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Centre members

Associate Professor Nick Bisley

PhD, London School of Economics
N.Bisley@latrobe.edu.au
Staff Profile

Nick Bisley is Associate Professor in International Relations and Convenor of the Politics and International Relations Program at La Trobe University, Melbourne. His research and teaching expertise is in the international relations of the Asia-Pacific, globalization and the diplomacy of the great powers. Nick is a member of the Council for Security and Cooperation in the Asia-Pacific and is the author of Rethinking Globalization (Palgrave, 2007) The End of the Cold War and the Causes of Soviet Collapse (Palgrave, 2004). He regularly contributes to national and international media.


Cristian Brasoveanu

Honorary Research Associate

Diplomat, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Romania
Cristian.Brasoveanu@arts.monash.edu.au
Curriculum Vitae (doc 46kb)

Cristian Brasoveanu completed a PhD in International Relations and EU Studies with a thesis entitled "Prosocial Power Europe? Social Identification in the EU’s Common Foreign and Security Policy" from the Monash European and EU Centre, Monash University. Since 2008, he is Foreign Relations Officer at the Consulate General of Romania in Chicago, USA.


Dr Matt Harvey

PhD, Monash University
Curriculum Vitae

Staff Profile

Matt Harvey is a Lecturer at Victoria University. He specializes in EU law and comparative European legal systems. He wrote his thesis on EU constitutional law. He has been a Robert Schuman Scholar at the European Parliament and a Visiting Research Fellow at Katholieke Universiteit Leuven and co-authored a book on EU law for Australians.


Professor Martin Holland

PhD, University of Exeter, UK
martin.holland@canterbury.ac.nz
Staff Profile

Professor Martin Holland holds a Jean Monnet Chair ad personam and is the Director of the National Centre for Research on Europe at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand. Since writing his PhD at the University of Exeter, UK, on the 1979 direct elections to the European Parliament, he has specialised in the analysis of the EU’s external relations, initially in terms of European Political Cooperation and latterly through the Common Foreign and Security Policy. His research on EU-South African relations during the apartheid and post-apartheid eras is particularly well-known and saw Professor Holland involved as a practitioner in one of the EU’s first election observer missions to monitor the first democratic non-racial South African election in 1994. More recently, he has focused his research interests most broadly on the EU’s global development policy and on the perceptions of the EU in third countries.

Professor Holland has taught courses on the EU in universities in South Africa, Australia, Thailand, Switzerland and Germany as well as in New Zealand. He was Rockefeller Bellagio Fellow in 2000, an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow at University of Freiburg (1992-3) and a Jean Monnet Research Fellow at the European University Institute in Florence in 1987. He has periodically been involved with advising the European Commission as well as the New Zealand Ministries of Foreign Affairs, Education and Research, Science and Technology. He is currently on the “list of Experts” for the EU’s Framework Programme 6 initiative.

Professor Holland has been active regionally in developing EU Studies through a number of initiatives such as the EU Studies Association of the Asia-Pacific (EUSA-AP), the Network of European Studies Centres in Asia (NESCA), European Studies in Asia (ESIA) and through establishing the Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence Australasia. In 2006, his Centre launched the first B.A. major in European Union Studies offered by a tertiary institution in New Zealand and Australia.

Professor Holland has published 19 books and over 100 chapters and articles, including in the leading titles in EU studies (Journal of Common market Studies, European Foreign Affairs Review).


Dr Peter Howard

PhD, Monash University
peter.howard@arts.monash.edu.au
Staff Profile

Peter Howard is a Senior Lecturer, School of Historical Studies. He holds a PhD in history from Monash and has completed advanced studies in theology through the Melbourne College of Divinity and Corpus Christi College (1972-1980). He has held fellowships at the European University Institute, Florence, and at 'Villa I Tatti': the Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies (Florence), where in 2007 he was Lila Wallace Readers Digest Visiting Professor. He has spent a period as a visiting scholar at the Istituto per le Scienze Religiose in Bologna. He is a member and occasional Acting Director of, the Monash Centre for Studies in Religion and Theology. He has been Secretary and Public Officer of the Australian European University Institute Fellowships Association Inc. since 1995.


Dr Jeff Jarvis

PhD, Monash University
Jeff.Jarvis@arts.monash.edu.au
Staff Profile

Dr Jeff Jarvis specialises in the field of Tourism Marketing and Tourism Development. He is also a founding member of the cross faculty Tourism Research Unit (TRU) at Monash. He completed research both in Australia and Scandinavia as a visiting researcher at Uppsala University in Sweden, for his PhD on the strategic importance of youth tourism to Australia. In 2003 he was invited to participate as part of the EU-funded TEMPUS project in constructing a strategic plan for the development of tourism and cultural industries in Bosnia - Herzegovina focusing on identifying the opportunities offered by independent travellers/backpackers in economic development for the Balkan state. Jeff has international lecturing experience delivering units or guest lectures at key universities in Sweden, Estonia, Norway, Germany, Denmark, Latvia and the United Kingdom. His key research interests include tourism development patterns in post-communist transition economies of Eastern Europe.


