Pamela Camerra-Rowe has taught comparative, European, and American politics at Kenyon College since 1994. Her courses include the introductory American and comparative political science classes, political parties and elections, Congress and policy making, European politics, the politics of the European Union, and the politics of social welfare policy. Her research focuses on interest groups and political parties and on regulatory and social policy issues in the European Union and Germany. During the 2008-09 academic year, she worked in the U.S. Senate as an American Political Science Congressional Fellow. She has also worked in the German Economics Ministry as a Robert Bosch Foundation Fellow. Professor Camerra-Rowe has served the College as a member of the Resource Allocation and Assessment Subcommittee and as a member of the Executive Committee of the faculty. She is the president of Kenyon's Phi Beta Kappa chapter, Beta Chapter of Ohio. In 2003-4, she was the recipient of a Whiting Foundation Teaching Fellowship. Most recently, Professor Camerra-Rowe was awarded the 2011 Trustee Teaching Excellence Award at Honors Day.

Education

Ph.D. Duke University
M.A. Duke University
B.A. Davidson College

Selected Publications

"International Regulators and Network Governance," in The Oxford Handbook of Business and Government , David Coen, Wyn Grant and Wilson Graham, eds. New York: Oxford University Press, 2010 (with Michelle Egan).

"Trouble Brewing? EU and Member-State Public Health Policy and the European Beer Industry," European Union Center of Excellence/Center for West European Studies,University of Pittsburgh, Policy Paper No. 10, November 2005.

"Agenda 2010: Redefining German Social Democracy," German Politics and Society, Vol. 22, No. 1, (Spring 2004), pp. 1-30.

Courses Taught

PSCI 200: Liberal Democracy in America
PSCI 240: Modern Democracies
PSCI 300: Congress and Congressional Policy-Making
PSCI 301: The American Presidency
PSCI 303: Elections and Political Parties
PSCI 345: European Union Politics
PSCI 355: Immigration, Citizenship and National Identity
PSCI 445: Seminar: Selected Topics in European Politics
PSCI 446: Politics of the Welfare State