons’s research stay is funded by a Marie Curie Fellowship. Her project comparatively investigates divergence and convergence in agricultural policy ideas and policies in the EU and the US and their interaction with multilateral and transatlantic trade negotiations. Applying a Discursive Institutionalist theoretical approach, it aims to uncover whether and how ideas and discourse affect processes of policy transformation. It thus seeks to contribute to an ‘ideational turn’ in the field of Agricultural Policy Studies which is currently dominated by rationalist interest-based explanations. The outcomes of this research project will not only explain the dynamics of agricultural policy change and their effects on past trade negotiations, it will also provide policy makers with insights in the opportunities and limits to develop agricultural policies that are both domestically acceptable and conducive to ongoing transatlantic and international trade negotiations.

Ciro Milione (April 2018–July 2018)

Ciro Milione is Professor of Constitutional Law at the University of Cordoba in Spain. Prof. Milione will be completing research on a project entitled “Security vs. Fundamental Rights. A comparative study (US – EU) on the right to security and its constitutional limits in the face of current global threats” with guidance from Prof. Kaija Schilde. His project aims to study security as an essential legal concept for the establishment of the rule of law. The examination of the effect of global threats and national security challenges in American and European political contexts is at heart of project.

Manos Matsaganis (November 2017–January 2018)

Manos Matsaganis is Associate Professor of Public Finance at Politecnico di Milano. Prof. Matsaganis trained as an economist in Greece (AUEB, 1986) and in England (MSc York, 1988; PhD Bristol, 1992). He has held posts at the London School of Economics (1990-1993), the Greek Prime Minister’s Office (1997-2001), the University of Crete (1996-1999 & 2001-2004), and the Athens University of Economics and Business (2004-2016), where he founded and directed the Policy Analysis Research Unit (www.paru.gr). Prof. Matsaganis’s research project focuses on a set of distinct yet interrelated themes, namely the distributional impact of the Eurozone crisis, the political economy of austerity in the European periphery, and the implications of national growth models for the future of the common currency and the prospects for economic recovery in Europe. More specifically, he hopes to extend his recent research on “The political economy of austerity: distributive outcomes and their implications in Southern Europe”, jointly conducted with Sofia Perez (Political Science, BU). His visit will hopefully serve to cross-fertilise that research with his current work on the political economy of the Greek crisis and the search for a less outdated, more sustainable growth model for the weakest link of the Eurozone.

Joan Miró Artigas (September 2017–November 2017)

Joan Miró is member of the Institute of Government and Public Policies (IGOP) of the Autonomous University of Barcelona and PhD student at the Department of Political Science of this university. He is researching a thesis about the political strategies developed by EU institutions and Southern European national governments in order to legitimise the management of the so-called European debt crisis (2010-2013) as well as to reform the framework of economic governance at both the EU and national levels. He is approaching the issue using a discursive policy analysis, an approach to the study of public policy which draws from the Essex School of Discourse Theory and which focuses on the interlocking between policy narratives and institutional change. He is developing a dialogue between this framework and discursive institutionalism in collaboration with Prof. Vivien Schmidt. Joan’s publications are available here.

Kate Nicholls (September 2017–November 2017)

Kate Nicholls (Notre Dame, 2007) is Senior Lecturer in political science in the School of Social Sciences and Public Policy, Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand. She has research interests in the fields of democracy, comparative political economy, and policy studies, with much of her research focusing on the role of interest groups in policy formulation and the state’s role in mediating societal interests. She has written about these subjects in Australia, New Zealand, the Republic of Ireland, and Southern Europe, and taught European politics at the National University of Singapore from 2008 to 2011. Her current research seeks to place New Zealand in the wider Varieties of Capitalism literature, looking both at the challenges of applying theoretical frameworks derived from larger industrial countries to a small settler capitalist and still largely agro-export state, as well how this analytical framework might help us better understand recent development outcomes (and disappointments) in New Zealand.

Vladimir Petrovic (September 2017–August 2019)

Vladimir Petrovic is currently a Senior Researcher at the Institute for Contemporary History in Belgrade and Visiting Professor in the History Department at Central European University. He received his Ph.D. summa cum laude in Comparative History of Central and Southeastern Europe at Central European University, Budapest. His Thesis title was “Historians as Expert Witnesses in the Age of Extremes.” He has completed Postdoctoral studies at NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Amsterdam. His current research is situated at the intersection of history and law. At Boston University, he will teach in the Core Curriculum.

