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Thomas Banchoff
Department of Government
Thomas Banchoff is Director of the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs, and Associate Professor in the Government Department and the School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University. His research and teaching center on the politics of religious pluralism, both nationally and internationally. Banchoff is editor of Democracy and the New Religious Pluralism (Oxford University Press, 2007) and Religious Pluralism, Globalization, and World Politics (Oxford University Press, 2008). He is currently completing a manuscript on the religious and secular politics of embryo and stem cell research in Europe and the United States. Banchoff received his BA in History from Yale (summa cum laude) in 1986, an MA in History and Political Science from the University of Bonn in 1988, and a Ph.D. in Politics from Princeton in 1993. He was a Conant Fellow at Harvard's Center for European Studies in 1997-98 and a Humboldt Fellow at the Centre for European Integration Studies in Bonn in 2000-01. Banchoff served as Director of Georgetown's Master of Arts in German and European Studies from 2001-2003 and was awarded the DAAD Award for Distinguished Scholarship in German studies in 2003.Two of Banchoff's previous books explored the intersection of history, institutions, and values in European politics. The German Problem Transformed: Institutions, Politics, and Foreign Policy, 1945-1995 (1999) examined Germany's enduring turn towards a peaceful, multilateral, foreign policy, and Legitimacy and the European Union: The Contested Polity, co-edited with Mitchell Smith (1999), analyzed problems of political representation and identification beyond the level of nation state.
Since assuming leadership of the Berkley Center in 2006, Banchoff has turned his interest in historical and comparative analysis to issues of religion and politics. His book project on embryo and stem cell politics tracks the very different religious and secular controversies in the United States, Germany, France, and the UK, and how they are shaping the global struggle over the future of the life sciences. The book develops arguments first set out in his article: "Path Dependence and Value-Driven Issues: The Comparative Politics of Stem Cell Research," World Politics (2005).
Banchoff is one of the authors on Islam and the West: Annual Report on the State of Dialogue, a collaboration with the World Economic Forum. He is also co-editor (with Robert Wuthnow of Princeton University) of an upcoming book on Religion and the Global Politics of Human Rights, to be published by Oxford University Press.