Professor Harri Kalimo

PhD, Turku University Faculty of Law, Finland
Harri.Kalimo@vub.ac.be
Curriculum Vitae

Harri Kalimo is Professor at the Institute for European Studies, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium and Visiting Fellow at Yale University. He is also an Associate Professor at the Turku School of Economics. During his visit to the Monash Faculty of Law and the Monash European and EU Centre, Harri taught EU Law, one of the core units in the Master in European and International Studies.


Professor Bill Kent

PhD, University of London
Staff Profile

Founding Director of the Monash Prato Centre in Italy from 2000-04, the late Bill Kent was Professor of History and Australian Professorial Fellow in the Faculty of Arts at Monash University, where he taught for his entire career. He was a widely published historian of Renaissance Italy, specializing in the politics and culture of Quattrocento Florence. His most recent book is Lorenzo de' Medici and the Art of Magnificence (2004). Since 2004, Bill had been General Editor of the twenty volume critical edition of Lorenzo de' Medici's correspondence.


Annick Masselot

LLM (First class honour), University College Dublin, Ireland
annick.masselot@canterbury.ac.nz
Staff Profile

Annick Masselot holds a Magistère in European Business law from the University of Nancy (France). She later graduated from University College Dublin with an LLM by research (First class honour) with a thesis titled “Legal Protection for the Health and Safety of Pregnant Women in the Workplace: A Comparative Study between the United States and Europe” (1996). Annick has worked as a lecturer at Strathclyde University in Glasgow, Scotland and as a researcher at Tilburg University in the Netherlands.  From 2000 to 2006, together with Sacha Prechal she co-ordinated the European Commission’s Network of legal experts on the application of Community law on equal treatment between women and men. In 2002, Annick was appointed at the University of Leeds where she is a senior lecturer in European law. She was the deputy director of the Centre for the Study of Law and Policy in Europe (2002-2007).

Annick has been successful in securing a number of funded projects, in particular, but not exclusively, with the European Commission. Her research interests are focusing upon EU law, gender equality and equal treatment, social law, reconciliation between work and family life, pregnancy and maternity rights.

In 2006, Annick was granted a Marie Curie Fellowship (2007-2010) to study the relationship between scientific excellence, human mobility and gender equality in the context of the European Union and the New Zealand scientific markets. Her project considers the tension present in the development of measures to secure the recruitment and retention of highly skilled women through the promotion of family-friendly policies on the one hand and the increasing relationship between career progression and mobility on the other. The research project is based at the National Centre for the Research on Europe at the University of Canterbury in Christchurch. 


Dr Cristina Neesham

PhD, University of Melbourne
cristina.neesham@buseco.monash.edu.au
Staff Profile

Dr Cristina Neesham lectures in the Department of Management at Monash University. She has published several studies on EU enlargement and integration, and has research interests in EU business and social policy. Cristina holds a PhD in philosophy from the University of Melbourne and a BA in Languages from the University of Bucharest, Romania. Apart from Monash University, she has taught at the University of Melbourne, Bucharest Academy of Economic Studies in Romania and Transilvania University of Brasov in Romania.

Cristina is a leading researcher in the LIDEROM Project (‘Leadership, communication and competitiveness in the integration of the new member states of the EU. Case study: the Romanian economy’), supported by a competitive grant from the Romanian National Council for Higher Education Research. She is a member of the European Institute for Advanced Studies in Management in Brussels and an Editorial Board member of several Europe-based journals.


Dr Annamaria Pagliaro

PhD, University of Melbourne
Annamaria.Pagliaro@arts.monash.edu.au

Annamaria Pagliaro is Senior Lecturer in Italian Studies at Monash University. She was Academic Director of the Prato Monash University Centre from 2005 to 2008. She taught at La Trobe University and the University of Melbourne before joining Monash in 1991. Her research interest and supervision are in 19th and early 20th century Italian literature, literary theory and Italian theatre. She has published widely on the development of the 19th century novel, Italian Verismo. She is a member of the editorial board for the Melbourne-based journal Spunti e Ricerche and edited several volumes including Naturalism and Beyond. Fragmentation and Transformation of the Real (2006).


Associate Professor Marko Pavlyshyn

PhD, Monash University
marko.pavlyshyn@arts.monash.edu.au
Staff Profile
Curriculum Vitae (doc 57kb)

Marko Pavlyshyn is Head of the School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics and previous Director of the Centre of European Studies at Monash. His area of expertise is East European studies and Ukrainian studies. Marko teaches extensively in the European Studies program and undertakes research on European culture and identity.


Dr Jagjit Plahe

jagjit.plahe@buseco.monash.edu.au
Staff Profile
Curriculum Vitae (doc 106kb)

Dr Plahe is Lecturer in International Political Economy, Course Director Diplomacy and Trade Program, Department of Management, Monash University, Faculty of Business and Economics. She possesses extensive teaching and research experience in international relations and has published on international governance in Third World Quarterly, Development and Journal of the Asia Pacific Economy.


