A former Max Weber fellow has received the Best Thesis Award by the Franco-German University, for her work “Europeanization of party competition in France, German and the UK (1986-2009)”. Isabelle Guinaudeau defended her thesis in 2011, before spending a year at the EUI as a fellow where she researched French law-making in taxation, nuclear energy […]

An academic from the University of Strasbourg has won the 2012 Jean-Baptiste Duroselle award for her PhD thesis, which she completed after researching at the Historical Archives of the European Union. Maria Gainar received a  Sörensen grant to visit the archives at the EUI campus in 2011, for her thesis examining the beginning of European political […]

Professor Pepper D Culpepper from the EUI’s Department of Political and Social Sciences has been awarded the 2012 Stein Rokkan Prize in Comparative Social Science Research, for his 2011 work ‘Quiet Politics and Business Power: Corporate Control in Europe and Japan’.