Debating Political Identity and Legitimacy in the European Union (PDF)

Professor Schmidt is the recipient of numerous awards and distinctions. She was awarded a French National Council for Scientific Research (CNRS) Visiting Researcher Fellowship to the Center for the Study of Politics (CEVIPOF) at Sciences Po in Paris (July-Dec. 2007) and named to the Franqui Interuniversity Chair for Foreign Scholars to lecture in Belgium at the Free University of Brussels and the Catholic University of Louvain (Jan.-June 2007). She has been decorated by the French government as a Chevalier in the Order of the Palmes Académiques; honored by the University of Massachusetts Boston with the Distinguished Scholar Award; and given a special award for her book, Democratizing France, at the Gaston Defferre Prize Ceremony in Marseilles. She has also held many grants and fellowships, including a Rockefeller Foundation Residency grant for the Bellagio Center, a Fulbright EU Research Award held in the UK, a Fulbright Senior Research Scholar Award in France, and a pre-dissertation fellowship under the Fulbright-Hays program. Professor Schmidt is past head of the European Union Studies Association-USA. She directs European Studies activities at Boston University, and was founding Director of the European Studies Program at the University of Massachusetts, an interdisciplinary program with courses, lectures, and a European Scholar in Residence Program.