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MAX WEBER PROGRAMME HANDBOOK 2018 - 2019

THE MAX WEBER PROGRAMME HANDBOOK 2018—19

Fellows Handbook 2018/19 1

Aims and Description of the Programme 3

Deadlines at a Glance 2018/2019 16

Max Weber Programme Team 17

List of All Max Weber Fellows 21

Fellows Biosketches Department of Economics 22

Fellows Biosketches Department of History and Civilization 33

Fellows Biosketches Department of Law 47

Fellows BiosketchesDepartment of Political and Social Sciences 60

Fellows BiosketchesRobert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies 81


AIMS AND DESCRIPTION OF THE PROGRAMME

INTRODUCTION

Welcome to the Max Weber Programme (MWP), and congratulations on making it into one of the most selective and prestigious postdoctoral programmes in the world. The Max Weber Programme is distinctive in three main ways. First, it is a global programme located in a global institution that is dedicated to research in just four core disciplines: Economics, History, Law and Social and Political Science. Second, it has a critical mass of around 60 Fellows from over 25 countries. Third, and as a result of these two features, it differs from most postdoctoral programmes that consist of little more than a stipend and a place to work. Instead, it offers a programme with a dedicated philosophy of postdoctoral studies. This programmatic quality lies at the heart of its phenomenal success in placing 98% of Fellows in some of the best academic institutions worldwide.

The underlying philosophy of the MWP has the following two main components. First, a belief that intellectual community, interlocutorship and scholarly synergetic exchanges – not only within but also between disciplines – are fundamental to the early phase of one’s academic career and significantly enhance the quality of the individual research undertak-en during the postdoctoral Fellowship. Second, the conviction that a successful academic career (and success in the so-called academic ‘market place’) does not only depend on high quality research and publications but also on learning and understanding the world of ‘academic practice’: teaching, examining, writing and speaking well, competitive bidding for research funds and the like.

Two main features of the programme give expression to this philosophy: the multidiscipli-nary research activities and the academic practice activities, which are both described below. Most of these activities are both flexible and voluntary: it is up to you to decide how much or how little you want to participate in them, and we try to tailor much of it to individuals – as in the advice offered on practice job talks and interviews. By and large, Fellows do around 50% of what we offer. The most demanding element time wise is the Teaching Certificate, though the overwhelming majority of Fellows who do choose to take it have found the commitment worthwhile. They also generally get an exemption from components of similar programmes that many universities now make compulsory for new academic staff.

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However, we have also found certain compulsory elements valuable both for intellectual community building among Fellows and enhancing their appreciation of each other’s dis-ciplines and research, and for ensuring Fellows get the most personally from the advice and resources available to them within the MWP and the EUI more generally. As a result, we insist on the following core elements (most of which are expanded on below):

1. Residence – Fellows are required to live in the area of Florence for the duration of their Fellowship so that they may play an active part in the programme and in the academic activities of their department.

2. Participation in the September Presentations – These provide an opportunity for all Fellows to get acquainted with each other’s research, to chat informally together and with EUI Professors, and for the MW Team to assess their presentation skills.

3. Attendance at the Max Weber Lectures – As we note below, these aim at opening up the intellectual horizons of Fellows (and staff) by exposing them to cutting-edge research across the disciplines of the Programme, while providing a plenary monthly gathering of all Fellows along with many researchers and Professors across the EUI community.

4. Submission of a Working Paper – All Fellows should be writing articles and/or books while at the EUI. This provides not only a check on progress but also, and more importantly, an occasion for us to help both substantively and formally in an intensive way with a key piece of research.

5. Submission of a Research Proposal – As we observe below, like the Working Paper the Research Proposal relates to the production of a statement about Future Research that all Fellows will need to do in one form or another over the course of their period in the MWP. This exercise provides an opportunity for input from the MWP into this core academic activity.

6. Participation in the June Conference – This provides a final plenary occasion to par-ticipate in the intellectual community of the MWP and an opportunity to meet with members of the global Max Weber network.

7. Individual Page for the MWP Annual Report – This forms a core component of our reporting to stakeholders on the progress of Fellows over the course of the academic year. It also offers an opportunity to showcase your achievements by providing a use-ful summary of what you have accomplished over your time at the EUI.


Multidisciplinary Research ActivitiesThe Multidisciplinary Research Activities aim at improving the Max Weber Fellows’ under-standing of the four disciplines of the Programme. In particular, we hope to lead Fellows to appreciate the distinctive contribution different disciplines may make to illuminating a given issue or problem, and – more ambitiously – to see the possible advantages and dis-advantages of combining them in various ways within an interdisciplinary approach. There is no requirement on Fellows to become either multi- or inter-disciplinary researchers. The claim is more modest ‒ that we are more rounded intellectually and better researchers if we have a broad grasp of how a given issue or event might involve a wide range of factors that relate to each other in complex ways and appreciate how these can be explored and understood in an illuminating way from a number of disciplinary perspectives.

Max Weber Lectures (MWL)The monthly Max Weber Lectures are given by leading scholars from around the world working in one or more of the four disciplines of the EUI. Attendance at the Lectures is compulsory for all Fellows. The Programme aims to invite scholars who address topical issues from a multi or inter-disciplinary perspective that will appeal to the EUI academic community as a whole. The aim of these Lectures is to promote intellectual curiosity about the various ways we can study human societies. Hence, speakers should not be expected to be talking directly about the topics any particular Fellows might be researching themselves or to adopt certain methodologies they may be using. Some may do so, but most others will not. But as a result, they will expand one's intellectual horizons.

At least one of the lecturers will be related to each of the Thematic Research Groups (TRG), and every group will have an opportunity to organize a Master Class on the following day with the relevant lecturer. Most lecturers also do a videoed interview on their work with one or more of the Fellows. All lecturers will also be available to discuss the work of Fellows on an informal basis.

Occasional Max Weber LecturesThe Max Weber Lectures have to be organised well in advance, with suggestions coming from Academic staff and former Fellows. The Occasional Lectures series allows current Fellows to suggest speakers who work more directly on their topics and who they feel may also be of interest to a broad group of Fellows, Professors and researchers. Suggestions


should be made to the Director. Occasional Lectures can often be combined with Multidisciplinary Workshops.

Multidisciplinary Research Workshops (MRW)All Fellows have an opportunity to organize a day or half-day workshop or mini-conference involving other Fellows, possibly one or two external speakers, and often a number of EUI Faculty and researchers as well. Ideally, workshops should involve Fellows from more than one discipline. The deadline for proposals is 14 November.

Mission FundingAll Fellows receive 1,000 euros for research missions for activities such as attendance at conferences or visits to archives. All research activities must be approved in advance and a draft budget prepared: you will not be able to claim back expenses that were not previously approved. You can discuss your planned missions beforehand with Ognjen and Karin, who can give approval and help with putting together the necessary forms. Fellows with a two year Fellowship may carry over up to 500 euros from their first year, to give them a maxi-mum of 1,500 euros in their second year.

Economics and SPS Fellows on the job market in their second or third year will receive up to 2,000 euros rather than the standard 1,000 euros due to the high cost of attending the main job market meetings in the USA, UK and Spain. The additional 1000 euros must be used for this purpose, and appropriate proof be provided.

All other Fellows can apply for up to 500 euros in addition to their allocation of 1,000 eu-ros. As with the 1000 euro job market allocation for SPS and ECO Fellows in their second year, this money is restricted to Fellows who need funding to attend an interview. Fellows will need to provide proof that they have an interview and affirm that their prospective employer has not covered their expenses.

Max Weber Conferences Each year the Max Weber Programme hosts two major conferences: an Academic Careers Observatory (ACO) MWP Conference in winter, which focuses on funding opportunities and the changing career structures of universities; and the Social Issues for Social Sciences MW Fellows’ Conference in June, where all current and a selection of former Fellows


present their work, and which provides a suitable summing up of the research they have undertaken over the year.

The ACO-MWP Conference brings together an unparalleled group of European, national and international research funders. They will introduce Fellows to the funding programmes and offer advice on potential applications by them. We also bring in a team of experts on writing research proposals. Writing a draft executive summary of a Research Proposal is a compulsory part of the MWP, and Fellows are encouraged to take advantage of this confer-ence for help with this important exercise.

Presenting at the June Conference – either in a panel or through a poster – is also a re-quirement of the Programme. Fellows are encouraged to participate in the Conference’s organisation, including the selection of external paper givers from among up to 20 former Max Weber Fellows and any Marie Curie Fellows who apply. The Organisation Committee can also select one of the plenary speakers, two others being the two honorary doctorands. This Conference offers an overview of what Fellows have been doing during the academic year, and is an appropriate conclusion to the Max Weber Programme's activities.

Thematic Research Groups (TRG) The core of the Programme’s multidisciplinary activities are the Thematic Research Groups (TRG). These groups are organized on a multidisciplinary basis and bring together Fellows from different disciplines working on a similar range of issues. Faculty members from at least two different departments act as Academic Leads for the Group. The groups should meet regularly throughout the course of the academic year. Some consist of a seminar with external speakers, others operate more as a working group in which the members present their work. However, all TRGs must allow Fellows to discuss general research issues related to the group’s theme, either in the context of a Master Class with a Max Weber Lecturer or other external speakers, through reading recent or classic texts in their disciplines, or in some other manner determined by the group, and allow Fellows to present and get feedback on their Research Proposal and Working Paper.

Fellows not allocated to a TRG who would like either to join an existing TRG or suggest a new TRG are free to do so and should speak to the Director. Those already allocated to a TRG may also move to a new TRG or suggest an alternative grouping if they so wish.


Working PapersWorking Papers (WP) are another compulsory part of the Max Weber Programme. They are a way of ensuring that all Fellows produce a piece of research of publishable quality that has benefited from peer feedback from both a substantive and formal (linguistic and presentational) point of view. We are aware that not all disciplines use the WP format to the same degree; Fellows are therefore invited to view the requirement flexibly as an occasion to produce draft articles or book chapters if these are more appropriate formats in their fields. We would like to see WP(s) appear in the EUI’s open-access repository Cadmus, as this will not only insure that they will be widely disseminated but also provide a con-crete output of the research undertaken by Fellows during their time in the Programme. However we appreciate that some Fellows may wish the WP not to be made public, and if adequately motivated this is also an option.

Working papers can be submitted at any time between September 2018 and the end of December 2019. Fellows should start work on their papers early in the year, presenting them in the context of their Thematic Group and using the Academic Skills offerings to support their presenting and writing. At least one WP must be sent to Alyson Price no later than 31 March 2019, who will forward it to your mentor/thematic group convenor for approval. Extensions are granted in exceptional circumstances; if necessary, please contact Richard Bellamy.

Working Paper Process ■ present your WP in your thematic group or in an Academic Practice group ■ send your WP to Alyson at any time but no later than 31 March 2019 ■ expect feedback from your mentor/convenor ■ respond to feedback ■ send your final version to Alyson for editing ■ accept/reject editing suggestions and return your final version to Alyson ■ paper formatted for Cadmus, you sign off on the final copy ■ your paper appears on Cadmus within a few days

If, for well-motivated reasons, you would prefer your paper to go into the Red Number Series, which does not appear on Cadmus, contact Alyson as early in the process as possible.


Research ProposalWhat we call the Research Proposal is a short proposal (typically between 2 and a maxi-mum of 5 pages) conceived as the core section of a possible grant proposal. The Research Proposal is a required element of the Max Weber Programme.

All academics will regularly have to write research proposals over the course of their ca-reers, in many cases even to get internal funding from their own institution. Such propos-als will often have to be written in English to allow for international peer review. Moreover, they may well be read in the first instance by a multidisciplinary group of selectors. First impressions can be crucial to the success of a research proposal being selected for more expert peer review. The aim of this exercise is to help Fellows make their research stand out from the crowd and to present their key ideas in crisp and clear English.

Many Fellows use the Research Proposal as the basis of a further postdoctoral Fellowship application to the ERC or Marie Curie Programme or to a national funder, or as the Future Research section of a job application. We suggest Fellows take The Scientific Proposal of an ERC Starting Independent Researcher Grant as a model and do an abridged version. This should cover a shorter version of what is in the current ERC Guide for Applications as Part B2-Section 2: (a) State-of-the-art and objectives, (b) Methodology, and optionally (c) Resources.

The Research Proposal should be discussed with your mentor and possibly at a session of the TRG. As noted above, Fellows are also encouraged to attend the ACO Funders confer-ence and get ideas and feedback there.

Academic Practice ActivitiesThe Academic Communications Skills (ACS) activities are designed to help Fellows devel-op and refine the oral and written skills necessary for effective academic practice. Offered by the in-house (EUI) members of the FIESOLE Group and external experts, these activi-ties take three forms: workshops and short modules; facilitating of small groups of Fellows working towards similar goals; individual feedback and coaching.

Participation in the workshops and short modules (usually Wednesdays, 9.15-10.45 mornings) is open to all Fellows on a signup basis a few days before. Individual needs are addressed in one-on-one tutorials. Additional workshops can be organised on request. Contact for any further information prior to arrival: [email protected].


Job market and career development ■ Developing an Effective ‘Job-Market Package’, Wednesday, September 12th, 10.15-12.00 ■ ‘Early-bird’ session for N. American deadlines; repeated later in the Autumn term, on request. ■ Writing a Teaching Statement/Teaching Philosophy, Wednesday, September 12th 12.00-

13.00

Presentation skills ■ Individual feedback on September presentations (Monday, 8 October all day) ■ Presenting and Public Speaking module (3 sessions, early October)

Academic writing and publishing

Workshops ■ The Journal Review Process: A Roundtable with Journal Editors (by discipline) (Nov.) ■ Writing a Successful Book Proposal (2nd term; Richard Bellamy, editor’s rep & ACS

staff) ■ Structured lead-up: individual feedback on book proposals by ACS staff, prior to indi-

vidual feedback from editor’s rep. Structured follow-up: ‘Dissertation to Book’ work-shop, on request.

■ Grant Writing for Postdocs (December, during ACO conference; with external expert) ■ Corpus Linguistics tools for Writing and Revision ■ Handling Revise-and-Resubmit

Writers’ Groups and Writing Modules (Expressions of interest by 12 October)

■ ECO Writers’ Group. October to December; every 2-3 weeks; in past years, Wednesday afternoons. Aimed at ECO Fellows and focused mainly on revising and polishing your Job Market paper.

■ Writers’ Groups (other disciplines). Organised on a disciplinary basis and facilitated by a member of the ACS staff, Writers’ Groups (usually 4-6 Fellows) provide a supportive setting for obtaining focused, hands-on peer feedback on draft articles (or portions thereof) prior to journal submission. Schedule to be arranged with interested Fellows.

