Michelle Egan is an Associate Professor and Coordinator for the European and Russian Studies program in the Comparative and Regional Studies Division. Her geographic expertise is in Western Europe, with a secondary focus on Central and Eastern Europe. Awarded a Jean Monnet Chair in European Integration, her work focuses on regional integration, transatlantic relations, comparative political economy, constitutionalism and defense and security issues. She is currently European Council Co-Chair; and member of the American Consortium for EU Studies (ACES), a nationally recognized center of excellence on the EU. Her books include: Constructing a European Market: Standards, Regulation and Governance (Oxford University Press); Creating a Transatlantic Marketplace: Government Policies and Business Strategies (Manchester University Press) and Single Markets: Economic Integration in Europe and the United States (Forthcoming Oxford University Press).
Dr. Joan Fitzgerald is the Director, Law, Policy and Society Program at Northeastern University. Her specialization is Urban economic development, Urban sustainability planning, Workforce Development, and Green economic development. Previously, Fitzgerald taught urban policy and public affairs at the New School University, the University of Illinois at Chicago, and Ohio State University. Professor Fitzgerald’s books include 2010 Emerald Cities: Linking Sustainability and Economic Development, Oxford University Press (forthcoming Feb or March); 2006 Moving Up in the New Economy. Cornell University Press (also a Century Foundation book); 2002 Economic Revitalization: Strategies and Cases for City and Suburb. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage. (with Nancey Green Leigh). In progress is Urban Planning in the Energy Climate Era: From Silos to Synergies.
John Neurohr is the Communication Director for the Center for American Progress (CAP). The Center for American Progress is dedicated to improving the lives of Americans through progressive ideas and action. Building on the achievements of progressive pioneers such as Teddy Roosevelt and Martin Luther King, CAP’s work addresses 21st-century challenges such as energy, national security, economic growth and opportunity, immigration, education, and health care. It develops new policy ideas, critique the policy that stems from conservative values, challenge the media to cover the issues that truly matter and shape the national debate. Founded in 2003 to provide long-term leadership and support to the progressive movement, CAP is headed by John D. Podesta and based in Washington, DC. CAP opened a Los Angeles office in 2007.
Daniel Pope is a full professor in the History Department, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon. He specializes in United States business and economic history. Fellowships, Grants, and Honors includes Harvard-Newcomen Postdoctoral Fellow; CIES/Fulbright Senior Lecturer Award; National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Grant; and Burlington Northern Distinguished Teaching Award. Dr. Pope’s publications include The Making of Modern Advertising (New York: Basic Books, 1983). [Japanese edition of The Making of Modern Advertising (Tokyo: Dentsu, 1987).] Nuclear Implosions: The Rise and Fall of the Washington Public Power Supply System (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008) Editor, American Radicalism (Malden, MA and Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 2001) in the series Blackwell Readers in American Social and Cultural History.
Dr. Judith Stein holds the Nikolay V. Sivachev Distinguished Chair in American History, the City College of New York and Graduate Center of the City University. Professor Stein specializes in U.S. twentieth political and economic; African American History; Her publications include The World of Marcus Garvey: Race and Class in Modern Society, Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1986, ACLS History E-Book, 2004; Running Steel, Running America: Race, Economic Policy, and the Decline of Liberalism Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1998; Pivotal Decade: How the United States Traded Factories for Finance in the Seventies Yale University Press, 2010. Fellowship Awards and Grants Professor Stein Education; B.A., with honors, Vassar College, and a Ph.D, Yale University
