Erica Edwards is the Associate Director of the European Studies Center at the University of Pittsburgh. Prior to joining the ESC, she held faculty and administrative positions at North Carolina State University, Miami University Ohio, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and the Institute for Advanced Studies in Vienna. She obtained her Masters in European Studies from the College of Europe in Bruges, Belgium, where she was a Fulbright scholar, before going on to obtain her PhD in political science for the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. A native of Houston, she has lived in five different US states and five European countries. Her teaching and research interests are in the fields of comparative politics, political parties and party systems, governance and politics of the European Union, and public opinion.