Amie Kreppel
Associate Professor
Director, Center for European Studies
Director, European Union Studies Program
Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles, 1998
Email:kreppel@polisci.ufl.edu
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Amie Kreppel is Director of the Center for European Studies (CES) and European Union Studies Program (EUSP) at the University of Florida. She is also an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at UF. She received her Ph.D. from UCLA in 1998. She has written extensively on the political institutions of the Europe in general and the European Union more specifically, with a particular focus on the European Parliament. Her book, The European Parliament and the Supranational Party System: A Study of Institutional Development, was published by Cambridge University as part of the Comparative Politics series in 2002. She has published numerous articles in journals such as 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 has delivered numerous papers at national or international conferences and served as a consultant to the US Department of State on EU related affairs. She is also a founding member of the transatlantic European Parliament Research Group (EPRG) housed at the London School of Economics. During fall 2000 she was a Public Policy Scholar at the WoodrowWilsonInternationalCenter for scholars pursuing new research on the political and institutional integration of MEPs from the next wave of enlargement countries. She has received several grants to pursue research on the European Union including a Mac Arthur 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. She is currently working with George Tsebelis (UCLA) on a new Introduction to Comparative Politics text forthcoming from Cambridge University Press in 2006.
