Prof. Michael J. Geary is Professor of Modern European History at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) where he holds the Jean Monnet Chair in History of European Integration. He has held research fellowships at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, the Fulbright Commission, the College of Europe, and the Institute for European Global Studies at the University of Basel. A First Class honours graduate of the National University of Ireland, Maynooth, he holds a PhD in History and Civilisation from the European University Institute, Florence. His publications include: An Inconvenient Wait: Ireland’s Quest for Membership of the EEC, 1957-73 (Institute of Public Administration, 2009); Enlarging the European Union: The Commission Seeking Influence, 1961-1973 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013); ‘Le prix de l’adhésion: L’Irlande, la Politique commune de la pêche et l’intégration européenne au début des années 1970’ in Relations Internationales, no. 198 (2024), pp. 35-52; and The European Union’s Pact on Migration and Asylum: A Fresh Start? (Oxford: Hart Publishing, forthcoming 2026 – edited by Geary, Redmond, et al.). He is also a longstanding contributor to Routledge’s annual publications, Western Europe and The European Union Encyclopaedia and Directory. His current projects include (a) the relationship between the EEC/EC/EU and the anti-apartheid movements from the early 1970s to 1994, (b) a wider history of Ireland-South Africa relations during the apartheid regime; (c) a special issue for the Journal of International Migration and Integration (Accepted) (editors Geary/Gherghina/Rottmann), on ‘Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Migrant Aspirations and Belonging’; (d) a handbook under view entitled The Handbook of Identity Documentation throughout History (edited by Redmond/Geary et al.). He is the series editor for the Routledge series Europa EU Perspectives: Reform, Renegotiation, Reshaping. He sits on the management committee of the COST Action HIDDEN ,and co-leads Working Group 3 – Accessing Citizenship.

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