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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Official name: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (EUCE) European Union Center of Excellence
Website: www.unc.edu/depts/eucenter
Key Center Personnel
- John D. Stephens, Director and Lenski Professor of Political Science and Sociology
- Ruth Mitchell-Pitts, Executive Director
- Gali Beeri, Outreach Programs
- Chuck Olbert, Web Designer
- Stephanie Volk, Financial Services
- Sarah Hutchison, Graduate Programs (Transatlantic Masters and European Governance)
- Tanya Kinsella, Undergraduate Programs (EURO major and Languages Across the Curriculum)
- Brice McGowan, Design and Web Services
Center Structure:
The EUCE North Carolina is directed by John Stephens, assisted by Ruth Mitchell-Pitts and supported by an advisory board of 8 faculty members from political science, history, sociology, geography, romance languages, and the School of Law. The EUCE is a component of the Center for European Studies, which includes an undergraduate major, a program in Languages Across the Curriculum, and two MA level programs of study relating to European Governance and Transatlantic Relations. The center is based in the College of Arts and Sciences, and reports to the Dean of the College. We are housed in a new (2007) building, the FedEx Global Education Center, purpose-built for area studies programs and related units on campus. UNC has seven area studies centers in African Studies, Asian Studies, European Studies, Middle-East Studies, Russian and East European Studies, the Institute for the Study of the Americas, and the Center for Global Initiatives.
The EUCE of North Carolina funds faculty and graduate student research in a competitive process. Overall our research and teaching themes are transatlantic relations, European integration, and European and comparative social policy.
Formal degree or certificate programs:
The Center offers a B.A. in Contemporary European Studies, an MA in Political Science, concentration Transatlantic Studies run in conjunction with six European universities, and in 2008 we will enroll students in a new MA program in Political Science, concentration European Governance run in conjunction with the Free University, Amsterdam and Science Po, Paris. We also run a graduate certificate program in “Teaching Languages across the Curriculum”.
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University of Pittsburgh
Official name: University of Pittsburgh European Union Center of Excellence
Website address: http://www.ucis.pitt.edu/euce
European Union Center of Excellence
University Center for International Studies
4200 Wesley W. Posvar Hall
University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15260
Website address: http://www.ucis.pitt.edu/euce
E-mail: euce@pitt.edu
Phone: (412) 648-7405
Fax: (412) 648-2199
The European Union Center of Excellence (EUCE) at the University of Pittsburgh is focused on the post-enlargement transformation of the European Union, the evolution of both cooperative and conflictual U.S.-EU relations, and the EU's relations with its neighbors as well as with Asia, Africa, and Latin America. It seeks a broad and varied audience, including students, academics, journalists, businessmen and women, NGOs, think-tanks, and policy networks in both the U.S. and abroad. The University of Pittsburgh’s EUCE activities include undergraduate and graduate teaching, EU meeting simulations for both high school and undergraduate students, media briefings, publications, and collaboration with other Pittsburgh regional institutions of higher education. The EUCE offers both undergraduate and graduate certificates in European Union studies. The Center’s events and activities complement those of the European Studies Center, a U.S. Department of Education Title VI-funded area studies National Resource Center. The EUCE’s sponsored workshops, symposia, and conferences attract participants from Europe and the rest of the world. Annually the EUCE hosts 15-20 distinguished visiting scholars and practitioners, one of which was a visit by European Commission President Barroso in 2006. The Center serves as a focal point for the many activities related to the European Union which take place in the tri-state region of Pennsylvania, West Virginia, and Ohio.
Unique among the resources at the University of Pittsburgh for the study and understanding of the EU is the recent transfer to the University Library System of the entire European Union depository collection from the Delegation of the European Commission to the U.S. in Washington, D.C. The Delegation’s depository collection is the most extensive collection of public European Community/European Union documents and publications in North America. This expansion of the University’s collection on Europe and the European Union will enhance the Archive of European Integration, an on-line electronic resource, through plans to digitalize a large portion of the collection. Dr. Phil Wilkin of the University Library System is the Archivist of the European Union Collection and the Director of the Archive of European Integration.
