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
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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
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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:
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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
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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)
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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. Cincotta), Foreign Policy (web exclusive), June 2009 5
'The Global War for Souls,' review of John Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge, 'God is Back,' Prospect, June 2009
‘The Meaning of Huntington,' Prospect, February 2009
‘Peaceful Xenophobes,' Prospect, November 2008
‘Europe's Coming Demographic Revolution,' NACS Magazine, October 2008
'God Returns to Europe,' review of God's Continent, by Philip Jenkins, Prospect, November 2007
'Shall the Religious Inherit the Earth,' Jewish Quarterly, Autumn 2007
'Parades ... could there soon be a deal?,' Belfast Telegraph, 11 July 2007
'The Poverty of Liberalism,' review of A world beyond politics: a defense of the nation-state, by Pierre Manent, Prospect, June 2007
'An Orange History from the Inside,' Belfast News Letter, 21 May 2007 (Followed by six daily extracts from my book, The Orange Order, 22-26 May)
'Faith's Comeback,' Newsweek (International edition), 7-13 November 2006 - rated 4.5 stars/5 by readers
'Breeding for God,' cover story in Prospect (November 2006) - rated among top 10 most read articles in Prospect in 2006
'Canada Blazes Trail,' Prospect, March 2006
'The New Unionism,' Prospect, November 2005
'Simply Canadian,' Vancouver Sun, 30 August 05
1 March 2005 - Invited to participate on roundtable, ‘Britishness Today,' chaired by David Goodhart (Prospect Magazine) and Gordon Brown (Chancellor of the Exchequer). Department of the Treasury, London. (Proceedings published in April 2005 issue of Prospect)
'Ethnic America,' Prospect, July 2004, pp. 34-39
Book Chapters:
1. (with V. Skirbekk), " 'Go Forth and Multiply': the Politics of Religious Demography" in Political Demography: identity, conflict and institutions, edited by J. A. Goldstone, 6 Eric Kaufmann and Monica Duffy Toft. (Boulder, CO: Paradigm Press, 2011), forthcoming
2. "Sacralisation by Stealth: the demography of de-secularisation" in Stillwell, John et. al (eds.), Spatial and Social Disparities (Springer, 2010), pp. 217-32
3. "Dominant Ethnicity and Dominant Nationhood: Empirical and Normative Aspects" in Lecours, A. and G. Nootens (eds.), Dominant Nationalism, Dominant Ethnicity: Identity, Federalism and Democracy (Brussels: Peter Lang, 2009), pp. 35-56
4. 'Dominant Ethnicity and Integration: the Estonian Case,' Tallinn Conference on Conceptualising Integration (Tallinn: Hill and Knowlton, 2008) http://www.meis.ee/book.php?ID=182
5. 'Faith's Comeback?: The Demographic Revival of Religion in Europe,' in Un Nuovo Umanesimo per L'Europa, University of San Pio V conference volume, forthcoming
6. (with Daniele Conversi) 'Ethnic and Nationalist Mobilization,' in J. Tournon and A. Guelke (eds.), Ethnic Groups and Politics: Recent Analytical Developments (Berlin: VS-Verlag, forthcoming)
7. 'The Orange Order in Scotland since 1860: A Social Analysis,' in M. Mitchell (ed), The Irish in Scotland (Edinburgh: Birlinn 2008), pp. 159-90
8. 'Loyalism,' in International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences (2nd ed.) (Farmington Hills, MI: Macmillan Reference, 2007)
9. 'The Orange Order in Ontario, Newfoundland, Scotland and Northern Ireland: A Macro-Social Analysis,' in David A. Wilson (ed.), The Orange Order in Canada (Dublin: Four Courts, 2007), pp. 42-68
10. (with Henry Patterson) 'From Deference to Defiance: Popular Unionism and the Decline of Elite Accommodation in Northern Ireland,' in Knox, C. et al., Devolution and Constitutional Change In Northern Ireland (Manchester: MUP, 2007), pp. 83-95
11. 'National Ethnicity and the Modern State' in Leos Muller and Linas Eriksonas (ed): Statehood Before and Beyond Ethnicity (Brussels: Peter Lang, 2005), pp. 37-52
12. 'Dominant ethnicity: from background to foreground,' in Eric Kaufmann (ed.), Rethinking Ethnicity: Majority Groups and Dominant Minorities (London: Routledge, 2004), pp. 1-14
13. 'The Decline of the WASP in the United States and Canada,' in Eric Kaufmann (ed.), Rethinking Ethnicity: Majority Groups and Dominant Minorities (London: Routledge, 2004), pp. 61-83
14. 'Ethnic Nationalism,' in Bibliography of Nationalism, Canadian Review of Studies in Nationalism, vol. 30 (2003)
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15. 'Multiculturalism,' chapter in Singh, Robert (ed.), Governing America: The Politics of a Divided Democracy (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003), pp. 449-66
16. ‘The Decline of Sectarianism in the West?: A Comparison of the Orange Order in Canada, Ulster and Scotland,' in N. Singh and T. Vanhanen (eds.) Ethnic Violence and Human Rights (Delhi: KIRS, 2002)
