Thomas Banchoff
Professor Banchoff is director of the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs. His current research centers on questions of religion and politics in Atlantic democracies. Banchoff is editor of Democracy and the New Religious Pluralism and The New Religious Pluralism, Globalization, and World Politics (both forthcoming with Oxford University Press). He is completing a manuscript on the religious and secular politics of stem cell research in Europe and the United States.
Banchoff’s two previous books explored the intersection of history, institutions, and values in European politics. The German Problem Transformed: Institutions, Politics, and Foreign Policy, 1945-1995 (University of Michigan Press, 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 (Routledge, 1999), analyzed problems of political representation and identitification beyond the level of nation state.
Professor Banchoff received his BA from Yale (summa cum laude) in 1986, an MA 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 was awarded the DAAD Award for Distinguished Scholarship in German studies in 2003.