Doctor of Philosophy in Political Science Expected December 2003

University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, North Carolina

Major: Comparative Politics

Dissertation Chair: Gary Marks

Title: Compliance in the European Union: Policy in the Member States from Rome to Amsterdam

Minor: International Relations

Activities: Research Assistant 1998-2001; Teaching Assistant 1999-2000; Teaching Fellow 2000-2002

Master of Arts in Political Science 1998

University of Arizona Tucson, Arizona

Major: Comparative Politics

Minor: International Relations

Activities: Department Fellow, 1996-1997; International Studies Association Newsletter Editor, 1997-1998.

Bachelor of Arts 1996

University of Central Arkansas Conway, Arkansas

Major: Political Science, Summa Cum Laude

Minor: Honors Interdisciplinary Studies, Magna Cum Laude

Activities: Named an Outstanding University Student, 1996, Alpha Chi (Vice President, 1995-1996), Honors Council (Chair, 1995-1996), Outstanding Student in Political Science, 1996.

PUBLICATIONS

“What Do Subnational Offices Think They Are Doing In Brussels?” with Gary Marks and Richard Haesly. Forthcoming in Regional and Federal Studies, Volume 12, Number 3.

“Why National States Comply with Supranational Law: Explaining Implementation Infringements in the European Union, 1972-1993.” European Union Politics, Volume 2, Number 3, October 2001. *This article was runner-up for Best Article in Volume 2 of EUP.

Book Review: Regelsberger, Elfriede; Philippe de Schoutheete de Tervarent; and Wolfgang Wessels 1997. Foreign Policy of the European Union: from EPC to CFSP and Beyond. Reviewed in European Community Studies Association Review, Fall, 1998.

Book Review: Wallace, Helen and William Wallace 1996. Policy-making in the European Union. Reviewed in European Community Studies Association Review, Fall, 1997

AWARDS

European Union Summer Grant for Research; Dissertation Field Research, Summer, 2001: $3,400

Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship (French); Summer 1999: $2,750

Merit Scholarship; UNC at Chapel Hill 1998-1999: $11,000

Department Fellowship; University of Arizona, 1996-1997: $10,000

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Instructor of Political Science, the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Fall 2002-Spring 2004: Introduction to Comparative Politics (a survey course) and Political Issues (an introductory class in ideologies and issues for beginning university students).

Teaching Fellow, UNC Chapel Hill (my own classes): Western European Politics, Summer 2000, Fall 2000, Spring 2001, Fall 2001 and Spring 2001.

Teaching Assistant, UNC Chapel Hill: Western European Politics, two semesters; Bureaucratic Politics (American), one semester; Introduction to American Politics, one semester. Western European Politics and American Politics required leading three discussion sections of approximately twenty students per class (in addition to normal grading requirements).

CONFERENCE PARTICIPATION

European Consortium for Political Research General Conference, Marburg, Germany, September 2003. “Compliance in the EU: A Cross-Sectional and Cross-Temporal Approach.”

American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, August 2003. “Radicalism or Reformism? Evaluating Contending Theories Against a Longitunal and Cross-sectional Data Set” with Gary Marks and Hyung-Min Kim.

BP Transatlantic Workshop for Advanced Ph.D. Students on EU Politics. Workshop sponsored by the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies at the European University Institute in Florence, June 2002. “Compliance in the European Union: A cross-national approach.”

American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, September 2001. “What Do Subnational Offices Think They Are Doing In Brussels?” (revised) with Gary Marks and Richard Haesly.

European Community Studies Association Biannual Meeting, May 2001. “What Do Subnational Offices Think They Are Doing In Brussels?” with Gary Marks and Richard Haesly.

American Political Science Association, Annual Meeting, September 1999. “Devolution and New Federalism: Party responses in the US and UK” (Poster). With Kellye Milam Mashburn.

European Community Studies Association Biannual Meeting, May 1999. “European Multilevel Governance and Growth: Evidence from Late 1980s Ireland.” (Poster with supporting paper.)

International Studies Association, Annual Meeting, March 1998. “‘International’ Laws: Factors Governing Member-State Compliance with European Union Initiatives, 1972-1993”

Western Political Science Association. Annual Meeting, March 1997. “Member-State Compliance with European Union Law, 1972-1993.”

PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS and SERVICE

Graduate Studies Committee, UNC Department of Political Science

2000-2002

President, Political Science Graduate Student Association, UNC

2000-2001

American Political Science Association

Member, 1997 to present

European Community Studies Association

Member, 1999 to present

REFERENCES

Professor Gary Marks

Professor of Political Science and Director of the Center for European Studies

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Department of Political Science

Campus Box 3265

Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3265

marks@unc.edu

Professor John D. Stephens

Gerhard E. Lenski, Jr. Distinguished Professor of Political Science and Sociology

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Department of Political Science

Campus Box 3265

Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3265

jdsteph@unc.edu

Professor Liesbet Hooghe

Associate Professor of Political Science

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Department of Political Science

Campus Box 3265

Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3265

hooghe@unc.edu

Additional references may be supplied if requested.