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Gary Marks is Burton Craige Professor of Political Science at UNC-Chapel Hill and Part-time Research Professor at the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, European University Institute, Florence. He was educated in England and received his Ph.D. from Stanford University.

In 2010 he was awarded a Humboldt Forschungspreis (Humboldt Research Prize) for his contributions to political science. He was the PI of a €2.5 million Advanced European Research Council grant (2010-2015). In 2017 he was recipient of the Daniel Elazar Distinguished Federalism Scholar Award of the APSA. In 2023 Marks was awarded the Martha Derthick Award by the Federalism & Intergovernmental Relations Section of the American Political Science Association for “best book published at least ten years ago that has made a lasting contribution to the study of federalism and intergovernmental relations:” Multi-Level Governance and European Integration (2001). On January 26, 2024, he received an Honorary Doctorate of Maastricht University for his work on multilevel governance. In 2025, he received the EUSA Award for Lifetime Achievement in European Studies from the European Union Studies Association.

Marks co-founded the UNC Center for European Studies and EU Center of Excellence in 1994 and 1998, respectively, and served as Director until 2006. Marks has held fellowships and visiting professorships at the VU Amsterdam, the European University Institute in Florence, the Free University of Berlin, the Hanse Wissenschaftskolleg, Pompeu Fabra, the Institute for Advanced Studies Vienna, Sciences Po, Konstanz University, McMaster University, the University of Twente, and he was National Fellow at the Hoover Institution.

From 2021 through mid-2026, Gary is co-leading with Liesbet Hooghe an advanced European Research Council grant on political polarization in Western societies. The Transnational Lab is hosted at the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies at the EUI, Florence.

Gary Marks is editor of the book series Transformations in Governance with Oxford University Press (with Liesbet Hooghe and Walter Mattli), and editor of the Cambridge Elements Series in European Politics (with Catherine De Vries).

His research and teaching are chiefly in comparative politics, multilevel governance, and measurement. Gary has published in the leading journals of political science and sociology. His (co-)authored books include Unions in Politics: Britain, Germany, and the United States in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries (Princeton, 1989), Multi-Level Governance and European Integration (Rowman & Littlefield, 2001); It Didn’t Happen Here: Why Socialism Failed in the United States (Norton, 2001); European Integration and Political Conflict (CUP, 2004), The Rise of Regional Authority: A Comparative Study of 42 Democracies (Routledge, 2010), and four volumes that set out a postfunctionalist theory of multilevel governance: Measuring Regional Authority (OUP, 2016); Community, Scale and Regional Governance (OUP, 2016); Measuring International Authority (OUP, 2017); and A Theory of International Organization (OUP, 2019).

CV (Dec 2024) ||  Google Scholar || UNC email || EUI email

Gary is based at UNC for the Spring and Fall semester of 2025, and at the EUI over Summer 2025. He will be back at the EUI in Spring and Summer 2026.

Last updated –Aug 11, 2025