About

Amie Kreppel is a Jean Monnet Chair (ad personam) and served as the founding Director of the University of Florida’s Title VI funded Center for European Studies (CES) from 2003-2011 and the European Union funded Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence (2007 – current). She is a Professor in the Department of Political Science. Dr. Kreppel has written extensively on the political institutions of Europe in general and the European Union more specifically. Her publications include a book on the Development of the European Parliament and Supranational Party System, published by Cambridge University Press (2002) as well as articles in a wide variety of journals including Comparative Political Studies, the British Journal of Political Research, European Union Politics, the European Journal of Political Research, Political Research Quarterly, the Journal of European Public Policy and the Journal of Common Market Studies. Dr. Kreppel is a founding member of the transatlantic European Parliament Research Group (EPRG) and was a Public Policy Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholarsin Washington DC. In addition, she has served as international visiting faculty at the Université Louis Pasteur (ULP), Strasbourg, France, Institut für Höhere Studien (Institute for Advanced Studies) Vienna, Austria, and the l'Institut d'Etudes Européennes, Université Libre Bruxelles (ULB), Brussels Belgium. She currently sits on the Executive Committee of the Conference Group on Italian Politics, the European Politics and Society section of the American Political Science Association and the European Union Studies Association. She has received numerous grants to pursue research and program development related to Europe and the European Union including a MacArthur Fellowship, a grant from the Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation, two internal research grants from the University of Florida and Title VIa (UISFLP) and Title VI (NRC) grants from the United States Department of Education, as well as several grants from the European Union. In spring 2011 she was a visiting Fernand Braudel Senior Fellow at the European University Institute (EUI) in Italy. From April 2011- April 2013 she is serving as President of the European Union Studies Association (EUSA).

Research Interests

Comparative Politics, European Politics, European Union, Institutions, Parliaments, Quantitative, Agenda-Setting, Decision Making, European Parliament

Current/Upcoming Events

Standing Groups and Research Networks

• European Union
• Parliaments
• Comparative Political Institutions