EUROPEAN STUDIES PROGRAM
JEAN MONNET PROJECT 2019-2020
JEAN MONNET PROJECT 2019-2020
CURRENT GOVERNING BOARD
PRESIDENT
Lori Thorlakson
University of Alberta
lori.thorlakson@ualberta.ca
Dr. Lori Thorlakson holds the Jean Monnet chair in the Department of Political Science and is the director of the European Union Centre of Excellence at the University of Alberta. Her research interests include party competition and democratic development in the postcommunist member states of the European Union.
VICE PRESIDENT
Achim Hurrelmann
Carleton University
Achim.Hurrelmann@carleton.ca
Achim Hurrelmann is Professor of Political Science and currently Chair of the Department of Political Science at Carleton University. He is also the Co-Director (with Joan DeBardeleben) of the Centre for European Studies (CES). His interests include political discourses about European integration (in parliaments, the media, and among citizens), democracy and legitimacy in the EU, as well as Canada-Europe relations.
VICE PRESIDENT
Achim Hurrelmann
Carleton University
Achim.Hurrelmann@carleton.ca
Achim Hurrelmann is Professor of Political Science and currently Chair of the Department of Political Science at Carleton University. He is also the Co-Director (with Joan DeBardeleben) of the Centre for European Studies (CES). His interests include political discourses about European integration (in parliaments, the media, and among citizens), democracy and legitimacy in the EU, as well as Canada-Europe relations.
VICE PRESIDENT
Achim Hurrelmann
Carleton University
Achim.Hurrelmann@carleton.ca
Achim Hurrelmann is Professor of Political Science and currently Chair of the Department of Political Science at Carleton University. He is also the Co-Director (with Joan DeBardeleben) of the Centre for European Studies (CES). His interests include political discourses about European integration (in parliaments, the media, and among citizens), democracy and legitimacy in the EU, as well as Canada-Europe relations.
SECRETARY-TREASURER
Lyubov Zhyznomirska
Saint Mary's University
Lyubov Zhyznomirska is an Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Political Science and Global Development Studies at Saint Mary's University. Her research interests include such areas as the European Union's external migration and security relations, EU enlargement, and European migration governance (with a focus on irregular migration and return migration).
Current Governing Board
VICE PRESIDENT
Paul Schure
University of Victoria
Paul Schure is Professor of Economics at the University of Victoria, Canada, which he teaches classes in Microeconomics, Financial Markets, and European Economic Integration. He is also the Acting Director of UVic’s European Studies Program (Until Dec 2024). His research interests include Financial Intermediation, Entrepreneurial Finance, and European Economics and Governance.
PRESIDENT
Achim Hurrelmann
Carleton University
Achim Hurrelmann is Professor of Political Science and Co-Director (with Joan DeBardeleben) of the Centre for European Studies (CES) at Carleton University. His research interests include political discourses about European integration (in parliaments, the media, and among citizens), democracy and legitimacy in the EU, as well as Canada-Europe relations.
MEMBERS AT LARGE
Heather MacRae
York University
Heather MacRae is the past president of the European Community Studies Association Canada (ECSA-C) 2018-2021. She is Associate Professor in the Department of Politics at York University. In addition, she was co-editor of the Journal of Common Market Studies (JCMS) from 2017-2021. Her research interests include Europeanization, the politics of the EU, gender regimes and German politics. Dr. MacRae’s current research looks at the role of crises in the EU and its impact on gender and policy making.
Johannes Müller-Gómez
McGill University
Johannes Müller Gómez is a postdoctoral research fellow at McGill University and an associated researcher at the Jean Monnet Centre Montréal. His research focuses on multi-level governance and comparative federalism, particularly EU and Canadian politics, as well as international and comparative environmental politics. He is also working on the application of comparative methodology in the fields of federal and EU studies.
Crina Viju-Miljusevic
Carleton University
Crina Viju-Miljusevic is an Associate Professor and currently the Director of the Institute of European, Russian and Eurasian Studies at Carleton University. She is also the Associate Director of the Centre for European Studies at Carleton University. Her research interests include European economic integration, EU trade policy, economies in transition and EU enlargement.
Andrea Wagner
MacEwan University
Dr. Andrea Wagner is an Associate Professor of Political Science at MacEwan University and a former Jean Monnet Chair. Her research primarily focuses on populism and populist attitudes, particularly exploring their impact on voting behaviors and attitudes towards the European Union..