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Curriculum Vitae Curriculum vitae Name: Dr. Eric Kaufmann Address: School of Politics and Sociology Birkbeck College, University of London Malet St., London, United Kingdom WC1E 7HX Telephone: office: 0207-631-6791; home: 0208-425-2139 Email address: [email protected] Qualifications: PhD (Sept. 1994 - Nov. 1998) London School of Economics & Political Science London, U.K. http://www.sneps.net/wp- content/uploads/2011/09/1-CV-current.pdf Masters of Science (Sept. 1993 - Sept. 1994) London School of Economics & Political Science London, U.K. Bachelor of Arts (Sept. 1988 - Apr. 1991) University of Western Ontario London, Ontario, Canada Date of Birth: 11 May 1970 __________________________________________________________________________ Academic Posts Held Professor of Politics, Birkbeck College, University of London since 2011. Reader in Politics and Sociology, Birkbeck College, University of London since 2007. Lecturer from October 2003 - 2006; Senior Lecturer 2006. Director of Masters Programme in Nationalism and Ethnic Conflict since 2005. Fellow, Religion in International Affairs Initiative/International Security Program, Belfer Center, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 2008-9 Lecturer in Comparative Politics, University of Southampton, February 1999 - September 2003 1 Publication Record (accepted or in print) Books: 1. Shall the Religious Inherit the Earth: Religion, Demography and Politics in the 21st Century, Profile Books 2010. - Reviewed in Sunday Times, Observer, FT, Literary Review, Independent, Telegraph (blog), New Humanist, London Metro, Toronto Globe and Mail, The (Sydney) Australian, Morning Star, Sunday Star Times (New Zealand), Spiked Online, Huffington Post, Big Issue Scotland and others. Academic reviews in Comparative Strategy (Sept 2010) and Population and Development Review (Autumn 2010). 2. Co-edited with Jack Goldstone and Monica Duffy Toft: Political Demography: identity, conflict and institutions (publisher: Boulder, CO: Paradigm Press, December 2011) 3. [FORTHCOMING. Manuscript submitted April 2011.] Co-edited with W Bradford Wilcox, Wither the Child?: Causes, Consequences & Responses to Low Fertility (publisher: Boulder, CO: Paradigm Press, spring 2012) 4. The Orange Order: A Contemporary Northern Irish History (Oxford University Press, 2007; paperback 2009) - Serialised in Belfast News Letter, 21 to 26 May 2007. Reviewed in Belfast News Letter (June 2007), Irish Times (July 2007), Irish Independent (July 2007), Prospect (November 2007), Irish Studies Review (Dec 2007), History Ireland (November/December 2007), Political Studies (March 2008), Twentieth Century British History (Sept 2008), Journal of Contemporary History (2009) 5. Patterson, H. and E. Kaufmann, Unionism and Orangeism in Northern Ireland Since 1945 (Manchester University Press, 2007). Reviewed in Prospect (November 2007), History Ireland (November/December 2007), Political Studies (March 2008) 6. The Rise and Fall of Anglo-America: The Decline of Dominant Ethnicity in the United States (Harvard University Press, 2004). Reviewed in Financial Times (2004), Times Higher Education Supplement (2005), Review of Metaphysics (2004), Choice (2005), The Journal of American Culture (2005), Modern Age (2005), The Journal of American History (2005) Cercles: Revue pluridisciplinaire du monde anglophone (2006), Journal of American Ethnic History (2006), Rhetoric and Public Affairs (2007) 7. Rethinking Ethnicity: Majority Groups and Dominant Minorities (Routledge, 2004) - edited Refereed Articles: 2 1. with Vegard Skirbekk and Anne Goujon, 'American political affiliation, 2003–43: A cohort component projection,' Population Studies, published online 1 November, 2011 2. with Anne Goujon and Vegard Skirbekk, 'The End of Secularization in Europe?: A Socio-Demographic Perspective', Sociology of Religion, published online 8 August, 2011 3. 'Demographic Change and Conflict in Northern Ireland: Reconciling Qualitative and Quantitative Evidence,' Journal of Ethnopolitics, vol. 3, no. 4, September, 2011, pp. 369-89 4. 'Reflections on the Swiss Sonderfall,' Nations and Nationalism, vol. 17 (September 2011), pp. 815-20 5. with Eric Woods and Robert Schertzer, 'Ethno-national conflict and its Management,' Commonwealth and Comparative Politics, 49.2, April 2011, pp. 153-61 6. with Vegard Skirbekk and Anne Goujon, 'Secularism, Fundamentalism or Catholicism? The Religious Composition of the United States to 2043,' Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, vol. 49, no. 2 (June) 2010, pp. 293-310 7. with Oded Haklai, 'Dominant Ethnicity: From Minority to Majority,' Nations and Nationalism, issue 14.4 (2008), pp. 743-67; see also my introduction to the dominant ethnicity section and our debate piece with Andreas Wimmer in same issue 8. 