EUCE Faculty

 

Jonathan Zeitlin
Jonathan Zeitlin is Professor of Sociology, Public Affairs, Political Science, and History; Director of the Center for World Affairs and the Global Economy (WAGE), and Founding Co-Director of the European Union Center. He is also a Faculty Associate of the Center on Wisconsin Strategy (COWS).

Professor Zeitlin's research focuses on the comparative and historical analysis of socioeconomic governance, business organization, and employment relations, with particular emphasis on contemporary Europe. His current projects include a cross-sectoral analysis of the new architecture of experimentalist governance in the EU and a collaborative study of "Governance as Learning" funded by the Dutch National Science Foundation (NWO).

He has presented his policy research to committee hearings and conferences organized by European Union institutions, including the European Parliament, the European Commission, and the Greek Presidency of the EU. In Wisconsin, he has served as an adviser to the Manufacturing Jobs with a Future Partnership and the Wisconsin Manufacturers' Development Consortium. He has also worked as a consultant to the International Labour Organization, United Nations Development Organization, and Greater London Council.

Professor Zeitlin has received research awards and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the German Marshall Fund, the European University Institute, the Sloan Foundation, the British Economic and Social Research Council, and the British Academy. He has been a guest professor and visiting scholar at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris, the Academy of European Law and the Robert Schuman Center for Advanced Studies at the European University Institute in Florence, the School for Advanced Social Science Research (ASSR) and the Institute for Advanced Labor Studies in Amsterdam, and the International Centre for Business and Politics at the Copenhagen Business School.

Professor Zeitlin's publications include The Open Method of Coordination: The European Employment and Social Inclusion Strategies (PIE-Peter Lang, 2005); Governing Work and Welfare in a New Economy: European and American Experiments (Oxford UP, 2003), Americanization and Its Limits: Reworking US Technology and Management in Postwar Europe and Japan (Oxford UP), and "Supply Chain Governance and Regional Development in the Global Economy," special issue of Industry & Innovation (2004). He has also published numerous journal articles and book chapters. He holds a PhD from Warwick University (UK) and an MA from Cambridge University, as well as a BA from Harvard College.

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