Research Interests:

Stephanie Anderson, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Ph.D. University of Cambridge (UK), M.Sc., The London School of Economics, and B.S.F.S. at Georgetown University.  Her research focus is on the European Union as an international actor, international relations and security issues.

She has just published a book called Crafting the EU Security Policy:  In the Pursuit of European Identity (Boulder, CO:  Lynne Rienner, 2008).  Her book is based on research she did while a Senior Fulbright Research Scholar at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP).  Her first Fulbright was as a Senior Scholar in the Graduate School of International Studies at Sogang University in Seoul, Korea.  She has also published in several journals and edited volumes including Armed Forces and Society, Current Politics and Economics of Europe, and European Foreign Affairs Review. 

In 2007, Dr. Anderson won the College's Extraordinary Merit in Teaching award.  She was also awarded a Curriculum Development Grant to create a course on the European Union with an embedded component in Brussels, Belgium.  She teaches cross-listed courses in political science, international studies and women's studies including Politics of Europe and the EU, Model United Nations, International Relations, and Gender in International Relations.  She is also the Model UN advisor.

Dr. Anderson was elected as the European Union Studies Association’s (EUSA) Co-Chair of the European Union as a Global Actor interest section (2007-2009).  She had previously served on EUSA’s executive committee.  She was also made a Next Generation Fellow of the American Assembly. The American Assembly, an affiliate of Columbia University, was founded by Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1950 with the mandate to illuminate issues of public policy.  As a non-profit, non-partisan organization, the Assembly seeks to provide information, stimulate discussion, and evoke independent conclusions on matters of vital public interest. 

Dr. Anderson is the mother of two girls, and has many animals:  two cats, three llamas, and many chickens, turkeys, horses and cows.  She owns a cattle ranch, not too far away, which her family homesteaded about 150 years ago.