EU Center Staff

Lois R. Wise Director, European Union Center

Lois R. Wise, Director, European Union Center and Western European Studies; Professor, School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Indiana University Bloomington. PhD, Indiana University, 1982. Her research interests include the impact of public management reform on the bureaucracy (particularly in Scandinavia and the US), the impact of globalization and EU agreements on labor market systems, comparative studies of civil service systems, administrative reform, employment policies and practices, organizational innovations (employment of foreign professionals; e-government, pay reforms) and studies of the consequences of inclusion and exclusion. E-mail: wisel[at]indiana.edu.

Brant Beyer, Project Manager, European Union Center and Western European Studies. MA, MPA, Indiana University, 2008. European Integration, Central and Eastern European politics, EU minority policies, and economic development. E-mail: bbeyer[at]indiana.edu.

EU Center Affiliated Faculty and Staff

This directory has been updated for Fall 2009.

Robert Agranoff, Professor Emeritus, School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Indiana University Bloomington.
Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh, 1967. Intergovernmental relations (U.S., Spain, and cross-national), economic and community development, management of public agencies, governance, intergovernmental management.
E-mail: Agranoff[at]indiana.edu.

David E. Albright, Senior Fellow, The Center for the Study of Global Change, Indiana University Bloomington.
MA, Indiana University. Ethnic conflict in Eastern Europe, rethinking national security and military strategy in the former Soviet Bloc, international security in the 21st century.
E-mail: E-mail: daalbrig[at]indiana.edu.

David Audretsch, Ameritech Chair of Economic Development, School of Public and Environmental Affairs, and Director, Institute for Development Strategies, Indiana University Bloomington.
PhD, University of Wisconsin, 1980. Globalization and development in Eastern Europe, links between entrepreneurship, government policy, innovation, economic development and global competitiveness.
E-mail: daudrets[at]indiana.edu.

Matthew Auer, Professor, School of Public and Environmental Affairs, and Dean, Hutton Honors College, Indiana University Bloomington.
PhD, Yale University, 1996. Environmental politics in the Baltic states and East Europe, comparative energy policy, foreign aid and sustainable development, forestry policy.
E-mail: mauer[at]indiana.edu

Cigdem Balim-Harding, Senior Lecturer, Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, Indiana University Bloomington.
PhD, University of Washington, 1979. Linguistics; languages and cultures in contact; migration and transnational communities; contemporary Turkic languages, peoples, and communities; contemporary Turkey: society, culture, and politics.
E-mail: cbalim[at]indiana.edu.

Jack Bielasiak, Professor, Political Science, Indiana University Bloomington.
PhD, Cornell University, 1975. East European and post-Soviet politics, public opinion on European integration in the candidate countries of Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union.
E-mail: bielasia[at]indiana.edu.

Charles F. Bonser, Dean Emeritus and Professor Emeritus, School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Indiana University Bloomington.
PhD, Indiana University, 1965. Serves as Co-chairman of the Transatlantic Policy Consortium, an organization of 30 U.S. and European academic and research organizations.
E-mail: bonser[at]indiana.ed

Fritz Breithaupt, Associate Professor, Germanic Studies, Indiana University Bloomington.
PhD, Johns Hopkins University, 1996. German and Austrian modernism, German criminal history, literary theory.
E-mail: fbreitha[at]indiana.edu.

Clem Brooks, Professor, Sociology, Indiana University Bloomington.
PhD, University of California, Berkeley, 1994. Political behavior, categorical and longitudinal data analysis, social policy, electoral politics, public opinion and public policy, welfare state theory.
E-mail: cbrooks[at]indiana.edu.

Maria Bucur, Associate Professor, John V. Hill Chair of East European History, and Director, Russian and East European Institute, Indiana University Bloomington.
PhD, University of Illinois – Champaign-Urbana, 1996. War and memory, culture, Eastern Europe, Romania, gender and citizenship, post-communist countries within the EU.
E-mail: mbucur[at]indiana.edu.

Hannah L. Buxbaum, Professor and Executive Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, School of Law, Indiana University Bloomington.
JD, Cornell Law School, 1992; LLM, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität, Heidelberg, Germany 1993. German/US comparative law, private international law.
E-mail: hbuxbaum[at]indiana.edu.

