Anna-Lena Högenauer is Associate Professor in the Department of Social Sciences and the Course Director of the Master in European Governance.
Anna-Lena works on multi-level governance, Europeanization, parliamentary scrutiny of European affairs and small states. She was an active member of the Observatory of Parliaments after Lisbon (OPAL, 2011-2014) and the Erasmus Network on Parliamentary Democracy in Europe (PADEMIA, 2013-2016). Anna-Lena Högenauer was a member of the University of Luxembourg’s Robert Schuman Institute, an interdisciplinary centre funded by the EU Commission as a Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence (2015-2022). She participated in the ESRC-funded project Negotiating Brexit: EU institutions, national governments, and the UK (2017-2019). She was also a member of the steering group of the EU-funded VIADUCT project on EU-Turkey relations (2017-2020). She worked on Luxembourgish politics as part of the C2ESS project (Challenges to European Small States, 2018-2022) and on the legitimacy of central bank decisions as part of the EMULEG project (2021-2025). She is also a member of the COST Network Intergovernmental Coordination from Local to European Governance (IGCOORD, 2021-2025). She currently works on the WOMEN4PARLIAMENT project that studies underrepresentation in the Luxembourgish parliament (2024-2027) as part of a Marie Speyer Grant and is a member of the FNR-funded Doctoral Training Unit GREITMA that investigates hurdles to the completion of the EU’s internal market.
Anna-Lena was Associate Editor or PRX (2020-2024) and is a member of the editorial boards of Politics and Governance (2019 – ) and of Small States & Territories (2021- ). She is also one of the editors of the Routledge book series Small State Studies (2020- ).
Anna-Lena teaches European integration at Bachelor and Master level. Her courses cover the history of European integration since the start of the 20th century, theories of integration, the Europeanization of the member states and research methods. She is the Director of the Master in European Governance.
Anna-Lena has presented her work on parliamentary scrutiny of EU affairs to the national parliamentary representatives in Brussels, to the European Centre for Parliamentary Research and Documentation (ECPRD), to the House of Commons (UK) and Luxembourg’s Chambre des Députés. She frequently discusses key political events related to European integration and has worked with around 40 Luxembourgish, European and international media outlets.
She won the 2016 PADEMIA Award for Outstanding Research in the Field of Parliamentary Democracy in Europe Parliamentary Administrations in the European Union with Chistine Neuhold and Thomas Christiansen for their book (Palgrave MacMillan, 2016).
Her article “Studying a new phase of europeanisation of national parliaments” (with K. Gattermann and A. Huff in European Political Science, Vol. 15, 89-107) won the EPS best article award for 2016.
