Curriculum Vitae Henriette Müller

PERSONAL INFORMATION

Social Science Research Center (WZB) Reichpietschufer 50 10785

+49 30 25491 142 [email protected] http://www.wzb.eu/de/personen/henriette-mueller

RESEARCH FIELDS

Political System of the EU Process of European Integration Processes of Institution Building Political Leadership Qualitative Research Methods

EDUCATION

02 – 03/2015 Visiting Researcher, Fondation pour l’Europe, Lausanne

10/2014 – 01/2015 Visiting Researcher, French-German Institute, Ludwigsburg

Since 10/2013 PhD Candidate, Research Unit “Global Governance” at the Social Science Research Center Berlin (WZB)

Since 02/2013 PhD Candidate in the French-German Doctoral College “Construire les différences II/Unterschiede denken II” (Paris-Berlin)

09 – 12/2012 Visiting Researcher, Sciences Po Paris Centre d’études européennes

Since 07/2012 Associated PhD Candidate, Berlin Graduate School of Social Sciences (BGSS), Humboldt University Berlin

10 – 11/2011 Visiting Research Fellow, German Historical Institute, Washington DC

07 – 12/2011 Visiting Research Fellow, BMW Center for German and European Studies, Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University, Washington DC

10/2011 – 09/2013 PhD Candidate, Schumpeter Junior Research Group “Position Formation in the EU Commission” at the Social Science Research Center Berlin (WZB)

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Since 10/2011 PhD Candidate in Political Science at the Humboldt University Berlin

PhD project: “The Commission Presidents and European Integration – Political Leadership Performance in Supranational Governance” 1st supervisor: Prof. Dr. Friedbert Rüb, Humboldt University Berlin 2nd supervisor: Prof. Dr. Ingeborg Tömmel, University of Osnabrück

07/2010 M.A. in Political Science, Applied Linguistics and Literature (grade: 1.3) Thesis title: “George W. Bush on State Visit in Europe – The Image of the 43rd U.S. President in the German and British Quality Press“

10/2004 – 07/2010 University of , Universidad Pablo de Olavide de Sevilla, Spain Political Science Applied Linguistics Literature

WORK EXPERIENCE

10/2010 – 09/2011 Research Fellow, Research Group “Civil Society, Citizenship and political Mobilization”, WZB

04/2009 – 09/2010 Research Assistant, Research Group “Civil Society, Citizenship and political Mobilization”, WZB

09/2008 – 03/2009 Seminar Assistant at the EU Office of the Friedrich-Ebert-Foundation, Brussels

04/2006 – 08/2008 Research Assistant, Social Science Institute, University of Hildesheim

RESEARCH GRANTS AND SCHOLARSHIPS

02 – 03/2015 Henri-Rieben Research Grant, Fondation Jean Monnet pour l’Europe, Lausanne

10/2014 – 01/2015 Research Grant, Gips-Schüle-Stiftung and Wüstenrot Stiftung, French- German Institute, Ludwigsburg

Since 12/2011 PhD Scholarship, Friedrich Ebert Foundation

10 – 11/2011 Research Grant, German Historical Institute, Washington DC

07 – 09/2011 Research Grant, WZB Junior Funding (Georgetown University, Washington DC)

06/2006 – 07/2010 Scholarship, Friedrich Ebert Foundation (M.A. Studies)

10 – 11/2008 Grant, Atlantik Brücke (Field Studies Ohio, USA)

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02 – 08/2008 ERASMUS Scholarship (Sevilla, Spain)

07 – 09/2007 DSW Scholarship (Internship Program DSW, Dijon, France)

ARCHIVAL RESEARCH

02 – 03/2015 Archives of the Fondation Jean Monnet pour l’Europe, Lausanne

11 – 12/2012 Historical Archives of the European Commission, Brussels

05/2012 Federal Archives of Germany, Koblenz

10 – 12/2011 National Archives of the United States of America, Washington DC

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

09/16-17/2014 “From Walter Hallstein to Jacques Delors and José Barroso: Leadership Potential and Performance of the EU Commission President” Policy & Politics Conference 2014: “The Challenges of Leadership and Collaboration in the 21st Century”, Bristol University