17. 'Dominant Ethnie,' 'Melting Pot,' 'Assimilation,' 'Nation-Building,' The Companion Guide to Nationalism (London: Transaction Publishers), 2000, pp. 12-13, 51-3, 177-8, 208-9
Policy, Think Tank or Briefing Papers
Brief on political demography to the Royal Society working group 'People and the Planet' chaired by Sir John Sulston FRS, 1 October 2010
contributor (among several) to Europe section of 'The Future of the Global Muslim Population' (Washington, DC: Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life, 2011)
Co-authored with Richard Cincotta, 'Uncompromising Demography in a Promised Land: The Growth of Dissonant Minorities and the Escalation of Demographic Politics in Israel,' National Intelligence Council (NIC) Special Report, July 2010 (Washington, DC: NIC)
'Sacralisation by Stealth: Demography, Religion and Politics in Europe,' JPR (Institute for Jewish Policy Research) pamphlet, June 2007
' A Dying Creed?: The demographic contradictions of liberal capitalism,' ESRC UPTAP programme briefing paper, March 2007. Also available at:
'From Deference to Defiance: Popular Unionism and the Decline of Elite Accommodation in Northern Ireland,' ESRC Devolution & Constitutional Change programme, Devolution Briefings, No. 29, August 2005
Electronic Media Appearances & Extended Interviews
10 September 2011: Interview on Clay Naff radio show, Lincoln, Nebraska, ‘Science Odyssey: Demography Shows How Religion Drives Population Growth’
23 March 2011: EITB Basque Television interview for documentary on religious trends in the UK and Europe
26 December 2010: Sunday Breakfast Show, Premier Christian Radio (London) 8
29 September 2010: Philip Adams Late Night live, ABC radio, Wednesday 29 September, in Sydney, Australia
22 September 2010: Sunday Night Safran, Triple J radio (ABC), Sydney, Australia
24 August 2010: SKY TV 24: Claudy Massacre Revelations in N. Ireland
15 August 2010: BBC Radio 4, InSpirit with Jumoke Fashola, on book
20 July 2010: Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC), 'Sunday Nights' programme with John Cleary, on book
10 June 2010: 4 FM, Dublin, Tom McGuirk on 4, on new book
26 May 2010: BBC World Service, Persian Language Section, on 'Islamophobia'
29 April 2010: BBC World Service, World Update, 11-12 AM on my new book
14 April 2010: Afternoon Show with Sean Moncreiff, RTE Radio (Ireland)
12 April 2010: BBC World Service ‘Politics UK’. Debate with Lord Robert Skidelsky and Mehdi Hasan, political editor, New Statesman, on immigration in the UK and Europe
7 April 2010 : BBC Radio 4 'Thinking Allowed' with Tariq Ramadan and Rebecca Goldstein (pre-recorded)
1 April 2010, 11-12 am: Today Show with Pat Kenny, RTE (Ireland) Radio 1 on new book
28 March 2010: BBC Radio Scotland (religious affairs programme) on my new book
19 March 2010: Friendly Atheist (interview on book)
17 March 2010: New Humanist (interview on book)
15 March 2010: Blackwells podcasts (interview on book)
31 January 2008: Press TV. Live debate on the question of whether secularism is a prerequisite for democracy in the Arab world
January 2008: published interview on secularization and religious demography with Revista Palabra, Spanish-based Catholic monthly magazine
25 November 2007: BBC Northern Ireland 'Sunday Sequence' on my book, The Orange Order
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24 October 2007: Ulster Television (UTV) re Loyalist decommissioning
12 July 2007: BBC Radio Ulster 'Stephen Nolan Show' re Belfast Twelfth Parade
22 June 2007: Interviewed on Italian television at conference in Rome. About inter- ethnic relations, comparing the UK and Italy
7 May 2007: BBC Radio Ulster 'Talkback' Programme regarding my new Orange Order book
4 October 2006: BBC Radio 4 'Thinking Allowed' with Laurie Taylor. Live discussion about recent article on the 'End of Secularisation in Europe' (religious demography)
11 August, 2005: BBC News 24 TV 'Multiculturalism Survey,' live debate with two other panelists re multiculturalism in context of Islamism/London bombings
9 June, 2005: BBC 2 TV Northern Ireland (live) Breakfast program, Belfast (UK) - Comment on the future of the UUP and UUP-Orange connection
7 May, 2005: SKY TV (Live) News 4:30pm, London (UK) - Comment on May 2005 Northern Ireland election result for the Ulster Unionist Party and David Trimble's resignation
4 March, 2005: SKY TV (Live) News 9:30pm, London (UK) - Comment on implications of murder of Robert Macartney and Sinn Fein 100th Anniversary Ard Fheis
23 February 2005 – Financial sanctions against Sinn Fein: Dr Eric Kaufman – ‘Peace process needs major concession from Sinn Fein’ – politics.co.uk interview, London (UK)
9 February, 2005: SKY TV (Live) News 7:30pm, London (UK) - Comment on implications for Northern Ireland Peace Process of Tony Blair’s apology to the Guildford Four
8 July, 2004: Michigan Public Radio ‘Stateside’ show: 20-minute interview with host Charity Nebbe regarding my book ‘The Rise and Fall of Anglo-America’
20 March 2004: Belfast News Letter, N. Ireland (UK). Interview on UUP research for story ‘Traditional Versus Modern Tells Tale Amid the Voters’ by Ross Smith.
