Brigitte Young studied from 1978 to 1982 at the University of California, Santa Barbara and University of California, Davis, and from 1984 to 1990 at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
She has held guest professorships at Science Politique in Paris (2008/2009), Science-Politique in Lille (Fall 2010), Warwick University, UK (2011) and Central European University, Budapest (Spring 2012) [REF].