Center Personnel:
- Alberta Sbragia, Director, Mark A Nordenberg University Chair, and Jean Monnet Chair ad personam
- Timothy S. Thompson, Associate Director
- Thomas Allen, Assistant Director
- Stephen Lund, Assistant Director
- Sandra Hall, Outreach Coordinator
- Karen Lautanen, Activities Administrator
Academic Programs:
- Undergraduate Certificate in European Union Studies
- Graduate Certificate of Advanced Studies in European Union Studies
- Undergraduate Certificate in West European Studies
- Graduate Certificate of Advanced Studies in West European Studies
- BPhil in International and Area Studies – European Union Studies (being developed)
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University of Washington-Seattle
Official name: EU Center of Excellence of Seattle
Website address: http://jsis.washington.edu/euc/
Center Personnel:
James Caporaso (Director), Phil Shekleton (Associate Director), Karen Boschker (Outreach Coordinator), Mark DiVirgilio (Exchange Program Coordinator).
Center Structure:
The EU Center of Excellence of Seattle is housed together with its partner, the Center for West European Studies, in the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies at the University of Washington. The Jackson School is part of the UW School of Arts & Sciences and is home to eight US Department of Education Title VI National Resource Centers. While our program reports to the Director of the Jackson School and UW Divisional Dean of Social Sciences, the center serves as a resource for the entire campus and the broader Pacific Northwest academic and public communities. The diverse membership of our steering committee, consisting of faculty from a variety of campus units along with representatives of the local business and diplomatic communities, ensures our center remains connected to a broad constituency.
Main themes of center teaching, research, and outreach:
The center contributes to, and benefits from, a rich environment of learning and public discourse at the University of Washington and in the greater Seattle community. The center supports a broad range of teaching, research, and outreach, with special emphases on trans-Atlantic relations, EU law and institutions, and outreach to Seattle’s large international business community.
Formal degree or certificate programs:
The Jackson School of International Studies offers both an undergraduate major and minor in European Studies. The EU Center organizes an EU track within the European Studies major, which non-majors at the UW can participate in as a certificate program.
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American Consortium on EU Studies
Official name: American Consortium on EU Studies, European Union Center of Excellence
Website address: http://transatlantic.sais-jhu.edu/Who_We_Are/ACES
The American Consortium on EU Studies (ACES) was created in 2001 to improve academic and public understanding of the European Union and U.S.-EU relations. It seeks to strengthen education and research opportunities and create new synergies among scholars, students, policymakers, the private sector, representatives of governmental and non-governmental organizations and the media.
ACES is a unique partnership among five universities in the Washington , D.C. area-- American University, George Mason University, George Washington University, Georgetown University and Johns Hopkins University. The Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars at the Smithsonian Institution, the Catholic University of America, Howard University, and the University of Maryland are affiliated partners. ACES has been recognized as the EU Center of Excellence in Washington, D.C., one of a select number of Centers for European Union Studies in the United States.
ACES is housed at the Center for Transatlantic Relations at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies ( SAIS ) of Johns Hopkins University in Washington , D.C.
ACES engages in five main sets of activities, with each university taking the lead in specific areas:
- Education
- Research
- Policy Outreach
- Media
- Publications
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University of Wisconsin-Madison -
Official name: University of Wisconsin-Madison European Union Center of Excellence
213 Ingraham Hall, 1155 Observatory Drive
Madison, WI 53706
Telephone: (608) 265-8040
Fax: (608) 265-954
Website: eucenter.wisc.edu
There is growing recognition that the European Union represents a novel phenomenon in international politics: a non-state polity of 27 diverse members, which is nonetheless capable both of generating a dense and expanding web of internal rules and policies, and of projecting them outwards as a regional and global actor. The EU Center of Excellence explores the ongoing transformation of the EU, examining key dimensions of the Union’s internal and external decision-making processes and policies, including the relationship between them.
The Wisconsin-EUCE is expanding into several new subject areas and academic disciplines than in its ten previous years of existence, thereby continuing as a regional, national, and global leader in disseminating knowledge of the European Union.