8 November 2002: Radio Ulster, Belfast, N. Ireland (UK) – Interviewed re Orange Order research for religious affairs programme
10 Reviews (Academic)
1. Book review of Christopher Caldwell, 'Reflections on the Revolution in Europe,' Population and Demographic Review, December 2009
2. Book review of Amy Chua, ‘Day of Empire,' Nationalism and Ethnic Conflict, vol. 15: 1, 2009, pp.133-136
3. Book Review of S. Saideman and W. Ayres, ‘For Kin and Country,' Nations and Nationalism, Vol.15, Issue 1, 2009, pp.172-174
4. Book Review of T. Baycroft and M. Hewitson, 'What is a Nation?,' The Nationalism Project, 2008
5. Book review of Aviel Roshwald, 'The Endurance of Nationalism' , Nationalism and Ethnic Politics, vol. 13, no. 4, 2007
6. Book review (combined) of Aviel Roshwald, 'The Endurance of Nationalism' & T. Baycroft and M. Hewitson, 'What is a Nation?,' English Historical Review, CXXII: 781 - 784, June 2007
7. Book review of Pickus, Noah, 'True Faith and Allegiance,' Nations & Nationalism, Volume 13 Issue 2 Page 358, April 2007
8. Book Review of Appiah, K. Anthony, 'The Ethics of Identity,' H-Nationalism, 26 June 2006
9. Book review of Hutchinson, John, 'Nations as Zones of Conflict,' British Journal of Sociology, Volume 57, p. 319 (June) 2006
10. Book review of Zubaida, Sami, 'Law and Power in the Islamic World,' Comparative Studies in Society and History, vol. 47, no. 1., (2004)
11. Book review of Wimmer, Andreas, 'Nationalist Exclusion and Ethnic Conflict,' Political Studies Review, July 2003
12. Book review of Swain, Carol M., 'The New White Nationalism in America,' Nations and Nationalism, vol. 9, part 4 (Oct. 2003), pp. 641-2
13. Book review of O’Leary, Cecilia, E., 'The Paradox of American Patriotism,' Canadian Review of Studies in Nationalism, vol. 30 (2003)
14. Book review of Yoram Hazony, ‘The Jewish State,’ Nations and Nationalism, vol. 8, no. 1 (Jan. 2002), pp. 122-23
15. Book review of David Brown, ‘Contemporary Nationalism,’ Ethnic and Racial Studies, vol. 24, no. 5 (Sept. 2001), pp. 570-71
11 16. Book review of David Brown, ‘Contemporary Nationalism,’ Political Studies, vol. 49, no.3 (Aug. 2001), p. 624
17. Book review of Desmond King, ‘Making Americans,’ Political Studies, vol. 49, no. 2 (June 2001), pp. 364-5
18. Book review of Dru Gladney (ed.), 'Making Majorities,' Nations and Nationalism, vol. 7, no. 1 (Jan 2001), pp. 117-18
19. Book review of Frank Füredi, 'The Silent War,' Ethnic & Racial Studies, vol. 23, no. 6 (November 2000), pp. 1132-33
20. Book review of Steve Bruce, 'Comparative Protestant Politics,' Nations and Nationalism, vol. 5, no.3, 1999, pp. 588-90
21. Book Review of Will Kymlicka, 'Finding Our Way: Rethinking Ethnocultural Relations in Canada,' Ethnic Conflict Research Digest, Vol. 2, no. 2 (1999), pp. 42-3
22. Book review of Wallace, Walter, 'The Future of Ethnicity, Race & Nationality,' Ethnic & Racial Studies, Vol.21, no.6 (November 1998), pp. 1201-2
23. Book review of Del Gado, Richard & Jean Stefancic (eds.), 'Critical White Studies,' Ethnic & Racial Studies, Vol. 21, no.5 (October 1998), pp. 1022-24
24. Book review of Frantzen, J. and John D. Niles, 'Anglo-Saxonism and the Construction of Social Identity,' Humanist Sociology, 22 (3), August 1998
25. Book review of Ohmae, Kenichi, 'The End of the Nation-State,' Nations and Nationalism, vol. 2, part 2, July, 1996, pp. 342-44
Working Papers
'Secularism, Fundamentalism or Catholicism? The Religious Composition of the United States to 2043,' Vienna Institute of Demography (VID) Working Paper, November 2008
Work in Progress:
8. (edited) - Neoconservatism and the Legacy of the New York Intellectuals 9. White Flight: Privatised Dominant Ethnicity in North America and Britain (working title)
Awards, Honours and Funded Research
February 2010 - £7500 British Academy grant.
April 2008 - Winner of Political Studies Association 2008 Richard Rose Prize, awarded to a scholar under 40 who has made a distinctive contribution to the study of British politics (including Northern Ireland), through the publication of books and articles 12
April 2008 - Leverhulme Trust grant, £21,000
March 2008 - Winner of Belfer Center Visiting Fellowship, Harvard University, US$34,000
15 January 2008 - Invited Panelist, 2008 UK-US Fulbright Debate, 'Is Multiculturalism Dead,' Notre Dame University, London
September 2006 - ‘Outstanding’ (highest possible) rating on ESRC Grant end of award report
9 December 2005 - British Academy Conference Grant award for conference on 'The Legacy of the New York Intellectuals,' £2000
21 August 2005 - Economic & Social Research Council (ESRC) Understanding Population Trends and Processes Programme sole-authored grant for £40,000
2 June 2005 - Invited to speak for the motion at Oxford Union annual debate/dinner on Multiculturalism in Britain (University of Oxford). Other speakers for the motion were Trevor Phillips, Ted Cantle and Baronness Uddin.
1 March 2005 – ‘Outstanding’ (highest possible) rating on ESRC Grant end of award report
1 March 2005 - Invited to participate on roundtable, ‘Britishness Today,' chaired by David Goodhart (Prospect Magazine) and Gordon Brown (Chancellor of the Exchequer). Department of the Treasury, London. (Proceedings published in April 2005 issue of Prospect)
12 October 2004 - 'Outstanding' (highest possible) rating on ESRC Fellowship end of award report
6 April 2004 - $3000 CDN award from J.R. Smallwood Foundation, Memorial University, St. John's, NF, Canada, for project on 'The Orange Order in the Twentieth Century (Newfoundland phase).'
1 March, 2003 - Nominated for Harvard University Press' Wilson Prize for first-time authors by Michael Aronson, Senior Editor in the Social Sciences at HUP.
August 2002 – Invited to join editorial board of Cambridge journal, Nations & Nationalism
May 2002 - £700 British Academy Conference Grant award for conference on 'Majority Groups & Dominant Minorities' (held at LSE, December 2002)
February 2002 - £400 Foundation for Canadian Studies in the UK grant for workshop on 'Orangeism and Protestant Politics,' (University of Ulster, February 2002)
13 November, 2001 - Economic & Social Research Council (ESRC) Devolution and Constitutional Change Programme grant for £67,000. This for a joint project with Professor Henry Patterson (University of Ulster) entitled "Popular Unionism and the Devolution Process." – Project awarded an ‘outstanding’ (highest possible) grade by ESRC and referees, 2005
July, 2001 – Economic & Social Research Council (ESRC) two-year academic Fellowship for £70,000 for three related sole-authored projects concerning "Dominant Ethnicity and Social Change." – Project awarded an ‘outstanding’ (highest possible) grade by ESRC and referees, 2004
June, 2000 – British Academy grant for £1700 for research on the Orange Order in Northern Ireland and Scotland.
May, 2000 - University of Southampton, Faculty of Social Science Research Award for £900 for research on the Orange Order in Scotland.
February, 2000 - Canadian High Commission Faculty Research Award for $4,500 Cdn. To fund research on the Orange Order in Canada during July-September 2000.
