ISIM Faculty and Staff

Esther Ezra Lopatin
Visiting Scholar
eel7@georgetown.edu

Esther Ezra Lopatin received her Ph.D. in political science from the University of Munich in July 2004. She obtained a DAAD (Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst) scholarship for a period of four years for the writing of her doctoral dissertation “European Integration and Refugee Protection: The Development of Asylum Policy in the European Union”, at the Center for Applied Policy Research (CAP), University of Munich. The purpose of this work was to analyze contemporary refugee and asylum policy of EU Member States.

Prior to graduation she worked as a Transatlantic Fellow at the German Marshall Fund of the United States in Washington DC, between January 2003 and April 2004. She concentrated on the impact that the post-Sept. 11 2001 security situation had on regional cooperation in the field of immigration. In the framework of the project “In Search of a New 'Area of Freedom, Security and Justice': New Transatlantic Challenges in the Field of Immigration, Judicial Cooperation and Security”, she explored the nascent transatlantic discourse on security and immigration and helped elaborate possible integrated models of cooperation in the fields of migration, justice and home affairs.

She received her B.A. and M.A. in political science from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. In her last years of study there she worked at the Institute of European Studies on projects dealing with immigration issues. She also served as a research assistant to the Immigration and Assimilation Committee of the Israeli Parliament, preparing research programs and proposals for the members of the Committee (1993-1994). As a recipient of scholarships from the European Commission in the framework of the Med Campus program, she participated in seminars and carried out research for her Master's thesis on immigration policies in Europe at the College of Europe, the University of Cyprus and Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona.

eel7@georgetown.edu