Kathleen McNamara, Ph.D.

kathleen.mcnamara@georgetown.edu

Georgetown University

Country: United States (District of Columbia)

About Me:

Kathleen R. McNamara is Professor of Government and Foreign Service at Georgetown University. Her work focuses on markets, culture, and politics in the European Union and the United States, and 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. McNamara has served as Director of the Mortara Center for International Studies, and Vice Dean for Faculty & Graduate Affairs, at Georgetown, and taught at Princeton University and Sciences Po (Paris).  She has been a visiting scholar at the Russell Sage Foundation, a German Marshall Fund Fellow, a Fulbright Fellow, and 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 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.

Research Interests

Comparative Political Institutions

Political Economy

European Union

European Monetary Union

Identity

International Political Economy

Culture & Politics