Tom Banchoff

Professor 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.

Banchoff is editor of Democracy and the New Religious Pluralism (Oxford
University Press, 2007), Religious Pluralism, Globalization, and World
Politics (forthcoming, Oxford University Press), and Religion and the
Global Politics of Human Rights, co-edited with Robert Wuthnow
(forthcoming, Oxford University Press). He is also working on a
manuscript on the religious and secular politics of stem cell research
in Europe and the United States.

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
(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