Professional Address :

Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies (RSCAS)
EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY INSTITUTE (EUI)
Convento - Via delle Fontanelle, 19
I-50014 San Domenico di Fiesole (Florence)
ITALY

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Website : http://www.eui.eu/RSCAS/About/

Current Position :

  Research Associate for the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies (RSCAS).

  Researcher for the European Parliament project "50 Years of the European Parliament".

Thesis subject : "The Illusion of Neutral Time : Myths and Perceptions of the Eastward Enlargement of the European Union, 1990-2004" (European University Institute).

Supervisor : Pascaline Winand (EUI, Florence/Monash European and EU Centre, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia)

Members of the thesis jury :

  Kiran Patel (EUI)

  Ariane Landuyt (University of Siena)

  Mercedes Samaniego Boneu (University of Salamanca)

Defense Schedule : 29th of July 2008

Broader Research Area :

History of European Integration, European Union Politics, Discourse Analysis, Philosophy of Time, European Identity and Citizenship, German Contemporary History, End of the Cold War, EU Communication Strategies, EU Eastward Enlargement

Selected publications :

"Motivations, Effects and Reactions to the Support of German Political Elites to Eastward Enlargement in the Definition of a European Identity and Citizenship : 1990-2004" in Gatnar, L. and Lane, D. (eds.) (2007) Popular Opposition and Support for Different Types of the EU Integration. Prague : Institute of Sociology of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, the British Academy and the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung Prague, pp. 9-29

"Towards a Dialogued Integration ? The Overlapping Nature of Actors and Witnesses in the Eastward Enlargement Proccess" in Hubert, S. and Milzow, K. (eds.) (2007) European Voices : Actors and Witnesses of European Integration. Geneva : Graduate Institute of International Studies (GIIS) and History of the European Integration Research Society (HEIRS), pp. 72-86

"Frontiere interne ed sterne ad una cittadinanza europea nei Paesi della Europa Centrale ed Orientale" in Grazi, L. and Scichilone, L. (eds.) (2006) Europa in Progress. Idee, istituzioni e politiche nel processo di integrazione europea. Milan : Franco Angeli, pp. 74-82.

Entries "Inca Empire" and "Mita" in Benjamin, T. (ed.) (2006) Encyclopaedia of Western Colonialism since 1450. Volume 2 F-O. Farmington Hills : Macmillan Reference USA/ The Gale Group, pp., respectively, 597-600 and 792-793.

"fYRoM : The other candidate", European Stagiaires Journal (ESJ), Brussels : European Commission, 2006, No. 4, pp. 10-12.

"The Commission White Paper on Communication. Will the ’Plan D’ work ?", European Stagiaires Journal (ESJ), Brussels : European Commission, 2006, No. 4, pp. 16-18.

« The "Return to Europe" slogan : Integrating the Recovered Memory in the Horizons of the Eastward Enlargement of the European Union » in Grazi, L. and Scichilone, L. (eds.) (2004) Dialogo sull’ Europa, Volume I : Laboratorio di studi sull’ integrazione europea. Siena : Centro di ricerca sull’integrazione europea (CRIE), Università degli studi di Siena, pp. 165-175.