DR. MAI’A K. DAVIS CROSS
School of International Relations • University of Southern California
VKC 330 • Los Angeles, CA 90089-0043
ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA, Assistant Professor of International Relations, 2008-present
COLGATE UNIVERSITY, Assistant Professor of Political Science, 2005-2008
EDUCATION
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY, Ph.D. in Politics 2005, M.A. 2002
Subfields:International Relations, Comparative Politics, European Politics, East Asian Studies
Doctoral Dissertation: The European Corps: Diplomats and International Cooperation in Western Europe
Committee: Professors Ezra Suleiman (chair), Kathleen McNamara, G. John Ikenberry, Gary Bass
HARVARD UNIVERSITY,A.B.with honors, Government concentration, 1999
Thesis: Neglecting the Grassroots: The Weakness of Labor’s Influence in Japan’s Development
Advisor: Professor Steven Vogel
PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS
BOOKS
Security Integration in Europe: How Knowledge-based Networks are Transforming the European Union, Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2011. (paperback March 2013)
2012 Best Book Prize from the University Association for Contemporary European Studies
The European Diplomatic Corps: Diplomats and International Cooperation from Westphalia to Maastricht, Studies in Diplomacy and International Relations, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.
EDITED BOOK
(forthcoming in 2013) European Public Diplomacy: Soft Power at Work,(co-edited with Jan Melissen), Series in Global Public Diplomacy, New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
ARTICLES
(in press) “The Military Dimension of European Security: An Epistemic Community Approach,”Millennium
(in press) “A European Transgovernmental Intelligence Network: The Role of IntCen,” Perspectives on European Politics and Society (special issue).
“Rethinking Epistemic Communities Twenty Years Later,” Review of International Studies, 39(1), pp. 137-160, January 2013 (publishedas FirstViewApril 2012).
“Identity Politics and European Integration,” Comparative Politics, 44(2) (review article), pp. 229-246, January 2012.
“Europe, A Smart Power?” International Politics, 48(6), pp. 691-706, November 2011.
“Building a European Diplomacy: Recruitment & Training to the EEAS,” European Foreign Affairs Review, 16(4), pp. 447-464, November 2011.
“Cooperation by Committee: The EU Military Committee and the Committee for Civilian Crisis Management,” Occasional Paper, no. 82. Paris: European Union Institute for Security Studies, February 2010. pp. 1-38.
Also translated into French for an edited book: “La coopération par comité. Le Comitémilitaire de l'UE et le Comité pour la gestion civile des crises,”inGrégory Boutherin et Emmanuel Goffi (eds), L'Europe et sa defense. Paris: éditions Choiseul, 2011. pp. 97-124.
“An EU Homeland Security? Sovereignty vs. Supranational Order,” European Security, 16(1), pp. 79-97, March 2007.
BOOK CHAPTERS
(in press) “Epistemic Communities and the Transnational Network Approach to EU Diplomacy and Security Policy,” in Maciej Wilga and Ireneusz Pawel Karolewski (eds), New Approaches to EU Foreign Policy, Routledge Advances in European Politics, London: Routledge, 2013.
“Sustainable Diplomacy in the European Union,” in Costas M. Constantinou and James Der Derian (eds), Sustainable Diplomacies, Studies and Diplomacy and International Relations, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010. pp. 192-212.
“A European Epistemic Community of Diplomats,” in Paul Sharp and Geoffrey Wiseman (eds), The Diplomatic Corps as an Institution of International Society, Studies in Diplomacy and International Relations, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008. pp. 223-245.
“Diplomacy,” International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences, 2nd edition, Macmillan Reference, October 2007.
“European Union,”International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences, 2nd edition, Macmillan Reference, October 2007.
BOOK REVIEWS
Raymond Smith, The Craft of Political Analysis for Diplomats,Dulles, Potomac Books, 2011 for Political Science Quarterly, 127(4), December 2012, pp. 720-721.
Iver Neumann, At Home with the Diplomats: Inside a European Foreign Ministry, Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2012 for H-Diplo, H-Net Reviews, August 2012.
Nicolas Jabko, Playing the Market: A Political Strategy for Uniting Europe, Cornell University Press, 2006 for Comparative Political Studies, 40(8), August 2007. pp. 1019-1022.