'Human Development and the Demography of Secularization in Global Perspective,' Interdisciplinary Journal of Research on Religion, Volume 4: 2008, pp. 1-37 9. 'The Lenses of Nationhood: An Optical Model of Identity,' Nations and Nationalism, 14.3 (2008), pp. 449-77 10. Kaufmann, E. and H. Patterson, ‘The Dynamics of Intra-Party Support for the Good Friday Agreement in the Ulster Unionist Party,’ Political Studies, vol. 54, no. 3 (October) 2006, pp. 509-32 11. 'The Dynamics of Orangeism in Scotland: The Social Sources of Political Influence in a Large Fraternal Organization,' Social Science History, volume 30: 2 (Summer) 2006, pp. 263-92 12. with O. Zimmer, ' "Dominant Ethnicity" and the "Ethnic-Civic" Dichotomy in the work of A. D. Smith,' Nations & Nationalism, special issues 10.1 & 10.2 (March) 2004, pp. 61-76 13. 'The Rise of Cosmopolitanism in the Twentieth Century West: A Comparative and Historical Perspective on the United States and European Union,' Global Society, Vol. 17, no. 4 (2003), pp.359-83 3 14. 'The Ethnic Origins of the American Nation,' Geopolitics, vol. 7, no. 2 (Autumn 2002), pp. 99-120 15. 'Nativist Cosmopolitans: Institutional Reflexivity and the Decline of "Double- Consciousness" in American Nationalist Thought: Interrogating a Nineteenth Century Paradox,' Historical Sociology, vol. 14, No. 1 (2001), pp. 47-78 16. 'Liberal Ethnicity: Beyond Liberal Nationalism and Minority Rights,' Ethnic and Racial Studies, vol. 23, no. 6 (2000), pp. 1086-1119 17. 'Ethnic or Civic Nation?: Theorizing the American Case,' Canadian Review of Studies in Nationalism, vol. 27 (2000), pp. 133-54 18. 'American Exceptionalism Reconsidered: Anglo-Saxon Ethnogenesis in the "Universal" Nation, 1776-1850,' Journal of American Studies, 33 (1999), 3, pp. 437- 457 19. 'The Sensory Basis of Historical Analysis,' Rethinking History: The Journal of Theory and Practice, 3:3 (1999), pp. 329-332 20. ' "Naturalizing the Nation": the Rise of Naturalistic Nationalism in the United States and Canada,' Comparative Studies in Society and History, vol. 40, no. 4 (October 1998), pp. 666-695 21. 'In Search of the Authentic Nation: Landscape and National Identity in Canada and Switzerland,' (with O. Zimmer), Nations & Nationalism, vol. 4, part 4 (1998), pp. 483-5101 22. 'Condemned to Rootlessness: The Loyalist Origins of Canada's Identity Crisis,' Nationalism and Ethnic Politics, vol.3, no.1, (1997), pp. 110-135 Invited Articles 1. ‘The Dominant Ethnic Moment: Towards the Abolition of 'Whiteness'?,’ Debate article with David Roediger (Also reply to Roediger’s reply). Ethnicities, vol. 6.1 (March), 2006, pp. 231-253 Other Articles 1. 'The Demography of Ethnic Conflict,' Journal of Ethnopolitics (also Editor of special section on 'The Politics of Ethnic Demography') vol.3, no. 4, September 2011, pp. 367-8 2. with Eric Woods and Robert Schertzer, 'Ethno-national conflict and its management,' Commonwealth and Comparative Politics, 49.2, April 2011, pp. 153-61 (also guest editor of the special issue) 1 Paper won the American Sociological Association's Reinhard Bendix Prize for 1998. 4 3. 'Shall the Religious Inherit the Earth?,' Ethical Record, November 2010 4. 'Shall the Religious Inherit the Earth?,' Studies: An Irish Quarterly Review, Winter 2010 5. 'From Background to Foreground: Majority Groups and Dominant Minorities,' introduction to themed section on Dominant Group Identity, Nations & Nationalism, vol. 14:4 (2008), as well as debate article (co-authored with Oded Haklai) with Andreas Wimmer 6. 'Introduction,' Debate on John Hutchinson’s Nations as Zones of Conflict, Nations & Nationalism, vol. 13, issue 4 (2007), pp. 1-4 Popular Magazines & Newspapers Review of Steven Pinker, The Better Angels of our Nature,' Literary Review, Christmas 2011 ‘Rural and religious fuel the world’s population boom,’ Providence Journal, Nov.6, 2011 ‘Religious revival: Western societies are being dramatically reshaped by the strong birth rate of religious people,‘ Bright Blue, Autumn 2011, p. 37 Review of Robert Putnam and David Campbell, 'American Grace,' Literary Review, May 2011 Review of Olivier Roy, 'Holy Ignorance,' Literary Review, February 2011 ‘Out of the mouths of babes – religious will rise as secular birth rates fall,' Sydney Morning Herald, September 20, 2010 Review of Doug Saunders, 'Arrival City,' Literary Review, September 2010 'White Guilt,' review of Pascal Bruckner, 'Tyranny of Guilt,' Prospect, August 2010 'Population boom in third world provides a boost for religions,' Irish Times, 20 July 2010 'Why Orangemen Must Put Best Foot Forward,' Belfast Telegraph, 8 July 2010 'Europe's Muslim Future,' Prospect, April 2010 ‘The Return of Economic Nationalism,' Providence Journal, June 2009 'The Changing Face of Israel' (co-authored with R.
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