Biography
Veronica Anghel works at the intersection of comparative politics and international relations. She studies European integration and enlargement at the nexus between security-building and democratization. As an assistant professor at the Robert Schuman Centre, she co-leads the 'EU Enlargement Hub', a cooperative research and capacity-building initiative between the EUI, the CEU Democracy Institute, and the Kyiv School of Economics. The project aims to research the lessons learned from the EU's enlargement phases to transfer into policies recommendations for the EU, Ukraine and beyond. It also investigates the role of the U.S. and the transatlantic relationship in European integration.
Anghel is a professor and course coordinator for the CEU Invisible University for Ukraine (IUfU), an initiative aimed to support the continuous education of many Ukrainian students whose studies have been affected by the war.
Previously, Anghel was a lecturer at Johns Hopkins University – School of Advanced International Studies, where she taught courses on Risk in International Relations and Economy, and European Politics. She held fellowships at Stanford University (Fulbright), the Department of Political and Social Sciences at the EUI (Max Weber), and the Institute for Human Sciences Vienna (Europe’s Futures Fellow). Her research on democracy, European integration and the transatlantic relationship has been published in, among others, West European Politics, Political Science Quarterly, the Journal of European Public Policy, Political Communication, the European Journal of Political Research, and in edited volumes with Oxford University Press and Routledge. She is the co-editor of Developments in European Politics 3 (Bloomsbury Academic), and an editorial fellow for Government & Opposition.
Anghel has practical experience working in international relations and politics from the time she served as a foreign affairs advisor for the Romanian Presidential Administration and the Romanian Senate (2012-2015). She was selected by the U.S. Department of State to joint its International Visitor Leadership Program and has trained U.S. diplomats on European politics through the Foreign Service Institute.
Veronica Anghel received her PhD from the University of Bucharest in co-direction with the University of Bordeaux. She has been awarded the Inaugural ‘Rising Star’ Award of the European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR) in 2021. She also taught B.A. Political Elites, Comparative Politics, Parties and Ideologies, and M.A. Risk in International Relations and Economy, Comparative Politics, and European Politics.