Dr Theresa Kuhn

Post: Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Introduction

Theresa Kuhn is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Department of Politics and International Relations and a member of Nuffield College at the University of Oxford. She obtained her PhD in Political and Social Sciences from the European University Institute, Florence, and has held visiting positions at University of California at Berkeley and the Social Science Research Center Berlin (WZB).Her doctoral dissertation analysed the impact of transnational interactions and globalisation on public support for European integration using multilevel analysis of survey data. The thesis was awarded EUI's Linz-Rokkan Prize in Political Sociology, and the THESEUS award for promising resarch on European integration 2012.

Currently, Theresa Kuhn is conducting laboratory experiments to study to what extent Europeans' willingness to redistribute is dependent on the level of redistribution (local, national, supranational). This project is funded by a British Academy/Leverhulme Small Reserach Grant. 

Theresa Kuhn completed her undergraduate studies at the University of Passau, Germany, and the Institut d’Études Politiques de Toulouse. She also worked as an external project manager for the European Commission (DG Education and Culture) and for the Austrian Embassy in Madrid.

Further information on Theresa’s research and a full list of publications can be found on her personal website: www.TheresaKuhn.eu

Research Areas and Interests

European identity, euroscepticism, legitimacy, political behaviour, sociology of European integration

Publications

Monograph

Kuhn, Theresa: Experiencing European Integration. Individual Transnationalism and EU Support. Book manuscript under contract with Oxford University Press.

Articles in peer-reviewed journals

Kuhn, Theresa (2012) 'Why Educational Exchange Programmes Miss their Mark:Cross-border Mobility, Education and European Identity'. Journal of Common Market Studies 50(6): 994-1010.

Kuhn, Theresa (2012) 'Europa ante Portas: Border Residence, Transnational Interaction and Euroscepticism in Germany and France'. European Union Politics 13(1): 94-117.

Kuhn, Theresa (2011) 'Individual Transnationalism, Globalisation and Euroscepticism: An Empirical Test of Deutsch's Transactionalist Theory'. European Journal of Political Research 50(6): 811-37.

Hakhverdian, A., Van Elsas, E., Van de Brug, W. & Kuhn, T. (forthcoming): Euroscepticism and Education: A Longitudinal Study of Twelve EU Member States, 1973-2010. Accepted for publication, European Union Politics 14(3) or 14(4).

Book chapters

Recchi, Ettore and Theresa Kuhn. (2012) 'Europeans' Space-Sets and the Political Legitimacy of the EU'. In Niilo Kauppi (ed.) Forthcoming in A Political Sociology of Transnational Europe. Colchester: ECPR Press.

Kuhn, Theresa; Wolkenstein, Fabio; Perlot, Flooh and Sarah Meyer (2010) 'Austria'. In Wojciech Gagatek (ed.) The 2009 Elections to the European Parliament. Florence: European Union Democracy Observatory.

Book reviews

Kuhn, Theresa (2013) 'The Europeanization of national polities? Citizenship and support in a post-enlargement Union (edited by David Sanders, Paolo Bellucci, Gabor Toka and Mariano Torcal)'. West European Politics.

Kuhn, Theresa (2011) 'Ettore Recchi and Adrian Favell (Eds): Pioneers of European Integration. Citizenship and Mobility in the EU'. European Sociological Review 27(1): 138-40.

Working Paper

Favell, Adrian; Recchi, Ettore; Kuhn, Theresa; Jensen, Janne Solgaard and Juliane Klein (2011) 'The Europeanisation of Everyday Life: Cross-Border Practices and Transnational Identifications Among EU and Third-Country Citizens. State of the Art Report'. EUCROSS Working Paper # 1.