Maria Daniela Poli (June 2017–July 2017)

Daniela Poli is a Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Law at the University of Konstanz, Germany. Dr. Poli’s research is in comparative public law and European law. While in Boston, she will pursue research on judicial dialogue in Europe in collaboration with Prof. Daniela Caruso. The increasing interdependence among national, supranational and international legal orders makes the role of jurisprudence in the European constitutional space ever more vital. Starting from the main criticism based on the number of judicial conflicts, Poli’s research aims through the analysis of the most important cases at developing a reflection on the judicial dialogue as model of European constitutionalism. The question is whether the current judicial pluralism can do without a hierarchical logic, substituting a dialogical logic based on a community of values.

Anna Winestein (October 2017–October 2018)

Zhao Yong (November 2017–October 2018)

Zhao Yong is a Professor in the School of Advanced Translation and Interpretation at the Dalian University of Foreign Languages in Liaoning Province, China. He completed his PhD with a dissertation on “European Integration and the Construction of EU Citizenship” at Nanjing University’s Center of European Studies in 2003. He will be conducting research for his project: “Construction and Communication of Chinas New Silk Road Discourse Structure: A Discursive Institutionalism Approach,” under the supervision of Prof. Kaija Schilde. His research is supported by the China Scholarship Council.

2016-2017

Cristina Ares (August 2016–October 2016)

Cristina Ares is a lecturer in European Studies and Comparative Politics at the University of Santiago de Compostela. She holds a Master in Political and Administrative Studies from the College of Europe (Bruges, 2004-2005, Montesquieu promotion), where she worked under the supervision of prof. Jorg Monar on a master thesis titled: The Role of the Regions in the New Constitutional Treaty. Her PhD on the role of the regions in the EU was published as a book in 2010: La participación de las regiones en el sistema político de la Unión Europea (Tirant lo Blanch, Valencia, 2010). Dr. Ares will be conducting research on the preferences of political actors on economic and social issues related to aging as they pertain to debate on democracy in Europe. Her objective is to explore ways of enhancing democracy both within the Member States and at the supranational level by adjusting social Europe to aging.

Barbara Boschetti (July 2016–September 2016)

Barbara Boschetti is a member of the Faculty of Political and Social Sciences and Associate Professor of Administrative Law at the Catholic University of Milan (Italy). Prof. Boschetti will carry on research on the changing structure of administrative proceedings within the EU in collaboration with Prof. Daniela Caruso. Her research involves analysis of decision-making procedures with a particular focus on changes affecting the structure of administrative proceedings in EU and EU member state sectoral legislations. Her research goes beyond traditional leading cases to include legislation related to free marketization of services and products, supervision of insurance companies, controls on migration and immigration, regulation of the production and distribution of pharmaceuticals, public contract laws, issues of food safety, and regulation of urban planning and development.

Gerry van der Kamp-Alons (August 2016–July 2018)

Maria Fanou (March–July 2017)

Maria Fanou is pursuing her PhD at the European University Institute in Florence with the working title: “Shaping a common investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) system: The interplay between the European legal order and international investment arbitration.” She is a practicing attorney with LL.M. degrees from the University of Athens, Cambridge University, and Harvard. While in the United States, she will conduct research on a project entitled: “Designing an Investor-State Dispute Settlement mechanism through the inclusion of investment chapters in trade agreements (emphasis on the corporate governance of an appeals system in ISDS cases).” She has a concurrent appointment at the Harvard University Law School.

Luca Marroni (March–June 2017)

Luca Marroni is a law student at University of Perugia in Italy. He is conducting comparative research on the relationship between national security and individual liberty in the USA, Europe and in Italy. In particular, he is interested in questioning the appropriate obligations of governments in restricting personal liberties and otherwise interfering in “private spheres” of citizens in order to protect their lives. His appointment is endorsed by his thesis advisor at the University of Perugia, Prof. Pierini, and by Prof. Daniela Caruso, Jean Monnet Professor of European Law at Boston University.

Sandra Porcar Román (September 2016–August 2018)

Sandra Porcar Román holds a degree in economics from Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona and a Masters in International Development Studies from Valencia University. She served as cultural program officer and event manager for the Embassy of Spain and the AECID (Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation) in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, between 2011 and 2013 before joining Kifiya Financial Technology in Addis Ababa as a business development consultant. Her current research relates to international development and its connection with culture, arts and education. She is particularly interested in the of use of arts and culture in development processes and in promoting the inclusion of arts and culture in the world’s development agenda. She distinguishes between developing countries and developed countries, and has a special focus on the use of arts and culture to promote social integration in Europe and the European neighborhood.

