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Centre membersAssociate Professor Nick Bisley PhD, London School of Economics 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 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 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 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. Dr Peter Howard PhD, Monash University 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 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 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 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 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). 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 ViczianyPhD, University of London 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 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.
Associate membersProfessor Stefan Auer PhD, Melbourne University, Australia
Professor Greg Bamber PhD, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh 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 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
Professor Joana Chiavari PhD, University Ca’ Foscari of Venice, Italy 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 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). Professor Anne Deighton Online Contact 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 Guderzoguderzo@unifi.it Dr Anjo G. Harryvan PhD, European University Institute in Florence, Italy Marcin Jałowiecki PhD, University of Economics in Katowice, Poland 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”. Dr N. Piers Ludlow D. Phil, St Antony's College, Oxford 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 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 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 NovotnyPhD, University of New South Wales 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 She is also researching on:
Dr Laura Carballo Piñeiro Doctorate in Private International Law, University of Vigo, Spain 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.
Associate Professor Werner Pleschberger PhD, University of Salzburg, Austria
Professor Richard Pomfret PhD, Simon Fraser University, Canada Professor Sebastian SantanderPhD, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
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 Dr Giles Scott-Smith PhD, Lancaster University, UK 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’. Professor Terri Seddon PhD, Macquarie University, NSW 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 Professor Jan van der HarstPhD, European University Institute, Florence, Italy 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 is project leader of the following research activities:
Professor Jacques Ziller Doctor’s degree in law, Paris II University
Professor Vladimir Zuev PhD, Moscow State University of International Relations of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MGIMO) 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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