December, 1999 - Molson Research Award for £500 from the British Association for Canadian Studies. To fund research on the Orange Order in Canada during winter, 1999/2000.
1999 - University of Southampton, Faculty of Social Science Research Award for £790 for research on the Orange Order in Northern Ireland.
1998 - Received the American Sociological Association's Reinhard Bendix Prize (with Oliver Zimmer) for paper, 'In Search of the Authentic Nation: Landscape and National Identity in Canada and Switzerland,' awarded for the best graduate student paper in comparative and historical sociology in past two years.
Invited Lectures
1. 7 November, 2011, Royal Holloway University of London, Department of History
2. May 20, 2011, American Enterprise Institute, Washington, DC
3. May 18, 2011, New America Foundation, Washington, DC
4. May 16, 2011, Woodrow Wilson Center, Washington, DC
5. 1 December 2010, at Open Discussions, Abrar House, London
6. 17 November 2010, LSE Forum on Religion, 'Shall the Religious Inherit the Earth?: The Demographic Return of Faith in the 21st Century,' London School of Economics
7. 7 October, participated in Battle of Ideas Satellite panel, 'Papal plots, burqa bans: what does it mean to be secular today?,' Foyle's Bookshop, London 14
8. 3 October 2010, 'Why the Religious Will Inherit the Earth,' Festival of Dangerous Ideas, Sydney Opera House, Australia
9. 2 October 2010, participated in IQ-squared debate, 'If you want peace, forget justice,' Festival of Dangerous Ideas, Sydney Opera House, Australia
10. 7 September 2010, Furman University, Department of Political Science, Greenville, South Carolina
11. 11 July 2010 –South Place Ethical Society, London
12. 10 June 2010 –Iona Institute, Dublin
13. 6 May 2010- ICSR (International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation), King’s College, University of London
14. 5 May 2010 –Reading Public Library
15. 15 April: Debate on Shall the Religious Inherit the Earth, with Dominic Lawson of The Sunday Times at Royal Society for the Arts (RSA), London. Moderated by Laurie Taylor and co-sponsored by New Humanist magazine
16. 4 March 2010, Appearance at Jewish Book Week, on panel with Dominique Moisi and John Kampfner on panel on 'Threats to our Democracy,' London
17. 10-13 March 2010: 'Sacralization by Stealth?: The Religious Consequences of Low Fertility in Europe,' for workshop on Wither the Child?: Causes, Consequences & Responses to Low Fertility, hosted by the Social Trends Institute, Barcelona
18. 27 October 2009 'The Demography of Religion in Europe,' for visiting Chinese delegation, Centre for Religion and Contemporary Society, Birkbeck College, London
19. 17 October 2009: 'Only an atheist can be a good Christian; only a Christian can be a good atheist,' Debate on Ernst Bloch's Atheism in Christianity, Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities, London (podcasted event)
20. 30 September-1 Oct 2009 - ' 'The Demography of Salafism,' for 'The Future of the Global Jihadist Movement,' International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation and Political Violence (ICSR), King's College, together with National Intelligence Council and Chatham House, UK
21. 29 May 2009 – ‘The Role of Islam in the Re-Sacralization of Europe,' lunchtime speech for conference on ‘The Political Future of Muslim Communities in Western Europe: Implications for Western European States in 2030,' National Intelligence Council and the Bureau of Intelligence and Research of the U.S. Department of State, Washington, DC
15 22. 17 April, 2009 - 'The Power of Ethnicity?: the Geographic Limits to Modernist Theories of Intra-State Violence,' Intrastate Conflict Seminar, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard
23. 14 April 2009 – ‘From Loyalty to Resistance: The Orange Order in a Changing Ulster, 1969-2007,' Boston College, Boston, MA
24. 24 March 2009 – ‘The Role of the Second Demographic Transition in Secularism’s Evolutionary Demise,' Evolution, Cognition, and Culture Seminar, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT
25. 16 March 2009 – ‘Dominant Ethnicity: Majority Groups, Dominant Minorities and Conflict,' Civil Conflict Workshop, Department of Government, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
26. 27 February 2009 - ‘Religious Fundamentalism as the End of History?: The Political Demography of the Abrahamic Faiths’ International Affairs/Political Science, Northeastern University, Boston, MA
27. 20 February 2009 – ‘The Lenses of Nationhood: A Grand Theory of National Identity,' Montreal Research Group on Ethnic Conflict seminar, McGill University, Montreal, PQ
28. 9 February 2009 – Invited panelist, ‘Inter-Ethnic Relations in Quebec: The ‘Accommodations Crisis’ and The Bouchard-Taylor Report,' Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
29. 5 February 2009 - ‘Religious Fundamentalism as the End of History?: The Political Demography of the Abrahamic Faiths,' International Security Program Seminar, Belfer Center, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
30. 27 January 2009 – ‘Shall the Religious Inherit the Earth,' Department of History, Georgetown University, Washington, DC
31. 12 December 2008 – ‘Demographic Trends in Religion,' for conference on ‘Global religious trends: risks and opportunities for the United States,' National Intelligence Council and the Bureau of Intelligence and Research of the U.S. Department of State, Washington, DC
32. 7 November 2008 – ‘The Orange Order, Unionism and the Peace Process,' University of Texas, Austin, TX
