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 alumnus from the Department of History and Civilization has won an award to have his published thesis translated into English. Rengenier Rittersma defended his German-language thesis, “‘Da Capo’. Das Nachleben des Grafen Lamoraal von Egmont (1522-1568) in es europaeischen Kulturgeschichte bis zur Weimarer Klassik: eine mythogenetische Studie”, at the EUI in 2006. The work […]

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’.