Expertise: Immigration, race politics in Europe, extreme right parties in Europe, comparative politics

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Senior Fellow

Terri E. Givens is Vice Provost, Undergraduate Studies and International Programs at the University of Texas at Austin and an Associate Professor in the Government Department. Her academic interests include radical right parties, immigration politics, and the politics of race in Europe. She has conducted extensive research in Europe, particularly in France, Germany, Austria and Denmark. She is an active member of the American Political Science Association, the Midwest Political Science Association, the European Union Studies Association, and the Council for European Studies.

Her book, Voting Radical Right in Western Europe, was published with Cambridge University Press in September 2005. She has contributed chapters to the books, Martin Schain, et. al., (eds) Xenophobic Movements in a Unifying Europe, Cichowski and Boerzel (eds) The State of The European Union and her articles have appeared in Comparative Political Studies, the Policy Studies Journal, and Comparative European Politics.

 Selected Research:

• "Immigrant Integration in Europe: Empirical Research Annual Review of Political Science," June 2007
• Voting Radical Right in Western Europe, Cambridge University Press, 2005
• "The Radical Right Gender Gap," Comparative Political Studies, Feb 2004

Selected Commentary:

• "UT Betting on Mexico," Cox Newspapers Washington Bureau, March 2008
• "Assignment Abroad," UT Austin Feature, Jan 2008