Corinne Tomasi awarded 2026 Ernst Haas Fellowship

The 2025-2027 EUSA Executive Committee are pleased to announce that Corinne Tomasi, a student at the University of Florida, has been awarded the 2026 Ernst Haas Fellowship. A brief description of Corinne's project follows-

The historic decision of European Union (EU) to launch Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) is hailed as one of its greatest achievements. Yet this ‘historic political vision’ remains fractured. Scholars first examined this institutional imbalance in the 1990s and again after the euro crisis in the 2000s. My dissertation builds upon this literature by shifting explanations away from theories European integration, instead joining recent EU literature that applies state-building literature to the EU and use it to examine the evolution (or lack thereof) of EMU governance. The dissertation argues that the disjointed evolution of EMU may not be as unique as is often suggested. Instead, its evolution reflects the uneasy process in newly formed federal systems of developing fiscal and monetary governance among previously independent entities. Using case studies and process tracing, the dissertation shows how fiscal and monetary governance in federal political systems tends to evolve in stages from decentralized to centralized and how this framework can help explain the disjointed evolution of fiscal and monetary governance in the EU.