Professor Alberta Sbragia

PhD, University of Wisconsin, Madison, United States
Curriculum Vitae (pdf 237kb)

Alberta Sbragia is Mark A. Nordenberg University Chair, Research Professor, Department of Political Science, Jean Monnet Chair ad personam and Director of the European Union Centre of Excellence/European Studies Center at the University of Pittsburgh, in the US. She was a Distinguished Visiting Professor at the Monash European and EU Centre in 2008. Her areas of expertise are comparative politics, Western Europe, comparative regionalism, EU politics, comparative federalism and religion. During her visit to the Centre she taught one of the core units of the Master in European and International Studies: Comparative Regionalism .


Professor Nigel Tapper

PhD, University of Canterbury, NZ
Nigel.Tapper@arts.monash.edu.au
Staff Profile

Professor Nigel Tapper holds a Personal Chair in Environmental Science at Monash University where he is currently the Head of the School of Geography and Environmental Science. Until February 2007 he was Foundation Director of the Monash Sustainability Institute, a University research institute responsible for facilitating and coordinating Monash-wide research across the key themes of Climate, Water, Energy, Biodiversity and Transport. He has strong teaching and research interests in Europe where he teaches a Monash class "Cultural Landscape, Environment and Sustainability" in the Cinque Terre, Italy and where he has recently established collaborations with a number of institutions to investigate climate change impacts on agriculture and forestry.


Professor Marika Vicziany

PhD, University of London
marika.vicziany@adm.monash.edu.au
Staff Profile

List of Publications (pdf 46kb)

Professor Marika Vicziany is Professor of Asian Political Economy, Director, Monash Asia Institute (MAI) and Director, National Centre for South Asian Studies at Monash University. She is a specialist on India with 34 years of experience working on Indian economic development/ business, mass poverty, and regional security. Her inter-disciplinary research includes comparisons with Pakistan, Bangladesh, Malaysia and China at the city, town and village levels. Professor Vicziany has extensive networks with key government, academic and media organisations in India. Her publications include (2008) Marika Vicziany with Robert Cribb (Eds.), Is this the Asian Century? Proceedings of the 17th Biennial Conference of the Asian Studies Association of Australia, Melbourne and (2007) Marika Vicziany (ed.) Controlling Arms and Terror: Regional Security in the Asia Pacific after Bali and Baghdad, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham (UK)/Northampton (USA).


Dr Ben Welling

PhD, Australian National University

Ben.Wellings@anu.edu.au

Dr Ben Wellings is Convenor of European Studies at the Australian National University in Canberra.  His first degree was in Contemporary History with French in the School of European Studies at the University of Sussex.  He gained an MSc in Nationalism Studies from Edinburgh University before completing his PhD on nationalism and Britishness in Britain and Australia at the Australian National University.  Between these stints in academia he has been a museum curator, a public affairs consultant, a parliamentary researcher and a merchant seaman – helping to keep England’s supply lines to cheap French lager open during the mid-1990s. 
Ben’s current research interests include the politics of Australian commemorative sites in western Europe, and the links between English nationalism and Euroscepticism, with a book on this subject titled English Nationalism and Euroscepticism: losing the peace to be published by Peter Lang in 2011.  Ben was a visiting research scholar at the Monash European and EU Centre in September 2011.


 

 

Associate members

Professor Stefan Auer

PhD, Melbourne University, Australia
stefan.auer@ucd.ie
Staff Profile
Curriculum Vitae (doc 62kb)

Professor Stefan Auer is a Senior Lecturer in history and politics at La Trobe University in Melbourne, Australia, and the Deputy Director of the Innovative Universities European Union (IUEU) Centre. He completed his PhD in Political Science at Melbourne University in 2000. His thesis was entitled "Nationalism in Central Europe: An Opportunity or a Threat for the Emerging Liberal Democratic Order?" and was examined by Prof. Robert Pynsent (University College in London) and Dr. David Miller (Nuffield College in Oxford).

Professor Auer was Lecturer (2001-6) and Academic Director (2004-5) of the Dublin European Institute, University College Dublin. His book, Liberal Nationalism in Central Europe (Routledge, 2004, pbk 2006) won the prize for Best Book in European Studies (2005) with the University Association for Contemporary European Studies (UACES). He has published articles in Critical Horizons, East European Politics and Societies, Europe-Asia Studies, Nationalism and Ethnic Politics, Osteuropa and elsewhere.

His current research interests include:

  • The self-limiting revolutions of 1989 in Central Europe and their more recent reincarnations (e.g. Ukraine 2004)
  • Political thought of dissident intellectuals (e.g. Vaclav Havel and Jan Pato?ka) and Hannah Arendt
  • Nationalism in Central Europe
  • Enlargement of the European Union

Professor Greg Bamber

PhD, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh
Greg.Bamber@monash.edu
Staff Profile

Greg Bamber is Professor and a Discipline Group Leader, Department of Management at Monash University. His research and teaching is in the fields of Human Resource Management (HRM), Managing Change, Managing People, Negotiations, International and Comparative Employment Relations. Current research includes HRM outsourcing/shared services, equity/efficiency in dispute settlement, and workplace change in healthcare. He has more than a hundred publications, many with a focus on Europe. His publications have been translated into other languages. He was educated and has taught in Britain.