33. 20 November, 2008 ‘The Next American Voter: the political demography of American partisanship,' American Politics Research Workshop, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
16 34. 6 November 2008 – ‘Sacralization by Stealth?: The Demography of De- Secularization in Europe,' Institute for the Study of Religion, Baylor University, Waco, TX
35. 29 October 2008 – ‘Sacralization by Stealth: Religion Returns to Europe,' Riley Institute Public Lecture, Furman University, Greenville, SC. Also participated on panel on the headscarf controversy in Europe
36. 24 October 2008 – ‘Islamism, Religiosity and Fertility in the Muslim world,' Pew Forum for Religious Research, Washington, DC
37. 15 June 2008 - 'The Demography of Europe, Today and Tomorrow,' NACS (Association for Convenience & Petroleum Retailing) Global Forum, Munich, Germany
38. 30 May 2008 - Lecture at Writer's Week Literary Festival, Listowel, Co. Kerry, Ireland
39. 25 & 26 February, 2008 – ‘Shall the Religious Inherit the Earth?:Demography, Religion and Radicalization,' for "Policing, Justice and Security in a Diverse Canada: Building an Empirical Evidence Base", Government of Canada, Hampton Inn Ottawa & Conference Centre
40. 21-22 February 2008 - Bureau of Intelligence and Research, U.S. Department of State/National Intelligence Council, 'National Intelligence Council and Intelligence Community Study Group on the Middle East 2025,' Meridian International Center, Washington [invited roundtable participant]
41. 30 January 2008 - 'Visualising Nationhood - A Grand Theory of National Identity,' ASEN seminar series, LSE, London
42. 15 January 2008 - Invited Panelist, 2008 Fulbright Debate, 'Is Multiculturalism Dead?,' Notre Dame University, London
43. 13 December, 2007 - 'From Loyalty to Resistance: The Orange Order in a Changing Ulster, 1963-2007,' Queen's University of Belfast Irish Studies Series
44. 25 October 2007, 'Loyalism,' discussion with Paul Bew, Steve Bruce and myself, moderated by BBC's William Crawley, Belfast Literary Festival, Elmwood Hall
45. 19 October 2007, 'Dominant Ethnicity and Integration: the Estonian Case,' Tallinn Conference on Conceptualizing Integration, Estonian Ministry of Integration
46. 4 July 2007, 'Sacralisation by Stealth: Demography, Religion and Politics in Europe,' JPR (Institute for Jewish Policy Research), London
17 47. 3 July 2007 - 'Minorities, Multiculturalism, and Contemporary US Politics: The Return of Assimilation,' University of Westminster conference for 'A' level teachers, London
48. 22 June 2007 - 'Faith’s Comeback?: The Demographic Revival of Religion in Europe,' The Council of European Episcopal Conferences, 'A New Humanism For Europe: The Role of the Universities,' Rome, Italy
49. 'Dominant Ethnicity and Dominant Nationhood: Empirical and Normative Aspects,' at conference on 'Majority and state nationalism: ethnicity, culture and politics/Nationalisme majoritaire et étatique: ethnicité, culture et politique,' Université de Québec a Montréal, 5 April 2007
50. 26 February 2007 - Discussant on live webcast with Jack Goldstone, 'Flash Points and Tipping Points: Security Implications of Global Population Changes, 2005-2025,' Wilson Center for International Scholars, Washington, DC
51. 14 September 2006 - Invited to lecture on 'Ethnicity in Europe' at Jean Monnet European Centre, Trento, Italy
52. 2 June 2005 - Invited to speak for the motion at Oxford Union annual debate/dinner on Multiculturalism in Britain (University of Oxford). Other speakers for the motion were Trevor Phillips, Ted Cantle and Baronness Uddin.
53. 2 March 2005 – 'From Deference to Defiance: the Transformation of the Orange Order since 1950,' Institute for the Study of Social Change, University College, Dublin, Ireland
54. 1 March 2005 - Invited to participate on roundtable, ‘Britishness Today,' chaired by David Goodhart (Prospect Magazine) and Gordon Brown (Chancellor of the Exchequer). Department of the Treasury, London. (Proceedings published in April 2005 issue of Prospect)
55. 9 December 2004 - 'The Orange Order in comparative perspective: Northern Ireland, Scotland and Canada,' Institute of Irish Studies, Aberdeen, Scotland
56. Invited to sit on roundtable, 'Is Britain too Diverse?,' chaired by David Goodhart (Prospect Magazine), Political Studies Association, Lincoln, 6 April 2004
57. 19 February, 2004 - 'The Dynamics of Intra-Party Support for the Good Friday Agreement in the Ulster Unionist Party,' for conference on 'New Representations: the use of Geodemographic Classifications in Research and Public Service Delivery, joint ESRC/NERC/EPSRC Transdisciplinary Seminar Series and ESRC Research Methods Seminar Series, UCL, London, England
58. 19 February, 2004 - 'The Orange Order and Politics in Northern Ireland and Canada: A Comparative Perspective,' Institute of Commonwealth Studies, London, England
18 59. 13-15 June, 2003 – Keynote address: 'National Ethnicity and the Modern State,' for conference on 'Statehood Beyond Ethnicity: From the Early Modern to the Present State, A Comparative Study of Smaller States in Northern and Eastern Europe,' University College of Southern Stockholm, in collaboration with Northern European Historical Research Network (NEHRN)
60. 5 March 2002 – 'The Dynamics of Orangeism in Northern Ireland,' Department of Politics and International Relations, University of the West of England, Bristol
61. 27 February, 2002 - 'The 'Real World': The Sensory Basis of Social Concepts,' School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), London, England
62. 21 January 2001 - 'The Decline of the WASP?: The Orange Order and Dominant Ethnic Decline in Canada and Northern Ireland,' Centre for Ethnicity and Pluralism Studies, University of Toronto, Canada.