Fred H. Cate, Distinguished Professor and C. Ben Dutton Professor of Law, and Director, Center for Applied Cybersecurity Research, Indiana University Bloomington.
JD, Stanford University, 1987. Information privacy and security law issues
E-mail: fcate[at]indiana.edu.

Paul Craig, Visiting Professor of English Law, Indiana University Bloomington.
MA, Oxon, 1973. Administrative and European Union Law
E-mail: pcraig[at]indiana.edu.

Aurelian Craiutu, Associate Professor, Political Science, Indiana University Bloomington. PhD, Princeton University, 1999. European political thought, democratic theory and consolidation, transitions to democracy, civic culture, political learning, conceptions of patriotism and nationalism.
E-mail: acraiutu[at]indiana.edu.

Lynn Duggan, Associate Professor, Labor Studies, Indiana University Bloomington.
PhD, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 1993. Family Policy and Gender Inequality in East, West, and unified Germany. Gender and German labor unions.
E-mail: lduggan[at]indiana.edu.

Frank Emmert, John S. Grimes Professor of Law and Executive Director, Center for International and Comparative Law, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis.
PhD, University of Maastricht, 1998. European Union law; institutional law and general principles of the EU; economic freedoms in the internal market of the EU; legal remedies in EU law; EU monetary union; EU external trade law; European Union and the challenge of enlargement; moot court in European Union law; decision-making in the EU.
E-mail: femmert[at]iupui.edu

Michelle Facos, Associate Professor, History of Art, Indiana University Bloomington.
PhD, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, 1989. Nineteenth-century European painting and sculpture, particularly that of Scandinavia. Romanticism, Symbolism and issues of identity.
E-mail mfacos[at]indiana.edu.

Sergio Fernandez, Assistant Professor, School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Indiana University Bloomington.
PhD, University of Georgia, 2004. EU procurement policy and contracting.
E-mail: sefernan[at]indiana.edu.

Michele U. Fratianni, Professor Emeritus, Business Economics and Public Policy, Indiana University Bloomington.
PhD, Ohio State University, 1971. International macroeconomic policy cooperation, European monetary system, economics of international organizations.
E-mail: fratiann[at]indiana.edu.

Robert Goehlert, Adjunct Associate Professor, School of Library and Information Science, and Librarian for Economics, Political Science, Global Studies, Criminal Justice, & West European Studies, Herman B Wells Library, Indiana University Bloomington.
PhD, Indiana University, 1981.
E-mail: goehlert[at]indiana.edu.

Roy Gardner, Chancellor's Professor of Economics and Remak Professor of West European Studies, Indiana University Bloomington.
PhD, Cornell University, 1975. Economics of European integration, economics of post-communist transition.
E-mail: gardner[at]indiana.edu.

John D. Graham, Dean, School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Indiana University Bloomington.
PhD, Carnegie-Mellon University, 1983. EU risk management policies.
E-mail: grahamjd[at]ndiana.edu.

Linda Haas, Professor, Sociology, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis.
PhD, University of Wisconsin, 1977. Gender, work, family, and social policy in Sweden.
E-mail: lhaas[at]iupui.edu.

Kim Huynh, Assistant Professor, Economics, Indiana University Bloomington.
PhD, Queen’s University, 2004. Western European household portfolio choice, social security, and the role of housing investment.
E-mail: kphuynh[at]Indiana.edu.

Edgar Illas, Assistant Professor, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Indiana University Bloomington.
PhD, Duke University, 2007. Contemporary Catalan and Spanish literature, European urban models, critical regionalist architecture, stateless nationalisms in the EU, postmodernism/globalization, post-Marxism, deconstruction.
E-mail: eillas[at]indiana.edu.

Luise P. McCarty, Associate Professor, School of Education, Indiana University Bloomington.
PhD, Florida State University, 1990. Metaphysical and epistemological issues in the philosophy of Wittgenstein and contemporary continental philosophy (Gadamer, Heidegger, Arendt) with application to multiculturalism, feminism and aesthetics.
E-mail: lmccarty[at]indiana.edu.

John McCormick, Professor, Political Science, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis.
PhD, Indiana University, 1990. Politics of the European Union; political simulations: model European Union.
E-mail: jmccormi[at]iupui.edu.