Prof Bamber researches and advises international organizations, private- and public-sector enterprises and other organizations. Government departments and international agencies (including the EU and International Labour Organization) have commissioned him to conduct projects. He is Visiting Professor, Newcastle University, England. His (joint) books include: Up in the Air: How Airlines Can Improve Performance by Engaging their Employees and International & Comparative Employment Relations.


Dr Andrea Benvenuti

D.Phil, University of Oxford, England
Andrea.Benvenuti@unsw.edu.au
Staff Profile
Curriculum Vitae (doc 55kb)

Dr Andrea Benvenuti is Lecturer in International Relations and Convenor of the European Studies Program at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia since August 2007. His holds a D.Phil in International Relations from the University of Oxford, where his thesis was "Britain's Turn to Europe as a Problem in Anglo-Australian Relations, 1961-72"

He was Assistant Professor in International Studies at UNSW Asia in Singapore (Dec 2006 – Aug 2007). Before that, he was Postdoctoral Research Fellow in International Relations at the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia (Jul 2004 – Dec 2006).  In 2004, he was Rydon Research Fellow in Australian History and Politics at the Menzies Centre for Australian Studies at King’s College London in London, United Kingdom (Mar – Jul 2004). 


Professor Gérard Bossuat

Professor of Contemporary History, Jean Monnet Chair, at the
University of Cergy-Pontoise, France

gerard.bossuat@lsh.u-cergy.fr
Curriculum Vitae (doc 95kb)

Professor Gérard Bossuat is Professor of Contemporary History (Chair) at the University of Cergy-Pontoise in Val d’Oise, France. His research fields include: History of French international politics in the 20th century; history of international relations in the 20th century; History of the European Union; History of transatlantic relations after 1945; History of Community institutions; History of the external relations of the European Community and the EU.

Professor Bossuat holds a HDR degree from l’université de Paris-1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (1992). In 1988 he obtained a Docteur en Histoire contemporaine and since 1969 he holds an Agrégé d’Histoire.

He holds the following positions:

  • Directeur du Master LLSHS, mention études européennes et affaires internationales, spécialités « Histoire et enjeux européens »  et « projets européens »
  • Jean Monnet Chair Ad personam, (Cergy-Pontoise, 2000)
  • Officier dans l’Ordre des Palmes académiques (2000) 

Professor Joana Chiavari

PhD, University Ca’ Foscari of Venice, Italy
jchiavari@ieep.eu
Curriculum Vitae (doc 54kb)

Professor Joana Chiavari is a Policy Analyst at the Brussels office of the Institute for European Environmental Policy (IEEP), researching the impact of policies related to climate change and energy issues at EU and international level, with a particular focus on carbon mitigation technologies, such as CO2 capture and storage. She has a law background, with a PhD in Analysis and Governance of Sustainable Development from University Ca’ Foscari in Venice, Italy and a Master’s Degree in Environmental Management from Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna in Pisa, Italy. Joana took part in training and capacity building initiatives on climate change and sustainable development undertaken in China, Brazil and in the Black Sea Region. She is also a professor at the LLM Program in Environmental Law at the Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro.


Professor Dr Julio Baquero Cruz

PhD, European University Institute, Florence, Italy
jbaquero@cepc.es
Curriculum Vitae (doc 187kb)

Dr Julio Baquero Cruz is Associate Professor of EU Law at the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid in Spain. He is also a Research Fellow at Centro de Estudios Políticos y Constitucionales in Madrid, Spain. He obtained his PhD from the European University Institute in Florence, Italy. His thesis was entitled “The Economic Constitutional Law of the European Community: Between Competition and Free Movement”. He also holds a LL.M. in European Legal Studies from the College of Europe in Bruges, Belgium. His Master’s Thesis was on Opinion 1/94 (WTO).

He is a member of the RECON research project, a five-year research project with 19 partner institutions and around 70 participating researchers across Europe, covering a wide range of academic fields, from political science, sociology, linguistics, and anthropology, to information science, law and legal theory, and economics, and dealing with the prospects of democracy in democracy in Europe (coordinated by ARENA – Centre for European Studies at the University of Oslo: www.reconproject.eu). This project is an Integrated Project supported by the Sixth Framework Programme for Research.

He is also participating in a two-year research project organised by the EUI, the CEU in Madrid and Fundación Rafael del Pino, dealing with the prospects of the Treaty establishing a Constitution for Europe. In that context, he has presented two reports on the Court of Justice in the Constitutional Treaty and on possible improvements concerning the rules of change (entry into force and revision) in the European Union.


Professor Anne Deighton

Online Contact
Curriculum Vitae (doc 47kb)

Professor Anne Deighton is Professor of European International Politics at Wolfson College, University of Oxford. She has a Jean Monnet ad personam post from the European Commission for contribution to research in European integration history.