■ Style in Research Writing. This 6-session module, run in the first term, takes the partic-ipants’ own research writing and that of established scholars in their fields as a starting point in order to explore the interface between form (grammar/syntax), style/rhetoric and argumentative structure. The overall aim is to expand your expressive range and enhance scholarly ‘voice’ and effectiveness.


■ Draft-to-Submission in 8 Weeks. Adapted from Belcher’s Writing Your Journal Article in Twelve Weeks with the postdoc situation specifically in mind. You will profit most from this module if you already have a draft ready to be revised. Second term.

Tutorials and individual coachingWeekly tutorials provide the opportunity for one-on-one sessions with a member of the Academic Communications Skills team to discuss and revise research writing in progress. These sessions can also be used to look over cover letters and other application materials, revise book or research proposals, prepare and practice ‘dry runs’ of seminar/conference presentations and job talks, do interview practice before campus visits, or support other professional communication needs. Fellows can also arrange for on-site observation and feedback on small and large-group teaching.

Text Revision and EditingAll written work (articles, book reviews etc.) for revision/editing needs to be sent directly to Alyson Price ([email protected]), unless otherwise agreed with Laurie Anderson.

When sending your work please give Alyson the following information: title; genre (article, conference paper, book review, PowerPoint presentation etc); length; how soon you need the work back. Note that we try to return work within ten working days.

All Word documents submitted will be reviewed using Track Changes, showing the re-viewer's remarks and suggested changes. Anyone not working in Word will need to con-vert their completed text to pdf and send in the pdf version. Please note that in this case you will have to transfer all the reviewer’s changes manually back to your original text.

What we do not do: check entire books (though we can give you advice on turning your thesis into a book); copy-edit texts to the required specifications of individual journal or book publishers

Teaching CertificateThe Max Weber Teaching Certificate aims to both enhance Fellows’ teaching skills and increase their international mobility through a series of workshops and a week-long teach-ing practice experience at UCL, Trinity College Dublin, Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona), von


Humboldt (Berlin) or Masaryk University (Brno). For more details contact Karin Tilmans ([email protected] ) by the end of September.

Academic Careers Observatory (ACO) and Job Market and Career DevelopmentACO provides information on academic careers by country, discipline and theme, and links to research opportunities in Europe, job platforms and a list of funding from postdoc to professorial level. The Observatory is not an academic career advice service, but it will help you clarify your ideas about different career options. We also encourage Fellows to do practice job talks and interviews, which MWP staff are happy to organize.

■ Among the offerings of Communications staff, please note ‘Developing an Effective “Job-Market Package” ’ (‘early-bird’ session for N. American deadlines; mid-Septem-ber)

■ ACO Conference on Research Funding, involving the major research funders from across Europe and including North America. Please note that this conference offers an opportunity to get information for and feedback on the Research Proposal, due in on 22 February. Many Fellows move on to a Marie Curie or other funded Fellowship linked to a research project.

EUI Data&Methods ClinicThe Max Weber Programme is a partner of the EUI Data&Methods Clinic that offers clas-sic statistical support through individual consulting, bring-your-own data events, leading edge workshops and pop-up methodological debates. The Clinic also experiments with new contents, new learning formats, new infrastructures, and new ways of teamwork. The goal is to push ahead with, and test the limits of, data-driven social science. If you would like to be part of this, if you need help with your project, or if you want to know more about what they are doing, please visit their website for more information.

The Departments and MentorsEach Fellow is attached to either a Department or the RSC, some to both, and is allocated a mentor within this unit. Departments and different fields operate in different ways, some having closer and others looser involvement with Fellows. However, at a minimum you can expect to see your mentor at least twice a term, and they should ensure you can regu-larly attend, and ideally present your research at, the appropriate departmental seminars, and become more generally involved in the life of the department. Mentors should also read and comment on the Working Paper and research proposal and offer career advice concerning publication strategies and job and grant applications. There are also a number


of working groups that Fellows are encouraged to join, some operating across depart-ments, like the Legal and Political Theory Workshop, and others more associated with a given department, although not excluding members of other departments, such as the Colloquium on Political Behaviour. These working groups also offer a forum to interact with PhD researchers.

All departments have a Professor responsible for co-ordinating links with the MWP and who sits on our Steering Committee. For 2018/2019 they are:

EconomicsArpad Abraham ([email protected])

HistoryAnn Thomson ([email protected])

LawHans-W. Micklitz ([email protected])

Political and Social SciencesKlarita Gërxhani ([email protected])

Robert Schuman CentreMei Lan Goei ([email protected])

Externally-Funded Fellowships and Extensions for a Second

YearThe MWP hosts a number of externally-funded Fellows each year. In addition to applicants from outside the EUI for such positions, for which the deadline is 25 March, we also often have some internal applicants from current Fellows seeking a second year. By and large, we believe it is in the interest of Fellows to move on and find a permanent job elsewhere. However, we accept that for some an externally-funded continuation of their MWF pro-vides a suitable next step in their career. Those considering this possibility should discuss it first with the Director; they will also need the support of their mentor and the department lead. To ensure fairness, we prefer to consider all internal applications along with those we have had from applicants outside the EUI. The application deadline for Internal Candidates is 9 April.


The criteria for an externally-funded position are as follows: An externally-funded Max Weber Fellow should have a scholarship from a recognised National or International Research Funding Council or Charity (you can find examples on the Academic Careers Observatory website) that covers living and research costs equiva-lent to 15.000 euro for 12 months (1.250 euro per month). This requirement may only be waived partially or completely in very special circumstances. We understand that some ap-plications for external funding require a statement of institutional support. In these cases, we are willing to consider making offers of an extension that would be ‘subject to’ obtaining the funding.

The applications (CV, Research Statement, support of mentor and Department Lead and proof of funding – or of an actual or prospective application for funding ‒ all in PDF format) should be sent directly to [email protected] by the 9 April deadline. We endeavour to reach a decision by the end of April.

Finally, it can often be the case that a few Fellows either have not been successful in their job search by the end of their time in the MWP or have a short gap between finishing at the EUI and starting their new position. In these cases, we endeavour to help Fellows by providing them with the status of a Visiting Fellow. This does not give them access to mis-sion funds but if they are in Florence they will be able to use the library and a desk there and to attend all the activities of the MWP. We are also sometimes able to help Fellows find teaching or research assistant positions in Florence that provide them with some income.

Representatives and GovernanceA Steering Committee (SC), which is chaired by the President (or the Director), and that consists of representatives of the Departments (the Departmental Leads) and the RSCAS, the Director of Academic Services, a member of the recruitment/admissions administra-tion, and a representative of the Fellows, oversees the MWP. The SC meets two or three times a year: once in early December, to agree the selection of Fellows for the follow-ing year and discuss the Annual Report, once at the end of June/early July to discuss the feedback from the surveys and self-assessment and to launch the call for applications and any changes that might be necessary, and occasionally in the second term should any is-sue or reform to the programme require discussion. All Fellowships also need to be ap-proved by the Executive Committee. Every three years, the MWP presents a more detailed self-assessment, which involves external assessors from outside the EUI, such as funders of other major postdoctoral programmes, and is presented to the Research Committee.


Representatives of the Fellows also get to meet with the Research Committee every year. A Fellow, usually from Law, also sits on the Ethics Committee.

The Director represents the Max Weber Programme on the Executive Committee (EC) and in the Academic Council (AC). In addition, the Academic Service organises an election among all postdocs to elect a Representative for the AC. This representative is often a MW Fellow, who also acts as a general contact person for the EUI should they need a MW Fellow Representative on any ad hoc committee and acts as the Fellows representative for the SC. It is also planned to have an elected MWF Representative on the EC as of this academic year. Finally, all Fellows have a Representative who attends the Departmental meetings and those of the RSCAS. As a result, there are 6, possibly 7, Max Weber Representatives. We organise a monthly lunch time meeting with them and the MW Team, and they may also request meetings with the Director at any time. The Departmental Representatives should talk with the disciplinary colleagues on a regular basis and raise any issues with either the Director, the Departmental Leads, or the AC Representative, and of course bring issues up at the monthly meetings. The Representatives may also wish to organise an informal or formal consultation with all Fellows on particular issues, and we will be happy to facilitate such a meeting. Finally, the President hosts a town hall meeting with all Fellows at the end of the Academic Year, and discusses the issues they raise with the Director in order to feed them into discussions for any changes to the Programme at the SC.


WHEN WHAT

3 September 2018 Registration

12-13/19-20/26-27 September 2018 September Presentations

28 September 2018 Preparatory meeting for Teaching Practice Exchange

14 November 2018 Proposals for Multidisciplinary Workshops

30 November 2018 Expression of Interest in Being Part of the Organis-ing Committee of June Conference

14 December 2018 First Term Ends

7 January 2019 Second Term Begins

22 February 2019 Research Grant Proposals (MANDATORY)

6 March 2019 June Conference Paper Proposals (MANDATORY)

29 March 2019 Second Term Ends

31 March 2019 Working Paper (MANDATORY)

1 April 2019 Third Term Begins

9 April 2019 Applications for Externally-Funded Fellowships (internal applicants)

2 June 2019 Teaching Portfolio

12-14 June 2019 MWP Fellows’ June Conference

21 June 2019 Third Term Ends

27 June 2019 Individual Page for MWP Report (MANDATORY)

20 July 2019 Fellows free to leave Florence

DEADLINES AT A GLANCE 2018—2019

THE MAX WEBER PROGRAMME TEAM


Below you will find some brief details about members of the Max Weber team. We are all happy to help you with any information you may need and will try our best to ensure the programme is tailored as closely as possible to your requirements.

Richard Bellamy has directed the Programme since 2014. Prior to coming to the EUI he was Professor of Political Science at UCL, where he was the founding Head of the Department of Political Science, and acted as Director of both the School of Public Policy and of the European Institute there, which he also established. He oversees the selection of Fellows and the overall running of the programme. He has a weekly office hour, usually on a Wednesday, which you can sign up for via Moodle.

Email: [email protected] Tel.: +39-055-4685-809 (ext. 2809) Fax: +39-055-4685- 894Office no. VPA107

Karin Tilmans is the Academic Coordinator of the Programme and deals with Missions, Teaching Certificate, Teaching Exchanges and related matters.

Email: [email protected].: +39-055-4685-660 (ext. 2660) Fax: +39-055-4685- 894Office no. VPA207



Ognjen Aleksiç is an Administrative Assistant. He is responsible for all logistical/administrative matters, including mission funding and reimbursements.

Email: [email protected] Tel.: +39-055-4685-(ext. 2699) Fax: +39-055-4685- 894Office no. VPA102

Valeria Pizzini-Gambetta is the Communications and Social Media Coordinator. She is responsible for the MWP website, inter-views, newsletter, Blog and other social media channels (advertis-ing of events and publications).

Email: [email protected].: +39-055-4685-851 (ext. 2851) Fax: +39-055-4685- 894Office no. VPA202

Jashwanni Grewal is a trainee assisting with the administration of the Programme

Email: [email protected]: [39] 055 4685 845 (Ext. 2845)Fax: [39] 055 4685 894Office no. VPA 110



Francesca Grassini is an Academic Assistant. She runs the Academic Career Observatory. She is also co-responsible for Moodle and for all other logistical/administrative matters.


Laurie Anderson is the Academic Communication Skills Coordinator. She is the contact person for the (ACS) activities: Writers Groups, tutorials, Public Speaking and Presentations Skills Module, Writing for Publication Modules, job market input ses-sions, preparation for job talks etc.


Alyson Price is the MWP person responsible for editing and lan-guage revision; she also administers the Working Paper procedure. Email: [email protected].: +39-055-4685-838 (ext. 2838) Fax: +39-055-4685- 894Office no. VPA204

Academic Careers Observatory

Academic Communication Skills (ACS) Team


MAX WEBER FELLOWS2018—2019

■ ALOISI, Antonio (LAW) ■ ANDERSSON, Per Fredrik (SPS) ■ BALLOR, Grace (HEC) ■ BAQUERO, Pablo Marcello (LAW) ■ BERECZ, Ágoston István (HEC) ■ BONVINI, Alessandro (HEC) ■ BOONSTRA, John (HEC) ■ BOUWER, Kim (LAW) ■ BRAUN, Christine (ECO) ■ BRIGHT, Claire (LAW) ■ BUCCA, Mauricio (SPS) ■ CABEZA PÉREZ, Laura (SPS) ■ CORCODEL, Veronica (LAW) ■ DAGEFÖRDE, Mirjam (SPS) ■ D'AMATO, Silvia (RSC) ■ DAZEY, Margot Hélène Lizika (SPS) ■ DEWIÈRE, Rémi (HEC) ■ DOBRESCU, Madalina (RSC) ■ FIALA-BUTORA, Janos (LAW) ■ FONTAINE, Amparo (HEC) ■ FOTIOU, Alexandra Aikaterini (ECO) ■ GARRITZMANN, Julian Leonce (SPS) ■ GOREA, Denis (ECO) ■ GREVENBROCK, Nils (ECO) ■ HANCOX, Emily Victoria (LAW) ■ HINZ, Julian (RSC) ■ HOLLEY, Jared (HEC) ■ IAKOVIDIS, Iakovos (LAW) ■ KAIGA, Sakiko (HEC) ■ KANTENGA, Kory (ECO) ■ KNAPS Anna Maria (RSC) ■ LEE, James (SPS) ■ LEIPOLD, Bruno (SPS)

■ LIM, Misun (SPS) ■ LIM, Shiru (HEC) ■ LO IACONO, Sergio (SPS) ■ MARÉCHAUX, Benoît (HEC) ■ MASSOC, Elsa Clara (SPS) ■ MAVRODIN, Corina (HEC) ■ MOLTENI, Francesco (RCS) ■ PAPADIA, Andrea (RSC) ■ PETROVA, Bilyana (SPS) ■ QUEIRÓS, Francisco Vitorino (ECO) ■ RANGONI, Bernardo (LAW) ■ REIJERS, Wessel (RSC) ■ ROBERTS, Christopher (LAW) ■ ROESCU, Andra (SPS) ■ ROGELJA, Igor (SPS) ■ RONCHI, Stefano (SPS) ■ SACHOULIDOU, Athina (LAW) ■ SCALISE, Gemma (SPS) ■ SCHOLZ, Danilo (HEC) ■ SIEGRIST, Pascale (HEC) ■ SOYEMI, Eniola Anuoluwapo (SPS) ■ SPIGANTI, Alessandro (ECO) ■ TURA, Giulia (ECO) ■ TZANAKI, Anna (LAW) ■ VAN 'T KLOOSTER, Jens (SPS) ■ VRANCEANU, Alina (SPS) ■ WESTERWINTER, Oliver (RSC) ■ YILDIRIM, Aydin Baris (RSC) ■ YOLCU, Serkan (LAW) ■ ZAWISZA, Tomasz (ECO) ■ ZEDERMAN, Mathilde (RSC) ■ ZHURAVLEVA, Tatyana (ECO) ■ ZSCHIRNT, Eva (SPS)

Max Weber Department of Economics


■ BRAUN, CHRISTINE

■ FOTIOU, ALEXANDRA

■ GOREA, DENIS

■ GREVENBROCK, NILS

■ KANTENGA, KORY

■ QUEIRÓS, FRANCISCO VITORINO

■ SPIGANTI, ALESSANDRO

■ TURA, GIULIA

■ ZAWISZA, TOMASZ

■ ZHURAVLEVA, TATYANA

FELLOWS' BIOSKETCHESDEPARTMENT OF ECONOMICS

Max Weber Department of Economics


BRAUN, Christine (DEU)Email: [email protected].: (+39)-055-4685-860 (2860)Office no. VPAD 07Mentor: Russell CooperThematic Group: N/A

Christine Braun is a Macroeconomist interested in the changing dynamics of the labour market. She received her PhD from the University of California, Santa Barbara. Her re-search is focused on studying labour markets within the scope of economic theory and data to better understand and influence policy. She believes that empirical research should be driven by appropriate theory and theoretical research should be motivated by empirical observations. Her current research considers how labour market models with frictions align with data, as well as how labour market data should be combined and used in applica-tions of theoretical models.

