Comparative Politics & State-Religion Relations in Modern Europe 
Jonathan Laurence
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Jonathan Laurence, associate professor of Political Science at Boston College, teaches courses in European politics, specializing in State-Religion relations. He is also Nonresident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution (Washington, DC) and Term Member of the Council on Foreign Relations (New York City). During Summer 2010, Laurence is a visiting researcher at the Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin.
Laurence’s new book, under contract with Princeton University Press, is The Partial Emancipation: Europe’s Muslims and the Geopolitics of Islam in the West. His last book Integrating Islam (co-authored with Justin Vaisse) was published by Brookings Press (2006) and received an award from the American Library Association; its French edition was published by Odile Jacob (2007). He has edited two volumes: The New French Council for the Muslim Faith (2005) and Governments and Muslim Communities in the West (wiith P. Strum, 2008).
He defended his doctoral dissertation in Harvard University’s Government Department in 2005, and completed undergraduate work summa cum laude at Cornell, 1998, and received a Certificat d’Etudes Politiques at Sciences Po – Paris, 1997. The Ph.D. thesis received the Harold D. Lasswell Prize for best dissertation on public policy from the American Political Science Association.
Before joining the Boston College faculty, Laurence was visiting fellow at Brookings, visiting scholar at NYU’s Center for European Studies, doctoral fellow at the Kennedy School’s Hauser Center, graduate affiliate at Harvard’s Center for European Studies, guest researcher at the Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin and instructor at Sciences Po-Paris and in Harvard’s government department. In 2008-9, Jonathan was a Senior Fellow in residence of the Transatlantic Academy at the German Marshall Fund in Washington, DC.
His articles have been published in European Political Science, Esprit (France), Foreign Affairs, Formiche (Italy), French Politics Culture and Society, German Politics and Society, Italian Foreign Policy, Italian Politics and Society, Neue Soziale Bewegungen (Germany), New Europe Review, Perspectives on Politics and The Tocqueville Review. Laurence comments regularly in US and European news media, and his research articles have appeared as chapters in several edited volumes. He has authored policy reports for the International Crisis Group, the Migration Policy Institute, the Bertelsmann Foundation, the Center for Strategic and International Studies, the Friedrich Ebert Foundation, the Brookings Institution and the Transatlantic Academy.