Michael D. McGinnis, Professor, Political Science, and Co-Director, Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis, Indiana University Bloomington.
PhD, University of Minnesota, 1985. International conflict, civil war, institutional analysis, governance, and democracy.
E-mail: mcginnis[at]indiana.edu.

Patricia McManus, Associate Professor, Sociology, Indiana University Bloomington.
PhD, Duke University, 1996. Social policy in the EU, immigrant integration in EU and US.
E-mail: pmcmanus[at]indiana.edu.

Christine Ogan, Professor Emeritus, School of Informatics, School of Journalism, Indiana University Bloomington.
PhD, University of North Carolina, 1976. Intersection of communication technologies and international communication.
E-mail: ogan[at]indiana.edu.

Elinor Ostrom, Arthur F. Bentley Professor, Political Science, and Senior Research Director, Workshop Political Theory and Policy Analysis, Indiana University Bloomington.
PhD, University of California, Los Angeles, 1965. Gender issues in post-communist societies, how institutional rules affect the structure of action situations within which individuals face incentives, make choices, and jointly affect each other.
E-mail: ostrom[at]indiana.edu.

Bernice A. Pescosolido, Distinguished Professor, Sociology, and Director of the Indiana Consortium for Mental Health Services Research, Indiana University Bloomington.
PhD, Yale University, 1982. Public opinion: health, health care, stigma of mental illness; social networks; suicide; medical care in Europe.
E-mail: pescosol[at]indiana.edu.

David Ransel, Robert F. Byrnes Professor of History, Indiana University Bloomington.
PhD, Yale, 1969. Russian politics and society.
E-mail: ransel[at]indiana.edu.

William Rasch, Professor, Germanic Studies, Indiana University Bloomington.
PhD, University of Washington – Seattle, 1989. German philosophical tradition, especially social and political theory, from early modernity to the present. German literature within its historical and political context.
E-mail: wrasch[at]indiana.edu.

Toivo Raun, Professor, History and Central Eurasian Studies, Indiana University Bloomington.
PhD, Princeton University, 1969. History of the Baltic peoples and states, agrarian reform and agrarian political parties in interwar Estonia, literacy and its impact in Estonia, Nordic and Baltic States in the European Union.
E-mail: raunt[at]indiana.edu.

Evan Ringquist, Professor, School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Indiana University Bloomington
Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1990. EU environmental and regulatory policy.
E-mail: eringqui[at]indiana.edu.

William Scheuerman, Professor, Political Science and Western European Studies, Indiana University Bloomington.
PhD, Harvard University, 1993. Modern political thought, legal theory, democratic theory, 20th century continental political and social thought, and globalization.
E-mail: wscheuer[at]indiana.edu.

Abdulkader Sinno, Assistant Professor, Political Science, Indiana University Bloomington.
Ph.D. University of California Los Angeles, 2002. Strategy and organization in politicized group conflicts, parliamentary settings, and transnational relations.
E-mail: asinno[at]indiana.edu.

Beate Sissenich, Assistant Professor, Political Science, Indiana University Bloomington.
PhD, Cornell University, 2003. EU state-building in Central and Eastern Europe, mechanisms of rule transfer, transnational networks and the state, regional integration and state formation, the transfer of EU social policy to Poland and Hungary.
E-mail: bsisseni[at]indiana.edu.

Josep Miquel Sobrer, Professor, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Indiana University Bloomington.
PhD, University of Oregon, 1972. Catalan literature (interest in issues of political affirmation) and language; modern literature in Spain (interest in questions of periodicity – Romanticism, national formation, ideology); translation theories and practice.
E-mail: sobrer[at]indiana.edu.

Timothy Waters, Associate Professor, Mauer School of Law, Indiana University Bloomington.
JD, Harvard, 1999, MIA Columbia, 1998. Public international law, transnational justice, ethnic conflict, human rights, the Balkans.
E-mail: tiwaters[at]indiana.edu.

Elisabeth Zoller, Visiting Professor, Mauer School of Law, Indiana University Bloomington.
Agrégation de droit public, 1980. Comparative constitutional law.
E-mail: ezoller[at]indiana.edu.