Gary Marks is Burton Craige Professor of Political Science and Robert Schuman Fellow at the European University Institute, Florence. He served as the director and co-founder the UNC Center for European Studies and EU Center of Excellence. In 2017 he received the Daniel Elazar Distinguished Federalism Scholar Award from the American Political Science Association and has received the Humboldt Prize for his contributions to political science. Professor Marks has written more than a dozen books and is one of the most cited scholars worldwide in political science.