Professor Deighton currently teaches ‘International History, 1900-1950’, ‘European Governance’, and ‘European International History since 1945’. In the past, she has taught graduate and undergraduate lectures in International Relations, postwar Europe, and graduate methods workshops. Her research interests include the Cold War, historical development of European integration, post Cold War European security and British foreign policy.

Between 1999 and 2004, she held a post in the British Association for Central and Eastern Europe. Her role was speaker for local discussions between governments and politicians on EU membership in five east-central European and Balkan countries. Between 1998 and 2006, she was Member of the Council, and Executive Committee (2000-2006), at the Royal Institute of International Affairs, (Chatham House) in London.


Professor Max Guderzo

guderzo@unifi.it
Staff Profile

Professor Max Guderzo is Professor of the History of International Relations and Jean Monnet Chair of the History of European Unification at the Faculty of Political Science “Cesare Alfieri”, University of Florence (Department of Studies on the State) and Research Co-ordinator of the Machiavelli Inter-University Centre for Cold War Studies (CIMA).

In the last three years he chaired the Degree Course in “International Studies” (1st cycle), co-ordinated three Master Courses in “Euro-Mediterranean Studies”, “Nuclear Fuel Cycle Management and Control for Peaceful Uses of Nuclear Energy and Non-Proliferation Policy” and "History and Politics of the Middle East" (2nd cycle) and a Ph.D. Course in the History of International Relations (3rd cycle and post-doctoral studies). He is a member of the Steering Committee of ACIS (Associazione Culturale Italia-Spagna), and an Associate member of the Centre for Cold War Studies of the London School of Economics. Between 1998 and 2004, he was Professor of the History of International Relations and Jean Monnet Chair of the History and Politics of European Integration at the Faculty of Political Science, University of Urbino “Carlo Bo”. He also held a Jean Monnet inter-disciplinary module on the EEC association policy. He directed the Department of Historical and Political Studies, co-ordinated a Master Course in Middle East Studies and was Pro-Rector for international relations and international teaching activities.

Professor Guderzo is currently working on US foreign policy in the Carter years and preparing several essays related to European integration, Spanish issues, and Italian foreign policy in the Sixties. His areas of interest include Cold War studies, history and politics of European integration, decolonization and development, Euro-American relations between 1961 and 1981, the US and Latin America between 1977 and 1981, and Spain in the international arena between 1939 and 1989.


Dr Anjo G. Harryvan

PhD, European University Institute in Florence, Italy
A.G.Harryvan@rug.nl
Staff Profile
Curriculum Vitae (doc 86kb)

Dr Anjo G. Harryvan studied history and law at Amsterdam Free University and obtained a doctorate in History at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy. At present he is lecturer in international relations at Groningen University.


Marcin Jałowiecki

PhD, University of Economics in Katowice, Poland
marcin.jalowiecki@chorzow.wsb.pl
Curriculum Vitae (doc 237kb)

Marcin Jałowiecki wrote a PhD thesis in the field of the International Bond Market at the University of Economics in Katowice, Poland. His thesis was entitled “Changes in the international bond market in the major economic centers of the world as a result of the introduction of the euro.” He also holds a Master of Economics with specialization in International Economic Relations and his thesis was titled “Eurobond issue, right long term form of financing the investment firm activity, based on Polish Telecom”.

Marcin Jałowiecki has lectured in Banking and International Finance, International Economic Relations, Micro and Macroeconomics, Security and Enforcement Duties, Economics, Finance and Investment at the Poznan School of Banking in Poznan, Faculty in Chorzow. His current research interests include International finance, International Bond Market, International Economics relations. Marcin`s experience and publications are based on praxis and theories working with big worldwide companies.


Dr N. Piers Ludlow

D. Phil, St Antony's College, Oxford
n.p.ludlow@lse.ac.uk

Staff Profile
Curriculum Vitae (pdf 84kb)

Dr N. Piers Ludlow is deputy head of the history department and professor at the London School of Economics. Before he joined the LSE in 1998, he was a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at Balliol College, Oxford. He completed his D. Phil at St Antony's College, Oxford. He obtained his undergraduate degree at Trinity College, Oxford.

Dr Ludlow has just completed a six month spell as a visiting fellow at the History Department, Princeton University. While in the US his research focused on the development of transatlantic relations during the cold war – and in particular in the way in which the Americans sought to balance their bilateral and multilateral dealings with their Western European allies. The eventual plan is to produce a wide-ranging monograph on this theme drawing upon research from both US and European archives. In the shorter term, Dr. Ludlow is also planning a detailed historical investigation of the Treaty of Rome negotiations which, inexplicably in view of their subsequent importance, still await a comprehensive archival treatment. Dr Ludlow's main research interests lie in the history of Western Europe since 1945, and in particular in the historical roots of the European integration process and the early stages of development of the EU. He is also interested in the history of the cold war in Europe and is an editor of Cold War History.


