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On this podcast, we sit down with scholars and policy leaders to discuss pressing issues facing the European Union.

We hope you enjoy it.

Hello and welcome to EU today.

My name is Brett Harris and I'm a contemporary European studies major at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

In this episode, I will be interviewing the John Monet Center of Excellence key staff members in UNC faculty,

Dr. Evelyn Huber and Dr. John Stevens.

Evelyn Huber is the Moorhead alumni Distinguished Professor of Political Science at UNC.

She has contributed articles on social policy and political economy in the EU and Latin America

to leading journals in political science and sociology.

She also received an honorary doctorate from the University of Byrne in 2010.

John D. Stevens is the Gerard E. Lensky Jr. distinguished professor of political science and sociology at UNC.

He's also the director of UNC Center for European Studies,

a Jean Monnet Center of Excellence, which houses the Transatlantic Master's Program. He is also

the chair of the contemporary European Studies major at UNC. His main interests are comparative

social policy and political economy with area foci in Europe, North America, and

the Antipodes.

Together, Dr. Huber and Stevens are authors and co-authors of five books, including Capitalist

Development and Democracy with Dietrich Hhrushmaier, Development and Crisis in the Welfare

State, and Democracy and the left, social policy, and

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