Cornelia Woll Sciences Po 27 rue Saint Guillaume
75337 Paris Cedex 07 France
Tel.: +33 1 45 49 76 87 cornelia.woll@sciencespo.fr
Current Positions
2015 – present Vice President for Studies and Academic Affairs of Sciences Po 2013 – present Professor of Political Science, Sciences Po
Previous Positions
2012 – 2015 Co-Director of the Max Planck Sciences Po Center “Coping with Instability in Market Societies”
2011 – 2014 Co-Director of the Interdisciplinary Center for the Evaluation of Public Policy (LIEPP), Sciences Po
2008 – 2012 Associate Dean for Research of Sciences Po Paris
2006 – 2013 Research Fellow (tenured), Center for International Studies and Research (CERI) at Sciences Po
2004 – 2006 Lecturer in the Undergraduate and Graduate Programs and the Master of Public Affairs at Sciences Po
2002 – 2006 Doctoral and Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies, Cologne
Education
2013 Habilitation (venia legendi) in Political Science, University Bremen 2005 Bi-national Ph.D. in Political Science, University of Cologne and
Sciences Po Paris
2001 D.E.A. (M.A. equivalent) in Public Policy, Sciences Po Paris 2000 M.A. in International Relations, University of Chicago 1999 B.A. in Political Science, University of Chicago
1996 High School Diploma, Lawrence Academy, Groton, MA, USA 1994 Mittlere Reife, Gymnasium Stift Keppel, Hilchenbach
Research Experience
10/2011 – 06/2012 Visiting Scholar, Center for European Studies, Harvard University, Cambridge, M.A.
01/2009 – 09/2012 Leader of a junior research group “Otto Hahn” funded by the Max Planck Society at the Max Planck Institute of the Study of Societies, Cologne and Sciences Po Paris
3/2003 – 06/2003 Visiting fellow, American Institute for Contemporary German Studies, Johns Hopkins University, Washington, D.C.
3/2003 – 06/2003 Visiting researcher, BMW Center for German and European Studies, Georgetown University, Washington, D.C.
5/2002 Visiting researcher, European University Institute, Florence
10/2001 – 1/2002 Research assistant, Groupe d’analyse des politiques publiques, École Normale Supérieure, Cachan
Grants and External Funding
2010 Successful application for an Interdisciplinary Research Centre on the Evaluation of Public Policies at Sciences Po Paris, in the course of the French government’s excellence initiative in research and education, together with Etienne Wasmer (10 million € over a ten-year period) 2009 – 2012 Junior research group “Otto Hahn” funded by the Max Planck Society
at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies and Sciences Po Paris (funding for German W2 position + 168 000 € for three years, renewable two years)
2008 – 2009 Franco-British Alliance grant awarded by the British Council and the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs to support a project coordinated with Ben Clift at the University of Warwick and Sciences Po (13 200 €) 2007 Research contract obtained through public tender from the French
Defense Ministry for the organization of a conference on the topic “The World Trade Organization: Is an End to the Crisis in Sight?” at CERI, Sciences Po Paris, 16-17 February 2007, with Jean-Marc Siroën, professor of economics, Université Paris-Dauphine (33 000 €) Awards and Prizes
2006 Otto Hahn Medal of the Max Planck Society
2006 “Akademiestipendium” for post-doctoral research awarded to one candidate across disciplines by the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities
2005 Co-winner of the Seymour Martin Lipset Prize for the best comparative dissertation of the Society for Comparative Research at Princeton University
2003 DAAD fellowship for research at the AIGCS, Washington, D.C.
2002 EUSSIRF research grant of the European Commission for research at the European University Institute in Florence
2001 – 2003 Ph.D. stipend “Bourse d’Europe", Sciences Po Paris
1999 Harold Goettler Prize for outstanding writing on political institutions, University of Chicago
Professional Experience
10/2003 External consultant, World Bank, Paris 06/1999 – 09/1999 Internship, Schneider Electric, Paris 06/1998 – 09/1998 Internship, European Parliament, Brussels Teaching
Classes taught
§ International Political Economy: lecture, Master level core curriculum, spring 2015. § Political Science and Public Policy: core lecture course, Master in Economics and
Public Policy, fall 2013, 2014.
§ Interest Groups in International Affairs: seminar, Master in International Public Management, Paris School of International Affairs, spring 2013.
