On 17 April 2024, the University of Augsburg’s Faculty of Philosophy and Social Sciences awarded its annual Faculty Teaching Awards for the academic year 2023/24. I was honoured to receive one of the three teaching awards for my lecture ‘Introduction…
Over the last months, I have worked on a large-scale study and concise policy brief for the European Parliamentary History Service. Drawing on a wide array of archival sources, interviews with contemporary witnesses and literature, the study and brief examine…
From 20 to 22 March 2024, an international group of historians, sociologists and political scientists met at the German Historical Institute in Rome to discuss a wide variety of approaches to ‘(De)Constructing Europe’ and the tensions arising thereof, with a…
I’m thrilled to return to the EUI on Friday, 23 February 2024, 15h00-16h00, to discuss my book ‘The Parliamentary Roots of European Social Policy: Turning Talk into Power’ (Palgrave) with Prof. Lorenzo Mechi (Università degli Studi di Padova) in this…
Our new volume ‘The EU under Strain? Current Crises Shaping European Union Politics‘ has just been published with De Gruyter. It is the inaugural volume of our new book series ‘Europe under Strain‘, which I co-edit with the wonderful Daniel…
On 25-26 May, a group of scholars from across Europe studying the history of European social policy and Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) came together at the EUI’s Villa Salviati to explore the interrelations between Social Europe and EMU. In…
I am deeply honoured to be awarded the Wissenschaftspreis des Deutschen Bundestages (Science Award of the German Bundestag) 2023 for my book ‘Turning Talk into Power: The Parliamentary Roots of European Social Policy’ (alongside Oliver Haardt, for his volume ‘Bismarcks…
In the context of this year’s European Health Forum Gastein (EHFG), I was asked to comment on the question: Why do we need a true European Health Union? In a nutshell, I argue in my response that we are currently…
Since October 2021, UACES and Euradio are together hosting a new editorial in which scholars from the broad area of European studies address and discuss current issues as well as long-term developments in and across Europe, its political, cultural, societal…
My book The Parliamentary Roots of European Social Policy: Turning Talk into Power has been published with Palgrave Macmillan. This book brings together the main findings from my research project on the institutional evolution of the European Parliament prior to…