I study European unification from the perspective of post-national and post-sovereignty studies. My books include France After Hegemony: International Change and Financial Reform (Cornell, 1991), Capital Ungoverned (co-authored: Cornell, 1997), European Union and the Deconstruction of the Rhineland Frontier (Cambridge, 2008; awarded the Charles Taylor Prize for best book employing interpretive methods), and Europe Anti-Power (Routledge, Interventions, 2016). I have begun work on a new book entitled European Union, Vatican II, and the Twilight of Sovereignty. In it I use the intellectual and political history of mid-twentieth century Europe to question the commonsense of sovereignty in our era of climate change and existential peril, and to discern the possible contours of a post-sovereignty world. I co-founded and direct the French Interdisciplinary Group and advise students in our various French partnership programs, including the dual PhD programs with Sciences Po and the École Normale Supérieure, both of which participate in Northwestern Buffett’s international partnership alliance. I also direct our Northwestern-Sorbonne Nouvelle undergraduate program in Art, Literature, and Contemporary European Thought, offered in Paris, and am active in the Critical Theory Graduate Studies Cluster. I teach graduate courses on international relations and interpretive methods.

I study European unification from the perspective of post-national and post-sovereignty studies. My books include France After Hegemony: International Change and Financial Reform (Cornell, 1991), Capital Ungoverned (co-authored: Cornell, 1997), European Union and the Deconstruction of the Rhineland Frontier (Cambridge, 2008; awarded the Charles Taylor Prize for best book employing interpretive methods), and Europe Anti-Power (Routledge, Interventions, 2016). I have begun work on a new book entitled European Union, Vatican II, and the Twilight of Sovereignty. In it I use the intellectual and political history of mid-twentieth century Europe to question the commonsense of sovereignty in our era of climate change and existential peril, and to discern the possible contours of a post-sovereignty world.

I co-founded and direct the French Interdisciplinary Group and advise students in our various French partnership programs, including the dual PhD programs with Sciences Po and the École Normale Supérieure, both of which participate in Northwestern Buffett’s international partnership alliance. I also direct our Northwestern-Sorbonne Nouvelle undergraduate program in Art, Literature, and Contemporary European Thought, offered in Paris, and am active in the Critical Theory Graduate Studies Cluster. I teach graduate courses on international relations and interpretive methods.