About Us
     
  HEIRS Steering Committee Members   
         

 

Aline Sierp

Aline Sierp received her BA from the University of Reading in 2006. Following internships with the Councl of Europe in Strasbourg, the United Nations in Turin and the German Embassy in Rome, she went on to do a MA in European Politics, Policy and Society at the University of Bath, Sciences Po Paris and the University of Siena. In October 2007 she started a PhD in Comparative and European Politics and the Centre for Study of Political Chance, University of Siena. Her interests cover collective memory, European integration and questions of identity.


       

 

Christian Salm

Christian Salm is a doctoral researcher at the Centre for European and International Studies Research (CEISR) at the University of Portsmouth. Currently he is working on his thesis which examines the role of social democratic party networks in European Community agenda-setting and policy-making in the 1970s.

For more information please see Christian's profile on the CEISR website. 

         

Matthew Broad

Matthew Broad is a doctoral researcher at the Department of History, University of Reading. He research focus is that of the socialist parties of Britain, Denmark and Eire, and specifically their attitude and coordination in policy towards the European integration process of the late 1950s and 1960s.

To contact Matthew and for information on the HEIRS website you can email him.
 

 

Tobias Reckling

Tobias Reckling is a doctoral researcher at the Centre for European and International Studies Research (CEISR) at the University of Portsmouth. In his PhD project he examines the perception of the Spanish transition to democracy in Germany, France and Great Britain against the background of the European integration process.

For more information please see the CEISR website.

       

 

 

 

Former HEIRS Steering Committee Members

 

 

Katja Seidel

Katja Seidel received her PhD from the University of Portsmouth (2008). Until December 2008 she was a research assistant at Cardiff University where she worked in a European Union FP 6 project on Economic and Monetary Union. Katja is currently a post-doctoral research fellow at the German Historical Institute in Paris. Her research focuses on the history of the Community institutions and their personnel as well as on the origins of the common competition and agricultural policies in the EEC/EC.
 
 

George Wilkes

George Wilkes is a Fellow and Director of Studies in Social and Political Sciences at St. Edmund's College, Cambridge. He is publishing a monograph on British attitudes to European integration before 1963. His research interests include the development of democratic institutions at European level before 1979, and changes in discourse about religion and European identity since 1945.
 
 

Brigitte Leucht

Brigitte holds an undergraduate (Mag. Phil.) degree in History and English from the University of Vienna (1998) and a Master of Arts degree in History from New York University (2000), which she completed under the auspices of the Fulbright Program. She received her PhD from the University of Portsmouth (2008).

In her thesis, she assessed the role of transatlantic policy networks in the formation of core Europe at the Schuman Plan conference. Based on extensive archival research in governmental records and private papers in twelve archives in five countries and informed by the innovative combination of the methodological tools of the network and cultural transfer concepts, the thesis sheds new light on how the process of European integration was triggered in 1950-51.
 
 

Billy Davies

Bill Davies is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Justice, Law and Society in American University's School of Public Affairs in Washington DC. Born and raised in London, UK, he has taught previously at King's College London, where he completed his undergraduate degree (European Studies and German) and doctoral thesis. His particular field of expertise lies in the law and institutions of the European Union and he completed his doctoral thesis on the question as to why and how the Member States have accepted the creation of supranational constitutional order. He has presented his research on the EU’s legal system in London, Paris, Seoul, Copenhagen, Geneva and Bilbao.

  
 

Cristina Blanco Sío-López

Cristina Blanco Sío-López obtained her Ph.D. and MRes. in History and Civilization at the European University Institute of Florence (EUI), where she analysed the induction of time perceptions in the political communication of the EU’s Eastward enlargement. She holds a MA in European History and Politics at the University of Edinburgh and a B.A. Degree in History at the University of Salamanca. She has also studied at the universities of Heidelberg, FUB, GWU, San Andrés University of La Paz and at the “Marshall Space Flight Centre” of the NASA.

  
     
 


Thanks to		  
     
 

First of all, we would like to thank Linda Risso, Brigitte Leucht, Katja Seidel, Lucia Faltin and George Wilkes for setting the foundations of HEIRS, allowing it to become an enriching reference point in the field of History of European Integration through their enthusiastic initiaves and hard work, which crystallised in a set on intellectually challenging conferences and publications.

Furtermore, We would like express our gratitude to friends and colleagues who have helped us redesign the HEIRS website. First among them are Katrin Stimpel who has provided the new logo and graphic design and Prisca Olbrich who not only has put us in touch with Katrin, but has also given essential feedback on the structure of the website.

We would also like to thank Jean-Baptiste Martin and Claudia Gnida who have patiently coached us through the technical aspects of website construction.

Last, our special thanks go to Lucia Faltin who has set up and maintained for over two years the original HEIRS website.