Curriculum Vitae
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Academic Qualifications
2002 | Professor of Politics and International Relations, Queen's University Belfast, UK |
1996 | PhD, Political Science, Carleton University, Canada |
1989 | Dipl Pol (MA) Otto-Suhr Institute, Free University of Berlin |
Academic Career
2011 | Member of the Academy of Social Sciences (AcSS), United Kingdom | 2009 | Professor of Politics & Global Governance, University of Hamburg |
2007-09 | Professor of Politics and International Relations, University of Bath |
2002-07 | Professor of International Relations, Queen's University of Belfast, UK |
2003 | Director, Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence, Queen's University Belfast |
1999-02 | Reader, Politics and International Relations, Institute of European Studies, Queen's University of Belfast |
2001 | Jean Monnet Professor of European Politics, Queen's University Belfast |
1997-99 | Assistant Professor (C1) Institute for Political Science, University of Hanover, Germany |
1995-97 | Postdoctoral Fellowship, Sussex European Institute, University of Sussex, UK |
1993-95 | Sessional Lecturer, International Relations, Carleton University, Canada |
1991-95 | PhD Programme Political Science, Carleton University, Canada |
1991-93 | Teaching Assistant, Comparative Government & International Relations, Carleton University, Canada |
1991 | Instructor, Special Courses Programme, Stanford University |
1990 | Instructor, Otto-Suhr Institute, Free University Berlin |
1987-89 | Research Assistant, Free University Berlin, Institute for Latin American Studies |
1988 | Tutor, Institute of Latin American Studies, Free University Berlin |
1986-89 | MA/BA Student, Political Science, Otto-Suhr Institute, Free University Berlin |
1985-86 | BA Student, American Studies, Latin American Studies, Portuguese, Human Medicine, Free University Berlin |
1982-85 | BA Student, Roman Languages and Literature, Anglo-Saxon Language and Literature |
Fellowships, Visiting Professorships, Awards (selection)
2011 | Fellow, Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg, Delmenhorst, Projekt: Global Constitutionalism – Mapping an Emerging Field, in Zusammenarbeit mit Professor Andreas Fischer-Lescano, Universitaet Bremen ( |
2009 | The Invisible Constitution of Politics (CUP 2008) nominated for the "Giovanni Sartori Book Award on Qualitative Methods and Concept Formation" of the American Political Science Association's Qualitative and Multi-Method Research Section and for the "W.J.M. Mackenzie Book Prize" of the Political Science Association (UK) |
2006 | Centre for Social Sciences, Berlin (WZB), Guest for the President Fellowship, May/June 2006 |
2005 | University of Trento, Standing Guest Professorship: Institute of International Studies, Spring Lectures on International Relations Theories and International Law |
2003 | Fellowship, Hanse Institute for Advanced Studies, Delmenhorst Projects: Changing Rights Politics: A Challenge to Stateness? and The Invisible Constitution, collaboration with M Zürn, University of Bremen |
2000-07 | Jean Monnet Professorship, Political Science Queen's University, Belfast |
1998 | Nuffield College, Oxford, Visiting Fellow, collaboration with K M Fierke, Project: EU and NATO Enlargement |
1998 | Robert Schumann Centre, European University Institute, Florence, Jean Monnet Fellowship (Postdoc): Project: Governance beyond the State |
1997-98 | German American Research Network/Social Science Research Council, NY, Principal Applicant w/ R Koslowski, Research & Teaching Project Practicing Democracy Transnationally, University Rutgers-Newark |
1996-97 | German American Academic Council, Postdoc: SSRC/DAAD, Summer Institute Immigration, Incorporation and Citizenship in Advanced Industrial Democracies, New School of Social Research, New York & Humboldt University Berlin |
1995-97 | Sussex European Institute, Sussex University, Human Capital & Mobility Programme of the EU (Postdoc): invitation by H Wallace, individual project Governance beyond the State |