2015-2016

Lu Bao (September 2015)

Lu Bao is a Professor of Law and Director of the Institute for Comparative and European Law at the University of International Economics and Business in Beijing. Lu Bao is collaborating with Professor Daniela Caruso on a research project comparing the structures of European, Chinese and American law. His project attempts to supplement the theory of international law in terms of power relations in era of globalization (Law Era 3.0) via an examination of interactions between national, international and supranational laws.

Marija Bartl (February 2016–June 2016)

Marija Bartl is a Lecturer in Law at the University of Amsterdam and a Research Fellow within the project “Architecture of Post-national Rulemaking.” Her interdisciplinary research agenda has been focused mainly on the legitimacy of market integration beyond the state, with a particular focus on the EU. More recently she has turned her attention to the transatlantic market integration: the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP). She has been awarded a very competitive personal research funding ‘VENI’ from the Dutch Research Council (250 000EUR) for the project “Bringing Democracy to Markets: The TTIP and the Politics of Knowledge in Postnational Governance.” In this research, she is re-phrasing the legitimacy problem of post-national market governance in terms of dissociation of knowledge production from democracy as well as offering normative guidance on how to prevent some of the democratic challenges presented by the TTIP’s institutional design.

Jacob Hasselbach (October 2015)

Jacob Hasselbach is Erasmus Mundus Fellow at the University of Warwick and L’Université Libre de Bruxelles (“Globalization, Europe, and Multilateralism Joint Doctorate). He is working on a thesis on “The Political Economy of Disruptive Innovation.” His research involves international political economy, economic sociology, and transnational regulation, with case studies in shale gas and electronic cigarette regulation. Specifically, he will be investigating how disruptive innovation impacts regulatory capacity and process in cases where big, slow-moving, heavily regulated firms enter new, publicly contentious, fast-moving markets. His research is interdisciplinary in theories and methods and spans the boundaries of international political economy, economic sociology, and transnational regulation.

Rolf Thuneberg Jørgensen (September 2015–December 2015)

Rolf Thuneberg Jørgensen is a Ph.D. fellow at the Department of political Science , University of Copenhagen. He is also part of EuroChallenge, a cross disciplinary research project between political science, history and law, within the work package:The European Market Space and the New Global Economy. His dissertation examines the EU’s regulation of financial markets in the aftermath of the financial crisis. With special focus on how shifting economic ideas can define the range of policy outcomes and be used strategically by political actors.

Maria Cristina Nisco (March 2016–May 2016)

Maria Cristina Nisco is an Italian Research Fellow in English language and linguistics at the University of Naples L’Orientale. Dr. Nisco teaches graduate and undergraduate courses with a thematic focus on political science, language and power, political discourse, migration and gender policies. Her research deals with media studies, news discourse, migration, language, identity, corpus-based discourse analysis and corpus linguistics, and she has recently started investigating some of the above-mentioned topics (especially migration as well as ethnic and gender diversity) in EU legal discourse. Her work is of an interdisciplinary nature, since it concentrates on political science issues from a linguistic and cultural perspective.

Christine Soby (September 2015–December 2015)

Christine Soby is a PhD student in Political Science at University of Copenhagen with experience in multilateral diplomacy and EU foreign policy coordination. Christine has a theoretical and historical knowledge of Danish, EU, and international development politics in general. Christine has in particular focused on international negotiations on sustainable development and green economy/green growth. She will use her stay in Boston to further her PhD research on the theoretical and methodological development of discursive institutionalism in collaboration with Professor Vivien Schmidt.

Anna Winestein (September 2015–August 2016)

Anna Winestein is completing a doctoral dissertation in modern history at the University of Oxford. She is a historian of Russian art and theater, an independent curator, and a cultural entrepreneur, active in cultural development and diplomacy between the US and Russia, as well as other former Soviet states, since 2006. She is currently executive director of the Ballets Russes Cultural Partnership. Previously, she has served as creative director for the Hermitage Museum Foundation in New York. She is co-editor and co-author of The Ballets Russes and the Art of Design and translator of Alexander Tcherepnin: Saga of an Emigre Composer. In 2011, she was a cultural envoy to Kazakhstan for the US State Department. She is working with Professor Yuri Corrigan on a series of events for students and the community on the connections between literature, art, and performance in Russia and Eastern Europe

2014-2015

Lesia Kovalenko (September 2014–May 2015)

Lesia Kovalenko is Associate Professor of the World History and International Relations at Zaporizhzhya National University (Ukraine). In 2012 she defended her PhD thesis at Oles Honchar Dnipropetrovsk National University on the subject of U.S. and UK policy toward German unification. She will use her research stay, funded by the Fulbright Faculty Development Program, to develop courses on the history of the US foreign relations, the demographic and social structure of the US, and history of art in the US. Under the supervision of William Keylor, she plans to to work with declassified documents to study the formation of the”German vector” in European foreign policy of the US from the mid 1940s until 1990; to determine the perception of public opinion and academic circles in the US concerning German unification, and finally, to analyze perceptions of German unification in mass media and American cartoons.

