The Center for European Studies is pleased to welcome Gary Murphy as our visiting Fulbright Scholar at the Center for 2011-12.

Prof. Murphy is Professor of Government at Dublin City University in Ireland. He is the author of five books and numerous research articles and book chapters. He is a noted specialist on the politics of modern Ireland and is the author of such works as "In Search of the Promised Land: The Politics of Postwar Ireland" (Mercier Press, 2009) and "Continuity, Change and Crisis in Contemporary Ireland" (Routledge, 2010). Prof. Murphy's other main area of expertise is in interest groups and lobbying. He is the author of "Regulating Lobbying: A Global Comparison" (Manchester University Press, 2010) with Raj Chari and John Hogan. Gary is engaged in research on the formulation of lobbying regulation during his stay at the Center.

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Christiane Lemke is a Professor of Political Science at the Leibniz University of Hannover, Germany, and Jean Monnet Chair in European Political Science. She will hold the Max Weber Chair at New York University 2010-11 and 2011-12. Professor Lemke received her PhD from the Faculty of Philosophy and Social Sciences at the Free University in Berlin and went on to earn her Habilitation Venia legendi in Political Science from the same institution. Professor Lemke has been a visiting scholar at a number of US institutions over the years as she has maintained her permanent faculty positions in Germany. She has taught courses at UNC-CH, Stanford University, Harvard University, and Suffolk University. In addition while on a leave from the University of Hannover from 2006 to 2007, Professor Lemke served as the Director of State Parliament, Lower Saxony.

Her academic areas of expertise include: European Politics: Governance in the European Union; Democracy and Citizenship; Gender Mainstreaming; EU-Enlargement; Politics in East Central Europe; Transatlantic Relations: Europe and the US; Political Culture; US-elections; and Comparative Politics and Political Theory: Welfare States and Social Policy; Civil Society and Minority Rights; Gender and Politics. She just completed a book focused on Barack Obama and edited a book on EU foreign and security policy. She will teach one of the required TransAtlantic Masters courses - POLI 733: European Integration - Theories, Institutions and Decision-Making Processes. This seminar introduces students to key concepts and developments of European integration politics. She has offered this course to TAM students at UNC in the past, and we were delighted and very honored to have her back again this fall.

The Center for European Studies is pleased to welcome Professor Holger Moroff as our new DAAD professor at Carolina, appointed in 2008. He is affiliated with both the Center for European Studies and the Political Science Department. Prof. Moroff has taught international and comparative politics at Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena since 2002. Before that he was a research fellow at the Institut für Europäische Politik (IEP) in Berlin for one year. Prof. Moroff earned his BA in Economics, History and American Studies in 1995 from the University of Bochum. In 1997 he received an MA in Political Science from Washington University in St. Louis. Prof. Moroff earned a Master's of European Studies (M.E.S.) in 2000 from the Center of European Integration Studies (ZEI) at Bonn University. In 2008, he was awarded his PhD in Political Science from Friedrich Schiller University Jena. His dissertation focused on conceptions of security in EU external relations. Professor Moroff is fluent in German, English, and Spanish. He also speaks French and Russian.

During the fall semester, Professor Moroff teaches POLI 433: Politics of the European Union, and one TAM class – POLI 891: The EU as a Global Actor. The TAM seminar focuses on the EU's external relations and foreign policies. The EU is not a classical actor in international relations, as it enjoys more decision making powers than an international organization and less than a unitary state. However, these powers vary according to the degree of integration in different policy fields. TAM students look at a diverse set of EU external policies ranging from trade and soft security issues to diplomatic and military developments as well as US-EU relations.

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