European Union

Background

Sbragia's career accomplishments include being designated as a Jean Monnet Chair ad personam, a recognition given by the European Union to elite American academicians whose careers exemplify excellence in teaching and research related to the European Union. She is internationally renowned for her European scholarship.

From 1993 to 1995, Sbragia chaired the European Community Studies Association, the foremost national association for experts in the field. Because of her leadership, the association is now headquartered at Pitt.

She is the author of four books: Comparative Regionalism in an Age of Globalization; Debt Wish: Entrepreneurial Cities, U.S. Federalism, and Economic Development (University of Pittsburgh Press, 1996); Euro-Politics: Politics and Policymaking in the "New" European Community (Edited book, Brookings Institution, 1992), largely credited with initiating a new wave of scholarly work in the United States on the topic of European integration; and The Municipal Money Chase: The Politics of Local Government Finance (Edited book, Westview Press, 1983). In addition, she has authored more than 50 articles and presented nearly 200 papers and speeches around the world.

Background

Ban has published broadly in the areas of public management and personnel policy, with a focus on civil service reform and administrative reform. Her books include How Do Public Managers Manage? Bureaucratic Constraints, Organizational Culture, and the Potential for Reform (Jossey-Bass, 1995) and Public Personnel Management: Current Concerns, Future Challenges (Longman, 2001).

Ban's research is nationally known, and she has testified before the Senate as part of an expert panel on federal civil service reform. Her current research focus is on management of the European Commission, where she is examining the dual impacts of the most recent enlargement and of the 2004 administrative reforms on the culture and management style within the Commission. She also has conducted research on administrative reform in local government in Russia, hiring and retention of professional staff in nonprofits in Allegheny County, and career and location decisions of recent graduates from Pittsburgh universities. Her books include How Do Public Managers Manage? Bureaucratic Constraints, Organizational Culture, and the Potential for Reform, and Public Personnel Management: Current Concerns, Future Challenges (Longman, 2001. She also has published numerous professional articles and book chapters.

A widely recognized scholar of European politics, John T. S. Keeler is dean of Pitt’s Graduate School for Public and International Affairs. He previously served as chair of the European Union Studies Association and was a professor of political science at the Center for West European Studies and European Union Center of Excellence, University of Washington at Seattle.

Keeler has published broadly in such notable publications as Defending Europe: NATO and the Quest for European Autonomy (Palgrave Macmillan, 2003); Chirac's Challenge: Liberalization, Europeanization and Malaise in France (St. Martin's Press and Macmillan, 1996); Agricultural Policy (2 volumes, Cheltenham and Edward Elgar, 2000); The Politics of Neocorporatism in France: Farmers, the State and Agricultural Policy-making in the Fifth Republic (Oxford University Press, 1987); and Réformer: Les Conditions du Changement Politique (Presses Universitaires de France, 1994). He has published articles in numerous professional journals, including Comparative Politics, Comparative Political Studies, Journal of Common Market Studies, West European Politics, and French Politics and Society. He is currently at work on a book that examines terrorism and transatlantic relations. Keeler was witness to the “Battle of Seattle” in 1999, when the World Trade Organization Summit generated violent confrontations between protesters and police.

Background

Staniland’s research areas include international relations, trade-in services in transportation, and European Union politics and economic issues. His publications include A Europe of the Air?: The Airline Industry and European Integration (Rowman and Littlefield, 2008), Government Birds: The State and Air Transport in Western Europe (Rowman and Littlefield, 2003), and with Dinos Stasinopoulos, “Aviation Security and Passenger Data Exchange: The Need for a Multilateral Arrangement,” Center for West European Studies/EU Policy Paper Series, 2005.