Laurie Buonanno, IEUSS Director
Laurie Buonanno, PhD is Professor of Public Administration in the Department of Economics and Finance, SUNY Buffalo State University. She is co-author (Neill Nugent) of Policies and Policy Processes in the European Union. 2nd Ed. (The European Union Series) (2021) Bloomsbury, co-editor (with Nikolaos Zahariadis) of The Routledge Handbook of European Public Policy (2017) and co-editor (Cuglesan, Henderson) of The New and Changing Transatlanticism: Politics and Policy Perspectives (2015) (Routledge Studies in Governance and Public Policy Series). She studies intergovernmental relations and migration policy in the EU and in other systems (See Governing New York State Through Crises Project and Remembering Italian America: Memory, Migration, Identity (with Michael Buonanno), Routledge - 2022 Winner of the Italian American Studies Association Book Award. She is currently co-editing (Carolyn Dudek) a volume of essays focusing on opportunities and trends entitled The Future of European Public Policy (Bloomsbury). She has been PI on several EU-related grants including Transatlantic Public Administration Mobility Grant (joint European Commission-US Department of Education).
Greg Rabb, IEUSS Board Chair
Sally Crimmins Villela, IEUSS Board Member
Natalia Cugleşan, IEUSS Board Member
Alexander Caviedes, IEUSS Board Member
Atta Ceesay, IEUSS Board Member
Mariam Dekanozishvili, IEUSS Fellow
Mariam Dekanozishvili joined Coastal Carolina University’s Department of Politics as an assistant professor in 2014. She received her M.A. in European Affairs from Lund University, Sweden and M.A. and Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of South Carolina. Her area of teaching and research is European/EU politics, with a particular focus on integration and policy-making in the EU, and EU energy policy. Dekanozishvili has extensive professional experience in her field. Before coming to the US, she worked for the Ministry of European Integration of Georgia and the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe. She directs the Model EU teams at Coastal. She has developed and led a short-term study abroad program From Brussels to Paris. The program provides a unique opportunity for students to gain first-hand experience of EU governance through study visits at the EU Headquarters in Brussels, as well as experience European history and culture in the vibrant cities of Bruges and Paris.
Carolyn Dudek, IEUSS Fellow
Carolyn Dudek is Professor of Political Science and Department Chair, Hofstra University. She also directs Hofstra's European Studies program. She is PI on Hofstra University's Erasmus+ JM grant, 2022-2024. Dr. Dudek was awarded in 2024 with a Jean Monnet Chair.
Joseph Dunne, IEUSS Fellow
Joseph Dunne is former Director of the European Parliament Liaison Office in Washington DC (retired from EP, July 31, 2023), a position which was set up to foster and develop relations between the European Parliament (EP) and the United States Congress, from October 1, 2019. In 2018, Joseph was a Senior Resident Fellow at the German Marshall Fund in Washington DC and a Visiting Fellow at the Schar School of Policy and Government at George Mason University. Up to that time, Joseph was a Director in the Directorate General for European Parliamentary Research Service. He was previously Head of Secretariat for the Internal Market and Consumer Protection Committee and Deputy Chef de Cabinet for EP President Pat Cox. Before the Parliament, Joseph Dunne served in the Irish Department of Foreign Affairs. He edited the first edition of ‘Mapping the Cost of Non-Europe’ in April 2014. Joseph has a B. Mod from Trinity College Dublin and an MA in EU Law from King’s College London. Mr. Dunne has served as an expert witness for SUNYMEU and is a contributor to the IEUSS Future of Europe book project. His research specialization includes comparative democratic institutions, particularly with respect to the European Parliament and the US Congress, and transatlantic relations.
Sven Müller-Grune, IEUSS Board Member
Professor Müller-Grune is on faculty at Hochschule Schmalkalden/University of Applied Sciences Fakultät Wirtschaftsrecht/
Faculty of Business Law
Blechhammer
98574 Schmalkalden
Germany
Neill Nugent, IEUSS Board Member
Raymond Rushboldt, IEUSS Board Member