Aaron Matta

MA of Research, European University Institute in Florence, Italy
aaron.matta@eui.eu
Curriculum Vitae (doc 105kb)

Aaron Matta is a PhD Researcher at the Law Department in the European University Institute in Florence, Italy. In his current research he explores the legal approximation process and economic integration between the EU and Russia. His thesis title is “Testing the Limits of Exporting the Acquis: The Legal Approximation Process with Russia”. He holds a MA of Research from the European University Institute in Florence, Italy. He completed a MA in International Relations at Sussex University in Brighton, UK, with a dissertation titled “The Evolution of International Criminal Law: Order vs. Justice”. He also holds a LLM in European Law from the Institute of European Law at the Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO-University). More broadly, he is interested in the intersection between law and politics in the external relations of the European Union. Other research interests include Energy issues in the EU-Russia relations, Security Aspects of EU external relations and International Criminal Law.


Professor Karen Morrow

LLM, King’s College, London
k.morrow@swansea.ac.uk
Staff Profile
Curriculum Vitae (doc 91kb)

Professor Karen Morrow holds a Master’s degree (LLM.) from King’s College in London in 1992 and obtained her LLB degree at the Law Faculty of the Queen’s University of Belfast in 1991. Currently, she is Professor of Environmental Law and co-director of the Centre for Environmental and Energy Law and Policy (CEELP) in the School of Law of Swansea University in Wales. She has held posts in law at the University of Buckingham, the Queen’s University of Belfast, the University of Durham and Leeds University and has, since January 2007 been a Chair at Swansea University.

Professor Morrow teaches and researches in UK, EU and International environmental and energy law, and in the Law of Torts. She has been a visiting member of Faculty on the Masters in International and European Environmental Law at the KU Leuven since its inception and has active international active research links through the IUCN Environmental Law Academy and the Working Group on Property, Community and Social Entreprenuerism (PCSE). She serves as the deputy chair of the UK Society for Legal Scholars’ (SLS) Environment Panel. Her expertise lies in UK, EC and International environmental and energy law and in particular in questions of decision-making and public participation and rights in these areas on which she regularly publishes and speaks. Her current research interests include the interplay between minority rights and environmental decision-making, risk and decision-making and gender and environmental law.


Dr Daniel Novotny

PhD, University of New South Wales
danielnovotny@hotmail.com

Dr Daniel Novotny joined the Centre as a Visiting Research Fellow. He specializes, in general, in international relations of Asia-Pacific countries. He was awarded a PhD from University of New South Wales in Sydney for his dissertation on the role of Indonesian foreign policy elite threat perceptions on the dynamics of the country’s foreign relations (a book based on the thesis is due to be published). His key research interests include modern politics of Southeast Asia, with an emphasis on Indonesia; the EU foreign policy strategy in Asia; Southeast and East Asian regionalism; Asian elite perceptions and foreign policy: theory and practice; the rise of China and India versus the Western powers; contemporary geopolitical developments in Asia-Pacific.

He has held fellowships at The Habibie Centre in Jakarta, Institute of Defense and Strategic Studies, and Institute of Southeast Asian Studies in Singapore. Between 2008 and 2009, he coordinated a special research project for the Czech Ministry of Foreign Affairs focusing on the EU-India Strategic Partnership framework. For the last eight years, he has also been an Asia-Pacific correspondent for the Czech State TV Channel 1. 


Professor Fania Oz-Salzberger

Professor to the Leon Liberman Chair of Modern Israel Studies, Monash University
fania.oz-salzberger@arts.monash.edu.au
Staff Profile

Professor Fania Oz-Salzberger is Professor and Leon Liberman Chair in Modern Israel Studies at the School of Philosophical, Historical and International Studies of Monash University in Melbourne.

Professor Oz-Salzberger holds a joint appointment at Haifa and Monash Universities for the period 2007-2012. At the University of Haifa, she is Senior Lecturer in History and Founding Director of the Posen Research Forum for Jewish European and Israeli Political Thought at the Faculty of Law.

Her current research includes a book-in-writing on seventeenth-century Hebraist republicanism in England and the Netherlands, based on research into the political readings of the Bible by early modern jurists and thinkers, including Cunaeus, Selden, Harrington, Milton and Locke.
Also, she is working on an essay on Jewish history from a modern secular perspective. It will be a companion volume to the Posen Library of Jewish texts, published by Yale University Press. This essay will discuss recurrent themes in Jewish intellectual history, including the role of open debate, the affordability of disagreement and the literacy of women.

She is also researching on:

  • Translations and Trajectories in the European Enlightenment
  • From Republicanism to Liberalism in Early Modern Europe
  • Uses of the Past for Israeli-European Dialogue Today 

Dr Laura Carballo Piñeiro

Doctorate in Private International Law, University of Vigo, Spain
laura.carballo@usc.es
Curriculum Vitae (doc 71kb)

Dr Laura Carballo Piñeiro is Associate Professor at the University of Santiago de Compostela in Spain. She holds a Doctorate in Private International Law Cum Laude from the University of Vigo in Spain. Her thesis from 4th June 2004 was titled “International fraudulent preference and transferences”. This Doctorate was awarded as Extraordinary by University of Vigo. She completed a Doctorate in Procedural Law Cum Laude, from the University of Santiago de Compostela in Spain.