The Center’s three core themes are:
1. The EU as a Global Actor (Leader: Jeremi Suri, History)
This theme examines the growth of the EU as a powerful international actor, focusing on how the EU is using its influence to reshape global governance. It consists of five main projects:
- Transatlantic Security Cooperation (Jeremi Suri, History)
- EU Development Assistance (Jeremi Suri, History)
- Science, the Public, and Global Communication (Dominique Brossard, Journalism and Mass Communications, and Dietram Scheufele, Life Sciences Communication)
- Global Energy Security (Paul Wilson, Engineering)
- Governing Climate Change (Greg Nemet, La Follette School of Public Affairs and Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies)
2. Transformations of European Law and Governance (Leader: Nils Ringe, Political Science)
This theme examines current transformations of European law and governance, focusing on who participates in processes of legislation, policy making and regulation, how, and with what outcomes. It comprises four main projects:
- The Changing Process of European Law Making (Nils Ringe, Political Science)
- Organized Civil Society and European Governance (Jonathan Zeitlin, Sociology, Public Affairs, Political Science, and History, and Elizabeth Covington, European Studies)
- New Governance and the Transformation of Law and Regulation in the EU and North America (David Trubek and Louise Trubek, Law)
- Changing Labor Markets, Adapting Institutions? Transatlantic Perspectives (Markus Gangl, Sociology
3. Exporting EU Governance (Leader: Jonathan Zeitlin, Sociology, Public Affairs, Political Science, and History)
This theme investigates the external projection of EU governance and regulation beyond the Union’s borders. It includes five main projects:
- Exporting Experimentalist Governance (Jonathan Zeitlin, Sociology, Public Affairs, Political Science, and History)
- Transnationalizing Gender Mainstreaming (Myra Marx Ferree, Sociology and Women’s Studies)
- Transatlantic Perspectives on Health Systems Governance and Innovation (Thomas Oliver, School of Medicine and Public Health, and Louise Trubek, Law School)
- Managing Challenges of Import Safety in a Global Market (Vicki Bier, Engineering, and Stephanie Tai, Law)
- The Global Geopolitics of the Knowledge Economy: Regional Linkages and Higher Education Restructuring in Europe and Asia (Kris Olds, Geography)
EUCE Personnel:
- Jeremi Suri – Director, EUCE
- Elizabeth Covington - Associate Director, EUCE/Executive Director, ESA
- Csanád Z. Siklós - Assistant Director/Outreach Specialist, ESA
- Melody Niwot - Project Assistant, EUCE
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FIU and University of Miami
Official name: Miami-Florida European Union Center of Excellence (MEUCE)
Website address: http://www.miamieuc.org/
Florida International University – University Park – DM 368 – 11200 SW 8th Street – Miami, FL 33199
Center Personnel:
- Dr. Joaquín Roy, Co-Director, University of Miami
- Dr. Elisabeth Prügl, Co-Director, Florida International University
- Christine I. Caly-Sanchez, Assistant Director, Florida International University
The Miami-Florida European Union Center of Excellence, (MEUCE) is a consortium of Florida International University (FIU) and the University of Miami (UM). At FIU,it is housed within the School of International and Public Affairs at the College of Arts & Sciences. At UM it is administered by the Jean Monnet Chair, located within the Department of International Studies, which reports to the Dean of Arts and Sciences.
The mission of the Miami-Florida EUCE, is to promote teaching, research, and outreach activities relating to the EU. To accomplish this mission, the Miami-Florida EUCE, facilitates the development of new courses on the EU, provides for financial assistance to graduate students and faculty pursuing research on topics related to the EU, holds academic conferences on EU matters, sponsors public lectures featuring EU speakers, and conducts outreach workshops for educators, journalists and media professionals, and the greater Miami business community.
The Center runs a European Studies Certificate program that is open to all FIU undergraduates with an interest in any aspect of European civilization, past or present. It is an interdisciplinary program that draws on a broad range of courses from throughout FIU to complement a student’s own interests. The program offers a senior colloquium, “European Identities”, that allows students the opportunity to engage in research on topics of their own choosing in close conjunction with a member of the Program Faculty. For further information, visit the website: http://www.fiu.edu/~aseu/europeanstudies/
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University of Michigan
Official name: European Union Center at the University of Michigan (EUC-MI), a European Commission Designated Center of Excellence
Website: http://www.eucentre.org
Center for European Studies-European Union Center
Weiser Center for Europe & Eurasia
University of Michigan
1080 South University, Suite 3668
Ann Arbor, Mi 48109-1106
Web: www.ii.umich.edu/ces-euc
Email: ces-euc@umich.edu
Phone: 734.647.2743
Fax: 734.763.4765
The Center for European Studies-European Union Center (CES-EUC) at the University of Michigan is a multi-disciplinary research, education, and outreach program dedicated to improving understanding of modern, integrated Europe at the University of Michigan and in the United States. In 2001, CES received a grant from the European Commission to establish a European Union Center; since 2005, U-M’s EUC has been one of a handful of Commission-designated European Union Centers of Excellence at leading research universities in the U.S. In collaboration with academic and research units across U-M, other EU Centers of Excellence, and institutions of higher education in Europe, CES-EUC offers an array of public programs, funding opportunities, and innovative curricular outreach on Europe and administers the Netherlands Visiting Professorship, a partnership between U-M and the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences initiated in 1950. Since 2008, CES-EUC also works alongside the Center for Russian and East European Studies and Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies in association with the Ronald and Eileen Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia.