§ Comparative Political Institutions (with Emiliano Grossman): core lecture course, Master of Public Affairs, fall 2012, 2013, 2014.
§ The Politics of the Global Economy (with Nicolas Jabko and Mark Blyth): undergraduate lecture, fall 2007.
§ Les institutions du développement durable (with Olivier Charnoz): M.A. seminar, fall 2006.
§ Le lobbying européen: M.A. seminar, spring 2005, 2006; lecture 2007, 2008. § Interest Groups and Public Policy: M.A. seminar, spring 2006, 2007, 2008.
§ Governance in the European Union: M.A. seminar, fall 2007, fall 2008, fall 2009, fall 2010.
§ Private Actors in International Governance (with Dirk Lehmkuhl and Christoph Frei): M.A. seminar, fall 2010.
§ Publishing in English (with Bastien Irondelle): Ph.D. workshop, 2008-2011.
Academic co-supervisor of a joint degree program in European Affairs between Sciences Po and the London School of Economics, 2007-2011; academic co-supervisor of a joint degree program in International Affairs between Sciences Po and the University of St. Gallen, 2010-2011.
Faculty advisor (with Nicolas Sauger) of a Ph.D. student network between Sciences Po, the London School of Economics, the European University Institute, Central European University Budapest, Pompeu Fabra Barcelona and l’Instituto Italiano di Scienze Umane de Florence; participation and feedback session during annual conference, Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, 18-20 March 18-2010.
Faculty advisor of one session of the Ph.D. student workshop “New perspectives on the political economy of finance and regulation”, COST Action Training School, Paris 8, St.
Doctoral supervision: Completed
• Catherine Hoeffler, Sciences Po, 11 July 2011 (member of jury), currently assistant professor, Institut catholique de Lille.
• Benedetta Voltolini, London School of Economics, 26 September 2013 (external examiner), currently lecturer in international relations, Maastricht University • Stéphane Guittet, Sciences Po, 5 December 2013 (supervisor)
• Hélène Caune, Sciences Po, defended on 12 December 2013, (member of jury) • Eileen Keller, Humboldt University Berlin, December 2014 (external co-supervisor)
• Johann Robert Basedow, London School of Economics, 23 April 2015 (external
examiner) Ongoing:
• Lisa Kastner (supervisor, defense planned late 2015) • Martino Comelli (co-supervisor, defense planned late 2015) • Troels Krarup (supervisor, defense planned late 2016)
• Francesco Findeisen (co-supervisor, defense planned late 2017).
Academic Services Editorship and reviewing Editorial board member of
• Review of International Political Economy (editorial board 2010-2015; international advisory board 2015-present)
• Interest Groups & Advocacy (since 2011) • International Studies Quarterly (since 2014)
Former editorial board member of the French journal Politique européenne (2007-2012). Reviewer for Cambridge University Press, Palgrave, Routledge, Stanford University Press and the journals British Journal of Political Science, Business and Society, Comparative Political Studies, Critique internationale (France), Études internationales (Canada), European Integration Online Papers (EIoP), European Union Politics, Gouvernement et action
publique, International Studies Quarterly, Journal of European Public Policy, Journal of Common Market Studies, Politics (United Kingdom), Politik (Denmark), Politische Vierteljahresschrift, Organization Studies, Politique européenne, Review of International Political Economy, Socio-Economic Review, West European Politics, World Politics,
Zeitschrift für Politikwissenschaft, as well as the publication series of the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies, Cologne.
Associational activities
Council of European Studies (CES): member of the local organizing committee, annual meeting 2015, Paris; member of the program committee, annual meeting March 2013, Amsterdam.
Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics (SASE): elected member of the Executive Council of the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics, since 2011, re-elected 2014; member of the SASE Election Committee, 2014; member of the local organizing committee, annual meeting of the, June 2009, Paris.
American Political Science Association (APSA): prize committee member « Stanley Hoffman Prize » of the French Politics Group, 2009.
University service abroad
External member, job search committees:
• Université catholique de Lille, ESPOL, assistant professorship, June 2014 • Universität Salzburg, professorship in comparative politics, fall 2012.
• Copenhagen Business School, Department of Business and Politics, assistant or associate professorship, spring 2012.
Honorary fellow, Sheffield Political Economy Research Institute, since 2011.
Advisory Board member of the Centre for International Business and Public Policy, School of Management and Business, Aberystwyth University, since 2010.
Languages
German native, English and French bilingual, Italian basic, Latin reading