Expertise for Teaching and Mentoring of PhD Researchers During her time at UCSB, she taught undergraduate microeconomic theory as well as econometric theory. She also worked as a research analyst at the UCSB Economic Forecast Project, supervising top undergraduate students to provide local labour market and hous-ing data to the community.

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FOTIOU, Alexandra (GRC)Email: [email protected].: (+39)-055-4685-578 (2578)Office no. VF 086Mentor: Juan DoladoThematic Group: Tommaso Padoa-Schioppa: Assessing the Fiscal and Monetary Framework of the EU

Alexandra Fotiou was born in Athens, Greece. She is an applied econometrician with an interest in Macroeconomic issues.

She holds a BSc in Statistics from Athens University of Economics and Business (AUEB). In 2011, she earned her MSc in Economic Theory from AUEB. She conducted her PhD in Economics and Finance at Bocconi University under the supervision of Carlo Favero and she expects to graduate in 2017. During her PhD studies, she held two research positions, as a PhD Trainee, at the European Central Bank and at the European Investment Bank.

Her broader research interests fall within the fields of Macroeconomics and Econometrics, with a keen focus on fiscal and monetary policy applications. Her PhD thesis examines policy-relevant questions related to the fiscal austerity debate and the issue of fiscal sus-tainability. At the same time, she makes an econometric point regarding the use of the local projections approach in non-linear environments.

Her research agenda includes work on fiscal spillovers effects (Global-VARs) and the study of monetary and fiscal policy under model-uncertainty.

Expertise for Teaching and Mentoring of PhD Researchers During her graduate studies, as a teaching assistant, she taught Macroeconomics at the undergraduate level and an advanced course which included topics in game theory, behav-ioral economics and experiments.



GOREA, Denis (ROM)Email: [email protected].: (+39)-055-4685-511 (2511)Office no. VF 086Mentor: Árpád ÁbrahámThematic Group: N/A

Denis Gorea is an economist working on issues at the interplay between macroeconomics, real estate finance and taxation. Prior to joining the Max Weber Programme, he served as a Senior Economist in the Macro-Financial Studies division of the Bank of Canada and as a Research Economist at a Moldovan research institute.

Denis obtained his PhD in Economics from Goethe University Frankfurt in 2014. During his graduate studies, he was a teaching assistant for undergraduate courses in Macroeconomics and worked as a PhD intern for the European Central Bank and the International Monetary Fund.

In his research projects, he uses quantitative macro models to study how household con-sumption and saving behaviour is affected by taxation, access to mortgages and other im-portant features of the housing market. His most recent paper (co-authored with Virgiliu Midrigan) shows that a vast majority of US households are liquidity constrained, despite being qualified as wealthy and having access to a rich set of financial instruments for ex-tracting home equity (e.g., cash-out refinancing, HELOCs, HELs, etc.).

His future research will explore how households set prices when selling their homes, as well as the competitive effects of new supply in the housing market.



GREVENBROCK, Nils (DEU)Email: [email protected].: (+39)-055-4685-694 (2694)Office no. BF 235Mentor: Russell CooperThematic Group: Tommaso Padoa-Schioppa: Assessing the Fiscal and Monetary Framework of the EU

Nils Grevenbrock completed his PhD thesis at Goethe University Frankfurt under the su-pervision of Alexander Ludwig. His research interests lie in the fields of optimal taxation, household finance, and behavioural macroeconomics. Methodologically, he mostly relies on quantitative structural life-cycle models with heterogeneous agents and applied econo-metrics using household survey data.

During his PhD Nils was a visiting student at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia and spent three months at the International Monetary Fund in Washington D.C. Before coming to the European University Institute Nils was part of the research unit at Deutsche Bundesbank working on the German Panel on Household Finances.



KANTENGA, Kory (USA)Email: [email protected].: (+39)-055-4685-461 (2461)Office no. VF 086Mentor: Philipp KircherThematic Group: N/A

Kory Kantenga is an Economics PhD from the University of Pennsylvania.He focuses on labour economics using applied econometrics and quantitative macroeco-nomic tools. His research interests centre on understanding the sources of changes in the wage structure, and the role of general equilibrium effects in applied contexts.

His dissertation examines the impact of changes in skill demands on job and wage po-larization and the impact of technological change on wage inequality. This work uses job search models and much of this work applies search theory to distill the origins of dispari-ties like wage inequality. Kory will go on the 2018/2019 Job Market and attend the AEA meetings this winter in Atlanta.

During the Max Weber Fellowship, Kory is working on search theory applications aimed at understanding the role of moral hazard in explaining rising HIV prevalence and the effica-cy of preventative HIV drugs, and the role of unemployment benefits in crime prevention/proliferation.

His industry work experience includes building microeconometric tools for an economics consulting firm and country-based macro research at an international organization.

Expertise for Teaching and Mentoring of PhD Researchers He has taught many undergraduate courses on statistics for economists and econometric principles.



QUEIRÓS, Francisco Vitorino (PRT)Email: [email protected].: (+39)-055-4685-744 (2744)Office no. VPAD 09Mentor: Ramon MarimonThematic Group: N/A

Francisco Queirós is a Max Weber Postdoctoral Fellow in Economics at the European University Institute. His research interests are in macroeconomics, with a special focus on issues related to financial markets and industrial organization.

His PhD in Economics at Pompeu Fabra University (Barcelona), was under the supervi-sion of Fernando Broner and Jaume Ventura (2018). He holds a BA in Economics from the University of Porto (2011) and an MSc in Economics from the Barcelona GSE (2012).

During his PhD, he worked as a research assistant for Prof. Jaume Ventura.

More personally, Francisco was born in Porto (Portugal) in 1990. He moved to Barcelona in 2011, and lived there for almost seven years. He speaks Portuguese, English and Spanish and is currently learning Italian.

Expertise for Teaching and Mentoring of PhD Researchers Francisco has been a teaching assistant to his two advisors and taught a variety of courses in macroeconomics, international trade and finance and mathematics and statistics.



SPIGANTI, Alessandro (ITA)Email: [email protected].: (+39)-055-4685-458 (2458)Office no. VPAD 02Mentor: Philipp KircherThematic Group: N/A

Alessandro Spiganti is an applied economic theorist. He works at the interface of micro-economics and macroeconomics, with a particular focus on the economics of innovation and climate change economics.

He holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Edinburgh. His contributions are toward understanding how to best incentivise innovation, how to improve the average quality of those who choose to become innovators, and how to design optimal climate change policies in a world characterised by financing constraints.

His future research aims to provide a theoretical framework where the long-run inter-play between wealth inequality, income inequality, and innovation can be analysed. His research agenda also includes the study of the implications of economic recessions on the transition to a low carbon economy, and of the value of entrepreneurial failures.

Expertise for Teaching and Mentoring of PhD Researchers During his studies at the University of Edinburgh, Alessandro taught at a variety of levels. In the fall of 2017, he co-lectured Economics 1, one of the main courses in the economics undergraduate curricula. Before that, he acted as teaching assistant at the postgraduate level, covering advanced topics in game theory, general equilibrium, and economics of information; he also assisted during introductory courses in programming with Python. At the undergraduate level, he taught, as teaching assistant, microeconomics, macroeco-nomics, and urban economics.



TURA, Giulia (ITA)Email: [email protected].: (+39)-055-4685-646 (2646)Office no. VFD 006Mentor: Michèle BelotThematic Group: Citizenship and Migration

Giulia Tura is an applied microeconomist with research interests in the fields of Cultural and Family Economics.

She obtained a PhD in Economics from the University of Bologna in June 2017. During her PhD she spent a semester as a visiting PhD student at New York University and was a visiting researcher at Bocconi University.

The main goal of her research is to study the interplay between cultural transmission dy-namics and household choices. She aims to identify the role cultural-ethnic traits play in marriage choices and to uncover the implications of marital sorting on consequent intra-household decision, by using both structural and reduced form econometric methods.

From different perspectives, Giulia’s research focuses on interethnic marriages formed within the Italian marriage market. Building on marital matching models, she contributes to the investigation of new channels with which to explain the process of marital selection along cultural lines, namely the cultural socialization of children and legal status acquisi-tion motives.

Expertise for Teaching and Mentoring of PhD Researchers Giulia has developed teaching experience as a teaching assistant for various Econometrics courses at the University of Bologna, both at the undergraduate and graduate level. The content of the various courses ranged from micro to more macro oriented studies.



ZAWISZA, Tomasz (POL)Email: [email protected].: (+39)-055-4685-574 (2574)Office no. VF 086Mentor: Árpád ÁbrahámThematic Group: Tommaso Padoa-Schioppa:Assessing the Fiscal and Monetary Framework of the EU

Tomasz Zawisza is an applied economist, with a special interest in the optimal design of taxation and social welfare programs, as well as their intersection with the labour market.

He conducted his doctoral research at the University of Cambridge, England, under the supervision of Professor Hamish Low. During his studies, his main research focus was optimal taxation under multiple tax bases, where there is some opportunity to shift income from one tax base to another. His particular focus was on optimal taxation when there is, in principle, potential to tax employment and self-employment differently.

In other doctoral work, he has examined the evolution of the risk of adverse health shocks over the life-cycle, and the welfare implications of waiting times for the award of disability insurance.

During his PhD, Tomasz was a visiting student at the University of California, Berkeley, and as of 2017, he has an affiliation with the Institute of Fiscal Studies in London. As a Max Weber Fellow, while continuing to develop further his previous research, he aims to undertake a new project which analyses employment contracts between firms and workers where both sides rely on implicit agreements to maintain cooperation.

Expertise for Teaching and Mentoring of PhD Researchers Throughout his studies, Tomasz has been actively involved in teaching. He has been a teaching fellow at Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge, where he has taught macroeconom-ics at the undergraduate level, while also acting as teaching assistant for graduate-level computational methods course at the University of Cambridge. He has also taught public economics and statistics at the University of Cambridge to undergraduates.

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ZHURAVLEVA, Tatyana (RUS)Email: [email protected].: (+39)-055-4685-695 (2695)Office no. VFD 006Mentor: Michèle BelotThematic Group: N/A

Tatyana Zhuravleva graduated from Toulouse School of Economics in 2013; She worked at the Université Toulouse 1 as a lecturer and at the Gaidar Institute for Economic Policy (Moscow) as a research associate.

Her current research consists in studying corruption using an experimental approach. I also work on maternal employment and child obesity jointly with Zafar Nazarov.

Expertise for Teaching and Mentoring of PhD Researchers Tatyana thought courses in Microeconomics and Macroeconomics at different levels in-cluding MA degrees; She is particularly interested in teaching labour market economics.


Max Weber Fellows FELLOWS' BIOSKETCHESDEPARTMENT OF HISTORY AND CIVILIZATION

■ BALLOR, GRACE

■ BERECZ, ÁGOSTON ISTVÁN

■ BONVINI, ALESSANDRO

■ BOONSTRA, JOHN

■ DEWIÈRE, RÉMI

■ FONTAINE, AMPARO

■ HOLLEY, JARED

■ KAIGA, SAKIKO

■ LIM, SHIRU

■ MARÉCHAUX, BENÔIT

■ MAVRODIN, CORINA

■ SCHOLZ, DANILO

■ SIEGRIST, PASCALE

Max Weber Fellows Department of History and Civilization


BALLOR, Grace (USA)Email: [email protected].: (+39)-055-4685-855 (2855)Office no. VPAD 06Mentor: Youssef CassisThematic Group: Europe and the World: International Relations, International Security and World Politics

Grace Ballor is an economic historian of modern Europe. Her research interests include the history of European integration, capitalism, historical political economy, business his-tory, globalization, the evolution of the nation state, and the intersection of the economy and society. Methodologically, she prioritizes comparative analysis, descriptive quantita-tive techniques, and multidisciplinary collaboration.

Grace holds a PhD in History from the University of California, Los Angeles, where she completed doctoral research on the role of the private sector in the process of European in-tegration. Her dissertation, ‘Agents of Integration: Multinational Firms and the European Union, 1970-2000’, finds that in response to globalization in the 1970s and 1980s, large European corporations regionalized and thereby facilitated the creation of Europe's single common market. This project required Grace to work in several private corporate and public institutional archives across Europe and to conduct archival research in English, French, and German.

As a Max Weber fellow, Grace will finalize the publication of her first manuscript and begin work on a new book project, which will examine the effect of European integration on small and medium sized enterprise.

She is grateful to spend the 2018-2019 year at the EUI, after which she will go on to a second postdoctoral fellowship at the Graduate Institute, Geneva in 2019-2020.

Expertise for Teaching and Mentoring of PhD Researchers Grace's teaching experience includes both undergraduate and graduate courses taught in a variety of formats ‒ ranging from lecture courses to discussion-based seminars to on-line classes ‒ on subjects including: Integration and the European Union, Modern Europe since 1789, Neoliberalism and Globalization, Western Civilization History, and Historical Pedagogy.



BERECZ, Ágoston István (HUN)Email: [email protected].: (+39)-055-4685-402 (2402)Office no. VPA 206Mentor: Pieter JudsonThematic Group: N/A

Ágoston Berecz is a historian interested in the relationship between language and national-ism, as well as in the history of nineteenth-century Central and Eastern Europe, with a focus on Transylvania. He enjoys seeking out and exploring new source bases pertinent to socio-cultural history, often inspired by the wider macro-sociolinguistic literature.

His project at the EUI aims to map out patterns of official multilingualism in the Eastern parts of late Habsburg (Dualist) Hungary, based on archival research. His earlier works include a monograph on the teaching of Hungarian to ethnic Romanian and German chil-dren and a doctoral thesis on the nationalist uses of proper names, both in the historical context of Dualist Hungary.