Center Personnel:
Director: Dario Gaggio is director of the European Union Center of Excellence, Center for European Studies, and associate professor of History. His research focuses on modern European history and history and political economy. Gaggio also serves as student advisor.
Staff (one full-time and five part-time employees): Nataša Gruden-Alajbegović, program administrator, Marysia Ostafin, program manager; Sylvia Meloche, outreach coordinator; Rachel Facey, student services associate; Ingrid Peterson, administrative assistant; and Shannon Nitchie, accountant
Center Structure:
The Center for European Studies-European Union Center (CES-EUC) at the University of Michigan is a multi-disciplinary research, education, and outreach program dedicated to improving understanding of modern, integrated Europe at the University of Michigan and in the United States. In 2001, CES received a grant from the European Commission to establish a European Union Center; since 2005, U-M’s EUC has been one of a handful of Commission-designated European Union Centers of Excellence at leading research universities in the U.S. In collaboration with academic and research units across U-M, other EU Centers of Excellence, and institutions of higher education in Europe, CES-EUC offers an array of public programs, funding opportunities, and innovative curricular outreach on Europe and administers the Netherlands Visiting Professorship, a partnership between U-M and the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences initiated in 1950. Since 2008, CES-EUC also works alongside the Center for Russian and East European Studies and Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies in association with the Ronald and Eileen Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia.
Main themes of center teaching, research, and outreach:
Religion, Multiculturalism, and Diversity in Europe. With the enlargement of the EU and increasing religious, racial, and ethnic diversity within member states, what place do religious identifications and secular commitments have in defining the new Europe? And how do these transformations, among others facing the EU, affect the qualities of attachment to Europe and assessment of solidarity and diversity in shaping European culture, social relations, and governance?
European Security and Global Transformations. With increasing global integration, transformations in the relationship between environment and political economy, and new inequalities and forms of violence, the challenge to realizing various types of security within and beyond the EU has been substantially extended. What challenges does Europe face and what policies and practices does Europe suggest to a world confronting new issues in human security?
European Governance and Democracy. How might we understand and analyze the conditions that led to past institutions and rules of European governance, and how might these past practices, and democratic traditions and commitments of particular European publics and polities, influence future patterns of European governance and their global reflections and effects?
The Center administers a minor in Modern European Studies.
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University of Texas at Austin
Official name: The European Union Center of Excellence at the Robert S. Strauss Center for International Security and Law--The University of Texas at Austin
http://eu.robertstrausscenter.org/about
Mailing/Street Address:
UT-EUCE - The Robert S. Strauss Center for International Security and Law
The University of Texas at Austin
2315 Red River Street
Austin, Texas 78712
TEL: +1-512-471-6267
FAX: +1-512-471-6961
EMAIL: europe@robertstrausscenter.org
The University of Texas European Union Center of Excellence at the Robert S. Strauss Center explores European and American responses to the pressures created by global interconnectedness. Under the theme of Trans-border Opportunities and Challenges, the Center works to spur dialogue on the common challenges facing the European Union and the United States and to create opportunities for Europeans and Americans to discuss and evaluate contending policy solutions. In doing so, the Center engages the best minds in academia, government, business, and the not-for-profit sectors in its activities.
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University of California — Berkeley
Official name: European Union Center of Excellence at the University of California, Berkeley
http://eucenter.berkeley.edu/
Mailing/Street Address:
European Union Center of Excellence
207 Moses Hall #2316
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, CA 94720-2316
TEL: +1-510-643-5777
FAX: +1-510-643-3372
EMAIL: eucenter@berkeley.edu
Center Personnel:
- Beverley Crawford, Co-director and Associate Director, Institute of European Studies
- Jeffrey Pennington, Co-director and Executive Director, Institute of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies
- Noga Wizansky, Assistant Director
The European Union Center of Excellence at the University of California, Berkeley is a joint effort of the Institute of European Studies and the Institute of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies, working in cooperation with the School of Public Health, the Institute of Governmental Studies, the Berkeley Roundtable on the International Economy, and the School of Law on the UC Berkeley campus. The EU Center develops and promotes education, research, and outreach programs aimed at mainstreaming EU perspectives on a wide variety of issues through its educational, business, scientific, and policy networks. The Center broadly disseminates research and focuses training on targeted aspects of European integration and the EU’s new global role. It serves as a regional resource center for undergraduate and graduate interdisciplinary education, outreach to the wider educational and scientific and business communities, people-to-people and electronic exchanges, and conferences focused on key aspects of European Union and its role in the world. With the creation of this EU Center of Excellence, UC Berkeley will continue to play a vital role in promoting a deeper understanding of the European Union and raise the level of dialogue and discourse on transatlantic relations throughout the State of California.