06/05-07/2014 “After Lisbon: Leadership Potential and Performance of the EU Commission President” 7th Pan-European Conference on the European Union (SGEU) Panel: “Political Leadership in the EU: Shifting the Institutional Balance?”, The Hague

09/04-07/2013 “The Impact of the Commission Presidents on EU Policies. Analyzing the Political Leadership Performance in Supranational Governance” ECPR General Conference, Bordeaux

05/30-06/01/2013 French-German Annual Doctoral Meeting L’Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris

01/26 – 27/2012 “The European Commission President in Crisis. Political Leadership in the European Union” THESEUS Doctoral Seminar, Sciences Po, Paris

12/15/2011 “Political Leadership in the European Union” Talk given at the German Historical Institute, Washington DC

12/02/2011 “Political Leadership in the European Union” Talk given at Georgetown University, Washington DC

05/20/2011 “Political Leadership in Germany” Interdisciplinary Conference, Konvent für Deutschland, Berlin

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TEACHING

Spring Term 2014 “Political Leadership in the Modern World – How Democratic Can It Be?”, BA seminar, Institute of Social Sciences, HU Berlin Co-Lecturer

ORGANIZATION OF CONFERENCES AND SEMINARS

07/19-08/01/2015 5th Berlin Summer School in Social Sciences: “Linking Theory and Empirical Research”, HU/WZB Berlin Co-Organizer and Panel Chair

07/21-08/03/2014 4th Berlin Summer School in Social Sciences: “Linking Theory and Empirical Research”, HU/WZB Berlin Co-Organizer and Panel Chair

02/03-04/2014 “In Search of the European Public Sphere”, Strasbourg (for FES scholarship holders), Co-Organizer

07/05-06/2013 “The EU Enlargement – Current Challenges – a Focus on the Balkan and Turkey”, Berlin (for FES scholarship holders), Co-Organizer

12/06-08/2012 “The EU between Mistrust and Solidarity – the Different Dimensions of the ‘EURO crisis’”, Brussels (for FES scholarship holders), Co-Organizer

PUBLICATIONS

2015 “Zwischen Potential und Performanz – Eine (Neu-)Bewertung der politischen Führung des EU-Kommissionspräsidenten.” In: Frankreich- Jahrbuch 2014, French-German Institute (eds.) (forthcoming)

2013 “Mehr Bürgernähe wagen! Der Kommissionspräsident und die Suche nach Führung in der EU.” In: Neue Gesellschaft/Frankfurter Hefte, H. 1-2, pp. 47-50.

2012 “The Point of No Return: Walter Hallstein and the EEC Commission between Institutional Ambitions and Political Constraints.” In: Les cahiers européens de Sciences Po (3/2012) (reviewed).

2011 “Politische Führung in Deutschland – Für ein Umdenken im Alltagsverständnis.” In: Konvent für Deutschland, 2011, pp. 35-41.

“Ambivalente Ausstrahlung. Die deutsche Öffentlichkeit und George W. Bush.” In: WZB-Mitteilungen, 2/2011, Nr. 132, pp. 22-24.

Reviews Matthias Micus (2010): Tribunen, Solisten Visionäre. Politische Führung in der Bundesrepublik. Göttingen: V&R unipress. (Neue Politische Literatur, 2/2011) 4 Curriculum Vitae Henriette Müller

Patrick Keller (2008): Neokonservatismus und die amerikanische Außenpolitik. Paderborn: Schöningh. (Politische Vierteljahresschrift, 2/2011)

LANGUAGE SKILLS

English Level C1* French Level B2* Spanish Level B2* Dutch Level A1* * Common European Framework of Reference (CEF)

SOCIAL COMMITMENT

05/2012 – 09/2014 Elected Speaker of the Europaforum, founded by the Grantees of the Friedrich Ebert Foundation

07/2007 – 01/2008 UNICEF Working Group Hildesheim

01/2006 – 01/2008 Elected Member of the Board of Directors Student Union Universities of Braunschweig and Hildesheim

07/2005 – 07/2007 Elected Member of the Administrative Board Student Administration, University of Hildesheim

01/2005 – 07/2005 Elected Member Student Parliament, University of Hildesheim

Berlin, April 2015

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