Her professional titles include:

  • Vice-Dean, University of Vigo in charge of Education and European Area (2007-2008).
  • Associate Professor in Private International Law (2005-2008), University of Vigo
  • Vice-Dean, University of Vigo in charge of the International Relations Area (2003-2004).
  • Assistant Professor in Constitutional Law (2000-2001) and Private International Law (October 2001-2005), University of Vigo.
  • Magistrate, Audiencia Provincial Pontevedra (1999-2000).
  • Assistant Professor, University of Santiago de Compostela (1994-1999)

Associate Professor Werner Pleschberger

PhD, University of Salzburg, Austria
werner.pleschberger@boku.ac.at
Staff Profile
a href="/europecentre/assets/cvs/w_pleschberger_cv.doc">Curriculum Vitae (doc 275kb)

Dr Werner Pleschberger has been Associate Professor at the University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences in Vienna since 1999. He is the main coordinator and principal teacher of the European Module “Law and Politics of the European Union” (2007-2010) (granted by the Jean Monnet Project of the European Union).

His research interests include:

  • Local and European climate and energy policy
  • Regional Vulnerability Assessments (Climate Change)
  • European Integration

Professor Richard Pomfret

PhD, Simon Fraser University, Canada
richard.pomfret@adelaide.edu.au
Staff Profile
Curriculum Vitae (doc 152kb)

Professor Richard Pomfret is Professor of Economics at Adelaide University.  Before moving to Adelaide in 1992, he was Professor of Economics at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies in Washington DC, Bologna, Italy and Nanjing, China.  He previously worked at Concordia University in Montréal and the Institut für Weltwirtschaft at the University of Kiel in Germany.  He is an honorary Fellow of the Centre for Euro-Asian Studies, University of Reading, UK, of the Kiel Institute of World Economics and of the research centre ROSES-CNRS, Université-Paris I (Sorbonne).

In 1993 Professor Pomfret was seconded to the United Nations for a year, acting as adviser on macroeconomic policy to the Central Asian republics of the former Soviet Union.  He has acted as a consultant to the EU, World Bank, UNDP, OECD and Asian Development Bank. He has published over a hundred articles and seventeen books.


Professor Sebastian Santander

PhD, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
sebastian.santander@ulg.ac.be
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Professor Sebastian Santander is Professor in Political Science and Head of the International Relations Research Unit of the Political Science Department of the University of Liege (ULg). He holds a PhD in Political Science from the Universite Libre de Bruxelles.

He has coordinated a special issue of Europa & America Latina on the EU interregional strategy towards Latin America (2, 2007) and of les Cahiers du GELA-IS (3, 2004) on regionalism in the Americas. His most recent book is Le regionalism sud-americain, l’Union europeenne et les Etats-Unis (Editions de l’Universite de Bruxelles, 2008).

His articles, mainly on regionalism and interregionalism, have appeared in such publications as:

  • Journal of European Integration
  • European Foreign Affairs Review
  • Etudes internationals (Quebec)
  • Annuaire Francais des Relations Internationales (Paris)
  • Relazioni Internazionali (Milan) and Revista de Derecho Internacional y Mercosur (Buenos Aires)

Professor Giuseppe Schiavone

Professor Giuseppe Schiavone is Director of the Institute of European Studies "Alcide de Gasperi" in Rome. Giuseppe Schiavone is Professor of International Organization, University of Catania, and Head of the International and European Union Area at the Italian National School of Public Administration in Rome. He is President of the Institut Robert Schuman pour l'Europe (IRSE) in Scy-Chazelles, France.

Professor Schiavone's main field of interest is the analysis of the structure and activities of intergovernmental organizations, with a special focus on regional groupings in Europe and the Asia-Pacific. The enlargement and reform of the European Union and the adoption of a constitutional treaty are at present a major research area.

His publications include several monographs and numerous articles in scientific journals, mainly in English. He is author of International Organizations: A Dictionary and Directory (6th edition, London, Palgrave Macmillan, 2005).


Professor Dr Giles Scott-Smith

PhD, Lancaster University, UK
g.scott-smith@zeeland.nl
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Professor Dr Giles Scott-Smith is a senior researcher with the Roosevelt Study Centre and Associate Professor in International Relations at the Roosevelt Academy, both in Middelburg, the Netherlands. He holds a Ph.D in International Relations from Lancaster University and an MA in International Relations from Sussex University.

As of 2009 he holds the Ernst van der Beugel Chair in the History of Transatlantic DiplomaticRelations since WW II. His research covers the role and importance of non-state actors and public diplomacy in inter-state (particularly transatlantic) relations during and after the Cold War, and he is particularly interested in the history and concept of an ‘Atlantic Community’.

He is an active member of the American Studies community and is co-editor of the online, peer-reviewed European Journal of American Studies. He has published numerous articles in journals, and his latest book is Networks of Empire: The US State Department’s Foreign Leader Program in the Netherlands, France, and Britain 1950-70 (Peter Lang, 2008).


Professor Terri Seddon

PhD, Macquarie University, NSW
terri.seddon@education.monash.edu.au
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Professor Terri Seddon is Professor of Education at the Faculty of Education of Monash University, Melbourne and Director of the Centre for Work and Learning Studies at the Faculty of Education of Monash University. She obtained her PhD from Macquarie University in Australia in 1987.

