Schmidt Receives EUSA Lifetime Acheivement Award
Vivien Schmidt, Professor of International Relations and Political Science at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University, received the European Union Studies Association (EUSA) Lifetime Achievement Award at the organization’s biannual conference held on May 10, 2019 in Denver.
The EUSA Executive Committee selects a scholar in the field of EU studies whose lifetime of research and writing have been important, enduring, and widely felt influences on EU scholarship.
There was also a keynote panel at the conference held on May 11, 2019 in honor of Schmidt’s work which featured Abe Newman, Professor at Georgetown University, Kalypso Nicolaidis, Professor at Oxford University, Tanja Börzel, Professor at the Free University of Berlin, Alberta Sbragia, Professor at the University of Pittsburgh and and recipient of 2013 EUSA Lifetime Achievement Award, George Ross, Professor Emeritus at Brandeis University and recipient of 2017 EUSA Lifetime Achievement Award, and Matthias Matthijs Assistant Professor at Johns Hopkins University.
Schmidt is Jean Monnet Professor of European Integration at Boston University. Her research focuses on European political economy, institutions, democracy, and political theory. In 2018, she was appointed as a Chevalier in the French Legion of Honor — France’s highest honor. She has published a dozen books, over 200 scholarly journal articles or chapters in books, and numerous policy briefs and comments, most recently on the Eurozone crisis. Her current work focuses on democratic legitimacy in Europe, with a special focus on the challenges resulting from the Eurozone crisis, and on methodological theory, in particular on the importance of ideas and discourse in political analysis (discursive institutionalism). She is a 2018 recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship for a US-EU comparative study of the ‘rhetoric of discontent.’