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Associate Professor of Political Science Jonathan Laurence is among this fall’s recipients of the prestigious Berlin Prize, awarded by The American Academy in Berlin, a private, nonprofit, non-partisan center for advanced research in a range of academic and cultural fields.
Laurence — whose areas of teaching and research interest are comparative politics, transatlantic relations, European politics, and the integration of Muslims into European politics and society, and whose latest book The Emancipation of Europe's Muslims, was published earlier this year — will use the fellowship to support a research project titled "Turkey and Morocco in Germany: European Muslims or Citizens Abroad?"
A non-resident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and a faculty affiliate of the Center for European Studies at Harvard University, Laurence holds a bachelor's degree from Cornell University, a C.E.P. from Sciences Po, and master's and doctoral degrees from Harvard University, where his thesis 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.
The class of Berlin Prize fellows for 2012-13 consists of 24 outstanding scholars, writers, artists and policy experts who will pursue independent study while engaging with their German counterparts and with Berlin’s vibrant academic, cultural, and political life.