Note: Michael Werz is now a Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress.

 

Dr. Michael Werz is a nonresident Senior Transatlantic fellow with the German Marshall Fund and Adjunct Professor at Georgetown University's BMW Center for German and European Studies. He also holds a positon as Visiting Scholar at the Institute for the Study of International Migration at Georgetown. (http://explore.georgetown.edu/people/mw286/) and teaches two two week courses in Shanghai and Hangzhou, China each year. He recently completed a research project at GMF on the politics of religion and minorities in Europe and the United States. Previously, he published a GMF research paper on how ethnic diversity impacts the U.S. Foreign Service and the development of American foreign policy. In both cases, his research drew lessons to be learned from the American model in Germany and Europe, more specifically how ethnic communities there can add value and cultural competencies to future German and European policies. Dr. Werz has served as the director of the New York office of the Hessen Universities Consortium from 2005 to 2007. He previously taught sociology at Hannover University in Germany, and has held appointments as a public policy scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, DC, and as a John F. Kennedy Fellow at Harvard's Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies.

 

Michael Werz is widely published on the areas of race, ethnicity, and nationalism in Europe and an expert on U.S. and European foreign policy, migration policy, domestic politics, EU policy, and government relations in Europe and the United States with a developing expertise on China. His academic research includes the fields of race and ethnicity in the 20^th century; Western social and intellectual history; minorities in Europe and the United States; ethnic conflicts, social and labor policies in Europe, anti-Americanism in Europe.