Kathleen R. McNamara is Professor of Government and Foreign Service at Georgetown University. Her work focuses on globalization and the European Union, with a special interest in how politics, culture, and identity shape markets. In Spring 2023, she was the inaugural Simone Veil Fellow at the European University Institute, researching the EU’s new industrial policy and geopolitical shift. Her books include The Politics of Everyday Europe: Constructing Authority in the European Union and The Currency of Ideas: Monetary Politics in the European Union, and her articles have been published in Comparative Political Studies, International Organization, JCMS, Journal of European Public Policy, and Review of International Political Economy.
At Georgetown, she co-directs, with Professor Abe Newman, the Global Political Economy Project, which seeks to reinvent the way we study global markets. She has been a visiting scholar at the Russell Sage Foundation, a German Marshall Fund Fellow, a Fulbright Fellow, and taught at Princeton University and Sciences Po (Paris). She received the International Studies Association’s 2018 Distinguished Scholar in International Political Economy award and the ISA’s 2020 SWIPE Award for Mentoring Women in International Political Economy. Her public engagement includes work with the US National Intelligence Council, writing for Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, the Washington Post, appearances on a variety of media outlets, and on Twitter @ProfKMcNamara. McNamara received her PhD from Columbia University and her BA from McGill University. Find her shorter bio and Public CV from July 2023 here and her longer Academic CV from July 2023 here.
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