Conference Papers
1. 'Ethnic and State History as Determinants of Ethnic Fractionalization,' American Political Science Association, Seattle, WA, September 2, 2011
2. 'Why Ethnicity is Linked to Civil War: The Case for, and Limits of, Perennialism,' American Political Science Association, Washington, DC, September 2-6, 2010
3. ‘The Demography of Religious Radicalism,' American Political Science Association, Toronto, September 3-6, 2009
4. ‘The Next American Voter: The Political Demography of American Partisanship,' American Political Science Association, Toronto, September 3-6, 2009
5. “‘Go Forth and Multiply’: the Politics of Religious Demography” (co-authored with V. Skirbekk), for conference on ‘Demography and Security: The Politics of Population Change,' Weatherhead Center, Harvard University, May 1-2, 2009
6. ‘The Future of American Religion to 2050,' Association for the Study of Religion, Economics, and Culture (ASREC) conference, Crystal City, VA, April 5, 2009
7. ‘Islamism, Religiosity and Fertility in the Muslim World,' International Studies Association, New York, February 18, 2009
8. 'Demographic Radicalization?: The Religiosity-Fertility Nexus and Politics,' International Studies Association, New York, February 18, 2009
9. ‘A 'Fear of Being Swamped': Why Modernity Leads to Ethno-Demographic Conflict,' American Political Science Association, Boston, 28-31 August, 2008
19 10. ‘Secularism, Fundamentalism or Catholicism: the Religious Composition of the United States to 2043,' American Political Science Association, Boston, August 28- 31, 2008
11. 'Islamism, Religiosity and Fertility in the Muslim World,' European Population Conference, Barcelona, July 9-12, 2008
12. 'An Optical Model of National Identity,' "Nationalism, East and West: Civic and Ethnic Conceptions of Nationhood", LSE, London, 15-17 April 2008
13. ‘Eurabia?: the Foreign Policy Implications of West Europe’s Religious Composition in 2025 and Beyond,' International Studies Association (ISA), San Francisco, March 25-29, 2008
14. ‘Immigration and National Identity in England: Contemporary Developments in Comparative Perspective,' European Social Science History Conference (ESSHC), Lisbon, Portugal, 27 Feb – 1 March, 2008
15. 'Religion and Politics: The Demographic Imperative,' for panel on 'Religion & International Order,' American Political Science Association (APSA), Chicago, Aug 30- Sept 2, 2007
16. 'The Orange Order and 'No' Unionism since 1998,' Conference on 'Reviewing the Good Friday Agreement: Effects, impact and prospects,' University of Wolverhampton, UK 27-28 June 2007
17. 'Dominant Ethnicity: A Normative Exploration,' Association for the Study of Ethnicity and Nationalism (ASEN) conference, 'The Dark Face of Nationalism,' LSE, London, 19 April 2007
18. 'The Return of Religion to Western Europe?: Demography and Politics,' UPTAP Meetings, University of Leeds, 21-23 March 2007
19. 'The End of Secularisation in Europe?,' Birkbeck College Staff Seminar, 23 November 2006
20. 'The End of Secularisation in Europe?,' London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, 23 October 2006
21. 'The End of Secularisation in the West?,' Political Demography: Ethnic, national and Religious Dimensions, LSE, London, 29-30 September 2006
22. 'De-secularisation?: Religiosity, fertility and politics,' British Society for Population Studies, Southampton, 18-20 September 2006
23. 'The Religious Shall Inherit the Earth?: De-Secularisation and the Demographic Imperative,' American Political, Science Association (APSA), Philadelphia, August 31, 2006
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24. 'Shall the Religious Inherit the Earth?: the political implications of the second demographic transition,' European Population Conference, Liverpool, 21-24 June 2006
25. ‘The Demographic Contradictions of Liberal Capitalism: Rethinking Daniel Bell's Theory,' Libertarian Hawks or Cultural Communitarians? Neoconservatism and the Legacy of the New York Intellectuals, Birkbeck College, 24-25 May 2006
26. 'The Storm Behind Lodge Doors: The Orange Order in Northern Ireland, 1995-2005,' Political Studies Association, Reading, UK 5 April, 2006
27. 'A Dying Creed?: The Demographic Contradictions of Liberal Capitalism,' ESRC UPTAP programme meetings, University of Leeds, 30-31 March 2006
28. Presentation on North American perspective, for Roundtable 'Integrating the Other in France: The Banlieues Riots in International Perspective,' European Social Science History Conference (ESSHC), Amsterdam, 22-25 March 2006
29. Presentation on North American cases, for Roundtable on 'Global Perspectives on the Ethnic-Civic Nationalism Dilemma,' American Historical Association (AHA) Annual Conference, Philadelphia, 5-8 January 2006
30. 'The Orange Order in Ontario, Newfoundland, Scotland and Northern Ireland: A Macro-Social Analysis,' The Orange Order in Canada, University of Toronto/Institute for Ulster-Scots Studies, University of Toronto, Canada, 5-6 November 2005
31. "The Decline of the WASP?: Anglo-Protestant Ethnicity and the American Nation- State" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Washington, DC, September 1, 2005
32. 'Dominant ethnicity: from background to foreground,' CRONEM (Centre for Research on Nationalism, Ethnicity and Multiculturalism) conference on 'The Future of Multicultural Britain: Meeting Across Boundaries,' University of Surrey, Roehampton, 14-15 June 2005
33. 'Revenge of the Grassroots: The Transformation of the Orange Order since 1950' for ESRC/University of Ulster conference on 'Unionism and Orangeism in Northern Ireland: Past, Present and Future,' University of Ulster at Jordanstown, 9 June 2005
34. ‘The Rise of Cosmopolitanism in the West: A Comparison of the United States and European Union, Association for the Study of Ethnicity and Nationalism (ASEN) conference, 'Nation and Empire,' LSE, London, 22 April, 2005
35. 'From Deference to Defiance: the Transformation of the Orange Order since 1950,' Institute for the Study of Social Change, University College, Dublin, Ireland, 2 March 2005
21 36. 'Dominant Ethnicity: From Background to Foreground,' International Political Science Association conference on Ethnicity and Politics, University of Ottawa, Canada, 30 September - 2 Oct 2004
37. 'From Deference to Defiance: the Transformation of the Orange Order since 1950,' for conference on 'Northern Ireland: A Civil or Uncivil Society,' University of the West of England, Bristol, 25 September 2004
