SPS


Four full-time professors added to EUI faculty

The EUI is delighted to welcome a number of professors joining the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, Law and SPS departments on a full-time basis this autumn. Professor Ellen Immergut joins the Department of Political and Social Sciences, building on the faculty’s proficiency in qualitative methods, social policy and health politics. Amongst her most […]

Dorothee Bohle joins SPS department

Professor Dorothee Bohle is joining the EUI’s Department of Political and Social Sciences this Autumn as Professor of Political Science.  She arrives at the EUI from the Political Science Department of the Central European University, Budapest, where she was Professor. At CEU she was also affiliated with the Doctoral School of Political Science, International Relations and […]

Sean Loughlin (SPS ’82) looks back

Sean Loughlin is an alumnus of the 1982 cohort of the SPS department. He is Research Fellow at Blackfriars Hall, Oxford;  Emeritus Fellow, St Edmund’s College, Cambridge and Emeritus Professor, Cardiff University, Wales. Choosing the EUI I arrived in Florence in 1982 having studied French and Politics in what was then the Ulster Polytechnic (now the University of Ulster). […]

Christian Huber (SPS ’76) on the early years

Christian H. Huber is an alumnus of the first cohort of EUI researchers in the SPS Department. He was a researcher from 1976-1979 and a junior research fellow from 1979-1980.  He is now retired from his post as a Director at the Secretariat-General of the European Parliament, where he worked for 35 years. The recent obituaries in EUI Life […]

Anna auf dem Brinke wins Linz-Rokkan Prize

The EUI’s SPS Department has announced that this year’s recipient of the Linz-Rokkan Prize in Political Sociology is Anna auf dem Brinke for her thesis The political economy of financial risk and preferences, which she defended under the supervision of Professor Pepper Culpepper. The annual prize was created by the SPS Department in honour of two great postwar […]

Remembering Hans Daalder

Professor Hans Daalder passed away in the Hague on the 4th of April 2016 at the age of 88. Beyond his intellectual and academic achievements, he deserves a special tribute in EUI Life for his role as a founder of the EUI and of its department of Political and Social Sciences. As a political scientist he […]

Olivier Roy to speak on terrorism at Institut Francais

Olivier Roy, Joint Chair RSCAS and Chair in Mediterranean Studies at the European University Institute (EUI) will participate in a panel discussion, Unis contre le terrorisme (united against terrorism), at the Institut Francais in Florence on Friday this week. The panel will discuss the threat posed by global jihadism as well as steps which could […]

New professors at the EUI

The EUI welcomes four new professors taking up September appointments at the Institute. Professor Deirdre Curtin  is joining the EUI’s RSCAS and the Department of Law this Autumn as Joint Chair in European Law.  She is Professor of European Law at the University of Amsterdam, and the founding Director of  the Amsterdam Centre for European Law and […]

SPS researcher wins Mobility Grant

Katharina Meissner, a third year researcher in the SPS Department, has been awarded a European Research and Mobility Grant for European Studies ‘Charles V European Award –  José Manuel Durão Barroso’ for her study entitled “History, memory and European integration from the point of view of EU transatlantic relations”. The grant was awarded by the European […]