In July Annabelle Littoz-Monnet, Assistant Professor in the Institute’s International History department, was chosen by the European Commission to receive a grant to deliver a Jean Monnet teaching module focusing on European studies.

The European Commission awards Jean Monnet Module grants to outstanding faculty members from higher education institutions who teach programmes that cover European integration and involve highly specialised learning on the latest developments in the European Union.

“I am delighted to have received this grant”, Annabele Littoz-Monnet said. “It will help me further develop my courses on the history and cultural aspects of European integration and it will raise the profile of EU studies at the Institute”.

Professor Littoz-Monnet will be teaching two courses adressing the theme of “The Construction of a European Community: Institutions, Identities and Citizens’’. The first course (autumn term) will focus on “The History of European Integration” and the second course (spring term) will deal more specifically with  “The Cultural Politics of European Integration”. The Jean Monnet grant is intended to support her teaching in European studies for the next three academic years.

Before joining the Institute in 2009, Annabelle Littoz-Monnet was Assistant Professor in European Studies at the Central European University in Budapest (2005-2009). She has also worked for the Socio-Legal Studies Centre at Oxford University and as a Research fellow at the Royal Institute of International Relations, Brussels (2004-2005). In 2007 she published The European Union and Culture: between economic regulation and European cultural policy (Manchester University Press). Her current research interests include European integration theory, European citizenship, EU Cultural Policy and the EU politics of memory. She holds a PhD from the University of Oxford.