Ágoston an MA in Hungarian Philology from Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest (2000), an MA (2012) and a PhD (2017) in Comparative History from Central European University, Budapest. He spent the 2015–6 academic year as an International Fellow at New Europe College, Bucharest.

Expertise for Teaching and Mentoring of PhD Researchers Ágoston has recently taught a course on the nationalization of East-European peasants in the long nineteenth century.



BONVINI, Alessandro (ITA)Email: [email protected].: (+39)-055-4685-853 (2853)Office no. VPA 007Mentor: Lucy RiallThematic Group: Citizenship and Migration

Alessandro Bonvini obtained a PhD in History from the University of Salerno, in joint supervision with Pontificia Universidad Javeriana of Bogota (March 2018). He has been a visiting student at Pontificia Universidad Javeriana of Bogota and at the National School of Anthropology and History of Mexico City.

His dissertation, ‘Avventurieri, esuli e volontari. Storie atlantiche del Risorgimento’ / ‘Aventureros, exiliados y voluntarios. Historias atlánticas del Risorgimento’, explores the revolutionary experience of Italian patriots in America during the long nineteenth century, and investigates adventurers, exiles and volunteers active from Texas to Patagonia, crossing the Caribbean islands and the Peninsula again.

His main research interests encompass the study of anti-absolutist movements in the age of revolutions, circulation of ideas between Europe and America, and the phenomenon of volunteerism in the Atlantic world. He has published articles on adventurism in the Viceroyalty of New Granada, scientific explorations of the overseas territories, Mazzinian associations in the New World, and the creation of republican émigrés’ colonies in the River Plate area. As a Max Weber Fellow, he intends to revise his dissertation, further fo-cusing on the Risorgimento exiles in the United States.

Expertise for Teaching and Mentoring of PhD Researchers In Salerno and Bogota,Alessandro has taught several seminars in global history, as well as classes in the history of revolutions, the history of the Risorgimento, and the history of Latin America. Currently, he leads an annual workshop in Atlantic history.



BOONSTRA, John (USA)Email: [email protected].: (+39)-055-4685-636 (2636)Office no. VPA 106Mentor: Laura Lee DownsThematic Group: N/A

John Boonstra received his PhD from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in August 2018. Overall, his research asks how unique sites of colonial contact shaped ideologies of gender and empire. His dissertation, ‘A Mandate to Protect: Imperial Encounters and Affective Ideologies Between France and Lebanon, 1860-1931,’ examines the formation of an imperial relationship between France and Lebanon in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, investigating how a range of encounters between writers and travel-ers, industrialists and workers, activists and administrators, and everyday French and Lebanese men and women informed the transition from informal protectorate to formal colonial regime.

During his Max Weber Fellowship, he plans to submit a chapter from his dissertation for publication, targeting either the International Journal for Middle East Studies or the Journal of Middle East Women’s Studies, while continuing to revise the dissertation into a manuscript, tentatively titled ‘Finding France in the Levant: Lebanon in the French Imperial Imagination.’

Expertise for Teaching and Mentoring of PhD Researchers John has experience teaching modern European history at introductory and intermedi-ate levels, women’s and gender history at the advanced level, and modern Mediterranean history at an intermediate level. He also has experience conducting research in over two-dozen archives and libraries in France, Lebanon, Austria, and the United States.



DEWIÈRE, Rémi (FRA)Email: [email protected].: (+39)-055-4685-693 (2693)Office no. VPA 006Mentor: Jorge FloresThematic Group: N/A

Rémi Dewière is a historian interested in Islamic West Africa in the Early Modern and Modern period. In particular, he focuses on State practices, diplomacy and circulations in Central Sahel, with a special focus on the Borno sultanate from the late medieval to the 19th century. His book, Du lac Tchad à La Mecque. Le sultanat du Borno et son monde (XVIe-XVIIe siècle) (Éditions de la Sorbonne, 2017), provides a new perspective on the functioning of an Islamic Sahelian state in the Early Modern period and its relationship with the world around it through the trans-Saharan routes.

During his fellowship, he will study the bureaucracy and the establishment of a complex administration system in Sahelian Islamic states, from the 16th century to the 1930s, in order to understand how Islamic rulers from Sahel expressed their power and state con-tinuity in a fragile environment and, at the same time, dealt with the scarcity of writing materials – such as paper – usually closely associated with the development of a complex state administration.

Rémi received a Master (2008) and a PhD in African History (2015) from Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne University (IMAf) and won a prize for his PhD thesis (2016) from the Institut sur l’Islam et les Sociétés du Monde Musulman (EHESS). From 2012 to 2017, he was Research Assistant in the ERC Project ConfigMed and was EHESS Postdoctoral Fellow in the Centre Alexandre-Koyré (CAK) in 2017/2018.



FONTAINE, Amparo (CHL/FRA)Email: [email protected].: (+39)-055-4685-670 (2670)Office no. VPA 006Mentor: Stéphane Van DammeThematic Group: Ideas, Concepts and Theory

Amparo Fontaine completed her PhD in History at the University of Cambridge. She pre-viously completed an MPhil in Early Modern History at the same university, and a BA at the Catholic University of Chile.

Her research interests address the history of knowledge, music, material culture, politics, the senses, and the body in the early-modern period. Her PhD dissertation, ‘Musical knowledge, material practices, and the body politic in 18th-century France’, examined the ways music was appropriated and signified through different realms of French cultural and intellectual life. It explored scientific and philosophical inquiries into music, debates over music and national character, the manufacture and possession of musical instruments, the musical performer’s body, and music in the making of a new public order during the French Revolution. She has also written on the musical amateur as a specific social persona during the eighteenth century.

Her research project at the EUI addresses the notions of musical genius in eighteenth-century France and Italy. She investigates ‘genius’ in relation to contemporary notions of musicality, creativity, craftsmanship, and sociability, ranging from musicians to material objects, places, and animals.

Expertise for Teaching and Mentoring of PhD Researchers Since 2016, Amparo has given lectures on the material culture of music and sound at the University of Cambridge, as well as supervising undergraduate students on Early-Modern Material Culture and Early-Modern European History.



HOLLEY, Jared (CAN)Email: [email protected].: (+39)-055-4685-654(2654)Office no. VPA 007Mentor: Richard BellamyThematic Group: Ideas, Concepts and Theory

Jared Holley is interested in modern ideas about the economic and aesthetic dimensions of democracy and their intellectual history. His work to date has focused on three inter-related areas: the political theory of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, the deep resonance of ancient philosophy in the moral and political thought of the long eighteenth-century, and the criti-cal engagement with that period by historically-minded political theorists in the twentieth.

Jared's book manuscript, entitled A Taste for Virtue: refined Epicureanism and Rousseau’s political thought, argues that in order to understand the form of modern political freedom envisioned by Rousseau, we have to understand his theory of taste as ‘refined Epicureanism’. This perspective provides a new way of both understanding Rousseau’s legacy in nine-teenth-century liberalism, and of systematically clarifying the role of political economy and aesthetic judgment in his theory of popular sovereignty.

As a Max Weber Fellow, Jared will begin a new research project on the conceptual history of ‘solidarity’. Solidarity has roots as an economic concept in the Roman Law of obliga-tions, and modern theorists expanded its scope by drawing on aesthetics to emphasize the individual’s duty to imagined communities that transcend local, regional, and national contexts.

He takes his historical cue from the natural-law philosophy of Karl C.F. Krause (1781-1832). Centered politically on the notion of solidarity, Krause’s work became the dominant legal philosophy of the liberal revolutions in Spain (c. 1854-1874) and subsequently in-spired schools of krausismo in Latin America that influenced leading figures of the Cuban Revolution.



KAIGA, Sakiko (JPN)Email: [email protected].: (+39)-055-4685-659 (2659)Office no. VPA 106Mentor: Corinna HungerThematic Group: Governance, Constitutionalism and Democracy

Sakiko Kaiga completed her PhD in International History at King’s College London in December 2015. Her research focuses on the history of international relations in the early twentieth century.

Sakiko’s PhD thesis, ‘War Against War: the Bryce Group, the Pro-League of Nations Movement in Britain and the Intellectual Origins of the League of Nations, 1914-18’, ex-amined a little-appreciated League of Nations movement during the First World War and its unexpected consequences for the development of the League of Nations.

As a Max Weber Fellow, she will work on her new research project on how the concept of democracy was employed in international politics during the League of Nations period. Building on her previous work and based on multi-archival research, this project will ex-plore the transnational debates and activities of intellectuals, activists and their groups who played critical roles in the mobilisation of the concept in several countries and in the League.

Expertise for Teaching and Mentoring of PhD Researchers Sakiko has taught undergraduate courses in international history in the modern period.



LIM, Shiru (SGP)Email: [email protected].: (+39)-055-4685-663 (2663)Office no. VPA 205Mentor: Ann ThomsonThematic Group: Ideas, Concepts and Theory

Shiru Lim completed her doctoral thesis on ‘Philosophical Kingship in Eighteenth-Century Europe: Frederick II, Catherine II, and the philosophes’ at the Department of History of University College London (UCL). This work explores what Frederick II and Catherine II’s relationships with the philosophes reveal about what exactly made eighteenth-century conceptions of philosophical kingship ‘philosophical’. Her thesis uncovers a hitherto under-explored, parrhêsiastic conception of philosophy, and shows that disagreements in eighteenth-century Europe about how to do philosophy were equally conflicts about how to do politics.

Shiru’s research interests are in the intellectual history and the history of political thought of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Europe. As a Max Weber Fellow at the EUI, she will begin a new project, ‘The Politics of Deception in Enlightenment Europe’, exploring the ways in which deception and its various iterations—simulation, dissimulation, equivo-cation, lying, etc.—were conceived as mental and political processes in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Europe. She also plans to start developing her doctoral thesis into a book manuscript, and to work on a short project on seventeenth- and eighteenth-century French Tacitism.

Shiru holds a BA in History from UCL (2013), and an MPhil in Modern European History from the University of Cambridge (2014). She maintains broader philosophical interests in the philosophy of language, as well as in theories of meaning and historical explanation.

Expertise for Teaching and Mentoring of PhD Researchers Shiru has extensive experience teaching both history and politics undergraduates the history of political thought from antiquity to the nineteenth century, and the history of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Europe.



MARÉCHAUX, Benôit (FRA)Email: [email protected].: (+39)-055-4685-841 (2841)Office no. BF 234Mentor: Regina GrafeThematic Group: N/A

Benoît Maréchaux holds a PhD in Economic History from the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (2017). Previously, he obtained an MA Degree in European History from the École Pratique des Hautes Études (Paris).

Benoît is an economic historian of Early Modern Europe, with a particular interest in Mediterranean studies. His research explores the nexus between naval institutions and economic expansion in Early Modern Europe. It aims to reconsider mercantilism by em-phasizing the diversity of economic institutions that coexisted in pre-industrial Europe.

In his PhD dissertation, Benoît explored the relationship between naval institutions, out-sourcing of war and international finance in the Early Modern Mediterranean, develop-ing his research on the Genoese naval entrepreneurs who administrated galleys for the Hispanic Monarchy and used them to transport silver in the Mediterranean during the 16th-17th centuries.

As a Max Weber Fellow, Benoît intends to work on a book manuscript provisionally ti-tled ‘Managing galleys for the Spanish Empire: the Genoese Naval Enterprise of Marco Centurione (1612-1621)’. He will also deepen and disseminate his research on the naval foundations of Genoese financial capitalism. Lastly, he plans to lay the foundations of his new project (‘Varieties of mercantilism’) that deals with a comparative analysis between the naval institutions of the pre-modern European economies.

Expertise for Teaching and Mentoring of PhD Researchers Since 2010, Benoît has taught Early Modern History, Historical Methodology and World Economic History at the École Pratique des Hautes Études (in a Master’s programme in History) and at the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (in undergraduate programmes in Economics and Business Management).


MAVRODIN, Corina (ROM/USA)Email: [email protected].: (+39)-055-4685-683 (2683)Office no. BF 236Mentor: Federico RomeroThematic Group: Europe and the World: International Relations, International Security and World Politics

Corina Mavrodin completed her PhD in International History at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). She has a background in International Studies (BA) and International Relations and African Studies (MA). Prior to entering academia, she worked for government, NGOs and international organizations.

Corina’s doctoral dissertation, ‘A Maverick in the Making: Romania’s de-Satellization Process and the Global Cold War (1953-1963)’, explores the ability of junior players to exert autonomy and influence within a bipolar international environment, dominated by the superpower dynamic. Her multi-archival research therefore explores the intersections between diplomatic, economic, regional and cultural history with elements of IR theory and history.

As a Max Weber Fellow, Corina will transform her dissertation into a book by further expanding her doctoral research. In addition, she is also developing a second project on the relationship between the Eastern Bloc and the Third World.

Expertise for Teaching and Mentoring of PhD ResearchersCorina has taught courses in international history (at LSE, London) and in international relations (at LSE & Peking University, Beijing).



SCHOLZ, Danilo (DEU)Email: [email protected].: (+39)-055-4685-687 (2687)Office VPAD 09Mentor: Ann ThomsonThematic Group: Ideas, Concepts and Theory

Danilo Scholz specializes in the history of modern political thought and European intel-lectual history.

After earning a BA in History at the University of Cambridge, Danilo moved to Paris where he obtained the diplôme of the École normale supérieure and a master’s degree in History at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS). His MA thesis on Alexandre Kojève and German interwar philosophy won the Raymond Aron prize in 2011 and the EUI’s Marc Bloch prize in 2013. During the academic year 2012-2013, he was a visiting student researcher at UC Berkeley.

His PhD, which he completed in 2018 at the EHESS, investigated how insights from eth-nological, psychoanalytical and geographical research profoundly renewed concepts and critiques of the state in twentieth-century postwar French thought.

As a Max Weber Fellow, Danilo will work on his first book manuscript, which is under con-tract with C.H. Beck. This monograph focuses on the administrative career of Alexandre Kojève. If his Hegel lectures of the 1930s continue to garner widespread attention, Kojève's career as a French bureaucrat after 1945 has gone largely unnoticed. The book will show how Kojève’s Hegelian convictions guided him through the corridors of European and global power and shaped French policy.

Teaching ExperienceAt Sciences Po and the EHESS, Danilo has taught undergraduate and graduate courses on the history of political thought from Machiavelli to Kant and the changing views on war European intellectuals held throughout the twentieth century. Other classes investigated modern state theories and the conceptual history of borders and frontiers.


