Participant Bios

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Daniel Goler, senior research fellow at the Bundeswehr Institute for Social Sciences, holds a PhD in political science from the University of Cologne. Previously, he served as he was the research fellow at the Institute for European Politics in Berlin(2001-2007). His thesis focused on decision making in the European Constitutional Convention. He studied political science, history and theology at the University of Saarbrücken in Germany and the University of Newcastle upon Tyne in the United Kingdom (1996-2001). In 2004 he was the visiting fellow researcher at the Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik - German Institute for International and Security Affairs.

Kristina Kurze (M.E.S./M.A.) is research associate for European Integration at the University of Osnabrück since June 2007. She is currently writing her PhD on the emergence of a common European energy policy. She has studied Communication and European Studies in London, Roskilde and Bonn as well as International Relations in Berlin and Potsdam. Her main research interests include European energy policy, theories of European Integration and International Relations as well as discourse analysis. Before her current position Kristina Kurze has gained relevant work experience at the Institute for European Politics in Berlin.

Eric Lindquist’s research interests are in public policy and decision processes, agenda setting, problem/solution definition studies, and the impact of focusing events on public policy. In addition to serving as principal investigator (PI), co-principal investigator, or research scientist on Institute research projects, Dr. Lindquist provides conceptual and theoretical leadership for interdisciplinary research teams. His most recent projects are in the area of climate change, the use of climate science in intergovernmental decision making, the public understanding of science in regard to global climate change, and nanotechnology. He has been co-principal investigator on major grants from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the Environmental Protection Agency focusing on the utilization and understanding of climate variability and climate change science. Prior to joining the Institute for Science, Technology, and Public Policy (ISTPP) full time, Dr. Lindquist held a joint appointment with ISTPP and the Texas Transportation Institute, where he worked for ten years in the areas of transportation planning and policy.

Hartmut Marhold is director general of the EU funded Centre International de Formation Européenne (CIFE), based in France (Nice) and Germany (Berlin), with management and academic tasks, e.g. as professor for European integration history in CIFE’s three master programmes, in Istanbul, Nice and Berlin. He teaches as Honorary Professor at the University of Cologne, as well as the University of Poznan (Poland). He is Vice President of the executive board of the Institute for European Politics (IEP) in Berlin. His main research fields are institutional and constitutional developments of the European Union, federalism and history of the European integration. Hartmut Marhold is editor of the (bilingual) quarterly “L’Europe en formation”, published many articles and books on European politics, but as well on history of German and European literature and art. He is involved in many European scientific and political non-governmental associations.

Michael Meimeth is director of the foundation ASKO EUROPA-STIFTUNG in Saarbrücken since 2000. Before, he held academic positions as Assistant Professor at the Universities of Cologne, Trier and Saarbrücken. He has widely published in the field Theory of International Relations, European Security Affairs and Franco-German Relations.

John D. Robertson specializes in comparative politics and the political economy of advanced industrial countries at Texas A&M University. As a student, Dr. Robertson was a FLAS-NDFL Fellow in Russian Language and Area Studies and a Jurzykowski Fellow in Polish Language and Area Studies. Since then he has been Senior Fulbright Professor of Political Science and Senior Research Fellow, Institute for Labor Law and Labor Relations in the European Community, at the University of Trier, West Germany (1988-1989); NATO Senior Research Fellow for the Study of Democratic Institutions (1990-1991); and Visiting Professor, University of Linz, Austria, Institute for International Management Studies (1991). Dr. Robertson’s current research focuses on the political economy of government formation and the institutional nature of consensus and coalition building in democratic societies.

Eric W. Rothenbuhler is Professor of Communication at Texas A&M University. He earned his Ph.D. in 1985 from the Annenberg School of Communication at the University of Southern California, served as Assistant, Associate, and Full Professor in Communication Studies at the University of Iowa 1985-2001, and was Director of the Graduate Media Studies Program at New School University 2001-2004. He is the author of Ritual Communication (1998), co-editor of Media Anthropology (2005) and Communication and Community (2001), and author or co-author of over 50 articles, chapters, essays, and reviews on media, ritual, community, media industries, popular music, and communication theory.

Adam R. Seipp joined the faculty of the Texas A&M Department of History in 2005 after completing his PhD at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His teaching and research focus on the history of war and European society. Dr. Seipp is the author of the forthcoming “The Ordeal of Peace: Demobilization and the Urban Experience in Europe, 1917-21,” which examines the responses of urban dwellers and municipal authorities to the challenges of the postwar transition after World War I in Britain and Germany. Dr. Seipp is presently at work on a new project on the refugee crisis in American-occupied Bavaria after World War II. He has written several book chapters and authored articles in War and Society and the Journal of Contemporary History. Dr. Seipp is interested in supporting graduate and undergraduate research in modern German and European history, war and European society, and the history of sports and mass culture.