Professor Nicole Lindstrom

Profile

Biography

Nicole Lindstrom’s research and teaching interests lie in comparative and international political economy and public policy, with a focus on the European Union. She holds a PhD in Political Science from the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University, where she also obtained her MA in Political Science, and a BA in Political Science and International Studies from Macalester College in Saint Paul, Minnesota. Before joining the Department of Politics at York in 2007, she was a member of the Departments of International Relations and European Studies and Political Science at Central European University in Budapest. She held a visiting position at the Graduate Program of International Affairs at The New School for Social Research and was a visiting fellow at the Centre for the Study of Globalisation and Regionalisation at the University of Warwick.

Research

Overview

Nicole’s research focuses on the dynamic interactions between transnational actors and political economic domestic change, with a focus on the enlarged European Union (EU). Her most recent monograph, Europe and the British Left (Agenda 2024), with Owen Parker and Matt Bishop, traces the history of the British Left and Europe from the 1970s to Brexit, and its aftermath. She has also published extensively on the relationship between the EU and new postsocialist member states, with her articles appearing in Journal of European Public Policy, Governance, Journal of Common Market Studies, New Political Economy, amongst many others. Her current research focuses on the political economy of new industrial policy. One project examines continuity and change in post-Brexit Britain’s new state subsidy control regime. Another project examines the extent to which EU industrial policy constitutes a ‘geopolitical turn’ in relation to Trumpism and Bidenism, focusing on changes in European competition policy from 2016 to the present. 

Supervision

Nicole is interested in supervising research students on these topics and related areas of study.

External activities

Overview

Nicole is currently associate editor of Political Studies. She is a regular expert reviewer for research funding bodies, including the European Commission, the American Councils for International Education, and national research councils, including UK, Belgium, France, and Hungary. She was commissioned by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation to write the first evidence-based briefing on how Brexit affects people in poverty (May 2016), and she is a regular expert contributor to the UK in a Changing Europe. She reviews regularly for academic journals and book publishers. She has been invited to give lectures at a number of different universities and organisations in the UK, the United States, Germany, Sweden, Croatia, and Denmark. She has also appeared on BBC World Service, Hungarian state television (MTV1), and BBC Radio York.

Teaching

Undergraduate

• European Union: Politics and Policies
• Global Political Economy

Postgraduate

• European Public Policy
• Global Governance

Other teaching

Nicole has also served as Deputy Head of Department for Teaching (2021-2024), Chair of Teaching Committee (2020-2021), Chair of Board of Studies (2016-2019), and Examinations Officer (2014-2016) for the Department of Politics. She has also served as an external examiner for the London School of Economics/University of London and University of Sheffield.