College of Europe

European Parliament Bronislaw Geremek Research Fellow, European Interdisciplinary Programme

Lecturer in European Integration

Arts and Social Sciences

Thesis Title: Doctorate: 'Enlargement and the European Commission: An Assessment of the British and Irish Applications for Membership of the European Economic Community, 1958-73.'

About

Michael J. Geary, B.A., M.Litt. (National University of Ireland), M.Res., Ph.D. (European University Institute, Florence).

Dr Michael Geary (31), a native of Ireland, is a lecturer in the history and politics of the European Union/Modern Europe at Maastricht University in the Netherlands.

He is currently on research leave as the inaugural European Parliament - Bronisław Geremek Research Fellow at the College of Europe (Natolin) (Mar-Aug 2012).

From September 2012, he will be a Public Policy Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D.C. for the academic year.

Dr Geary was Fulbright-Schuman Professor in EU-US Relations at the Catholic University of America in Washington D.C. during the Fall semester 2010.  He is Ireland’s first recipient of a Fulbright – Schuman Award that promotes research and teaching in EU – US Studies.

Dr Geary is the author of An Inconvenient Wait: Ireland's Quest for Membership of the EEC, 1957-73 - a major new study that examines Ireland's repeated attempts to join the Common Market during the 1960s and early 1970s.  The book also incorporates an analysis of the controversial Irish referendum on the Treaty of Lisbon of 2008. (Available at www.ipa.ie)

Michael Geary is preparing a new book based on an expanded version of his doctoral thesis that explores the role and influence of the European Commission on the question of EU enlargement (under contract with Palgrave Macmillan). 

Dr Geary holds a Ph.D. from the prestigious European University Institute in Florence, Italy, and is a First Class honours graduate (summa cum laude) of the National University of Ireland, Maynooth. 

Dr Geary's research interests include: Policy and Decision-Making in the EU; Comparative European politics and history; the European Integration process; Transatlantic Relations; EU Institutions; Britain's and Ireland's Relations with the EEC/EU.

Other research interests include: Anglo-Irish Relations; and US Politics.

He has recently advised the US State Department of the EU rotating presidency and Hungary's agenda during its six months in the Council chair (2010).  He has also advised the Barroso Commission on changes to the Lisbon Treaty and its impact on the Community institutions (2009).

He has been a Member of the Advisory Council of the European Movement Ireland since 2009.

Dr Geary has lectured widely  on Modern Europe and the EU in Belgium, Ireland, Italy, Malaysia, the Netherlands, and in the United States.

Prior to joining Maastricht University, he worked at the General-Secretariat of the EU Council of Ministers in Brussels.

He proudly supports World Vision (www.worldvision.org).

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