38. 'The Orange Order in Newfoundland in the 20th Century: A Comparative Analysis,' Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada, 19 May, 2004
39. 'Orangeism in Northern Ireland, Scotland, Newfoundland and Ontario: A Comparative Perspective,' Renvall Institute for Area and Cultural Studies, 'The Celtic Connection in North America,' University of Helsinki, 5-7 May 2004
40. ' "Dominant Ethnicity" in the Work of A.D. Smith,' for Association for the Study of Ethnicity and Nationalism (ASEN) conference, 'When is the Nation?,' LSE, London, 23 April, 2004
41. 'The Decline of the UUP: an electoral analysis,' Political Studies Association, Lincoln, England, 6 April 2004
42. 'Conceptualising Dominant Ethnicity, Past and Present,' European Social Science History Conference (ESSHC), Berlin, Germany, 26 March 2004
43. 'The Dynamics of Intra-Party Support for the Good Friday Agreement in the Ulster Unionist Party,' ESRC/University of Ulster ' "Simply British?": The Ulster Unionist Party and Devolution from Craig to Trimble,' Belfast, Northern Ireland, 19 March 2004
44. 'Theoretical Overview,' Association for the Study of Ethnicity and Nationalism/ESRC, 'Dominant Ethnicity: Majority Groups and Dominant Minorities,' 16 December, 2002, London School of Economics, London, England
45. 'Twentieth Century Orangeism in Comparative Perspective,' ESRC/University of Ulster at Jordanstown, 'Orangeism and Popular Unionism,' November 8, 2002, Belfast, Northern Ireland
46. 'The Orange Order in the Twentieth Century: A Comparative Analysis of N. Ireland, Scotland, Newfoundland and Ontario,' Canadian Political Science Association, May 29-31, 2002, Toronto, Canada
47. 'The Decline of the Orange Order and the Crisis of British-Canadian Ethnicity, 1920- 70,’ Institute of Commonwealth Studies, 'Canada and the End of Empire,' April 26-28, 2001, London, England
22 48. 'The Decline of Sectarianism in the West?: A Comparison of the Orange Order in Canada and Ulster,' International Political Science Association, August 1-5, 2000, Quebec City, Canada
49. 'Liberal Ethnicity: Beyond Liberal Nationalism and Minority Rights,' Canadian Political Science Association, July 27-30, 2000, Quebec City, Canada,
50. 'National Ethnicity: the Empirical and Normative Status of Majority Groups,' University of Bristol Department of Sociology, 'Nationalism and Minority Rights,' 16- 19 September, 1999, Bristol, England
51. 'Naturalizing the Nation: Northern Landscape and Canadian Identity,' British Association for Canadian Studies, 'Culture and Context,' 6-9 April, 1998, University of Staffordshire, England
52. 'From Anglo-Saxon to Avant-Garde: Modernism and White American Identity Since 1913,' British Association for American Studies, 'Identifying America,' 6 December, 1997, Exeter University, England
53. 'The End of Anglo-America?: Theorizing the Decline of National Ethnicity in the United States and English Canada,' American Sociological Association, 'Bridges for Sociology,' 9-13 August, 1997, Sheraton Centre, Toronto, Canada
54. 'American Exceptionalism Reconsidered: the Case of WASP America,' British Association of American Studies, 'Reconstructing America,' 4-7 April, 1997, University of Birmingham, England
55. 'Condemned to Rootlessness: The Loyalist Origins of Canada's Identity Crisis,' British Association for Canadian Studies, 24-27 March, 1997, University of Swansea, Wales
56. 'Beyond the End of History: the Coming Utilitarian Revolution,' Utilitas, 'Utilitarianism Reconsidered,' 22-23 March, 1997, New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S.A.
57. ' "Anglo versus Cosmopolitan": the Genesis of a New Boundary in English-Canadian Political Culture,' British Association for Canadian Studies, 'Boundaries,' 3-5 May, 1996, Edinburgh University, Scotland
Datasets
UK Data Archive Study Number 4916: Orange Membership Data, with a focus on Ireland, Canada and Scotland, 1852-2002 (Delivered in March 2004)
UK Data Archive Study Number 4911: Canadian Census Data, County/Census Division Level, Ontario, 1891-1961 (Delivered in March 2004)
UK Data Archive Study Number 4910: Newfoundland Colonial Census Data, Electoral/Census Division Level, 1911, 1935, 1945 (Delivered in March 2004)
23 UK Data Archive Study Number 4435: Orange Order Lodge Membership, Northern Ireland, 1893-2000 (Released 30 May 2002)
Editorships and Board Memberships
Vice-President, ASEN (Association For the Study of Ethnicity and Nationalism), LSE, 2011- Editor, Nations and Nationalism journal, London School of Economics. Joined editorial team in August 2002 - Editorial Board member, ARENA (Association for Research on Ethnicity and Nationalism in the Americas), 2006 - Executive Board member, Research Committee on Politics and Ethnicity (RC14), International Political Science Association (IPSA), 2006 - Advisory Board, Religion, Brain and Behaviour, 2010 - Advisory Board, Jewish Journal of Sociology, 2010-
Extra-Curricular Activities
Conference organiser, ‘Northern Ireland: Fragile Peace in an Age of Austerity’ Birkbeck College, Oct. 14, 2011. Basis of special issue of Political Quarterly in early 2012. Panel organizer, discussant, chair of panel on ‘Demography and Security: The Politics of Population Change,' American Political Science Association, Toronto, Canada, Sept 3-6, 2009
Co-organised conference on ‘Demography and Security: The Politics of Population Change,' Weatherhead Center, Harvard University, May 1-2, 2009
Discussant, panel on Northern Ireland Politics, (UK) Political Studies Association (PSA) conference, Swansea, Wales, 1-3 April, 2008
Discussant, panel on 'The Turn to Restriction,' European Social Science History Conference (ESSHC), Lisbon, 26-29 February 2008
Chairing and Discussant on panel on: 'Immigration and Fertility: The Political Demography of Ethnic, Religious and National Conflict,' American Political Science Association (APSA), Chicago, Aug 30- Sept 2, 2007
Organised and chaired Conference on 'Political Demography: Ethnic, National and Religious Dimensions' at LSE, 29-30 September 2006
Organised two-day event (evening plus day) under the aegis of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities (BIH) 'Models of the Public Intellectual' series on 'Cultural Conservatism, Economic Progressivism?: The Legacy of the New York Intellectuals' held at Birkbeck College, London, 24-25 May 2006
