Prof Kevin Featherstone
Eleftherios Venizelos Chair in Contemporary Greek Studies, Head of the European Institute, Director of the Hellenic Observatory
Tel: +44 (0)20 7955 6027
Email: k.featherstone@lse.ac.uk|
Biography
Kevin Featherstone is Eleftherios Venizelos Professor of Contemporary Greek Studies and Director of the Hellenic Observatory within the European Institute. Between 2004 and 2007 he also served as Director of the European Institute. In this period, he successfully led an initiative to establish a new endowed Chair in Contemporary Turkish Studies within the Institute. He arrived at the LSE in April 2002. Since then, the Observatory has expanded its activities, attracting new research fellows, project funding, and over 7,000 participants to its various public lectures, conferences and seminars.
Kevin Featherstone was previously Professor of European Politics at the University of Bradford and head of its European Studies Department, which consistently received the highest RAE ranking. He has also taught at the University of Stirling; University of Minnesota; and New York University.
Research interests
Kevin Featherstone is a political scientist and his research interests cover the politics of the European integration process and contemporary politics in Greece. His main books have covered a comparison of socialist parties' approaches to European integration; relations between the US and EU; the negotiations leading to the Maastricht agreement on EMU; and, the understanding of Europeanisation processes. On Greece, his publications have comprised studies of political change post-1974; Greece after the Cold war; Greece and EMU; and the politics of structural reform (notably pensions, labour markets, and privatisation). A new book on the latter is due in 2008. He has recently headed a new research project, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council of the UK (2006-8), examining the position of the Muslim/Turkish minority in Western Thrace in the 1940s.
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