Associate Professor Philomena Murray

Director: Contemporary Europe Research Centre

Associate Professor Murray is Director of CERC and Head of CERC's Research Unit on the European Union (RUEU). She is an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Melbourne and holds a Jean Monnet Chair from the European Union. In July 2006 the European Commission also awarded A/Prof Murray a Jean Monnet Chair ad personam.

In 2007 she joined the editorial board of the Asia-Pacific Journal of EU Studies

Associate Professor Murray is also the joint Convenor of the Arts Faculty's undergraduate European Studies program.

Her main areas of expertise and current research interest are EU-Australia relations, and problems of EU polity and governance.

Her major publications include:

• "European Studies - looking to the future", Australian and New Zealand Journal of European Studies, Vol. 1, No. 1, June 2009, pp. 1-13
• "Advancing Regionalism: the EU's policy towards Asia", in B. Andreosso, O'Callaghan and M. Bruna Zolin eds. Asia and Europe: Connections and Contrasts. Venice, University of Venice Press, Libreria Editrice Cafoscarina, 2008 pp. 34-48
• Europe and Asia: Regions in Flux, Basingstoke, Palgrave, 2008
• Australia and the European Superpower - Engaging with the European Union (2005)
• the co-edited volumes Citizenship and Identity in Europe (1999)
• Europe - Rethinking the Boundaries (1998)
• Visions of European Unity (1996)
• Europe in the 1990s: Australia's Options (1994).

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