European Contemporary History: Integration, Ideology and Politics (ECH)

Mission Statement

This research group has two objectives. First it seeks to encourage the closer cooperation between different disciplines researching European integration over time. We are indebted to the founders of the original group on Rethinking European Integration, Morten Rasmussen and Mikael Rask Madsen, and will continue building on the close relations they have established between CEMES, the Centre for Studies in Legal Culture and other researchers from different disciplines, universities and research institutions in Denmark and beyond. Additional interdisciplinary cooperation includes the Department of Politics as well as a number of individual researchers, research centres and networks outside of the University of Copenhagen.

We also believe that the challenge of interdisciplinary cooperation underlying the founding of the original group is not the only challenge confronting the history of European integration however.

It is therefore the second objective of this research group to strengthen the dialogue between European integration history and the broader field of European contemporary history both at the European international level and within European states. Building on political, economic, social and cultural history, the history of contemporary Europe is a “blended history” without a particularly strong foothold within these traditional historical sub-disciplines. At the same time it has the potential to bridge the gaps between different sub-disciplines and to contribute to an increased intra-disciplinary dialogue on contemporary Europe. Finally, we also hope to tie the group’s activities to recent theoretical and methodological developments in the historiography of Europe including in particular the transnational research perspective and conceptual history.

Internal and external collaborators

CEMES

Kristine Marie Berg, Rethoric
Alexandre Bernier, History
Rebekka Byberg, History
Karl Christian Lammers, History
Brigitte Leucht, History
Niklas Olsen, History
Morten Rasmussen, History
Marie Sandberg, Ethnology
Nanna Bonde Thylstrup, Arts and Cultural Studies
Hans Jörg Trenz, Media, Cognition and Communication
Anne Wæhrens, History
Dino Knudsen, History

University of Copenhagen

Jens Arnholtz, Sociology
Mikkel Jarle Christensen, Law
Anne Lise Kjær, Law
Helle Krunke, Law
Amnon Lev, Law
Mikael Rask Madsen, Law and sociology
Rebecca Adler-Nissen, Political science
Bart Van Vooren, Law

Associated members in Danish universities 

Dorte Andersen, Department of Border Region Studies, University of Southern Denmark
Christina Fiig, European Studies, Aarhus University
Hagen Schulz-Forberg, European studies, Aarhus University
Karen Gram-Skjoldager (History and Area Studies Aarhus University
Ann-Christina Lauring Knudsen (European studies, Aarhus University
Poul Fritz Kjær, Copenhagen Buisness School
Ian Manners, Department of Society and Globalisation, RUC
Jan-Henrik Meyer, European studies, Aarhus University
Thorsten Borring Olesen, History Department, Aarhus University
Jonas Pedersen, Aarhus University
Hans-Åke Persson, Department of Culture and Identity, RUC
Christilla Roederer-Rynning, Department of Political Science, University of Southern Denmark
Lisanne Wilken, European studies, Aarhus University

Associated International Members

Julie Bailleux, Maître de conférences, Université Panthéon-Assas
Bernhard Blumenau, Post-doctoral Researcher, Department of International History, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva
Anne Boerger, Assistant Professor, Campus Saint-Jean, University of Alberta, CanadaAntonin Cohen, Maître de conférences, Political Science, Université Paris Ouest Nanterre La DéfenseBill Davies, Assistant Professor, Department of Justice, Law and Society, American University
Anne Deighton, Professor of European International Politics, Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Oxford; Fellow, Wolfson College
Michelle Egan, Associate Professor and Jean Monnet Chair Ad Personam, School of International Service, American University
Maria Fritsche, Associate Professor, Department of History and Classical Studies, NTNU Trondheim
Carine Germond, Assistant Professor, History Department, Maastricht University / Marie Curie Fellow, School of Social, Historical and Literary Studies, University of Portsmouth Web page
Wolfram Kaiser, Professor of European Studies, School of Social, Historical and Literary Studies, University of Portsmouth 
Niilo Kauppi, Research professor/Directeur de recherche CNRSN. Piers Ludlow, Associate Professor in International History, The London School of Economics and Political Science
Emmanuel Mourlon-Druol, Research Associate/Lord Kelvin Adam Smith Fellow, University of Glasgow
Kiran Klaus Patel, Professor of European and Global History, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Maastricht University
Angela Romano, Honorary Research Fellow, University of Glasgow
Christian Salm, Centre for European and International Studies Research, University of Portsmouth 
Katja Seidel, Lecturer in History, University of Westminster
Antoine Vauchez, Research Professor at the CNRS, Centre européen de sociologie et science politique, Université Paris 1-Sorbonne
Rebecca Wennberg, Department of History, Royal Holloway, University of London