Academic interests

Environmental policy, politics and policies of the European Union, comparative politics.

Awards

• Outstanding Tenure Track Faculty Award 1996
• Teaching Excellence Recognition Award (TERA) 1997 & 1998
• IUPUI Faculty Adviser of the Year 2000-01
• Trustees Teaching Award 2004, 2017
• Jean Monnet Chair in EU Politics (European Commission) 2010-13, 2014-17
• Fulbright-Schuman Chair in EU-US Relations, College of Europe, Spring 2013

Publications

• Understanding the European Union (Red Globe Press, 8th ed., 2020)
• European Union Politics (Red Globe Press, 3rd ed., 2020)
• Cases in Comparative Government and Politics (Red Globe Press, 2019)
• Comparative Government and Politics (with Rod Hague and Martin Harrop) (Red Globe Press, 11th ed., 2019)
• Introduction to Global Studies (Red Globe Press, 2018)
• Contemporary Britain (Red Globe Press, 4th ed., 2018)
• Environmental Politics and Policy  (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017)
• The European Union: Politics and Policies  (with Jonathan Olsen) (Westview, 5th ed., 2014)
• Why Europe Matters (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013)
• Comparative Politics in Transition (Wadsworth, 7th ed., 2012)
• Europeanism (Oxford University Press, 2010)
• The European Superpower (Palgrave Macmillan, 2007)
• Environmental Policy in the European Union (Palgrave Macmillan 2001)
• and articles in Political Quarterly, Environment, Journal of Transatlantic Relations, and Il Politico.

Service

• Organizer and founder, annual Midwest Model European Union, 1993-2012
• Chair, Department of Political Science, 2002-2008
• President, School of Liberal Arts Faculty Assembly, 2002-04
• Visiting positions at University of Exeter (UK), University of Sussex (UK), College of Europe (Belgium), University of Goettingen (Germany), University of Deusto (Spain).