Ludmilla Leibman (August 2014–July 2015)

Dr. Ludmilla Leibman’s research activities are dedicated to promoting understanding of Europe through its cultural history and are intertwined with her activities as the Director of the Educational Bridge Project, providing educational and artistic exchanges between Americans and Russians. Her academic research in the music of the Holocaust is centered in three areas: music of the Judischer Kulturbund, an organization of Jewish musicians and actors which existed in Nazi Germany (1933-1941), music of the ghettos and concentration camps (1939-1945), and music created after the war as commemoration of the tragedy (Arnold Schenberg “A Survivor from Warsaw” 1947, Dmitri Shostakovich “Babi Yar” 1962, and Steve Reich “Different Trains” 1988). Dr. Leibman will be working with Professors Minou Arjomand, Yuri Corrigan, and Olga Livshin on a BUCH- and JCE-funded project entitled “Revolutionary Voices” and other “Russian Voices” events.

Maria Luísa Ribeiro Lourenço (October 2014–November 2014)

yhIZHwwc_400x400 Luísa Lourenço is a third-year PhD researcher at the European University Institute in Florence. Her research is focused on the way the European Court of Justice uses general principles as legal sources in interaction with other instruments. She is looking at general principles in a sectorial way, analysing them with a legal theory perspective at first, and then following the case law so as to map the modes of operation in interaction with other sources, mainly directives. Currently, she is working on a chapter that analyses whether the type of interaction achieved by the use of civil law principles and their consequent “europeanisation” has equally important consequences. She will use her two-month stay at Boston University to shape her final arguments.

Katia Vladimirova (August 2014–July 2015)

Katia Vladimirova is an Erasmus Mundus PhD student with a BA in International Management from the Academy for Foreign Trade in Russia and an MA in Global Studies from the University of Wroclaw in Poland. She is at Boston University under an Erasmus Mundus Doctoral Fellowship completing the empirical part of her dissertation on “ENGOs and Environmental Ethics.” Her research interests lie between the domains of climate ethics and civil society. In her thesis, she considers how pro-environmental values, norms, and behavior are promoted by the ENGOs, and in particular, WWF, Greenpeace, and Friends of the Earth.

Anna Winestein (September 2014–August 2015)

Anna Winestein is completing a doctoral dissertation in modern history at the University of Oxford. She is a historian of Russian art and theater, an independent curator, and a cultural entrepreneur, active in cultural development and diplomacy between the US and Russia, as well as other former Soviet states, since 2006. She is currently executive director of the Ballets Russes Cultural Partnership. Previously, she has served as creative director for the Hermitage Museum Foundation in New York, directed a festival of Russian culture in Boston, and curated exhibitions, including Danser Vers La Gloire: L’Age d’Or des Ballets Russes, for Sotheby’s Galerie Charpentier in Paris. She is coeditor and coauthor of The Ballets Russes and the Art of Design, translator of Alexander Tcherepnin: Saga of an Emigre Composer, and author of scholarly articles published in peer-reviewed and lay journals. In 2011, she was a cultural envoy to Kazakhstan for the US State Department.

Zhicheng Wu (August 2014–September 2014)

Dr. Zhicheng Wu is the Dean of Zhou Enlai School of Government of Nankai University, P.R. China and Professor of International Relations and European Studies. He is the supervisor of several current and former Visiting Researchers at Boston University, including Mr. Xu Zhu. Professor Wu is using his research period at Boston University to discuss our further cooperation in addition to pursuing his own research.

Zhu Xu (November 2013–October 2014)

Zhu Xu is a PhD candidate in International Relations at the Zhou Enlai School of Government at Nankai University. His research contrasts rules-based and relations-based governance. At Boston University, under the supervision of Vivien Schmidt, he will undertake a comparative research project titled “Theory and Practice for East Asia Participating in Global Governance,” using the EU as a comparative example. His stay is funded by a scholarship from the China Scholarship Council.

