faculty


Jeffrey Anderson

Graf Goltz Professor & Director, BMW Center for German and European Studies
Ph.D. Yale University 1988

Professor Anderson taught at Emory University from 1988-1990, and then moved to Brown University, where he spent twelve years on the faculty of the Department of Political Science. At the end of June 2002, he left Brown to become Graf Goltz Professor & Director of the BMW Center.

Professor Anderson has been a fellow at the German Council on Foreign Relations (DGAP) and the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies at Harvard, and was a visiting professor at Georgetown in 2000-2001. In 2001-2002, while on leave from Brown, he served as Director of Studies for the American Institute for Contemporary German Studies in Washington, DC.

Professor Anderson has received grants from the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), the Fulbright-Hayes Program, and the German Marshall Fund of the United States. In October 2000, he received the DAAD Prize for Distinguished Scholarship in German Studies, in recognition of his teaching and research on postwar German politics and foreign policy.

Professor Anderson's publication record includes two single-authored books, German Unification and the Union of Europe: The Domestic Politics of Integration Policy (Cambridge University Press, 1999) and The Territorial Imperative: Pluralism, Corporatism and Economic Crisis (Cambridge University Press, 1992), and an edited volume entitled Regional Integration and Democracy: Expanding on the European Experience (Rowman and Littlefield, 1999). He has also published numerous chapters and journal articles in the field of European comparative politics and comparative political economy. His current research examines the "Europeanization" of the polity and political economy regimes of the member states in the European Union.

Office:
Intercultural Center, Rm. 505
Phone:
202-687-5602
Fax:
202-687-8359
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Courses taught: GOVT 121 Comparative Political Systems
GOVT 593 Comparative European Politics
GOVT 531 Methodology of Comparative Politics