Patrick O. Cohrs, The Unfinished Peace after World War I: America, Britain and the Stabilisation of Europe, 1919-1932, Cambridge University Press, 2006 for the Journal of British Studies, 46(2), April 2007. pp. 409-11.
WORKS-IN-PROGRESS
“Transatlantic Cultural Diplomacy,” (working title), book chapter at writing stage
The EU’s Existential Crises: The Role of International Media Narratives, co-authored article in preparation
“Epistemic Communities,” in Amandine Orsini and Jean-Frédéric Morin (eds), Companion to Global Environmental Governance, Routledge, 2014, book chapter in preparation
The Politics of Crisis in Europe, single-authored book at research stage
“Norm Resistance and the European Defence Agency,” article at writing stage
“Regional Security Cooperation: What the EU can tell us about ASEAN,” article at research stage
TEACHING & MENTORING
Teaching Awards:
American Political Science Association Pi Sigma Alpha Teaching Recognition, 2012
USC Learning Environment Award for teaching using technology, 2012
Winner of the USC Parents Association Steven B. Sample Teaching and Mentoring Award, 2011
(given to one junior faculty member university-wide each year)
Graduate courses: (1) Regional Studies in Public Diplomacy: Europe, (2) Hard Power, Soft Power, and Smart Power, (3) European Foreign and Security Policy
Undergraduate courses: (1) European Foreign Policy and Security Issues, (2) Introduction to International Relations, (3) The European Union, (4) British Politics, (5) West European Politics, (6) Senior Seminar: Continuity & Change in International Relations
FELLOWSHIPS
Senior Research Fellow, ARENA Centre for European Studies, Oslo, Norway2012-present
Senior Visiting Fellow, Netherlands Institute of International Relations Clingendael, the Hague2012-3
Fulbright Scholar, EU Affairs Research Program, Brussels, Paris, London ($17,000)2009
Visiting Fellow, European Union Institute for Security Studies, Paris (€4,500)2009
Visiting Fellow, Institute for European Studies, Cornell University2006-8
Bradley Pre-Doctoral Fellow, Madrid, Brussels, Valladolid ($8,000)2004-5
Visiting Fellow, Fondation Nationale des Sciences Politiques (Sciences Po),Paris ($15,000)2002-3
Princeton President’s Fellowship ($15,000/year for 5 years plus tuition)2000-5
CONFERENCES
Full list of papers and presentations available upon request.
INVITED TALKS
University of Agder (upcoming)July 2013
Sciences Po – GrenobleMarch 2013
Oxford UniversityFebruary 2013
University of San Diego October 2012
German Marshall Fund – ParisOctober 2012
University of Navarra October 2012
American University October 2012
Chapman University September 2012
USC Model UN Guest Speaker’s Address September 2012
ARENA Centre for European Studies, OsloMay 2012
Sciences Po– Paris May 2012
University of Chicago May 2012
Princeton UniversityNovember 2011
French Air Force Academy, Salon de Provence June 2011
Netherlands Institute of International Relations ClingendaelJune 2011
EU Center of Excellence, Miami March 2011
Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen (Institute for Foreign Cultural Relations), BrusselsDecember 2010
USC Center on Public Diplomacy, Conversations in Public DiplomacyNovember 2010
USC Center on Public Diplomacy Summer InstituteJuly 2010
French Air Force Academy, Salon de ProvenceJune 2010
EU Institute for Security Studies, ParisJune 2009
European Institute of Public Administration & Maastricht UniversityMay 2009
Watson Institute, Brown University May 2008
Cyprus Centre of the International Peace Research InstituteDecember 2007
Social Science Brown Bag Speaker Series, Colgate UniversitySeptember 2007
Netherlands Institute of International Relations Clingendael(panel chair)June 2007
Cornell University (panel discussant)May 2007
Expert Witness Lecture for Eurosim (model European Union)April 2007
Foreign Policy & IR Speaker Series, Colgate UniversityApril 2006
SELECTED AWARDS
USC Center for International Studies Award Workshop Grant ($10,000)
University Association for Contemporary European Studies Workshop award (£400)
USC Center for International Studies Award, 2009, 2011($2,500 each year)
USC Von Kleinsmid Award, 2009-2012 ($2,500 each year)