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SIEGRIST, Pascale (CHE/FRA)Email: [email protected].: (+39)-055-4685-416 (2416)Office no. VPAD 03Mentor: Alexander EtkindThematic Group: Ideas, Concepts and Theory

Pascale Siegrist is an intellectual historian of nineteenth-century Western Europe and Russia. Her PhD thesis, which she submitted to the University of Konstanz earlier this year, deals with the political thought of the anarchists and geographers Élisée Reclus (1830 – 1905) and Pëtr Kropotkin (1842 – 1921). The study understands the transnational net-work of intellectuals, scientists, and political activists in which Reclus and Kropotkin were embedded as a framework for their ‘global’ thinking.

Pascale has a BA (Licence) from Paris-IV Sorbonne (2010) and an MPhil in Political Thought and Intellectual History from the University of Cambridge (2012). She was a visiting student at Moscow State University (MGU) and before joing the Max Weber Programme was a Mercator Visiting Fellow at the Global Intellectual History Graduate School at the Freie Universität Berlin.

During her time as a Max-Weber-Fellow, she plans to publish two articles in relation to her doctoral research and to further develop her postdoctoral project on (Russian) political thought in the conditions of exile.

Expertise for Teaching and Mentoring of PhD Researchers Pascale has taught seminars on global intellectual history and on the history of anarchism and hopes to develop courses on Russian political thought as well as on the history of geography and geopolitics.

Max Weber Fellows


FELLOWS' BIOSKETCHESDEPARTMENT OF LAW

■ ALOISI, ANTONIO

■ BAQUERO, PABLO MARCELLO

■ BOUWER, KIM

■ BRIGHT, CLAIRE

■ CORCODEL, VERONICA

■ FIALA-BUTORA, JANOS

■ HANCOX, EMILY VICTORIA

■ RANGONI, BERNARDO

■ ROBERTS, CHRISTOPHER

■ SACHOULIDOU, ATHINA

■ TZANAKI, ANNA

■ YOLCU, SERKAN

Max Weber Fellows Department of Law


ALOISI, Antonio (ITA)Email: [email protected].: (+39)-055-4685-573 (2573)Office no. VPA 209Mentor: Claire KilpatrickThematic Group: Governance, Constitutionalism and Democracy

Antonio Aloisi is a Max Weber Postdoctoral Fellow in the Law Department at the EUI and Teaching Fellow in European Social Law at Bocconi University.

His research focuses on non-standard employment and platform-mediated work both at the individual and the collective level. His interests span employment law and industrial relations.

He received his PhD in Business and Social Law (summa cum laude) from Bocconi University in 2018. His doctoral research examines the trend towards personal outsourcing and the prototypical business model of platform companies and then moves to discussing the notion of ‘employee’ and its key legal determinants. His dissertation, ‘Facing the chal-lenges of platform-mediated labour: the employment relationship in times of non-standard work and digital transformation’, also seeks to square this fast-evolving phenomenon with the existing legal framework.

As a Max Weber Fellow, he will put particular emphasis on advancing his studies by revis-ing his dissertation into a book.

Antonio has been involved in several research projects in the same field, some of which were developed in consortium with or commissioned by international institutions or re-search centres (JRC, Eurofound, OECD). He has authored and co-authored a number of articles and op-eds in his field of study in international peer-reviewed journals, books and blogs.

In 2016 he was a visiting researcher at the Center for International and Comparative at the Saint Louis University School of Law. Previously, he joined the Office of the Italian Ministry of Education, Universities and Research, where he worked on a long-term policy framework for school reform in Italy.



BAQUERO, Pablo Marcello (BRA)Email: [email protected].: (+39)-055-4685-435 (2435)Office no. BF 237Mentor: Hans-W. Micklitz Thematic Group: N/A

Pablo Marcello Baquero is currently concluding a PhD thesis at the Faculty of Law at the University of Cambridge (UK). He holds an LLM from Harvard Law School and an LLB from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. His scholarly interests are in the fields of Transnational Private Law, International Commercial Law and Law and Society, with an emphasis on the challenges that ‘knowledge economy’ forms of production gen-erate in these areas. His perspective is fundamentally comparative and interdisciplinary, considering the intersection of law with economics, business and sociology.

His thesis, ‘Networks of Collaborative Contracts for Innovation’, examines how legal insti-tutions could be structured to encourage the creation of inter-firm relationships to gener-ate innovation collaboratively.

Pablo has worked in law firms dealing with international transactions, arbitration and con-tractual practices. He was a short-term consultant at the Doing Business Project (World Bank) and interned at the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law.

His past publications mostly analyzed how Private Law should respond to challenges posed by emerging technologies.

During the Max Weber Fellowship, he will be pursuing research to further examine – from a different perspective – what the Private Law governing the knowledge economy should be and will be preparing his PhD thesis for publication.

Expertise for Teaching and Mentoring of PhD Researchers Pablo was a teaching assistant on Consumer Law at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil), teaching to small groups including foreign students undertaking exchange studies at the University.



BOUWER, Kim (GBR/ZAF)Email: [email protected].: (+39)-055-4685-237 (2237)Office no. VPA 106Mentor: Joanne ScottThematic Group: N/A

Kim Bouwer completed her PhD at UCL under the supervision of Professor Maria Lee. Her thesis, ‘Building Disappointment’, examined the limits and potential of private law to address problems arising from domestic energy efficiency improvements.

In her current research she continues to examine small and overlooked issues in climate change law and litigation. While at the EUI, Kim intends to examine the possibilities for small actions in private law, arising from a failure to adapt to climate change. Her broader research interests lie in energy and climate change law and the governance of natural re-sources. She is particularly interested in litigation in the context of climate change, the regulation and governance of energy efficiency and low carbon technologies, and climate finance.

Before returning to UCL to pursue her doctoral research, Kim worked as a lawyer. She is a qualified attorney and solicitor and has experience of practice in two jurisdictions, England and Wales, and South Africa. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy, and a postgraduate LLB from the University of the Witwatersrand (Johannesburg). She holds an LLM, specialising in Human Rights, from the University of London.

Expertise for Teaching and Mentoring of PhD Researchers Kim has taught English tort law at undergraduate level at UCL, King’s College London and in her most recent post at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, where she was course convenor. She has also taught environmental, energy and climate change law at postgradu-ate level at UCL, UCL Australia, and at Strathclyde.



BRIGHT, Claire (FRA)Email: [email protected].: (+39)-055-4685-683 (2683)Office: VPAD 09Mentor: Hans MicklitzThematic Group: Governance, Constitutionalism and Democracy

Claire Bright holds a PhD in International Law from the European University Institute, an LL.M in Private International Law and International Commercial Law from La Sorbonne Law School and a Double Bachelor in French and English Laws from the University Paris-Est.

In the past, she has worked as a Lecturer at the London School of Business and Management where she was Module Leader for several Private Law modules as well as Personal Development Planning Coordinator within the LL.B.

Claire has also worked as a Programme Associate on the Research Programme on Civil Justice Systems at the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies of the University of Oxford where she collaborated on research projects on Alternative Dispute Resolution mechanisms in Civil Justice Systems as well as in Business-Related Human Rights Claims.

Claire's main research interests focus on Business and Human Rights. In her current work, she looks at human rights due diligence requirements for multinational corporations. She also looks at what the findings of behavioural psychology can teach the field of Business and Human Rights. She delivered a course on Business and Human Rights at the Venice Summer School of Human Rights, European Inter-University Centre for Human Rights and Democratisation in June 2018.

Expertise for Teaching and Mentoring of PhD Researchers

Claire has taught on a range of core law subjects including European Law, International Law, Land Law and Equity and Trusts, and was awarded the eLearning Practitioner Prize in 2016 for use of innovative methodologies in the development and delivery of undergradu-ate courses.



CORCODEL, Veronica (ROM/MDA)Email: [email protected].: (+39)-055-4685-822 (2822)Office no. BF 236Mentor: Bruno de WitteThematic Group: Citizenship and Migration

Veronica Corcodel holds a PhD from Sciences Po Law School (2015). The main argument of her dissertation is developed in a forthcoming book Modern Law and Otherness: The Dynamics of Inclusion and Exclusion in Comparative Legal Thought (Edward Elgar, 2019). Her areas of interest include critical legal theory, migration, European law and comparative law. She has been a Visiting Scholar at Cornell Law School, the University of Turin and the University of Piemonte Orientale.

Prior to joining the EUI Max Weber Programme, Veronica was a Postdoctoral Researcher in the FOLIE (Forms of Life and Legal Integration in Europe) project at Sciences Po Law School. Her research has explored the ways in which legal arrangements shape (and are shaped by) migrant forms of life. She has focused on the context of the Calais camp, includ-ing the alternative housing solutions provided by French authorities to displaced migrants. Her research was conducted in collaboration with the Migration Clinic of Sciences Po Law School, which she co-coordinated.

As a Max Weber Fellow, Veronica intends to further investigate the ways in which a certain understanding of the notion of forms of life can be useful for critically approaching the European legal framework of migrants’ detention.

Expertise for Teaching and Mentoring of PhD ResearchersVeronica has teaching experience at both undergraduate and graduate levels, in French and European migration law (clinical course at Sciences Po), Comparative Law and Representations of the non-West (University of Piemonte Orientale, Sciences Po), European Union Law (Sciences Po Toulouse) and Public International Law (Sciences Po Toulouse).



FIALA-BUTORA, Janos (SVK/HUN)Email: [email protected].: (+39)-055-4685-403 (2403)Office no. VPA 209Mentor: Claire KilpatrickThematic Group: Governance, Constitutionalism and Democracy

János Fiala-Butora holds an SJD from Harvard Law School (‘16). His dissertation, ‘Reconstructing personhood: legal capacity of persons with disabilities’, investigates the deprivation of legal capacity of persons with intellectual disabilities in light of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.

Prior to his SJD, he received an LLM in International Human Rights Law from Central European University in Budapest, Hungary (‘04), and degrees in law and international relations from Slovakia. As a practicing human rights lawyer, he actively consulted with governments on their human rights laws and policies, and brought landmark litigation before international courts on behalf of persons with disabilities.

His research interests are centred on international human rights law, disability law, nation-alism and legal theory. He currently focuses on international human rights mechanisms, the rights of persons with disabilities and ethnic minorities.

Expertise for Teaching and Mentoring of PhD ResearchersJános has taught in courses on human rights at Central European University, and as a guest lecturer at various universities in the US.



HANCOX, Emily Victoria (GBR)Email: [email protected].: (+39)-055-4685-859 (2859)Office no. VPA 106Mentor: Urska SadlThematic Group: Governance, Constitutionalism and Democracy

Emily Hancox is completing her PhD in European Union Law at the University of Edinburgh where she holds a Principal’s Career Development Scholarship. Her thesis, ‘The Inter-Relationship between Overlapping Norms in the EU Legal Order’ is supervised by Professor Niamh Nic Shuibhne and Dr Tobias Lock.

Emily’s primary research interests lie in EU and constitutional law, focusing specifically on questions of norm inter-relationship.

As a Max Weber Fellow, Emily plans to build upon her PhD research and explore ques-tions relating to both when and how courts prioritise (or entrench) particular legislative measures or values within legal systems and the implications that flow from this.

Expertise for Teaching and Mentoring of PhD ResearchersEmily has wide-ranging experience teaching public law and EU law at the undergraduate and post-graduate level. As a Lecturer in Law at the University of Oxford, Emily taught EU, constitutional and administrative law. At the University of Edinburgh, Emily taught several courses relating to EU constitutional law, EU citizenship and EU fundamental rights on the EU LLM programme as well as courses on public law, EU law and legal methods at the undergraduate level.



RANGONI, Bernardo (ITA)Email: [email protected].: (+39)-055-4685-964 (2964)Office no. VPA 205Mentor: Giorgio MontiThematic Group: Governance, Constitutionalism and Democracy

Bernardo Rangoni joined the EUI as a Max Weber Postdoctoral Fellow in Law in 2017, right after having earned his PhD in Political Science from the LSE.

His research is in the fields of comparative public policy, regulation, and governance within and beyond the EU. It has appeared (or is currently under review) in the Journal of European Public Policy, Regulation & Governance, European Law Journal, and Oxford University Press.

A key element of his research concerns the perceived move from traditional hierarchi-cal 'command and control' to new modes of experimentalist governance, which induce decentralized experimentation while pooling information to compare the performance of different local practices. He is currently analyzing the relationship between experimentalist institutional architectures, actual decision-making processes, and policy outcomes across energy, telecoms, finance, and pharmaceuticals.

Expertise for Teaching and Mentoring of PhD Researchers Undergraduate Research Design in Political Science in Fundamentals of Politics Research in the Department of Political Economy at King’s College London (KCL), graduate course in Network Regulation.



ROBERTS, Christopher (USA/GBR)Email: [email protected].: (+39)-055-4685-303 (2303)Office no. VPAD 06Mentor: Nehal BhutaThematic Group: Ideas, Concepts and Democracy

Christopher holds a BA from Brown University, an MA from SOAS, and a JD and JSD from NYU School of Law. Christopher has worked as an expert legal consultant with numerous organizations addressing human rights, supranational litigation, and constitutional and legislative reform throughout the Middle East, Africa and South Asia.

Christopher’s doctoral project, ‘Alternative Rights Visions: The History of the Regional Rights Systems and the Emergence of a Systemic Approach to Human Rights’, explored the comparative historical development of the European, Inter-American and African regional human rights systems, and the different visions of human rights that emerged from their respective experiences. His previous work has also explored the open boundaries of the notion of crimes against humanity, and the complexities of the interrelationship between sanctions and human rights law.

At the EUI, Christopher will be working on his new project, focused on the historical development of repressive public order laws in Britain and the British Empire, between the late 19th century and the period of decolonization (roughly 1873-1968). While at EUI, he will be exploring the period from 1873-1914, in which new challenges to more conserva-tive orderings emerged both in Britain and in the Empire, leading in turn to the develop-ment of new repressive ideologies, aimed at delegitimizing and repressing mass popular mobilizations.

Expertise for Teaching and Mentoring of PhD Researchers Christopher has experience leading undergraduate, graduate and professional courses in international human rights law and in political, critical and democratic theory.



SACHOULIDOU, Athina (GRC)Email: [email protected].: (+39)-055-4685-509 (2509)Office no. VPAD 02Mentor: Deirdre CurtinThematic Group: Europe and the World: International Relations, International Security and World Politics

Athina Sachoulidou is a Max Weber Fellow at the EUI (Department of Law). Her research interests include substantive & procedural (European) criminal law, corporate & financial law, legal philosophy, bioethics, as well as the regulation of new data technologies.

Athina graduated from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki with degrees in law (BA 2011), medical law and bioethics (M.Sc. 2014) as well as from the University of Heidelberg with an advanced degree in German law (LL.M. 2015). In April 2018, she completed her PhD in law on ‘Corporate liability and punishment in criminal and interdisciplinary dis-course’ (summa cum laude) at the University of Heidelberg (her PhD will be officially awarded on 23 November 2018). Her dissertation focused on the doctrinal issues associ-ated with the criminal liability of non-human actors within the German jurisdiction.

