Faculty & Staff
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Sam Nunn School of International Affairs
781 Marietta Street, NW
Room 212A
Atlanta, GA 30332 Phone: 404-385-0604
E-mail: vicki.birchfield@inta.gatech.edu
Office Hours: By Appointment
Vicki Birchfield
Associate Professor
Director, European Union Center of Excellence
Program Director for Study Abroad, Brussels
Education
Ph.D., Political Science, University of Georgia
D.E.S., International Studies, Université de Genève
M.A., Political Science, Auburn University
B.A., Political Science and French, Auburn University
Research Focus
Vicki Birchfield is an Associate Professor in The Sam Nunn School of International Affairs at the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech). She received a DES from the Institut de Hautes Etudes Internationales, University of Geneva, Switzerland and her Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Georgia. Her research and teaching specializations are comparative politics, international political economy and European integration. Other research and intellectual interests focus on the dynamic interplay of democracy and capitalism, social movements and the politics of globalization, transatlantic relations, and the political and cultural dimensions of trade disputes between the European Union and the United States. She has published in the European Journal of Political Research, the Review of International Studies, Globalizations, and the Review of International Political Economy. Her book, Institutions, Values and Income Inequality in Capitalist Democracies, is forthcoming with Penn St. Press. She is presently working on a new book manuscript entitled The Transatlantic Values Debate and the Quest for Global Leadership as well as research projects on the Airbus-Boeing trade dispute and the EU’s development policies. She has directed and taught in Georgia Tech’s academic program on the EU and Transatlantic Relations from 2000 to 2006 in Brussels hosted by the Institut d’études européennes, and has been a visiting professor at Sciences Po, Paris and the Université de Bordeaux IV.
Courses Taught
INTA 3202: Comparative Politics
INTA 4803: Special Topics Politics of the European Union
INTA 6202: Comparative Politics