The EU Center supports a number of activities related to the better understanding of and teaching about the European Union. Academic opportunities include faculty research grants, curriculum development grants, pre-dissertation/dissertation fellowships for graduate students, support of the annual Claremont – UC Undergraduate Research Conference on the European Union, and a working papers series. In addition, the EU Center supports a visiting speaker series and a series of conferences and workshops on the following themes: Transatlantic Relations in a Post-Transatlantic World; the Euro, the European Union, and the World; Facing New Challenges: EU-U.S. Collaboration and “Best Practices” to Solve Global Health, Energy, and Environmental Problems; and Immigration, Integration, and Cultural Change in the European Union.
Main themes of Center teaching, research, and outreach:
(1) Transatlantic Relations in a Post-Transatlantic World — assesses the changing nature of the transatlantic economic, social, and political relationship in a world in which China, Russia, and India are rapidly rising to great power status, a world in which the EU has assumed the role of a major international actor, and a world in which global problems require broad cooperative global solutions.
(2) The Euro, the Union, and the World — addresses issues such as the Euro’s growing international role, the accession of new EU members in the Euro-zone, and the impact of the Euro on fragile European economies. Our pursuit of this theme will draw on the internationally recognized strengths of UC Berkeley faculty in economic and monetary analysis.
(3) Facing New Challenges: EU-U.S. Collaboration and “Best Practices” to Solve Global Health, Energy, and Environmental Problems — focuses on a range of new governance problems facing both the EU and the U.S., including cross-border public health threats, threats of resource scarcity, the environment, and regulation across issue areas. The EU Center will partner with the Center for Occupational and Environmental Health within UC Berkeley’s School of Public Health in order to tap world class faculty expertise for research and discussion of institutional responses to these issues.
(4) Immigration, Integration, and Cultural Change in the European Union — EU Center activities in this area are particularly appropriate because they will commence in the 2008 “Year for Intercultural Dialogue” and address the EU Commission’s Cultural Agenda for Europe. Partners for the EU Center in pursuit of this theme will be Berkeley’s Institute of Governmental Studies, the Chief Justice Warren Institute on Race, Ethnicity and Diversity within the UC Berkeley School of Law, and the multi-campus research center on Comparative Immigration and Integration, located at the University of California, Davis
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University of Colorado at Boulder
Official name: The Colorado European Union Center of Excellence
http://www.colorado.edu/CEUCE/
Mailing/Street Address:
Colorado European Union Center of Excellence
University of Colorado
Ketchum Hall 124, 333 UCB
Boulder, CO 80309-033
TEL: +1-303-492-4314
EMAIL: CEUCE@colorado.edu
The Colorado European Union Center of Excellence (CEUCE) promotes understanding of the European Union (EU) and transatlantic (EU-US) relations through teaching, research and outreach activities at the University of Colorado at Boulder and in the broader Mountain West region. The CEUCE was founded in 2008 with the support of the Delegation of the European Commission to the United States in Washington, DC, and represents one of the eleven institutions forming the Network of European Union Centers of Excellence in the United States.
Begun in 1998, the aim of the European Commission’s Centers of Excellence Program has been to promote people-to-people links across the Atlantic. Now in its tenth year, the Program has successfully promoted greater transatlantic understanding between and among numerous constituencies including students, educators, businesspeople, policy practitioners, and informed publics.
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Georgia Institute of Technology
Official name: The European Union Center of Excellence at the Georgia Institute of Technology
http://www.euce.gatech.edu/
Mailing/Street Address:
EUCE
International Affairs, 01610
Georgia Institute of Technology
Atlanta, GA 30332-0610
TEL: +1-404-385-6237
FAX: +1-404-894-1900
EMAIL: euce@gatech.edu
The European Union Center of Excellence at the Georgia Institute of Technology was established in Fall of 2008 with the support of a grant from the European Commission. Our goal is to promote wider knowledge and understanding of the European Union and the transatlantic relationship. Building on the natural strengths of Georgia Tech and its commitment to interdisciplinary programs, the Center’s educational, outreach, and research activities will revolve around the theme of “Technological Transformations and Global Challenges in the 21st Century: EU and Transatlantic Strategies for Innovation and Sustainability."
The EUCE sponsors a variety of workshops, conferences, executive roundtables and public talks around the following themes: EU and transatlantic economic governance, energy, innovation and sustainability in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), biotechnology and nanotechnology.
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