As a member of the Institute of German, European and International Criminal Law and Law of Criminal Procedure at the University of Heidelberg, Athina has gained experience related to research, mentoring and planning academic activities. Since October 2017, she has taken part in ‘Big Data in Discourse’, an interdisciplinary research programme hosted by the Academy of Political Education in Tutzing.

As a Max Weber Fellow, she plans to work on the impact of big-data-based surveillance technologies on law enforcement and criminal justice, using the example of the right to presumption of innocence. This research project should address the legal regulation of new data collecting and analysing techniques from a criminal-law point of view at European and national level.



TZANAKI, Anna (GRC)Email: [email protected].: (+39)-055-4685-681 (2681)Office no. VPA 006Mentor: Giorgio MontiThematic Group: N/A

Anna Tzanakis holds a PhD from University College London (UCL) Faculty of Laws, an LLM from the University of Chicago Law School and an LL. from the University of Athens Law School. She has been a Visiting Researcher at Harvard Law School for a year and half of her doctoral studies. She also studied law at Humboldt University of Berlin as an Erasmus exchange student. She has held various scholarships throughout her academic career.

Her main research interests lie in the areas of antitrust/competition law and policy, regula-tion, law & economics, corporate law and governance, and comparative law.

Anna is a Senior Lecturer at Lund University, teaching on the Master’s Programme in European Business Law. She has experience teaching and directing courses on EU Competition Law, EU State Aids, EU External Relations & International Trade, Mergers & Acquisitions. Anna is also a Senior Research Fellow at the UCL Centre for Law, Economics & Society and an Associate Editor at Competition Policy International.

She has previously worked within the Competition/Antitrust Group of Linklaters LLP in London and at the International Telecommunication Union in Geneva.

During her stay at EUI as a Max Weber Fellow, Anna aims to turn her doctoral research dealing with the competition implications of partial ownership of rival firms into a book publication.

Expertise for Teaching and Mentoring of PhD Researchers Anna has been a Teaching Fellow at the UCL Faculty of Laws, teaching and providing support for the courses ‘EU & UK Competition Law’, ‘The Digital Economy: Economics, Antitrust and Regulation’.



YOLCU, Serkan (TUR)Email: [email protected].: (+39)-055-4685-425 (2425)Office no. VPAD 07Mentor: Martin ScheininThematic Group: N/A

Serkan Yolcu holds an LLB from Dokuz Eylul University. He spent a period of his under-graduate education at Justus Liebig University Giessen, Germany. He completed his LLM (public law) at Uludag University and received his PhD degree (public law) from Ankara University in 2018. He has been a visiting researcher at Oxford University Faculty of Law and at Boston College Law School.

Serkan has been essentially working on comparative constitutional law and international human rights law. His major research interests include unconstitutional constitutional amendments, democratic legitimacy of judicial review and constitutional adjudication of social rights. As a Max Weber Fellow at the EUI, he will be working on his research project, which will analyze one of the potential solutions that intends to defuse the inevitable tension between constitutionalism and democracy. He will discuss the role of parliaments related to constitutional issues during the law-making process and evaluate legislative scrutiny as a form of constitutional review both in theory and practice. This project, in a comparative perspective, will examine the ‘legislative constitutional interpretation’, whereby legislators articulate the meaning of constitutional norms during the legislative process, in the context of its role in protecting constitutional rights and freedoms.

Expertise for Teaching and Mentoring of PhD Researchers Serkan has taught introductory courses on constitutional law and a course on Turkish con-stitutional law at undergraduate level.


Max Weber Department of Political and Social SciencesFELLOWS' BIOSKETCHESDEPARTMENT OF POLITICAL AND SOCIAL SCIENCE

■ ANDERSSON, PER

■ BUCCA, MAURICIO

■ CABEZA PÉREZ, LAURA

■ DAGEFÖRDE, MIRJAM

■ DAZEY, MARGOT

■ GARRITZMANN, JULIAN LEONCE

■ LEE, JAMES

■ LEIPOLD, BRUNO

■ LIM, MISUM

■ LO IACONO, SERGIO

■ MASSOC, ELSA CLARA

■ PETROVA, BILYANA

■ ROESCU, ANDRA

■ ROGELJA, IGOR

■ RONCHI, STEFANO

■ SCALISE, GEMMA

■ SOYEMI, ENIOLA

■ VAN’T KLOOSTER, JENS

■ VRANCEANU, ALINA

■ ZSCHIRNT, EVA

Max Weber Department of Political and Social Sciences


FELLOWS' BIOSKETCHESDEPARTMENT OF POLITICAL AND SOCIAL SCIENCE

ANDERSSON, Per (SWE)Email: [email protected].: (+39)-055-4685-656 (2656)Office no. BF 236Mentor: Philipp GenschelThematic Group: Governance, Constitutionalism and Democracy

Per Andersson is a political scientist interested in the historical coevolution of political institutions and taxation. In particular, he focuses on the historical link between govern-ment budgets and democratization, and how different forms of democracy affect the way ideology has an impact on tax systems. His research is also concerned with how constitu-tions affect the capacity of governments to invest in the future and cope with urgent crises.

During his Fellowship he seeks to develop a measure of redistribution based on govern-ment budgets (both taxation and spending), making it possible to compare long-term changes in government redistribution in a number of countries from as far back as the nineteenth century. His ambition is to use this dataset to reexamine the link between in-equality and democratization.

He received his BA in Political Science and Economics (2009), Masters degrees in Business and Economics (2010) and in Political Science (2012) from Uppsala University, and a PhD in Political Science from Lund University (2017). He spent Trinity term of 2016 as a Junior Visiting Scholar at Nuffield College, Oxford University.

Expertise for Teaching and Mentoring of PhD Researchers He has taught research design and quantitative methods in political science and peace and conflict studies at the bachelor and masters level. He has also supervised a number of bachelor and masters theses in political science and peace and conflict studies.

Max Weber Fellows Department of Political and Social Sciences


BUCCA, Mauricio (CHL)Email: [email protected].: (+39)-055-4685-565 (2565)Office no. VPA 006Mentor: Fabrizio BernardiThematic Group: Experimental Working Group

Mauricio Bucca is a PhD candidate in Sociology at Cornell University. His research lies in the areas of Intergenerational Mobility, Labour Market Inequalities, Assortative Mating and Beliefs about Inequality. He has studied these topics both in the US and in the Latin American context

He works with data from large longitudinal surveys as well as online experimental data using a combination of statistical modeling, empirical strategies for causal inferences and computational methods. His research has been featured in the journal Research in Social Stratification and Mobility and the Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences.



CABEZA PÉREZ, Laura (ESP)Email: [email protected].: (+39)-055-4685-603 (2603)Office no. VPA 206Mentor: Elias DinasThematic Group: Governance, Constitutionalism and Democracy

Laura Cabeza Perez obtained a PhD in Political Sciences (magna cum laude) in 2017 from the University of Cologne, Germany, and since then has been Senior Research Associate at the Cologne Center for Comparative Politics.

She comes from Spain, where she graduated in Sociology (University of Barcelona) and ob-tained a master’s degree in Politics and Democracy (UNED) and a postgraduate diploma in Applied Social Research and Data Analysis (Centro de Investigaciones Sociológicas). Laura worked as a research assistant at the University of Deusto for 2 years, and she was researcher at the Instituto de Estudios Sociales Avanzados (IESA-CSIC) between 2007 and 2011. In both institutions, she was involved in various research projects, mainly designing and analysing public opinion surveys.

She is mainly interested in decentralization, regional elections, political parties and voting behaviour. She has published articles in journals such as Electoral Studies, Publius: The Journal of Federalism, Party Politics and Regional & Federal Studies.

Since 2010, Laura has been a member of the Regional Manifestos Project, a project that uses the quantitative content analysis of election manifestos of political parties to estimate their policy positions in regional elections. During the last eight years, she has collected, coded and analysed party manifestos to create an original dataset to study party competi-tion at the regional level in two countries: Spain and the UK.

As a Max Weber Fellow, she plans to extend the Regional Manifestos Project to cover more cases, starting from Italy. She is particularly interested in analysing the policy positions of the Five Star Movement in the Italian regions. She also wants to explore further how decentralization affects the electoral success of populist parties in Europe.



DAGEFÖRDE, Mirjam (DEU)Email: [email protected].: (+39)-055-4685-692 (2692)Office no. BF 235Mentor: Ellen ImmergutThematic Group: Governance, Constitutionalism and Democracy

Mirjam Dageförde is a political scientist interested in the relation of citizens and politics and political representation.

She is a Max Weber Fellow at the European University Institute and Associated Researcher at Sciences Po Paris (Centre d’Etudes Européennes (CEE) and Laboratoire interdiscipli-naire d'évaluation des politiques publiques (LIEPP)).

In addition, in early 2018, she was an OXPO-fellow and conducted research at Nuffield College, University of Oxford. Before joining the EUI, she was researcher and lecturer at Sciences Po in the Euro-American program in cooperation with Columbia University and UBC, among others.

Mirjam received her PhD from Sciences Po in 2017, where she completed her dissertation, "Evaluating representation from citizens' perspective: Concepts of congruence, context and Europeans'

She combines representation theory, comparative politics, research on political parties and public opinion. She is particularly interested in citizens’ perceptions or citizens’ evaluation of representation in Europe. Furthermore, she focuses on France and Germany.

She was involved in diverse research projects, such as Citizens and Representatives in France and Germany, the French Presidential Elections, the European Elections Project and the European Social Survey.

Expertise for Teaching and Mentoring of PhD Researchers She taught classes at Sciences Po (Paris School of International Affairs, Euro-American program, Paris School of Public Policy, collège universitaire) and at the University of Stuttgart. The topics range from political representation, citizens and politics or communi-cation to research methods in BA- and MA programs.



DAZEY, Margot (FRA)Email: [email protected].: (+39)-055-4685-333 (2333)Office no. VR 028Mentor: Olivier RoyThematic Group: Citizenship and Migration

Margot Dazey is a Max Weber Fellow in Political and Social Sciences interested in the nexus of religion and politics. Her research explores the legitimacy-building strategies of organizations, the construction of group consciousness as well as the culture and identity of faith-based institutions.

She will complete her PhD in Political Science at the University of Cambridge in 2018. Her dissertation examines the politics of respectability of Islamic organizations in France, and unpacks the subtle trade-offs Muslim actors need to negotiate between political pressures for a ‘civil Islam’ and intra-community expectations for ‘religious authenticity’.

During her fellowship at the European University Institute, she intends to investigate the emergence of Islamic bourgeoisies in Europe, as well as expand her dissertation work into a book.

She is an alumna in Social Sciences of the École Normale Supérieure (Paris), and holds a BA and a MPhil in History from the Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne as well as a BA in Arabic from the INALCO (Paris). She was a Knox Scholar at Trinity College (Cambridge, UK) and spent the 2017-2018 year as a Fox Fellow at Yale University.

Expertise for Teaching and Mentoring of PhD ResearchersMargot has taught classes in Comparative Politics, Sociology of Religion and Middle Eastern History at the University of Cambridge, the École Normale Supérieure and the University of Cergy-Pontoise, and was a teaching assistant in Political Economy at Yale University and Sciences Po Paris.



GARRITZMANN, Julian Leonce (DEU)Email: [email protected].: (+39)-055-4685-698 (2698)Office no. VPA 106Mentor: Anton HemerijckThematic Group: Governance, Constitutionalism and Democracy

Julian L. Garritzmann studies comparative political economy and comparative politics. Julian holds a PhD in political science from the University of Konstanz, Germany. He has been a Senior Researcher at the University of Zurich, Switzerland, and has held Visiting Scholar positions at Harvard, Duke, and Rutgers.

Julian specializes in the politics of social, education, and social investment policies, in party politics, public opinion, and in legislative studies. His dissertation, ‘The Political Economy of Higher Education Finance’, published with Palgrave Macmillan, was awarded the German Political Science Association's (DVPW's) dissertation grant, the ESPAnet/JESP's Doctoral Researcher Prize, and it was shortlisted for the Deutscher Studienpreis. His work has appeared in the European Sociological Review, the Journal of European Social Policy, the Journal of European Public Policy, the Journal of Legislative Studies, in PS: Political Science and Politics, and in West European Politics. In his current research Julian analyzes the interaction of public opinion, parties, and interest groups for education policymaking in Western Europe and he studies the politics of social investment policies in democratic countries around the globe.

Expertise for Teaching and Mentoring of PhD Researchers Julian has taught BA, MA, and PhD level courses in welfare state research, comparative capitalism, party politics, political theory, and applied methods.



LEE, James (USA)Email: [email protected].: (+39)-055-4685-642 (2642)Office no. VPA 209Mentor: Ulrich KrotzThematic Group: Europe and the World: International Relations, International Security and World Politics

James Lee successfully defended his PhD in the Department of Politics at Princeton University. His research interests are at the intersection of International Political Economy, Comparative Political Economy, and International Security. His dissertation examines how the United States played a critical role in the creation of the East Asian developmental state in response to the international tensions of the Cold War.

As a Max Weber Fellow, James will work on expanding and revising the dissertation in preparation for publication as a book. His research target is to complete a chapter that will compare US strategy in East Asia with US strategy in Europe during the Cold War. This chapter will focus on the role of anti-Communism in the Marshall Plan as well as US perceptions of the Communist threat to West Germany during the Berlin Crises.

Expertise for Teaching and Mentoring of PhD ResearchersJames has served as a teaching assistant in undergraduate-level courses on the International Relations of East Asia, the Political Economy of Development in East Asia, and Chinese Foreign Policy.



LEIPOLD, Bruno (GBR/DEU)Email: [email protected].: (+39)-055-4685-856 (2856)Office no. VPAD 03Mentor: Richard BellamyThematic Group: Ideas, Concepts and Theory

Bruno Leipold is a political theorist and historian of political thought and received his PhD from the University of Oxford. He then held a postdoctoral fellowship in political theory at the Justitia Amplificata Centre for Advanced Studies at the Goethe University Frankfurt and the Free University Berlin.

His research interests include the work of Karl Marx, theories of popular democracy, the republican political tradition and nineteenth-century social and political thought. During his Max Weber Fellowship, Bruno aims to publish a number of articles on these topics, focusing particularly on the democratic potential of the imperative mandate and Marx’s relationship to republicanism. He will also develop the latter into a book manuscript, pro-visionally titled: ‘Citizen Marx: Republicanism, Communism and Capitalism’.

Expertise for Teaching and Mentoring of PhD ResearchersBruno’s teaching experience at Oxford included giving undergraduate tutorials in both the core political theory course and the Marx and Marxism course. He has also taught masters students during a research stay at the Humboldt University of Berlin.



