FACTULTY BIOGRAPHIES FOR EUROPEAN STUDIES
European Studies Advisory Board
European Studies Advisory Board:
Michelle Egan--Coordinator
for European/Russian Studies Program
Awarded a Jean Monnet Chair in European Integration, her work focuses on regional integration, transatlantic relations, comparative political economy, constitutionalism and defense and security issues. She is currently European Council Co-Chair; and member of the American Consortium for EU Studies (ACES), a nationally recognized center of excellence on the EU. As a scholar, Professor Egan has published a variety of books and articles focusing on comparative politics and international relations of Europe. Her books include: Constructing a European Market: Standards, Regulation and Governance (Oxford University Press); Creating a Transatlantic Marketplace: Government Policies and Business Strategies (Manchester University Press) and Single Markets: Economic Integration in Europe and the United States (Forthcoming Oxford University Press). She participates with think-tanks on projects related to transatlantic relations, European security and European economic and regulatory reform. Currently, she is conducting projects on transatlantic economic relations, and emerging security and defense integration in Europe. Professor Michelle Egan teaches a variety of undergraduate and graduate courses including: The European Union, Relations of West European Nations, International Relations of Europe, Comparative European Politics, Economics, and Society, Transatlantic Relations, Multinationals and Globalization, and Competition in an Interdependent World. She is also the faculty advisor for the European Studies Certificate which is open to students from all disciplines and fields at the graduate and undergraduate level who wish to focus their studies on Europe. Professor Egan is the American University Faculty Coordinator for the Mitchell and Marshall Fellowships. Ranieri Moore Cavaceppi Mr. Cavaceppi teaches various levels of Italian at American University, including beginner, intermediate, and conversation & composition courses. As the primary instructor at AU, he promotes Italian studies by fostering interest in its culture, by inviting guest speakers to the university, and by supervising the independent study projects of undergraduate students. He is also the faculty advisor to the AU Italian Club. Mr. Cavaceppi’s research interests include Renaissance and twentieth century Italian literature. A Fulbright Scholar and a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, Mr. Cavaceppi received an MA in Italian Literature from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His master’s thesis focused on the Cinquecento author Teofilo Folengo. Mr. Cavaceppi is currently researching Italian Renaissance Hospitaller writings for his dissertation at Brown University. He spent his formative years in both Rome and Washington, D.C. During the last twelve years, Mr. Cavaceppi has taught Italian at Brown, UNC, and the Upward Bound Program. Additionally, he was the Assistant Director of the Brown-in-Bologna Program, coordinating the daily activities of study abroad students in Italy. Heather Elms Teaching Areas Publications Additional Experiences C. Randall Henning Prof. Henning specializes in the politics and institutions of international economic relations, international and comparative political economy, economic policymaking and regional integration. He has focused specifically on international monetary policy, European monetary integration, macroeconomic policy coordination, finance G-7 and G-8 summit cooperation, East Asian financial cooperation, and comparative regionalism. Currently, he is conducting projects on the political economy of East Asian regionalism, transatlantic economic relations, and the relationship between regionalism and multilateralism. Dr. Henning is the author of numerous publications, including East Asian Financial Cooperation (2002), Transatlantic Perspectives on the Euro (2000); The Exchange Stabilization Fund: Slush Money or War Chest (1999), Cooperating with Europe's Monetary Union (1997), and Currencies and Politics in the United States, Germany, and Japan (1994). He is the coauthor of Global Economic Leadership and the Group of Seven (1996), Can Nations Agree? Issues in International Economic Cooperation (1989), and Dollar Politics: Exchange Rate Policymaking in the United States (1989). He is the co-editor of Governing the World’s Money (2002) and Reviving the European Union (1994). He has also contributed numerous articles to academic and policy journals and chapters to edited volumes. Prof. Henning teaches International Economic Relations (SIS 385), International Monetary and Financial Relations (SIS 466/666), Financial Crises and Stabilization (SIS 619), Economic Policies of the European Union (SIS 630), and Monetary Union in Europe (SIS 619). He has written several cases for teaching and has edited a series of cases on Transatlantic Economic Relations. Patrick Thaddeus Jackson Patrick Thaddeus Jackson
is currently Associate Professor of International Relations in the School
of International Service at the American University in Washington, DC,
having previously taught at Columbia University and New York University.
He received his Ph.D. in Political Science from Columbia University
in 2001. In 2003-4, he served as President of the International Studies
Association-Northeast. He is presently a Managing Editor of the journal
International Political Sociology.
