EU Policy Forum Educator Workshop
2020 EU Policy Forum for Educators
Europe in the Age of COVID-19: Public Health, Social Solidarity, and the Role of Government in a New International Environment
The 2020 EU Policy Forum took place virtually on August 18, 2020.
The Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies welcomed middle school, high school, and community college educators to participate in the 2020 Summer EU Policy Forum, co-sponsored by the European Union’s Erasmus+ Programme, and focused on contemporary issues in the European Union including:
- European Policy Responses to COVID-19
- The Role and Popular Expectations of Government in Europe
- Women Leaders in the European COVID-19 Response
- Crisis and the Limits of European Solidarity
To view the agenda of the workshop, click HERE.
To view the complete curriculum resource guide, click HERE, or view individual modules here: Module One, Module Two, Module Three, Module Four.
The 2020 workshop lectures were recorded and are available as podcasts on Soundcloud and iTunes:
Dr. Niko Switek – European Policy Responses to COVID-19
Dr. Eva-Maria Maggi – The Role and Popular Expectations of Government in Europe
Dr. Joyce Mushaben – Women Leaders in the European COVID-19 Response
Phil Shekleton – Crisis and the Limits of European Solidarity
Speaker Information:
Dr. Niko Switek – European Policy Responses to COVID-19
Niko Switek is DAAD Visiting Assistant Professor for German Studies at the Henry M. Jackson School for International Studies and the Department of Political Science at the University of Washington. His research interests focus on political parties and party systems as well as on coalition politics. He wrote extensively about the German green party ‘Bündnis 90/Die Grünen’ and the green party family in Western Europe. In addition he worked on parties on European level (‘Europarties’) and just recently compiled a volume on fictional TV series about politics.
Find Module One of the curriculum guide here.
This workshop segment was recorded and is available as a podcast here.
Dr. Eva-Maria Maggi – The Role and Popular Expectations of Government in Europe
Dr. Eva-Maria Maggi teaches international politics and security at the University of Montana and the School of Government and Public Policy at the University of Arizona. Her research on the European Union and Middle East appeared in peer-reviewed journals and her book on Europe’s relationship with North Africa was published in 2016. Her current research focuses on cyber security policies in the U.S. and Europe and Wilderness policy. She has been a frequent contributor on all issues Europe in daily news, for example NPR’s Planet Money, the magazine Europe Today or The Arizona Daily Star. As an avid outdoorswomen and mule packer, Dr. Maggi enjoys exploring Montana’s wild places, preferably on horseback with her two kids and husband.
Find Module Two of the curriculum guide here.
This workshop segment was recorded and is available as a podcast here.
Dr. Joyce Mushaben – Women Leaders in the European COVID-19 Response
Joyce Marie Mushaben received her Ph. D. from Indiana University in 1981. She recently retired as a Curators’ Distinguished Professor of Comparative Politics at the University of Missouri-St. Louis, where she also served as Director of the Institute for Women’s & Gender Studies (2002-2005). She is now an Affiliated Faculty member in the BMW Center for German & European Studies at Georgetown University and works with Gender5 Plus, an EU feminist think-tank.
Having spent over 18 years living/researching in Germany, her early work focused on new social movements (peace, ecology, feminism, anti-nuclear protests and neo-Nazi activism), German national identity and generational change. She then moved on to European Union developments, citizenship and migration policies, women’s leadership, Euro-Islam debates and comparative welfare state reforms.
She also taught as a Visiting Professor at the Ohio State University and Washington University, as a Senior Fulbright Lecturer in Erfurt, and a Visiting Professor at universities in Stuttgart, Frankfurt/Main, Tübingen and Berlin. She has guest lectured at more than 35 institutions of higher learning, including Harvard, Cornell, Georgetown, Carnegie Mellon, the University of Washington, Berlin’s Free University, the Humboldt University, the College of Europe, Science Po, and the London School of Economics.
Her honors include: the UM-St. Louis Trailblazer Award (1999) for advancing women’s rights, the Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Research Creativity (2007) and the Missouri Governor’s Award for Teaching Excellence (2012). That year she also became only the fifth woman (among 40 men) in the College of Arts & Sciences to be designated a Curators’ Distinguished Research Professor. In 2016 she was named the College of Arts & Sciences first interdisciplinary Professor of Global Studies. She is commonly known as “Dr. J.”
Find Module Three of the curriculum guide here.
This workshop segment was recorded and is available as a podcast here.
Phil Shekleton – Crisis and the Limits of European Solidarity
Phillip is a part-time lecturer in the Foster School of Business at the University of Washington. He is the Faculty Advisor for the Europe Track in the Certificate in International Studies in Business (CISB) program for undergraduate students and was the former Managing Director of the University of Washington’s Center for West Europe Studies and European Union Center. He received his M.A. in Political Science from the University of Washington and his B.A. in Political Science and History from the University of California San Diego.
Find Module Four of the curriculum guide here.
This workshop segment was recorded and is available as a podcast here.
Ryan Hauck – Workshop Facilitator
Ryan Hauck teaches AP Comparative Government & Politics, Psychology, and World History at Glacier Peak High School in Snohomish, WA. Passionate about international education, Ryan is also the Director of the Global Classroom Program at the Seattle World Affairs Council. In this role, Ryan creates and manages global education resources and opportunities to empower teachers and students to become globally competent. Ryan completed his master’s degree in Globalization and Educational Change from Lehigh’s Comparative & International Education Department. In this program, Ryan worked with classmates to enhance teacher training and student learning in Cambodia. In addition, Ryan worked on a library project in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria with a local NGO and returned to the area 6 times to develop and implement educational initiatives. Most recently, Ryan participated in the U.S. State Department’s Fulbright Teachers for Global Classroom Program to Senegal (2016), Transatlantic Outreach Program (TOP) to Germany (2017), and National Consortium for Teaching about Asia (NCTA) to Taiwan. When Ryan isn’t teaching or traveling, he’s attending his nephew’s baseball games, rooting for his hometown Seahawks, and enjoying the mountains and water of the Pacific Northwest.
This teacher workshop is sponsored by the Center for European Studies & EU Center, the Ellison Center for Russian, East European and Central Asian Studies, the World Affairs Council and the European Union’s Erasmus+ Programme. The workshop is hosted by the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies. For more information, please email the Center for European Studies at cweseuc@uw.edu
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