1996 | European University Institute, Florence, Visiting Professorship: European Forum on Citizenship, Principal Applicant, Project: European Citizenship Practice: The Developing Institutions of Citizenship (1 month) |
1990-1991 | Stanford University, Exchange Fellowship: Stanford Graduate Division, Project: Participation in First Year PhD Programme, Department of Political Science |
Boards
Journals
- Global Constitutionalism – Human Rights, Democracy and the Rule of Law (GlobCon), Cambridge University Press, founding editor (w/ J Tully, M Kumm, M Maduro, A Lang), website
- European Political Science Review (EPSR), Cambridge University Press, associate editor (w/ R Bellamy, J Pierre, Mark Hallerberg and G Peters, D Della Porta as Editors-in-Chief), website
- European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR) Editorial Board: Classics Series & New Monograph Series (since 2006)
- Journal of European Public Policy, editorial board, 2000-2006
- ConWEB - Webpapers on Constitutionalism and Governance beyond the State, European Research Papers Archive (ERPA0 founding editor w/ J Shaw, co-editor w/ S Toope, J Brunnée, 2000-2010), website
- International Studies Review, editorial board, 2003-2006 & 2008-2009
- Zeitschrift für Internationale Beziehungen, editorial board 2002-2010
Speakers Series
- The Constitution of International Order, Lecture Series, Centre for Globalisation and Governance, University of Hamburg (2009-10)
- Normative International Relations Speakers Series, University of Bath (2007-09)
- Democratic Constitutionalism, Eminent Speaker Series in Law and Politics (in collaboration with S Wheeler, Law School, Queen’s, discontinued with appointment in Bath, 2007)
Advisory/Management
- German Institute for Global Area Studies, Member of the Board (since 2009)
- ESRC (Economic and Social Research Council), Benchmarking Review of Politics and International Studies (2006-07)
- Comparative Research in Law and Political Economy, Research Network, York University, Toronto, Canada (since 2005)
- Jean Monnet Centre for European Union Studies, University of Bremen, Germany (since 2001)
- EU 6th Framework Programme, CONNEX Network of Excellence, University of Mannheim, deputy member for Sonja Puntscher-Riekmann, 2004-07
- Centre for the Advancement of Women in Politics, School of Politics & International Studies, Queen’s University Belfast (until 2007)
- Human Rights Centre, Law School, Queen’s University Belfast (until 2007)
Other
- Ariadne Fund, Travel fund for students of central and eastern European Countries at the Sussex European Institute, University of Sussex, 1997 (w/ H Wallace).
- Mentor: ProFiL-Programm, Technical University Berlin, Humboldt University and Free University of Berlin (since 2009)
Membership and Service in Learned Societies
- American Political Science Association
- Arbeitskreis Europäische Integration (German ECSA)
- British International Studies Association
- German Political Science Association
Executive Committee Working Group on Integration (Arbeitskreis Integrationsforschung) 2000-2006
- European Consortium for Political Research
Member ECPR Dissertation Prize Committee (since 2006)
Member ECPR Classics Editorial Board (since 2006)
- ECPR Standing Group International Relations (SGIR)
Member SGIR Steering Committe (since 2002)
Programme Chair Stockholm 2010
Appointment Committee EJIR Editorial Board (2003)
Member Young Researcher's Workshop Committee
(since 2005)
- International Political Science Association
Member Executive Committee Integration Research Unit (2002-2005)
- International Studies Association:
Non-American Member-at-Large, Governing Council 2007-08 Ethnicity, Nationalism and Migration Section
Chair 2002-2003
Chair elect 2001
Member at-large 1999-2000
Vice-Chair 2000
Program Chair 1998-99, 1999-2000
- Social and Legal Studies Association
- University Association for Contemporary European Studies, since 1999
- Wilton Park International Association at Winston Park, Sussex, Fellow 2003-05
- Affiliated Research Partner, EU Centre of Excellence at York University, Toronto
