Catherine Eunice De Vries

Catherine Eunice De Vries is Dean for International Affairs and Professor of Political Science at Università Bocconi. She is also a Research Associate at the Dondena Centre for Research on Social Dynamics and Public Policy, the Bocconi COVID Crisis Lab, the Bocconi Lab in European Studies and the CLEAN Unit for the Economic Analysis of Crime of the BAFFI-CAREFIN research center.

Her work can be broadly situated in the areas political behaviour, political economy and EU politics, and has appeared in leading political science journals, such as the American Political Science Review, Annual Review of Political Science, and the Journal of Politics. She published several books. Her first book "Euroscepticism and the Future of European Integration" (Oxford University Press, 2018) received the European Union Studies Association (EUSA) Best Book in EU Studies Award in 2019 and was listed in the top-5 books on Europe’s future by the Financial Times. In 2020, she published her second book "Political Entrepreneurs: The Rise of Challenger Parties in Europe" with Sara B. Hobolt (Princeton University Press) and in 2021 a textbook "Foundations of European Politics" with Sara B. Hobolt, Sven-Oliver Proksch and Jonathan Slapin (Oxford University Press). She is also an associate member of Nuffield College at the University of Oxford, a member of European Integration Committee of the Dutch Advisory Council on Foreign Affairs (Adviesraad Internationale Vraagstukken), the Board of Trustees of the Hertie School of Governance in Berlin. In 2014, she received the American Political Science Association Emerging Scholar Award for her contribution to the field of elections, public opinion and voting behaviour in 2014 and was selected a Young Global Leader in the World Economic Forum in 2013. Next to books, Catherine has published numerous articles on topics spanning the fields of political behaviour, comparative European politics and political economy in journals including the American Political Science Review, Annual Review of Political Science, the Journal of Politics and International Organization. 

She has a M. A. in Political Science from the Department of Political Science in the University of Amsterdam & graduate coursework at the Department of Political Science, Free University Berlin and a Ph.D. in Political Science from the Department of Political Science in the VU University Amsterdam with coursework Department of Political Science, University of North Carolina.