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Kate McNamara

Kate McNamara

Leading Scholar in International Political Economy and European Integration

About Me

Kathleen R. McNamara serves as Professor in the Government Department and School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University, where she previously directed the Mortara Center for International Studies and currently co-directs the Global Political Economy Project. After earning her BA from McGill University and PhD from Columbia University, she has established herself as a preeminent authority on European Union politics and international political economy. Her influential books include "The Currency of Ideas: Monetary Politics in the European Union" (1998) and "The Politics of Everyday Europe" (2015), which have shaped scholarly understanding of European integration