Education

PhD Indiana University
MA Indiana University
MPhil University College London
BA Rhodes University (South Africa)

Awards

• Outstanding Tenure Track Faculty Award 1996
• Teaching Excellence Recognition Award (TERA) 1997 & 1998
• IUPUI Faculty Adviser of the Year 2000-01
• Trustees Teaching Award 2004, 2017
• Jean Monnet Chair in EU Politics (European Commission) 2010-13, 2014-17
• Fulbright-Schuman Chair in EU-US Relations, College of Europe, Spring 2013

Publications

• Introduction to Global Studies (Red Globe Press, 2nd ed., 2021)
• Understanding the European Union (Red Globe Press, 8th ed., 2021)
• European Union Politics (Palgrave Macmillan, 3rd ed., 2020)
• Cases in Comparative Government and Politics (Red Globe Press, 2018)
• Contemporary Britain (Palgrave Macmillan, 4th ed., 2018)
• Comparative Government and Politics (with Rod Hague and Martin Harrop) (Red Globe Press, 11th ed., 2018)
• Environmental Politics and Policy (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017)
• The European Union: Politics and Policies (with Jonathan Olsen) (Westview, 6th ed., 2017)
• Why Europe Matters (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013)
• Comparative Politics in Transition (Wadsworth, 7th ed., 2012)
• Europeanism (Oxford University Press, 2010)
• The European Superpower (Palgrave Macmillan, 2007)
• Environmental Policy in the European Union (Palgrave Macmillan 2001)
• and articles in Political Quarterly, Environment, Journal of Transatlantic Relations, and Il Politico.

Service

• Organizer and founder, annual Midwest Model European Union, 1993-2012
• Chair, Department of Political Science, 2002-2008
• President, School of Liberal Arts Faculty Assembly, 2002-04
• Visiting positions at University of Exeter (UK), University of Sussex (UK), College of Europe (Belgium), University of Goettingen (Germany), University of Deusto (Spain).

Academic Interests

Environmental policy, politics and policies of the European Union, comparative politics.