Kelsi Quick is a PhD student in the Political Science Department at the UIUC and a Research Assistant at the European Union Center. She has a strong interest in exploring the tension between the supranational structure of the European Union and the sovereignty/autonomy of the domestic state. Her engagement with the Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory is borne of a desire to critically examine questions such as "What is Europe?" and apply such criticism to mainstream political science with the goal of facilitating change in the way the EU is imagined in both the public and in academia.