Post: Professor
Section: International and European Studies
Expertise: European Integration and European Politics
Contact information
Office telephone: 210 368 8928
Electronic mail: sverney@pspa.uoa.gr
Office address: 6 Themistokleous Street, 4th floor, office 30
Office hours:
Curriculum Vitae
Susannah Verney is a graduate of the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University of London (BA History, First Class Honours). She completed her PhD at King’s College, London, on the subject of Greek political parties and the debate on accession to the EEC, 1974-1979. She has been an Associate Researcher at the University of Glasgow (2024-2027, 2021-24, 2018-21, 2016-18), and a Visiting Research Fellow at the London School of Economics (November-December 2010 and March 2011), and the University of Bradford (2003-05, 2000-02 και 1992-1995) and the University of Bristol (1994-1998). She worked as a Senior Investigator in the Department of Human Rights at the Office of the Greek Ombudsman (1998-2001).
From 1999 to 2023 Susannah Verney was Editor of the academic journal South European Society and Politics and the related book series (Routledge) from 1999 to 2003 (from 2008 with Professor Anna Bosco). She has also served as an Associate Editor (2000-02) of the JournalofModernGreekStudies(2000-02) and as a member of the Editorial Boards of South European Society and Politics (2023-today), JournalofBalkanandNearEasternStudies (1999-today), Journal of Modern Greek Studies (20210-2024), European Political Science Review (2009-2014) and Mediterranean Politics (1994-1998). She was the elected Coordinator (2007-2016) and then Chair of the Steering Committee (2016-2022) of the ECPR Standing Group on Southern European Politics.
In 2019-2024 Susannah Verney served as Athens Coordinator of the International Master’s Degree in South European Studies (EUROSUD), an Erasmus programme coordinated by the University of Glasgow and with partners the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, the Autonomous University of Madrid, Aix-Marseille University and LUISS Guido Carli University (Rome). She has also served as Director (2022-2024) and Coordinator (2006-2010) of the Master’s Degree in Southeast European Studies: Politics, History, Economics at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens.
Recent publications
- (2025) Juan Rodriguez-Teruel, Jose Real-Dato & Susannah Verney (eds.) Southern Europe in the Covid-19 Pandemic: The First Phase (Routledge)
- (2024) Susannah Verney & Bonnie N. Field: ‘The 2023 elections in Greece and Spain: Evolving party systems in post-crisis Southern Europe’, Journal of Common Market Studies: JCMS Annual Review, 62, 217-233
- (2024) Anna Bosco & Susannah Verney, Sandra Bermudez & Annalisa Tonnarelli: ‘Surviving in a male academic: Gender gap, publication strategies and career stage in South European political science journals’, European Political Science, 23/3, 297-320
- (2024) Susannah Verney: ‘South European studies from the democratic transitions to the Covid-19 pandemic’, Pôle Sud, 60, 157-181
- (2024) Susannah Verney (ed.) Euroscepticism in Southern Europe during the Crisis Period, special issue, South European Society and Politics, 29/4, 405-564
- (2023) Susannah Verney & Anna Bosco: ‘South European Society and Politics: The road travelled so far’, South European Society and Politics, 28/1, 1-17
- (2023) Anna Bosco & Susannah Verney (eds.) The Politics of Polarisation in Southern Europe: Conflictual Competition in Italy, Spain and Greece (Routledge)
- (2022) Susannah Verney, Jose Real-Dato & Juan Rodriguez-Teruel: ‘Southern Europe managing the first phase of the Covid-19 pandemic: The crucial effect of timing’, South European Society and Politics, 27/4, 431-458
- (2022) Susannah Verney & Anna Bosco: ‘Unpacking the gender gap in academic journal publishing: The experience of South European Society and Politics’, European Political Science, 21, 443-461
- (2021) Susannah Verney & Dimitris Katsikas: ‘Eurozone crisis management and the growth of opposition to European integration’ in B, de Souza Guilherne, C. Ghymers, S. Griffith-Jones & A. Riberio-Hoffman (eds.) Financial Crisis Management and Democracy: Lessons from Europe and Latin America, Springer, 253-264
- (2021) Anna Bosco & Susannah Verney: ‘Editing South European Society and Politics: A labour of love’, Italian Political Science, 16/1, 40-45
- (2020) Anna Bosco & Susannah Verney: ‘Polarisation in Southern Europe: Elites, party conflicts and negative partisanship’, South European Society and Politics, 25/ 3-4, 257-284
- (2020) Anna Bosco & Susannah Verney: ‘Polarisation in Southern Europe: Elites, party conflicts and negative partisanship’, South European Society and Politics, 25/3-4, 257-284
Detailed Curriculum Vitae
