Liesbet Hooghe

Liesbet Hooghe (born December 1, 1962, in Oudenaarde, Belgium) is a political scientist, the W. R. Kenan Jr. Professor of Political Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She also holds a research professorship in multilevel governance at the VU University Amsterdam. Liesbet Hooghe is the spouse of Gary Marks.

She graduated summa cum laude from Katholieke Universiteit Leuven with a Licentiate in Political Sciences in 1984, and received her Ph.D. in Political Science from KU Leuven in 1989. She was a Fulbright Postdoctoral Fellow at Cornell University in 1989-90, and a postdoctoral fellow at Nuffield College, Oxford (1991–94).

Hooghe was appointed Assistant Professor at the University of Toronto in 1994, obtaining tenure in 1999. In 2000 she moved to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She was promoted to full professor in 2004, and appointed W.R. Kenan Jr. Distinguished Professor in 2011. Since 2004 she has also been a chaired professor at the VU University of Amsterdam.

She has held fellowships at the European University Institute, Florence, the Wissenschaftszentrum at Berlin, the Hanse Wissenschaftskolleg in Delmenhorst, the Freie Universität Berlin, and visiting professorships at Sciences Po, Pompeu Fabra, and the Vienna IHS. In 2012, she was inducted as a Foreign Member into the Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Science and the Arts.

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