European Union Center

Professor of Materials Science and Engineering

Professor Abelson received his BS from Yale University in 1979, was a researcher at the Solar Energy Research Institute (1979-81) and the Ecole Polytechnique, Paris (1981-82), received his PhD from Stanford in 1987, then joined the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Illinois. He is active in the Materials Research Society and is a Fellow of the American Vacuum Society.

Associate Professor of Agricultural and Consumer Economics:

Professor Bullock received his Ph.D. from University of Chicago in 1989. His principal area of research is agricultural policy and agricultural political economy. He studies the economic effects of agricultural policies throughout the world on producers, agribusiness, consumers, taxpayers, and other interest groups. He also studies the political causes that lead to agricultural policy change. Professor Bullock has written several academic papers and frequently lectures on the political causes and economic effects of the European Union's Common Agricultural Policy. His current research and working paper is on the economics of non-GMO segregation and identity preservation.

Professor of French, and Head of the School of School of Literatures, Cultures, and Linguistics:

Professor Kibbee has focused his work on the history of the French language and the history of linguistic theories. In recent years, these have been combined with an interest in how humanistic research informs and is informed by public policy. This has led to a detailed study of the history of language legislation in France. He has published books on the history of the teaching of French in England and on language legislation and linguistic human rights. Currently he is preparing books on the history of language legislation in France, and on language rights issues in the United States. With the University of Illinois since 1985, he has also taught at Western Kentucky University, the Université de Nantes (France) and the Université Laval (Québec).

Professor, College of Law; Director of Jon David and Elizabeth A. Epstein Program in Health Care Law and Policy:

Dr. Rich joined the Illinois faculty in 1996 and has a joint appointment with the Institute of Government and Public Affairs (IGPA), where he served as Director from 1986-97. He is also appointed in the College of Medicine, the Political Science Department, the Institute of Communications Research, and the Department of Community Health at the University of Illinois, and he serves as a Faculty Fellow in the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Public Engagement and Institutional Relations. Before joining the faculty, he taught at the University of Michigan, Princeton University, and Carnegie-Mellon University. He was recently awarded the Mercator Professorship (supported by the German National Science Foundation) at Humbolt University in Berlin, where he will work with German researchers on issues relating to comparative health systems, comparative health law and policy, and the future of the social contract. Rich was a Visiting Scholar at the Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Social Law in Summer 2004. In 1997, he was a guest professor, Hochschule fuer Wirtschaft und Politk, at the University of Hamburg, Germany, sponsored by the German Marshall Fund Program. Rich's research focuses on health law and policy, federalism and the role of the states, environmental policy, and science policy. He has published five books and over 40 articles.