Vicki Birchfield - Director

Vicki Birchfield is an Associate Professor in the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs at Georgia Tech and a scholar of European politics. She received a DES from the Institut Universitaire de Hautes Etudes Internationales, University of Geneva, Switzerland and her Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Georgia. Her research and teaching specializations are comparative politics, international political economy and European integration. Other research and intellectual interests focus on the dynamic interplay of democracy and capitalism, social movements and the politics of globalization, transatlantic relations, and the political and cultural dimensions of trade disputes between the European Union and the United States. She has published in the European Journal of Political Research, the Review of International Studies, Globalizations, and the Review of International Political Economy. She is also fluent in French and has published in the French scholarly journal, Politeia. Her book, Income Inequality in Capitalist Democracy: The Interplay of Values and Institutions, is forthcoming with Penn St. Press. She is presently working on a new book manuscript entitled The Transatlantic Values Debate and the Quest for Global Leadership as well as research projects on the Airbus-Boeing trade dispute and the EU’s development policies. She directed and taught the Nunn School’s European Summer Program on the EU and Transatlantic Relations from 2000 to 2006 hosted by the Institut d’études européennes, Brussels. She has extensive ties with academics and government officials throughout Europe, has been a visiting professor at Institut d’études Politiques (Sciences Po), Paris and the Université de Bordeaux IV.

Email: vicki.birchfield@inta.gatech.edu
Phone: 404-385-0604