Rebecca
Johnson Dr. Johnson is an Assistant Professor in the Comparative and Regional Studies Program in the School of International Service at American University in Washington, DC. In addition, she is currently pursuing a Masters in Divinity at Wesley Theological Seminary. Her research focuses on the contributions of different faith traditions to just peacemaking. Her current project examines peacemaking as a spiritual practice by examining the works of Thich Nhat Hanh, Henri Nouwen, Thomas Merton, and Martin Buber. Previous work centered on transatlantic mediation efforts in the post-cold war world. She has recently completed a chapter, "Reconstructing the Balkans: The Effects of a Global Governance Approach," in Markus Lederer and Philipp Muller's book entitled, Criticizing Global Governance (Palgrave). Before coming to American University, Dr. Johnson was the Academic Director for the South Carolina Washington Fellows Program at the University of South Carolina. Currently, she is a weekly columnist for UPI's Religion and Spirituality Forum. Dr. Johnson teaches courses in European Foreign Policy, Central and Eastern Europe, and the Balkans. Her courses for Fall 2006 include SIS 355: Relations of West European Nations, SIS 619: European Foreign Policy, and SIS 676: The Politics of Peace in the United States and Europe. Robert Kramer
Professor Kramer specializes in organization theory and behavior and in leadership development. In 2004 he won the Curriculum Innovation Award of the American Society for Public Administration for instituting action learning as the leadership development model for the executive MPA. He served from 2002 to 2004 as a member of the board of directors of the Organizational Behavior Teaching Society, a group of 650 professors of management education worldwide. In 2002 he received the Outstanding Teacher Award from SPA. Before joining AU, he served in government for 25 years, including a stint on Vice President Gore’s task force to reinvent government. In 1999 he was a Fulbright professor in Budapest, Hungary, teaching courses in leadership and organization development. Since then, to promote democracy in post-Communist societies, he has conducted leadership development programs in Central and Eastern Europe. In the United States he speaks regularly on leadership topics at groups such as the American Society for Public Administration, the Council for Excellence in Government, the Brookings Institution, the American Psychological Association and at many Federal agencies. He is book review editor of the Journal of Organizational Change Management. His publications, which include A Psychology of Difference (Princeton University Press, 1996), explore the intellectual history of the idea of emotional intelligence and have been published in scholarly journals in the United States, the United Kingdom, and (in translation) Austria, France, Germany, Hungary, the Netherlands and Spain.
Nanette S. Levinson is Associate Professor of International Relations at the School of International Service, American University, Washington, D.C. and a founding member of the International Communication Section of the International Studies Association. Having served as Chair (and the first woman to be elected to this position) of the Board of the National Conference on the Advancement of Research, as Secretary General of the Transatlantic Informational Exchange Services, and as a Board member of the Women’s Foreign Policy Group (where she co-authored a report on women leaders), Prof. Levinson has a special interest in leadership studies in international affairs. Her recent research includes a project with colleagues at the University of Paris I on innovation and cross-national strategic alliances and a project with an SIS graduate student on technology and grassroots development involving both local and international organizations. Currently, she is examining internet governance, institutional change and interorganizational learning as well as cross-national, virtual teamwork. Prof. Levinson’s writings appear on-line and in journals ranging from Organizational Dynamics to International Studies Perspectives. Clarence
Lusane Professor Lusane's current
research interests are in international race politics, human rights,
and electoral politics. He teaches courses in comparative race relations;
modern social movements; comparative politics of African, the Caribbean
and Europe; black political theory and political behavior; international
drug politics; and jazz and international relations. Dr. Lusane is the former editor of the journal Black Political Agenda. He is a national columnist for the Black Voices syndicated news network, and his writings Ellen E.
Meade Teaching
Teaching Areas Professor Mroczkowski is the author of more than ninety works, including articles in California Management Review, Academy of Management Executive, British Journal of Industrial Relations, Journal of Small Business Management, International Trade Journal and The Journal of East-West Business. Mroczkowski has testified on the Support for East European Democracy Act before the U.S. House of Representatives and been a media commentator on international business topics. He has been featured on the NBC Nightly News interviewed by leading Japanese and European dailies, including Tokyo Shinbun and Shinichi Shinbun. He has contributed to the Asian Wall Street Journal and The Japan Times.
Prof. Stephen J. Silvia is Director of Doctoral Studies at the School of International Service and a Board Member of the American Consortium on EU Studies. He teaches international economics, international trade relations, and comparative politics. Prof. Silvia's research specializes in comparative labor markets and comparative industrial relations, with a focus on Germany and the European Union. Prof. Silvia also writes
about German politics and political parties. He has taught at Yale and
Tufts Universities, and has been a resident scholar at Harvard University,
The Johns Hopkins University, the Freie Universität Berlin and
the Institut für Sozialforschung in Frankfurt/Main. Professor Silvia
has received numerous grants and awards including the Fulbright Research
Fellowship, a National Endowment for the Humanities Grant, a Robert
Bosch Fellowship, a DaimlerChrysler Fellowship and a Volkswagen Foundation
Grant. He has published widely in scholarly journals including Business
in the Contemporary World, Comparative Politics, German Politics, German
Studies Review, Gewerkschaftliche Monatshefte, Industrial and Labor
Relations Review, International Journal of Political Economy, Journal
of Public Policy, New German Critique and West European Politics. Shalini
Venturelli Dr. Shalini Venturelli is Director and Associate Professor of the International Communication Division in the School of International Service at the American University in Washington, D.C. Areas of Expertise (regions
and sectors): Dr. Venturelli is an expert on European Union constitutional reform, a subject she has been following for more than a decade. Dr. Venturelli is the author of books and journal articles on the social and democratic development of the Knowledge and Information Society. Her forthcoming work on Dynamics of Knowledge Culture: Civil Society, Culture & Ideas in the Global Information Age develops from a multi-year study of knowledge systems and socio-economic development. It takes a fresh look at four areas of conceptualization--civil society, culture, economics of ideas, and rights of expression--in order to redefine the way we may more effectively address the challenge of designing knowledge societies of the future. One of the central questions in this work is directed at how we can create conditions for greater levels of participation by local communities worldwide in the processes of knowledge generation.
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