Kathleen McNamara

Kathleen R. McNamara is Professor of Government and Foreign Service at Georgetown University. Her work focuses on how markets, power, and culture interact in the global political economy, industrial policy and geopolitics, and the European Union. Her writing includes the books The Politics of Everyday Europe and The Currency of Ideas, and numerous articles. Dr McNamara has taught at Princeton University and Sciences Po, and has been a Simone Veil Fellow at the European University Institute, a Fulbright Fellow, and a Visiting Scholar at the Russell Sage Foundation.

She received the Distinguished Scholar of International Political Economy Award from the International Studies Association. At Georgetown, she has served as Vice Dean for Faculty & Graduate Affairs in the School of Foreign Service, Director of the Mortara Center for International Studies, and Co-director of the Global Political Economy Project. While at the LSE, she will be researching the sources and implications of the turn towards industrial policy and economic security in the European Union and the United States, as well as an ongoing book project that looks at how power and status construct what is viewed as valuable in markets.