Professor Seddon’s research focuses on contemporary changes in work and learning, and the implications for pedagogy, the organization and politics of educational work, and the nature of professional education. She has examined these questions of contemporary educational work and pedagogy in education and training institutions, in community and commercial providers, and in workplace and community settings. She has a sharp awareness of cross-sectoral developments in national and international (eg. UK, Europe, Kazakhstan) contexts and is currently researching the implications of networked education and pedagogies of collaboration.

She is involved in major cross-cultural collaborations focused on pedagogy, the organization of learning and teachers’ work between Australia and the EU, and in an intercontinental partnership supporting professional education for adult educators negotiating global change with Canada, South Africa, Sweden and Australia. She has managed major funded research projects and has a demonstrated capacity to meet targets and realise significant outcomes. She has broadly based academic experience embracing a strong record of teaching and research, management and in academic review activities. These strengths underline her capacity to organise work and meet deadlines while also making innovative contributions to education.


Dr Hitoshi Suzuki

PhD, European University Institute, Florence, Italy
hsuzuki@1998.jukuin.keio.ac.jp
Curriculum Vitae (doc 39kb)
List of Publications (doc 36kb)

Hitoshi Suzuki holds a Ph.D. in History and Civilization from the European University Institute in Florence, Italy. His thesis was titled “Digging for European Unity: the Role Played by the Trade Unions in the Schuman Plan and the European Coal and Steel Community from a German Perspective 1950-1955”. He also completed a Master of Research at the Department of History and Civilization in the European University Institute. He holds a M. A. in Political Science from the Graduate School of Law at Keio University in Tokyo, Japan.


Professor Jan van der Harst

PhD, European University Institute, Florence, Italy
j.van.der.harst@rug.nl

Staff Profile

Professor Jan van der Harst graduated in contemporary history at the University of Leiden in 1983 and obtained his Ph.D. degree at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy in 1988 on the topic “European Union and Atlantic Partnership: Political, Military and Economic Aspects of Dutch Defence, 1948-1954; and the Impact of the European Defence Community”. He has published extensively on themes relating to European integration and cooperation and Dutch foreign policy.

He was assistant lecturer in European Studies at the University of Cork, Republic of Ireland in 1987 and is now working for the department of International Relations and International Organisation at the University of Groningen, Netherlands. Since 1996 he occupies the Jean Monnet Chair in the History and Theory of European Integration. In 2007 he was appointed co-director of the Dutch Studies Centre Fudan-Groningen, a joint programme with Fudan University in Shanghai, P.R. China. Since 2008 Van der Harst is professor in the History and Theory of European Integration at the University of Groningen.

He is project leader of the following research activities:

  • The consequences of the eastern enlargement of the EU (with special attention to the Czech Republic) on the EU's Common Foreign Security Policy
  • Development of the postwar debate on European integration within the Dutch national parliament and political parties
  • The role of the European Commission during expansions of the EEC/EC: a comparison between 1974 and 2004

Professor Jacques Ziller

Doctor’s degree in law, Paris II University
jacques.ziller@unipv.it
Curriculum Vitae (doc 72kb)
List of Publications (doc 132kb)

Professor Jacques Ziller is Professor of European Union Law at the University of Pavia in Italy. He holds a Doctor’s degree in law from Paris II University (Doctorat d’Etat en droit), post-graduate diplomas in law and political science, and a graduate diploma of the Paris Institute of Political Studies. His research interests include 20th century French history, the history of international relations, history of European unity, and transatlantic relations.

His previous academic positions include:

  • Head of the Law Department (1 Oct1999 – 31 Oct 2003)
  • Professor of Comparative Public Law the European University Institute in Florence (01 Sept 1998 – 2008)
  • Professor at Uni. Paris 1, Panthéon-Sorbonne (1992 – 2007 – on secondment from 1 Sept 1998 to 30 Sept 2007)
  • Professor at the University of French West-Indies and Guyana (Guadeloupe-FWI, 1989-1991)
  • Associate professor at ESSEC Business School (Cergy-Pontoise, 1980-1985)
  • Assistant professor at Paris II University (1980-1985)

Professor Vladimir Zuev

PhD, Moscow State University of International Relations of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MGIMO)
vzuev@hse.ru
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Professor Vladimir Zuev is Head of the Chair of global economic governance and European Integration of the State University – Higher School of Economics in Moscow. Since 2003, he has been Professor at the State University - Higher School of Economics. He holds a Ph.D. in World economy and International Economic relations from the Moscow State University of International Relations of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MGIMO). His Thesis was entitled: “UK in the EC: British direct investments”.

Professor Zuev has more than 2500 pages of different publications in Russia and abroad in books, magazines and newspapers on different international topics, mostly on the European union, including three individual books. More than 1000 pages of case studies and policy advice papers to the Russian Government and the President with expertise and advice on international topics (mostly on European economic integration) and Russian domestic economic policies.


 

 
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