Full Professor at the Faculty of Law, University of Naples “Federico II”
Amedeo Arena is Full Professor at the Faculty of Law of the University of Naples “Federico II” (est. 1224), where he teaches European Union Law and EU Law in Action. He also serves as Faculty Delegate for International Cooperation and as Academic Coordinator of the...
Professor of Political Science, Catholic University of Portugal
Michael Baum is an Invited Professor of Political Science at ISCTE-IUL in Lisbon. Previously, he was Professor of Political Science at the University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth (UMD). While on extended leave from UMD and at the invitation of the US Embassy in Portugal, from 2014-19 he served as a member of the Executive Board of the private non-profit Luso-American Development Foundation (FLAD), a major funding agency in Portugal. Among other projects he managed at the Foundation, Baum created the Study in Portugal Network (SiPN), a multi-university consortium of Portuguese...
Director of the Centre for British Politics / Reader in Politics, University of Hull
Matt Beech is Reader in Politics and Director of the Centre for British Politics (@CBPhull). He is a political scientist and historian who teaches post-war British political history, government and the culture wars. Dr Beech is Senior Fellow at UC Berkeley's Institute of European Studies and the Centre for British Politics is partnered with UC Berkeley's Centre for British Studies. He has held visiting appointments at Oxford, Berkeley and Flinders. He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. He currently leads Polarized Peoples: Examining the culture wars and how we can transcend them and...
Timothy Scott Brown is Professor of History at Northeastern University. He is a Fellow of the American Council of Learned Societies for 2016-17, and a Berlin Prize Fellow of the American Academy in Berlin (Fall 2016). He is currently working on a new monograph entitled The Greening of Cold War Germany: Environmentalism and Social Movements across the Wall and Beyond, 1968-1989. The book examines the rise of environmental social movements in the two halves of divided Germany from the upheaval of 1968 through the fall of the Berlin Wall and its aftermath. Situating the development of...
Professor Emerita of Political Science, UC Berkeley
Beverly Crawford Ames is Professor Emerita of Political Science and Political Economy at the University of California, Berkeley and the former Director and current Honorary Chair of Berkeley’s Center for German and European Studies. She also served as the Co-Director of the UC European Union Center of Excellence and Associate Director of the Institute of European Studies. She was named a Fellow of the Turkish National Science Foundation (2015) and Senior Fellow of the Hertie School of Governance (2016). She is currently working on a monograph with the working title: "No Risk, No Life...
Professor and Leir Chair of Comparative Literature, Clark University
Christina Gerhardt is former Barron Visiting Professor of Environmental Humanities at Princeton University and a former Senior Fellow at the Rachel Carson Center at the Ludwig Maximilian University Munich. Her research focuses on the Environmental Humanities. She is the author of Sea Change: An Atlas of Islands in a Rising Ocean (University of California Press, 2023) called "a work of art" by the LA Times, named one of the "Best Popular Science Books of 2023" by the New Scientist and a finalist for the California Book Award. She is Editor-in-Chief of ISLE:...
Chris Jackson is an instructor at De Anza College in Cupertino, CA and a Senior Fellow at the Institute of European Studies, UC Berkeley. Previously he has taught at UC Davis, UC Berkeley, and San Francisco State University. He was raised in California, and received his Bachelor’s degree in history from the University of California at Berkeley. He received his Master’s and PhD in history from Harvard University, with a dissertation directed by Charles Maier entitled “Industrial Labor between Revolution and Repression: Labor Law and Society in Germany, 1918-1945.” He has received...
Agata Kotkowska is a distinguished expert on European Union policies, with a focus on sustainable finance, circular economy, sustainable production, and consumption. She has extensive experience with over two decades working at the European Commission, where she has played a key role in designing finance instruments for the EU Green...
Professor, Fromm Institute, University of San Francisco
David Clay Large is currently a professor at the Fromm Institute, University of San Francisco, and a Senior Fellow at the Institute of European Studies, UC Berkeley. Previously he taught at Berkeley, Smith College, Montana State University, and Yale University, where he was also Dean of Pierson College.
A specialist on the history of Modern Europe, especially Germany and Austria, Large has published widely in that field. Among his major book publications are The Politics of Law and Order: A History of the Bavarian Einwohnerwehr (1980); Wagnerism in European Culture and...
Allan Little was born in South West Scotland and studied Politics and Modern History at the University of Edinburgh (MA, 1982). He joined the BBC in 1983 and has been an on-air correspondent since 1985, specialising in foreign affairs since 1989. He reported the fall of Communism in Eastern Europe in 1989. He covered the first Gulf War from the Iraqi capital Baghdad in 1990 and 1991. He then spent four years, from 1991-1995 reporting the breakup of Yugoslavia, where he co-authoroed (with Laura Silber) a book on the conflict (Death of Yugoslavia, Penguin, 1995).
