Mark Copelovitch is Professor in the Department of Political Science and the Robert M. La Follette School of Public Affairs at the University of Wisconsin—Madison. Professor Copelovitch studies international political economy and international organizations, with a focus on the politics of international trade, international finance, the International Monetary Fund, and European integration.  He is the author of The International Monetary Fund in the Global Economy: Banks, Bonds, and Bailouts (Cambridge University Press, 2010), as well as articles in Comparative Political Studies,the Journal of Politics, International Organization, International Studies Quarterly, and the Review of International Organizations. Professor Copelovitch is a graduate of Yale University and Harvard University, where he received his Ph.D. in Government in 2005. He is also an affiliate of the Center for European Studies, the Center for German and European Studies, and the Jean Monnet European Union Center of Excellence at UW – Madison

Prof. Federiga Bindi (PhD) is Jean Monnet Chair at the University of Rome Tor Vergata and at the University of Wyoming. She is an Affiliated Researcher at the Institute for Behavioral Sciences at the University of Colorado at Boulder and Senior Fellow at the Institute for Women Policy Research (IWPR) in Washington DC. With Brookings Press, Prof. Bindi has published, among others, three edition of The Foreign Policy of the European Union: Assessing Europe’s Role in the World (2022, 2012 & 201-);  Europe and America: The End of Transatlantic Relations? (2019) The Frontiers of Europe: A Transatlantic Problem? (2011); Italy and the EU (2011) .

Lenka Bustikova is Associate Professor in European Union and Comparative East European Politics at the University of Oxford. Her research focuses on party politics, right wing mobilization, uncivil society and democratic erosion. Her 2019 book, Extreme Reactions: Radical Right Mobilization in Eastern Europe(Cambridge University Press) won the Davis Center Book Prize in political and social studies.  

Maurizio Carbone is Professor of International Relations & Development and Jean Monnet Professor of EU External Policies in the School of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Glasgow. In 2013 he received the Abilitazione as Professore Ordinario (Full Professor) from Italy’s “National Agency for the Evaluation of Universities and Research Institutes”. He has previously taught at the University of Pittsburgh, Carnegie Mellon University, Duke University and has held visiting research positions at the University of Cambridge, University of Cologne, Sciences Po (Paris), European University Institute, University of Canterbury (New Zealand), Université Libre de Bruxelles (Belgium), and University of Trento (Italy).

Professor Carbone’s main research interests are on the external relations of the European Union, foreign aid, the politics of international development, as well as European and Italian Politics. His work has appeared, inter alia, in Global Governance, Journal of Contemporary African Studies, Journal of European Integration, Journal of International Development, Third World Quarterly, and West European Politics. Among his recent books are: The European Union and International Development: The Politics of Foreign Aid (Routledge, 2007), Policy Coherence and EU Development Policy (ed., Routledge, 2009), and The European Union in Africa: Incoherent Policies, Asymmetrical Partnership, Declining Relevance? (ed., Manchester University Press, 2013).

Randall Halle is the Klaus W. Jonas Professor of German Film and Cultural Studies at the University of Pittsburgh. He is also Director of the Film and Media Studies Program.

His books include The Europeanization of Cinema, German Film after Germany, Queer Readings in Social Philosophy and the co-edited volumes After the Avant-Garde and Light Motives.  His essays have appeared in journals such as New German Critique, Screen, Camera Obscura, German Quarterly, and Film-Philosophy.  Halle works primarily on film and visual culture.  His next book Visual Alterity is forthcoming and he is turning his attention to European Dis/Union.

Halle has received grants from the NEH, the DAAD, and the SSRC. For the academic year 2004-5 he was a Senior Fellow in the Berlin Program for Advanced German and European Studies at the Free University. In 2006 he was offered the honor of being the first occupant of the newly endowed Jonas Chair at the University of Pittsburgh. Academic year 2009-2010 he was a Senior Fulbright Researcher in Berlin.

Alison Johnston is a political economist and whose research lies at the intersection of comparative and international political economy.  She has published work on the political economy of comparative capitalism and EU integration, European and EU politics, housing markets, sovereign credit ratings and general strikes.  She is the co-lead editor of the Review of International Political Economy.

Petia Kostadinova is an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC). She studies the politics and policies of the European Union and its member states, and teaches courses in the field of comparative politics. Prior to joining UIC, between 2004-2011, she worked at the Center for European Studies at the University of Florida. She received her PhD from Florida State University in 2002, and my BA from the American University in Bulgaria in 1997. 

Craig Parson's scholarly work investigates the ideas and institutions that came together to construct today's Europe; comparisons between the European Union and American federalism; how divisive issues like the authority of the EU affect political parties and democratic representation; and some thorny questions in the philosophy of science and qualitative methodology. His first book, A Certain Idea of Europe (Cornell University Press, 2003, winner of the International Studies Association’s Alger Prize for the best book on international organization in 2003), focused on how certain political principles out-battled others in the construction of the European Union. His second book, How to Map Arguments in Political Science (Oxford University Press, 2007, APSA Giovanni Sartori Prize in Qualitative Methods, Honorable Mention), offers a comprehensive framework for organizing substantive explanations in political science. He has also led three co-edited-book projects, respectively on EU politics (Oxford University Press, 2005), immigration in Europe (Cambridge University Press, 2006), and "constructivist" political economy (Cornell University Press, 2010), and authored an introductory textbook, Introduction to Political Science: How to Think for Yourself about Politics (Pearson, 2nd edition 2020). 

His main current research considers how and why the EU has constructed a "single market" that has removed many internal barriers that persist in the United States. He has a position as Senior Researcher at the ARENA Centre for European Studies at the University of Oslo, and in that capacity received a $1.4 million grant to pursue this project with a team of researchers in Norway, France, Germany and Poland.  In the medium-term future Parsons is also planning to write a book on philosophy of science tentatively titled Competitive Pragmatism.