Kathleen McNamara
Associate Professor, Department of Government and Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University

"Constructing Authority in the EU:
Currency and Statebuilding in
Historical Perspective"

Monday, 11 April 2005
12:00 p.m.
336 Ingraham

Sponsored by
The European Union Center
The Global Governance Research Circle
and
The Wisconsin Governance Collaborative Research Circle

Kathleen McNamara will also participate in a graduate seminar immediately following this talk.
Please contact Professor Fioretos for more information.

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Professor Kathleen R. McNamara is an expert on the European Union, particularly issues involving the politics of the Euro and the European Central Bank, as well as globalization and the transatlantic relationship. She is the author of The Currency of Ideas: Monetary Politics in the European Union, and articles on topics including the diffusion of central bank independence and the organizational culture of the European Central Bank. Her current research examines the Euro in terms of the historical relationship between currency and statebuilding. She previously taught for nine years at Princeton University and has been a visiting scholar at the Russell Sage Foundation, a German Marshall Fund Fellow and a Fulbright Fellow. She is an active participant in a variety of government and NGO policy groups. Dr. McNamara received her Ph.D. from Columbia University.