Organised panel on 'Demographics and Politics' for American Political Science Association meetings, 2006, Philadelphia 24
Organised panel on 'Anglo-Protestants and America,' American Political Science Association meetings, 2005, Washington, DC
Co-Chair of Workshop on 'Unionism and Orangeism in Northern Ireland: Past, Present and Future' at University of Ulster, 9 June, 2005
Co-Chair of Workshop on 'Unionism & Protestant Politics,' at University of Ulster, 19 March 2004
Organised and chaired Conference on 'Majority Groups and Dominant Minorities' at LSE, 16 December 2002
Co-Chair of Workshop on 'Orangeism and Protestant Politics' (with Henry Patterson) at University of Ulster, 8 November, 2002)
Referee: Nations & Nationalism, Ethnic & Racial Studies, Global Society, Social Movements, Economic & Social Research Council, Political Psychology, Journal of Peace Research, Cambridge Review of International Affairs, Population and Development Review, Population Studies, Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, American Journal of Political Science, Journal of Politics, Religion and Politics and others
Seminar Committee Chair - ASEN. (Association For the Study of Ethnicity and Nationalism) at the L.S.E., 1995 - 1998
Committee Chair - L.S.E. Graduate Students Committee, 1995-96
Courses Taught
Postgraduate
**Nationalism and Ethno-Religious Conflict (Birkbeck) **Nationalism in International Context (Birkbeck)
Southampton: *PO 615 New Approaches to Political Science *PO 617 Power & The State **PO 622 Nationalism and Ethnic Conflict *Social Science Faculty Research Training Scheme PhD Methodology Core Module
Undergraduate
*Formation of Modern Societies (Birkbeck) *Political Transformations (Birkbeck) **Nationalism, Ethnicity and Religious Conflict (Birkbeck)
25 Southampton:
PO 102 Political Systems PO 203 Comparative Politics **PO 204 Nationalism and Ethnic Conflict *PO 209 American Politics
* - Indicates co-authorship of course syllabus and contribution to teaching (usually 50%) ** - Indicates complete authorship & convenorship
Supervision & External
PhD Second Supervisor of many others
PhD Supervisor of Kareem Kamel, Birkbeck College, 2010-
PhD Supervisor of Paul Morland, Birkbeck College, 2009 -
PhD Supervisor of Zoe Khor, Birkbeck College, 2009-
Examined Joanie Willett (Exeter) on her thesis, ‘Why is Cornwall so poor? Narrative, perception and identity,' Exeter University, 29 January 2010
PhD Supervisor of Simon Thomson, Birkbeck College, 2007-9
External Examiner, MSc Nationalism and Ethnicity, Department of Government, LSE, 2007- 8 onward
External Examiner, MSc Nationalism in History, Department of International History, LSE, 2007-8 onward
Auditor, Institute of Ulster Scots Studies (IUSS), University of Ulster at Magee, 22-23 November 2007
Examined Daphne Haliokopolou (LSE) on her thesis, 'The Changing Dynamics of Religion and National Identity: Greece and Ireland in a Comparative Perspective,' LSE, 26 September 2007
Examined Heather Murchison (LSE) on her thesis, 'Unmasking Cultural Protectionism: An Analysis of the Relationship between the Nation-State and Culture in Contemporary Canada,' LSE, 16 March 2005
Examined Jonathan Githens-Mazer (LSE) on his thesis, 'Cultural and Political Nationalism in Ireland: Myths and Memories of the Easter Rising,' LSE, 24 August 2005
Numerous Masters dissertations supervised to completion
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Administration
Research Committee, School of Social Sciences, Birkbeck College, 2011-
Chair of Research Committee, Department of Politics, Birkbeck College, 2011-
Quality Assurance Director, Politics, 2009-11 (including preparation for audit of November 2010)
Birkbeck College, Department of Politics, Research Committee, 2010-
School of Social Sciences, History and Philosophy - STQEC committee representative for Politics, 2009-
Served on Internal Review Team for Review of Department of Management, May 2010
Teaching Committee, Birkbeck, 2007-
Publicity Officer, Birkbeck, 2007-9
Programme Director, Nationalism and Ethnic Conflict, Birkbeck, 2005 -
Temporary Programme Director (Govt., Policy & Politics), Birkbeck, 2006-7
Deputy QA Officer, Birkbeck, 2006-
Library Liaison; Research Committee; Deputy QA Officer (one term), Birkbeck, 2004-6
Undergraduate Dissertations Coordinator, 1999-2001
Undergraduate Admissions Selector, 1999-2001
Learning Resources Aspect Panel Co-Chair (Quality Assurance Exercise), 2000-2001
Advanced Training
'Population Dynamics & Projections,' London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, 23 February-24 March 2006. 100 contact hours.
'MLwiN Introductory Multilevel Modelling,' Centre for Multilevel Modelling, Institute of Education, University of London, UK, 8-10 January 2003
'Pooled Time-Series Cross Sectional Analysis,' ECPR Essex Summer School in Social Science Data Analysis, University of Essex, Colchester, England, August 5-14, 2002
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'Introduction to Geographic Information Systems,' ECPR Essex Summer School in Social Science Data Analysis, University of Essex, Colchester, England, July 8-19, 2002
'Data Analysis III,' Centre for Advanced Social Science Analysis (CASS) & ESRC three-day course, University of Southampton, April 2002
'Data Analysis II,' Centre for Advanced Social Science Analysis (CASS) & ESRC three-day course, University of Southampton, April 2001
Professional Development
Birkbeck Professional Development Reviewing, 1 June 2011 Health and Safety, 2004-5
Southampton, 1999-2003 'Introduction to Web Authoring,' Computing Services (6 hrs) ‘Powerpoint’ – K. Shepard at CLT (U. Southampton). (6 hrs) 'Developing a Research-Based Approach to Teaching,' Course given by A Jenkins (Oxford Centre for Staff Development) at CLT (U. Southampton) - 3 hrs Course on Designing Web Pages, by Henry Mpologoma - 1.5 hrs Admissions - CLT - 2 hrs Introduction to Teaching and Learning - Centre for Teaching & Learning (CLT) - 2 hrs
Community
St Barnabas Church of England church, Southfields, London. Spoke at 'Space to Think' series on 'Villains of the Peace?: religion and nationalism'. October 2007 University of Westminster colloquium for 6th form teachers, on Multiculturalism in the United States. July 2007 Rural Development Northern Ireland - have prepared a complementary GIS with plots of all lodges in Northern Ireland June 2004
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