LIM, Misun (KOR)Email: [email protected].: (+39)-055-4685-672 (2672)Office no. VPA 106Mentor: Juho HärkönenThematic Group: N/A

Misun Lim is a sociologist interested in family status and gender inequality in labour mar-kets and public work and family policies. Her current research focuses on the connection between changing family structures and economic inequalities in the United States. Her dissertation asked whether and how the wage penalty for motherhood changes both across the life course and across cohorts in the United States. Her earlier research studied the effect of marriage and the degree of household specialization on wages. In addition, she investigated cross-national differences in the effect of relationship status on earnings and examined the role of cultural contexts across multiple European countries.

During her Max Weber Postdoctoral Fellowship, Misun plans to expand the scope of her dissertation research and, using cross-national comparisons, examine how family policies and cultural contexts influence the effect of motherhood on workers’ wages. This work will draw on Misun’s training in quantitative methods, is expected to culminate in the publica-tion of journal articles, and should involve new collaborative research projects.

Misun will be awarded a PhD in Sociology from the University of Massachusetts Amherst in 2018. She holds a BA in Sociology from the University of Seoul and a M.A. in Sociology from Columbia University.

Expertise for Teaching and Mentoring of PhD ResearchersMisun has developed and taught courses on the sociology of education, statistics, and an introductory sociology seminar. She is particularly excited about teaching graduate and undergraduate courses in the areas of family, gender, stratification and inequality, and quantitative research methods.



LO IACONO, Sergio (ITA)Email: [email protected].: (+39)-055-4685-607 (2607)Office no. VPA 106Mentor: Diego GambettaThematic Group: Experimental Working Group

Sergio Lo Iacono received his PhD in Sociology at the University of Essex under the ESRC +3 Advanced Quantitative Methods scheme, and holds a Master’s Degree in Political Science from the University of Toronto.

His main research interests concern trust, social cohesion, collective action dilemmas, and social networks. In his thesis, he investigated the current institution-centred and society-centred explanations of trust, empirically assessing their core arguments. In particular, he focused on the impact of dense networks’ reputation systems on pro-social attitudes, exploring the validity of the “Spillover” effect.

During his time at the University of Essex, Sergio worked as a Survey Researcher for the Bright Futures Project (lead by Prof. Yasemin Soysal and funded by the ESRC, the German Research Foundation, and the National Natural Science Foundation) and as a Research Officer for the Ecology of Inequality Project (lead by Dr. Neli Demireva and funded by the British Academy/Leverhulme Small Research Grant).

As a Max Weber Fellow at the EUI, Sergio will carry on his research agenda and further investigate if and how community social embeddedness fosters cooperative and trusting behaviours towards strangers, using both observational and experimental data.

Expertise for Teaching and Mentoring of PhD Researchers He taught several methodological classes at the undergraduate level.



MASSOC, Elsa Clara (FRA)Email: [email protected].: (+39)-055-4685-688 (2688)Office no. VPA 209Mentor: Dorothee BohleThematic Group: Tommaso Padoa-Schioppa: Assessing the Fiscal and Monetary Framework of the EU

Elsa Massoc’s research explores issues in comparative political economy and finance, with a specific focus on the governance of markets in Western Europe. She received her PhD in Political Science from the University of California, Berkeley.

Her dissertation examines how sectoral strategies implemented at the national level have affected the evolution of global banking after the crisis. She analyzes how local politics shapes, on one side, the positions of firms in the global markets and, on the other side, how those firms are embedded in their local markets. She shows that different priorities of state actors explain these sectoral strategies toward finance. How those priorities are shaped, and to what extent they matter, depend on historically rooted institutions structuring how private and public actors typically coordinate during policymaking processes.

Elsa’s other research projects include the study of 'anti-finance' opinions and financial regulation at the turn of the 21st century, as well as the analysis of growing inequalities and how they affect individual behaviors.

At the EUI, her plan is to work on her book manuscript and to develop these research projects.

Prior to graduate school, Elsa earned an MA from Sciences-Po Paris in European Affairs and from Paris IV-Sorbonne in History.

Expertise for Teaching and Mentoring of PhD Researchers Elsa has taught junior and senior classes in Comparative Political Economy, Comparative politics and European integration. She has also been a research supervisor for a small team of undergraduate students.



PETROVA, Bilyana (BGR)Email: [email protected].: (+39)-055-4685-794 (2794)Office no. VPAD 06Mentor: Dorothee BohleThematic Group: Governance, Constitutionalism and Democracy

Bilyana Petrova is a political scientist specializing in political economy. Her research in-terests lie at the intersection of comparative politics and international relations, with a regional focus on Eastern Europe, Latin America, and the OECD area.

Bilyana's work examines the determinants of economic inequality and redistribution in Latin America and Eastern Europe, the causes and consequences of the rise of the financial sector in advanced industrial democracies, and the factors that affect individual attitudes toward democracy and redistribution in post-communist countries. She is also interested in the implications of tax havens for economic inequality and in the consequences of poor governance for socioeconomic outcomes.

During her year at the EUI, Bilyana will work on a book manuscript exploring the impact of structural economic transformations and economic policy choices on market income inequality in Eastern Europe and Latin America. More specifically, the project traces how deindustrialization, the expansion of the services sector, and specialization in the produc-tion of commodities have affected the income distribution in these two regions as well as how governments have shaped these effects through their policy choices.

Bilyana received her BA in Economics, International Studies, and Latin American and Iberian Studies from the University of Richmond (2012) and her PhD in Political Science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (2018). In addition, she has studied and conducted fieldwork in Argentina, Brazil, Bulgaria, Chile, and Peru.



ROESCU, Andra-Maria (ROM)Email: [email protected].: (+39)-055-4685-664 (2664)Office no. VPA 007Mentor: Ellen ImmergutThematic Group: Governance, Constitutionalism and Democracy

Andra Barbu-Roescu is a political scientist interested in public opinion and attitudes, vot-ing behaviour, policy responsiveness and policy feedback effects and quantitative research methods.

During her Fellowship, she will focus on welfare and health care policies, aiming to re-search how changes in policy affect public opinion and voting behaviour and vice-versa. Moreover, she will also look at the role institutions and electoral competition play in this process.

Andra holds a PhD in political science from the SNSPA (2013) with a thesis on the effects of electoral systems on voting behaviour. During her PhD, she has spent time as a visit-ing fellow at Mannheim University (2011-2012) and at the Central European University (2013). She has also worked as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Southampton University (2015-2018), studying health care attitudes and policy effects as part of HEALTHDOX, a Norface funded project focusing on the future of Health Care Systems across Europe.

Expertise for Teaching and Mentoring of PhD Researchers During her PhD and after, Andra has taught research design and quantitative methods in political science and electoral systems and public policy courses at undergraduate and postgraduate level.



ROGELJA, Igor (SVN)Email: [email protected].: (+39)-055-4685-568 (2568)Office no. VPA 007Mentor: Dorothee BohleThematic Group: Europe and the World: International Relations, International Security and World Politics

Igor Rogelja completed his doctoral studies at SOAS, University of London, where he re-searched urban redevelopment in China and Taiwan. He remains interested in the politics of space and is currently involved in several research projects examining the effects of Chinese infrastructural investments in Southeast Europe, as well as more widely in the so-called ‘Belt Road Initiative’.

Apart from empirical work, Igor is currently working on bringing insights from the an-thropology of infrastructure into international relations to better conceptualize how large infrastructural projects interact with both political and physical space, particularly within the context of the emergence of ‘alternative globalizations’ and challenges to the existing rules-based order.



RONCHI, Stefano (ITA)Email: [email protected].: (+39)-055-4685-676 (2676)Office no. VPAD 09Mentor: Anton HemerijckThematic Group: N/A

Stefano Ronchi is a Max Weber Fellow at the Department of Political and Social Sciences of the EUI. He carried out his PhD in the Research Training Group SOCLIFE at the University of Cologne/University Duisburg-Essen. He holds a BA in Political Science from the University of Pavia, an MA in International Labour and Social Policies from the University of Milan, and an Advanced Master in Public Policy and Social Change from Collegio Carlo Alberto in Turin. He was a visiting fellow at the Centre for Social Policy in Antwerp (with an InGRID 7th Framework Grant) and at KU Leuven (with a Jos Berghman Welfare Studies Stipend).

Stefano's research interests include comparative welfare state analysis, labour market policies and the politics of social policy, topics which he addresses with both quantitative and qualitative methods. His PhD dissertation looked at welfare state change in Europe through the lens of the 'social investment approach'. The thesis assessed the divergence in the outcomes of social investment-oriented policies across European welfare states.

At the EUI, Stefano will develop his PhD thesis into a book. He will also further extend his research agenda: on the one hand, by assessing a broader range of well-being returns on social investment policies; on the other, by studying the determinants of the (non-) development of social investment from a comparative political economy perspective.

Expertise for Teaching and Mentoring of PhD Researchers During his PhD, Stefano taught his own BA course on 'The origins and transformation of European welfare states' at the Cologne Centre for Comparative Politics (University of Cologne).



SCALISE, Gemma (ITA)Email: [email protected].: (+39)-055-4685-381 (2381)Office no. BF 234Mentor: Anton Hemerijck, Dorothee BohleThematic Group: Governance, Constitutionalism and Democracy

Gemma Scalise’s research interests focus on the influence of European integration on the processes of social inclusion/exclusion, labour market regulation and welfare change. She defended her PhD in Sociology at the University of Florence; her project explored how individual socio-economic conditions and personal experiences shape the different narra-tives of Europe that characterize diverse groups of Europeans.

Between 2015 and 2016 she co-coordinated a European project on one of the key principles of the European employment strategy, the idea of Active Inclusion. As a Max Weber Fellow she has been following up the ‘Active Inclusion and Industrial Relations from a Multi-level Governance Perspective (Airmulp)’ project, funded by the European Commission. She is exploring the diverse domestic interpretations of the idea of Active Inclusion by focusing on both national regulatory architectures and the role played by political and social actors in national and local contexts.

Her publications include Il mercato non basta. Attori, istituzioni e identità dell’Europa in tempo di crisi, Florence University Press; with Luigi Burroni (2017) ‘Quando gli attori contano. Agency, eredità storiche e istituzioni nei modelli di capitalismo’, Stato e Mercato, n. 109; (2015) ‘The narrative construction of the European identity. Meanings of Europe from below’, European Societies, vol. 17, issue 4.

Expertise for Teaching and Mentoring of PhD Researchers In 2017 Gemma was lecturer at the University of Florence for the Jean Monnet Chair on ‘Social dimension and European integration’ and in 2018 at James Madison University for the course ‘EU Economic and Social Policy’



SOYEMI, Eniola (NGA)Email: [email protected].: (+39)-055-4685-638 (2638)Office no. BF 237Mentor: Jennifer WelshThematic Group: Ideas, Concepts and Theory

Eniola Anuoluwapo Soyemi obtained her PhD in Political Science from Boston University, where she focused in political philosophy. Her dissertation asks how law comes to wield an especial type of legitimacy that secures the general obedience of a given population. Her dissertation combines political philosophy and legal philosophy, experimental field work in Nigeria, and archival research in England on the colonial origins of Nigeria’s legal system, by analysing, in particular, the arguments of Aristotle, Rousseau, and H.L.A. Hart. It demonstrates a connection between participation and citizens’ perception of the moral legitimacy of laws, it does so by identifying participation as a means of understanding the rationale for laws, rather than as chiefly a means of making and influencing them to the point of everyone’s satisfaction and approval. Eniola’s thesis does not follow the trends of deliberative democratic theory, but in fact acts as a challenge to that sub-field.

Eniola is now engaged in turning her dissertation into a book manuscript. She is also working on a number of journal articles, on topics including the purpose of freedom in Rousseau, and the lessons of responsible freedom offered by an examination of justice in Aristotle's conception.

Her research interests lie is questions concerning the nature of freedom, justice, moral obligation, and democratic participation.

Expertise for Teaching and Mentoring of PhD Researchers Eniola has teaching interests in Ancient to Early Modern Western Political Philosophy, Normative Ethics, and in African Philosophy and Religion. At Boston University, she led undergraduate seminars in political philosophy.



VAN’T KLOOSTER, Jens (NLD)Email: [email protected].: (+39)-055-4685-696 (2696)Office no. VPA 205Mentor: Andrea SangiovanniThematic Group: Ideas, Concepts and Theory

Jens van 't Klooster received his PhD in Philosophy from the University of Cambridge in 2018.

His PhD dissertation, ‘How to make money: Distributive Justice, Finance, and Monetary Constitutions’, contributes to the philosophical understanding of money and finance. Financial intermediation enables economic agents to allocate money over time, which af-fects not only the opportunities that are available to them, but also has pervasive systemic consequences. The dissertation develops normative concepts that respond to the ever-growing role of financial markets and explores a range of objections to the global financial system as it exists today.

During the Max Weber Fellowship, Jens will continue his research at the intersection of political philosophy, politics and economics with a particular focus on the future of the Euro. He is currently working on the collateral framework of the European Central Bank and its evolving approaches to risk-management from 1988 to the present.

Jens is also interested in topics related to corporate governance and alternative models of economic democracy.

Expertise for Teaching and Mentoring of PhD ResearchersJena has taught historical and systematic philosophy courses as well as interdisciplinary PPE courses at the Universities of Amsterdam, Bayreuth, and Cambridge.



VRANCEANU, Alina (ROM)Email: [email protected].: (+39)-055-4685-756 (2756)Office no. VPAD 02Mentor: Hanspeter KriesiThematic Group: Governance, Constitutionalism and Democracy

Alina Vranceanu is a political scientist with a research focus on political representation, public opinion, party competition and comparative politics. She is expected to receive her PhD in Political Science at Pompeu Fabra University in 2018.

Alina’s PhD research focused on mass-elite linkages in the context of the immigration issue. Some of her recent research has been published in Party Politics. As a Max Weber Fellow, she will build upon and expand her previous research by focusing on additional factors that influence the connection between political parties and citizens on the immigration issue. In this sense, she aims to explore how cross-pressured voters form preferences about this issue. Furthermore, she is interested in the polarisation of citizens’ preferences in this policy area and the extent to which it may be influenced by polarisation at party level and by institutional factors such as the welfare state.

During her PhD, Alina was a visiting PhD candidate at the University of Essex, Department of Government, as well as a researcher within the Research and Expertise Centre for Survey Methodology at Pompeu Fabra University.

Expertise for Teaching and Mentoring of PhD ResearchersAlina has acquired teaching experience in ‘Introduction to political science’ at under-graduate level.

