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 | Robert Henry Cox currently serves as the first Director of the School of International and Area Studies at the University of Oklahoma. In addition, he is Co-Director of OU's European Union Center. An OU faculty member since 1989, Cox is a Professor in the School of International and Area Studies with a joint appointment in Political Science. His education includes a B.Phil from Miami University, an M.A. in West European Studies from Indiana University and a PhD in Political Science, also from Indiana University. Professor Cox's teaching is international and interdisciplinary. He teaches classes at the graduate and undergraduate levels in the general field of comparative politics and the specific field of European Politics. Professor Cox's research focuses on the development and evolution of welfare states in advanced industrialized countries. His writings on the welfare state have explored the moral foundations of welfare programs, the politics of policy change, and the technical details of systems of taxation and social insurance. His publications have appeared in such journals as World Politics, Comparative Political Studies, Politics and Society, Governance, Journal of Social Policy, Publius. His first book is The Development of the Dutch Welfare State: From Workers' Insurance to Universal Entitlements. Cox has been honored as a Fulbright scholar to Denmark (1995), a Visiting Professor at Erasmus University, Rotterdam (1996), German Marshall Foundation Research Fellow (1998), and an invited guest to the European Union Visitors Program (1999). In addition, he is the Co-Director of a Department of Education grant for Undergraduate International Studies and Foreign Languages (UISFL). |
 | Mitchell P. Smith is Associate Professor of Comparative Politics in Political Science and the School of International and Area Studies. Dr. Smith is also Co-Director of OU's European Union Center. After receiving his B.A. in Economics from the University of California, Berkeley, Smith spent two years as an economic analyst at the Federal Home Loan Bank of San Francisco. He then earned his M.P.A. Degree from Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, where he studied international political economy. Upon completion of the M.P.A., Smith entered the doctoral program in Princeton University's Department of Politics, and he received his Ph.D. in 1993. Since that time, Smith has been assistant professor of Political Science at Swarthmore College and at Middlebury College. His research focuses on the political economy of European integration. In 1996-97, Smith was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship in European Union Affairs, and was a Visiting Fellow at the Centre for European Policy Studies in Brussels, Belgium. Smith's work has appeared in West European Politics, The Journal of Legislative Studies, Politics & Society, Journal of Common Market Studies, Journal of European Public Policy, and German Politics. He is also the Co-editor of Legitimacy and the European Union: The Contested Polity (Routledge, 1999). During the Spring 2001 semester, Smith was a Jean Monnet Fellow at the Robert Schuman Centre of the European University Institute in Florence, Italy. His new book, States of Liberalization (SUNY Press, forthcoming 2005), examines the impact of European integration on the role of the public sector in West European countries. |