Dr. Amie Kreppel

 

Jean Monnet Chair (ad personam); Chair, European Union Studies Association (2011-2013); Associate Professor and Graduate Coordinator, Department of Political Science

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FMEU 2014 is proud to welcome Dr. Amie Kreppel as the 2014 Keynote Speaker. Dr. Amie Kreppel is a Jean Monnet Chair (ad personam) and was the founding Director of the University of Florida's Title VI funded Center for European Studies (CES) and the European Union funded Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence. She is an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science and the Chair of the European Union Studies Association (EUSA) from 2011-2013.

 

Dr. Kreppel has written extensively on the political institutions of Europe in general and the European Union more specifically. Her publications include a book on the Development of the European Parliament and Supranational Party System, published by Cambridge University Press (2002) as well as articles in a wide variety of journals including Comparative Political Studies, the British Journal of Political Research, European Union Politics, the European Journal of Political Research, Political Research Quarterly, the Journal of European Public Policy and the Journal of Common Market Studies.

 

In addition, she has served as international visiting faculty at the Université Louis Pasteur (ULP), Strasbourg, France, Institut für Höhere Studien (Institute for Advanced Studies) Vienna, Austria, and the l'Institut d'Etudes Européennes, Université Libre Bruxelles (ULB), Brussels Belgium. She has received numerous grants to pursue research and program development related to Europe and the European Union including a MacArthur Fellowship, a grant from the Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation, two internal research grants from the University of Florida and Title VIa (UISFLP) and Title VI (NRC) grants from the United States Department of Education, as well as several grants from the European Union. In spring 2011 she was a visiting Fernand Braudel Senior Fellow at the European University Institute (EUI) in Italy.