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Faculty -- Jonathan Laurence

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Jonathan Laurence
Jonathan Laurence
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Harvard University

Jonathan Laurence has a B.A from Cornell University and a Ph.D. in Government from Harvard University. His principal areas of teaching and research are Comparative Politics, European Politics, and the integration of Muslims into European politics and society. His most recent publications include: Integrating Islam: Political and Religious Challenges in Contemporary France (Brookings, 2006), co-authored with Justin Vaïsse;   (editor and contributor) The French Council on the Muslim Religion, a special issue of French Politics, Culture, and Society (Spring 2005);  “Managing Transnational Islam: Muslims and the State in Western Europe,” in Craig Parsons and Timothy Smeeding, eds., Immigration And The Transformation Of Europe (Cambridge, 2006);  and “Reconstructing Community: Turks, Jews, and German Responsibility,” in German Politics and Society (19:2, 2001).

Prof. Laurence’s Ph.D thesis in political science (Harvard, 2006) was awarded the American Political Science Association’s Harold D. Lasswell Prize in 2006, as the best dissertation in public policy completed in 2004 or 2005.

Prof. Laurence is an Affiliated Scholar with the Center on the U.S. and Europe at the Brookings Institution, where he has also been a Visiting Fellow.

Curriculum Vitae

Office: McGuinn 218
Phone: 617-552-8991
Email: jonathan.laurence@bc.edu