Colgate Research Council Awards, 2005-7
Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies Dissertation Grant, 2004-5
Princeton Dean’s Fund for Scholarly Travel, 2004, 2005
Program in Contemporary European Politics and Society Travel Grant (Princeton), 2004, 2005
APSA Travel Grant, 2004 ($250)
Committee of European Studies Dissertation Grant (Princeton), 2002-2003
Research Program for International Security Dissertation Grant (Princeton), 2002-2003
Harvard’s Louis Sudler Award, selected for most outstanding accomplishment and talent in the arts, 1999
($1,000)
Institute of Politics, Kennedy School of Government, summer award, 1998
Harvard College Scholarship for superior academic achievement, 1995-1999
UNIVERSITYSERVICE
USC School of International Relations Director’s Advisory Committee, 2011-2
USC Fulbright Fellowship Review Committee, Fall 2011
Organized USC students’ participation at the Undergraduate Research Conference on the EU at Scripps, 2011-3
USC Center on Public Diplomacy University Fellow, 2009-12
USC Master’s of Public Diplomacy Steering Committee, 2008
USC McCone Chair Search Committee, 2008
Multiple search committees at Colgate University, including Dean of Diversity search
Colgate International Relations Committee, 2005-8
Colgate Student Affairs Board, 2005-8
Organized Faculty Seminar on epistemic communities at Colgate University, 2007
Faculty Advisor forEurosim (model European Union), 2006-7
Founder and Director of the Colgate Ballet Company, staged multiple performances 2005-8
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
Organizer of workshop, “European Public Diplomacy: Soft Power at Work,” at USC, Los Angeles, March 2012
Co-organizer of workshop, “European Public Diplomacy: Soft Power at Work,” at Clingendael, the Hague,
Summer 2011
Editorial Board Member,Palgrave Macmillan Series in Global Public Diplomacy
Editorial Board Member, Place Branding and Public Diplomacyjournal
Journal reviewer forInternational Organization, Journal of Common Market Studies, European Union Politics,
Hague Journal of Diplomacy,European Security, International Studies Quarterly, European Journal of
International Relations, Journal of Contingencies and Crisis Management, Journal of International Relations and Development
Book reviewer for Ashgate, Continuum, Brill, Routledge, University of Michigan Press
Proposal reviewer for the European Science Foundation
PUBLIC COMMENTARY
Op-ed for EUForum.nl, “CSDP and the Transatlantic Partnership, March 2013
Op-ed for Indian Express, “And they didn’t fall down,” January 19, 2013
“Europe as a Security Actor,” Public Diplomacy Magazine, Summer 2012.
“All talk and no action,” Culture Report: Europe’s Foreign Cultural Relations, EU National Institutes of Culture Yearbook 2011, pp. 20-25.
Op-ed for CPD Blog, Center on Public Diplomacy, “The European External Action Service and Smart Power,”
November 3, 2011
Interview for China Radio International about EU military integration, July 2011
Op-ed for Atlantic-Community.org, “Transatlantic Misperceptions: American Views of Europe,” March 9, 2011
“The European External Action Service & Smart Power,” EUSA Review, EU Studies Association, Spring 2011.
“Turning Diplomacy Inside-Out,” CFSP Forum, 8(3): 1-7. May 2010.
“Head-scarves: Discrimination or Democratization?” The Soapbox. February 2004.
(published interview) “Democracy in Danger: Hong Kong Democratic Leader Martin Lee Prepares for Chinese
Rule,” Harvard Political Review, 1996 Winter Issue.
NON-ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE & INTERNSHIPS
Mitchell Madison Group, Associate Intern, Business Consulting, New York City, Summer 2004
National Endowment for Democracy, Democratic Forum for East Asia,Consultant, Washington DC, 2000
Goldman Sachs & Co., Financial Analyst, New York City, 1999-2000
U.S. Department of State, Foreign Service Institute,Intern, Washington DC, Summer 1998
South China Morning Post, News Desk Reporter Intern, Hong Kong, Summer 1997
TIME Magazine, News Reporter Intern, Hong Kong, Summer 1997
FOREIGN LANGUAGE
French verbal (good), reading (excellent)
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