John McCormick
Professor
Phone
number: 317-274 4066
Office number: CA 503H
John McCormick's academic interests focus on the European Union, comparative politics, transatlantic relations, and British politics. He
joined the department
in 1989 with degrees from Rhodes University in South Africa, University College London, and Indiana University, and with eight years of experience working
with two London-based environmental
interest groups.
He has been a visiting professor at the Universities of Exeter and Sussex in Britain, and at the College of Europe in Belgium, and is currently a Visiting Research Fellow at the Sussex
European Institute, University of Sussex, UK.
He was acting chair of the department in 2000-2001, and chair in 2002-2008. He is currently Director of Graduate Studies.
He is the author 11 books and multiple book chapters and journal articles. His book The European Superpower (Palgrave Macmillan, 2007) argues that the European Union has become a superpower whose style, values and interests distinguish it from cold war-style superpowers, and whose rise has redefined the meaning of power in the international system, creating a bipolar arrangement in which the EU and the United States compete for economic and political influence.
His current research focuses on tying down the political, economic and social features of European identity.
Professor McCormick organizes the annual intercollegiate
Model European Union,
which brings more than 150 students to
campus each April from more than a dozen
midwestern colleges and universities.
He lives in Indianapolis with
his wife Leanne and their sons Ian and
Stuart.
STUDY ABROAD
Professor McCormick works with several European universities to offer study abroad options for IUPUI students:
- The International Summer School at the University of Sussex in Britain (offering a wide variety of undergraduate courses for transferrable credit).
- Master's programs in European Studies at the University of Sussex, open to any interested graduate of Indiana University.
- The multidisciplinary Euroculture MA offered by a consortium of universities in Germany, the Netherlands, Spain, Sweden, Poland, and the Czech Republic - current IUPUI graduate students may take courses at Euroculture universities for IUPUI credit, or students with a Bachelor's degree may apply to take the entire Euroculture program.
Contact Professor McCormick for further details.
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