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ZSCHIRNT, Eva (DEU)Email: [email protected].: (+39)-055-4685-517 (2517)Office no. VPAD 09Mentor: Klarita GërxhaniThematic Group: Experimental Working Group

Eva Zschirnt is a sociologist with a strong interdisciplinary background. Her research lies at the intersection of sociology, labour market research and social psychology. She is in-terested in the field of migration policy, with a focus on integration and discrimination. Her PhD project analyses ‘Ethnic discrimination in hiring decisions in the Swiss labour market’ by conducting a field experiment in Switzerland, and shows the existence of ethnic hierarchies. Next to this focus on the labour market, she is also working on a research project on ethnic discrimination in the housing market, which uses the same experimental methodology.

During her fellowship at the EUI she will draw on this experience in discrimination re-search and experimental methods in the social sciences. She contributes to the interna-tional debate on hiring discrimination by focusing not only on ethnicity but also on the importance of language skills in the application process.

Eva holds a BA in European Studies from Maastricht University in the Netherlands and an MA in Migration and Law with distinction from Queen Mary University of London (UK). From 2014-2018, she was a PhD researcher at the University of Neuchâtel in Switzerland in the framework of ‘nccr – on the move’, a research centre funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation that brings together researchers in migration studies from numerous Swiss universities.


Max Weber Fellows FELLOWS' BIOSKETCHESROBERT SCHUMAN CENTRE FOR ADVANCED STUDIES

■ D’AMATO, SILVIA

■ DOBRESCU, MADALINA

■ HINZ, JULIAN

■ IAKOVIDIS, IAKOVOS

■ KNAPS, ANNA

■ MOLTENI, FRANCESCO

■ PAPADIA, ANDREA

■ REIJERS, WESSEL

■ WESTERWINTER, OLIVER

■ YILDIRIM, AYDIN

■ ZEDERMAN, MATHILDE

Max Weber Fellows Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies


D’AMATO, Silvia (ITA)Email: [email protected].: (+39)-055-4685-336 (2336)Office no. VS091Mentor: Ulrich KrotzThematic Group: Europe and the World: International Relations, International Security and World Politics

Silvia D’Amato received her PhD in Political Science from the Institute of Humanities and Social Science of the Scuola Normale Superiore, Florence, Italy. Her research project examines dynamics of counterterrorism cooperation and competition in Europe. More specifically, the project investigates how and to what extent counterterrorism efforts of the Member States respond to a dynamic of cooperation or competition, through comparative research focusing on four domains of counterterrorism: political-strategic; intelligence-sharing, organisational and procedural domain.

Currently, she is working on her PhD-based book, ‘Cultures of Counterterrorism: The French and Italian response in the post-9/11’, for the Routledge series Contemporary Security Studies (forthcoming).

During her PhD programme, Silvia served as visiting researcher in the Department of Social and Behavioural Sciences at the University of Amsterdam (UvA) and in the Fondation pour la Recherche Stratégique in Paris.

Expertise for Teaching and Mentoring of PhD ResearchersSilvia served as a teaching assistant for courses in International Relations at the University of Bologna (Forli Campus) and in European Political Systems at the University of Genoa. Since completing her doctoral studies, she has taught courses of Comparative European Politics and Transatlantic Relations at the James Madison University (MA EU Policy Studies Programme).



DOBRESCU, Madalina (ROM)Email: [email protected].: (+39)-055-4685-414 (2414)Office no. VS091Mentor: Ulrich KrotzThematic Group: Europe and the World: International Relations, International Security and World Politics

Madalina Dobrescu holds a Phd in European Studies from the London School of Economics. Her Phd thesis explored the conditions under which incumbent regimes in the European Union’s eastern neighbourhood cooperate effectively with EU civilian mis-sions by adhering to and adopting the objectives set out by their mandates. Madalina’s research interests revolve around the European Union’s foreign policy and in particular the Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP), as well as processes of Europeanisation, external governance, peacebuilding and conflict resolution, primarily with respect to the eastern dimension of the EU’s Neighbourhood Policy.

Prior to joining the EUI, Madalina was a Research Fellow in the European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP) Chair at the College of Europe (Natolin, Warsaw).

During her time as a Max Weber Fellow, Madalina will work on a project exploring the motivations of third countries for actively participating in the EU’s security and defence policy through contributions to CSDP missions.

Expertise for Teaching and Mentoring of PhD Researchers She co-taught a graduate course on the EU, the Wider Neighbourhood and Foreign and Security Policy Cooperation. During her doctoral studies, she also taught at undergradu-ate level at King’s College London and Royal Holloway (University of London) on a wide range of International Relations and European Studies subjects, including Foreign Policy Analysis, Comparative Politics of the European Union, European Integration and EU Foreign Policy



HINZ, Julian (DEU)Email: [email protected].: (+39)-055-4685-994 (2994)Office no. VS091Mentor: Bernard Hoekman/ Jürgen KurtzThematic Group: Tommaso Padoa-Schioppa: Assessing the Fiscal and Monetary Framework of the EU

Julian Hinz studies international economics, with a focus on international trade. His re-search revolves around two broad themes: the nexus of international trade and foreign policy, and the spatial dimension of trade costs.

Julian holds a PhD in Economics from the Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne and Paris School of Economics. He has been a consultant for a number of institutions, including the ECB and the European Parliament. Prior to joining the Robert Schuman Centre, he was a postdoctoral research fellow at the Kiel Institute for the World Economy.

During his time as Max Weber Fellow, Julian plans to explore quantitatively the political effects of economic sanctions.

Expertise for Teaching and Mentoring of PhD Researchers Julian has taught courses at undergraduate and graduate level in International Trade, Statistics, and Microeconomics.



IAKOVIDIS, Iakovos (GRC)Email: [email protected].: (+39)-055-4685-397 (2397)Office no. VS091Mentor: Anna TriandafyllidouThematic Group: N/A

As a career diplomat, Iakovos Iakovidis has served in the Embassy of Greece in Beijing and at the Permanent Missions of Greece to the European Union and to the United Nations. While in Brussels, from 2005 to 2009, he was responsible for following European parlia-ment proceedings and interacting with European MEP’s on a variety of European and in-ternational issues at a critical moment for the European inter-institutional balance, before the entry into force of the Lisbon Treaty.

In New York, Iakovos was a Third Committee delegate, from 2011 to 2014, dealing mainly with human and cultural rights. Among other activities, he initiated, along with UNESCO and a handful of member-states and a group of NGOs, the debate on the safety of journal-ists in the General Assembly, which led to the adoption of UNGA Resolution 68/163, the first of its kind. In parallel, he negotiated, on behalf of the European Union as well, multiple Resolutions on women’s rights, human trafficking, corruption and the restitution of cultural property to countries of origin.

A lawyer by training, Iakovos has a genuine interest in human rights against an interna-tional backdrop.

His PhD research at the University of Athens focuses on the interaction between jus co-gens norms and the rules of jurisdictional immunities of states and state officials, mainly through the jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights. Simultaneously, he has researched EU negotiation techniques in multilateral fora, especially in the UN human rights context.

During the fellowship, he plans to explore whether there is an hierarchy between interna-tional norms, namely whether peremptory norms of international law can be implemented when in conflict with immunity rules.



KNAPS, Anna (DEU)Email: [email protected].: (+39)-055-4685-947 (2947)Office no. VR028Mentor: Youssef CassisThematic Group: Ideas, Concept and Theory

Anna Knaps obtained her PhD, ‘The Relevance of International Legal Theory for International Relations Theory. A Normative Perspective’, at the War Studies Department, King’s College London, in 2016. Having completed her LLB in German and English Law at KCL and the Humboldt University of Berlin and her MA in International Relations at KCL, her research interests lie in the relation between the disciplines of IR and IL.

She is interested in looking at the parallels in IR and IL theory, focussing particularly on normative theories. During the Max Weber Fellowship she wants to explore the role of au-thority and how it shapes the intersection of international relations and international law.

Previous to the Max Weber Fellowship Anna was a Research Associate at the Robert Schuman Centre for a research project on the Memory of Financial Crises.

Expertise for Teaching and Mentoring of PhD Researchers While doing her PhD, Anna was Programme and Research Officer at the Convoco Think Tank in London and taught undergraduate courses at KCL on ‘Causes of War’.



MOLTENI, Francesco (ITA)Email: [email protected].: (+39)-055-4685-854 (2854)Office no. VR028Mentor: Ramon MarimonThematic Group: Tommaso Padoa-Schioppa: Assessing the Fiscal and Monetary Framework of the EU

Francesco Molteni main research fields are Macro-Finance, Monetary and Fiscal Policy and International Economics and Finance.

He obtained a Ph.D. in Economics from the Paris School of Economics / Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne in December 2013. During the period of his Ph.D. he visited the European University Institute and Princeton University, and he worked for the research project “Economic and Political Determinants of Policy Responses to Crises” granted from the Institute for New Economic Thinking.

After his Ph.D. Francesco worked primarily on research as trainee for the European Central Bank (ECB), as external consultant for the World Bank (WB), as consultant for the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and as economist for the Centre d' Etudes Prospectives et d' Informations Internationales (CEPII) before joining the Max Weber Programme.

Expertise for Teaching and Mentoring of PhD Researchers He taught as main instructor at the European University Institute the course DSGE Models with Financial Frictions and as teaching assistant at the Université Paris 1 the courses Macroeconomics, European Macroeconomics and Introduction to Econometrics at the undergraduate level, and Time Series and Financial Mutations and Monetary Policy at the graduate level.



PAPADIA, Andrea (ITA)Email: [email protected].: (+39)-055-4685-647 (2647)Office no. BF 236Mentor: Ramon MarimonThematic Group: Tommaso Padoa-Schioppa: Assessing the Fiscal and Monetary Framework of the EU

Andrea Papadia is an economist working at the intersection between Economic History, Macroeconomics and Political Economy. He completed his PhD at the London School of Economics and Political Science in 2017.

Andrea’s work focuses on two areas in particular. One is fiscal policy. More precisely, he studies how deeply rooted constraints and institutions can affect countries’ ability to re-spond to economic crises and shocks. The main focus of his work in this area has been the Great Depression of the 1930s. The other main area of his research is the historical origin of public finance institutions and public goods provision. For this work he has concentrated on Brazil, showing that the legacy of slavery and other historical circumstances has deeply influenced the evolution of the public sector across the country.

Expertise for Teaching and Mentoring of PhD Researchers Macroeconomics, Financial History and 20th century Economic History.



REIJERS, Wessel (NLD)Email: [email protected].: (+39)-055-4685-765 (2765)Office no. VL027Mentor: Liav OrgadThematic Group: Citizenship and Migration

Wessel Reijers received his PhD at the Dublin City University and did his research in the ADAPT Centre for digital content technologies, on the topic of methods for practicing ethics in research and innovation processes. His research interests are on the one hand concerned with philosophical reflection and theory building, most notably concerning hermeneutical approaches to analyse and understand emerging technologies, and on the other hand branch out towards a variety of themes, such as blockchain technology and the digital commons.

During his Max Weber Fellowship, he aims to open up a new field of research, namely the philosophical study of ‘governance technology for global citizenship’. The focus of this research will be to build a theoretical understanding of the role that emerging technolo-gies play in the governance of the institution of citizenship and to use this understanding to study concrete applications of ‘citizenship technologies’, such as identity registers and blockchain-based cloud communities.

Expertise for Teaching and Mentoring of PhD Researchers Wessel has taught bachelor and master students at the Dublin City University, on the topics of applied ethics, ethics of technology, and the ethic and politics of digital money.



WESTERWINTER, Oliver (DEU)Email: [email protected].: (+39)-055-4685-938 (2938)Office no. VS091 Mentor: Philipp GenschelThematic Group: Europe and the World: International Relations, International Security and World Politics

Oliver Westerwinter, PhD, is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the Department of Political Science at the University St. Gallen. His research interests include international cooperation, informal institutions, transnational public-private governance, international conflict, and research methods. He has been the principal investigator of the project ‘The Politics of Informal Governance’, which was funded by the Swiss Network for International Studies and examined the determinants of informal forms of international and transna-tional cooperation.

Oliver received his PhD in 2014 at the European University Institute. In 2011, he was a visit-ing fellow at the Department of Political Science at the University of California, San Diego. His research has been published in the Journal of Peace Research, Review of International Organizations, and with Oxford University Press. During his time as a Max Weber Fellow, Oliver will be working on a book manuscript and several articles about the emergence and design of informal international institutions.

Expertise for Teaching and Mentoring of PhD Researchers Oliver teaches classes in statistical methods, network analysis, game theory, computer pro-graming in R, international cooperation, and international security.



YILDIRIM, Aydin Baris (TUR)Email: [email protected]: (+39)-055-4685-798 (ext: 2798)Office: VS 137Mentor: Bernard HoekmanThematic Groups: Tommaso Padoa-Schioppa: Assessing the Fiscal and Monetary Framework of the EU - Europe and the World: International Relations, International Security and World Politics

Aydin Yildirim is a political scientist specialising in International Political Economy (IPE) and the politics of international trade. He conducts interdisciplinary research combining insights from political science, economics, and international law. After completing his Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science at the University of Houston in the US, he completed a Research Master’s degree in Politics at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland and obtained his PhD from the University of Antwerp in Belgium.

Aydin’s dissertation focused on the politics of dispute settlement at the World Trade Organisation (WTO) and analyzed factors that affect WTO members’ compliance with their international trade commitments. His work has been published by the Review of International Organizations, World Trade Review, and Comparative European Politics.

He currently continues his research by looking at the role of multinational firms and their impact on trade policy. In doing so, he hopes to examine the conditions under which firms are able to politically mobilise and press for their trade policy preferences, both domesti-cally and internationally. He is specifically interested in the growing internationalisation of production and firm-level micro data.

Expertise for Teaching and Mentoring of PhD Researchers International Political Economy and international politics.

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ZEDERMAN, Mathilde (FRA)Email: [email protected].: (+39)-055-4685-704 (2704)Office no. VR028Mentor: Olivier RoyThematic Group: Citizenship and Migration

Mathilde Zederman will obtain her PhD in politics from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS, University of London) in 2018, after an MSc in Middle East Politics at SOAS (2013) and an MPhil in political science at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS, Paris) in 2014. Her thesis examines the politics of exile in France under an authoritarian regime, through the case study of Ben Ali’s Tunisia. She was a visiting research fellow at CERI (Sciences Po) in 2016-2017.

Her research interests include: the politics of the Maghreb and the Middle East, particu-larly Tunisia; migration and diaspora politics, specifically migrant activism and authori-tarianism from afar.

During her fellowship at the European University Institute she intends to pursue her re-search on Islamist exile politics in Europe through a comparative perspective.

Expertise for Teaching and Mentoring of PhD Researchers Mathilde has taught theories of international relations at Sciences Po Paris, and worked as teaching assistant for postgraduate classes in the government and politics of North Africa and the political sociology of the state in the contemporary Arab World at PSIA, Sciences Po Paris.

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