Ran Yang (September 2014–August 2014)

Ran Yang is a Doctor of Law Candidate at the University of International Business and Economics (UIBE) in Beijing, China. Her research aims to contrast EU and China government procurement legal systems in the context of market economy. She plans to include a literature review of theory and practice, a summary of European “useful experiences,” including systems for framework agreement, purchasing, contractor evaluation, and small business protection, and finally, an analysis of the deep reasons behind the different effects of market economy on China and EU, and a construction of new theoretical approach based on a comparative framework for the evaluation of legal interaction between the two biggest market economies. Her research stay is funded by a scholarship from the China Scholarship Council.

2013–2014

Stefaan De Rynck (September 2013–December 2014)

Stefaan De Rynck holds a PhD in Political and Social Sciences from the European University Institute in Florence. He is a European Commission official, having worked as advisor and spokesperson to various members of the commission for the last 12 years. He teaches courses on the European Union at the Collegio Alberto (University of Turin) and the Bruges College of Europe. In 2006–2007, on leave from the European Commission, he spent the academic year as part of the Yale University World Fellows Program. His research at Boston University focuses on topics related to the EU’s single market and financial regulation, more specifically the creation of a banking union in the context of the Euro crisis, and issues related to free movement of capital. He writes a blog on issues related to policy and EU politics. [Visit his blog]

Axel Marion (January 2014–June 2014)

Axel Marion holds a PhD in International Relations, with a specialization in international history and politics, from the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva, Switzerland. He has also served as a member of Parliament in the Canton of Vaud, one of the largest components of the Swiss Federation. During his research stay in Boston, under the supervision of Vivien Schmidt, he plans to further his research on European integration and European identity begun during his doctoral thesis on Turkey’s accession to the European Union. His current project is titled “New Borders, New Citizenship: Exploring the Impact of Europe’s Evolving Territories on the European Identity.”

Roya Sangi (August 2013–January 2014)

Roya Sangi, a PhD student at the University of Hamburg, is an expert in European Union law, international public law, and social law. She will utilize her research stay to finalize her PhD thesis: “The European Parliament in the Foreign Policy of the European Union.” Her study includes a normative and comparative analysis of the influence of the US Congress on US foreign policy, hence the need for a research stay in the US. The aim of her research is to improve upon instruments to promote the role of parliaments in foreign policy. Her research stay is funded by a fellowship from the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD).

Katia Vladimirova (August 2013–July 2014)

Anna Winestein (September 2013–August 2014)

Anna Winestein is completing a doctoral dissertation in modern history at the University of Oxford. She is a historian of Russian art and theater, an independent curator, and a cultural entrepreneur, active in cultural development and diplomacy between the US and Russia, as well as other former Soviet states, since 2006. She is currently executive director of the Ballets Russes Cultural Partnership. Previously, she has served as creative director for the Hermitage Museum Foundation in New York, directed a festival of Russian culture in Boston, and curated exhibitions, including Danser Vers La Gloire: L’Age d’Or des Ballets Russes, for Sotheby’s Galerie Charpentier in Paris. She is coeditor and coauthor of The Ballets Russes and the Art of Design, translator of Alexander Tcherepnin: Saga of an Emigre Composer, and author of scholarly articles published in peer-reviewed and lay journals. In 2011, she was a cultural envoy to Kazakhstan for the US State Department.

Zhu Xu (November 2013–October 2014)

2012–2013

Pola Cebulak (August 2012–December 2012)

Pola Cebulak‘s research stay is funded by an Erasmus Mundus Doctoral Fellowship. She is using the stay to finalize her PhD thesis on “The Role of the Judicial Activism of the EU Court of Justice in Shaping the Relationships between European and International Legal Orders,” under the supervision of Prof. Daniela Caruso. During her research stay, she is familiarizing herself with the doctrinal approaches developed in American literature toward the evolution of the role of the judge in a democratic system and toward the concept of judicial activism. In her thesis, she hopes to apply theoretical approaches toward judicial activism developed in the US to the different legal reality within the EU.

Demet Duran (January 2013–September 2013)

Demet Duran holds a BA from Mount Holyoke College and an MA in European Studies from New York University. She is interested in the development of the High Representative position in the Lisbon Treaty, which she looks at in the context of normative power frameworks including how the European Union is perceived from the outside, and more importantly, how this perception impacts the European Union’s development. Her research draws on Vivien Schmidt’s work on “discursive institutionalism” approaches to questions such as the role of ideas in constituting political action, the power of persuasion in political debate, the role of centrality of deliberation for democratic legitimation, the construction and reconstruction of political interests and values, and the dynamics of change in history and culture.