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Jonathan Laurence (born 1977) is an American political scientist specializing in the fields of Comparative Politics and Foreign Policy. He is an associate professor of Political Science at Boston College and nonresident Senior Fellow in the Center on the US and Europe, Foreign Policy Studies at the Brookings Institution. He is the author of The Emancipation of Europe's Muslims: The State's Role in MInority Integration and co-author (with Justin Vaisse) of Integrating Islam: Political and Religious Challenges in Contemporary France. Both books have received several awards; most recently, Emancipation received the American Political Science Association's Award for Best Book in Religion and Politics (2013).

Laurence is in the process of authoring a new book, focusing on the Church-State relationship in a broad context. He is a visiting fellow at CERI-Sciences Po (Paris) for the summer of 2015.

Recent Media Appearances and Publications
His expertise regarding Muslims in Europe has been sought as a response to the January, 2015 attacks in Paris around Charlie Hebdo.

Interviews

 * with Anderson Cooper, CNN (9 January)
 * CNN, Anderson Cooper (13 January)
 * with Chris Hayes, MSNBC (9 January)
 * with Jim Sciutto, CNN (11 January)
 * CNN, Jim Sciutto (10 January)
 * Marco Werman, BBC-Public Radio International (9 January)
 * with Kathleen Hays and Vonnie Quinn,Bloomberg Radio (9 January) (@minute 13:50-22:30)

Essays

 * "Will France Attack Fuel Tensions?" (30 June, 2015), CNN.com
 * "The Algerian Legacy: How France Should Confront its Past," (16 January, 2015) Foreign Affairs
 * "The Right Message" (8 January 2015), Slate.com

Other Mentions

 * The Wall Street Journal
 * USA Today
 * The New York Times
 * Christian Science Monitor
 * The Economist

Education
Laurence grew up in New York, and in 1998 graduated summa cum laude with a B.A. from Cornell University. He also had received a Certificat d'Etudes Politiques from Sciences Po-Paris in 1997. He then studied towards a Ph.D. at Harvard University, from which he graduated in 2006. He was awarded "American Political Science Association’s Harold D. Lasswell Prize for best Ph.D. dissertation on public policy in 2004 or 2005."

Academic Career
Laurence has been teaching at Boston College since 2005, and has been with the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C. since 2003. In 2008, he became a Nonresident Senior Fellow for the Center on the US and Europe, Foreign Policy Studies at Brookings Institution. His work regularly appears in major publications, and he has received much acclaim for his books The Emancipation of Europe's Muslims (Princeton, 2012), and Integrating Islam (with Justin Vaïsse).

Selected Awards and Positions

 * 2012 Berlin prize fellow at the American Academy in Berlin
 * senior fellow at the Transatlantic Academy (2008-9)
 * term member of the Council on Foreign Relations (2008-2013)
 * a frequent guest researcher at Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin
 * a visiting professor at Libera Università Internazionale degli Studi Sociali (LUISS) Guido Carli in Rome
 * a Council on the US and Italy visiting fellow at the Brookings Institution
 * a guest researcher at New York University and at Sciences Po-Paris.
 * Advisory Boards: Reset Dialogue of Civilizations (Rome), the Center for the Study of Terrorism (University of Rome – Tor Vergata) and the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies (University of Sussex – UK).

Major Publications
Laurence published The Emancipation of Europe's Muslims in 2012 with Princeton University Press, as a part of the series 'Princeton Studies in Muslim Politics'. The book 'traces how governments across Western Europe have responded to the growing presence of Muslim immigrants in their countries over the past fifty years...Laurence sheds light on the geoplitical implications of a religious minority's transition from outsiders to citizens.' Emancipation has been lauded by The New York Review of Books, Foreign Affairs, and other major journals and publications. The book has received the American Political Science Association's 2013 Hubert Morken prize for Best Book in Religion and Politics and its 2013 Prize for Best Book in Migration and Citizenship, as well as being chosen as one of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2012.

"His first book, Integrating Islam: Political and Religious Challenges in Contemporary France (with Justin Vaisse), was published by Brookings Institution Press (2006) and, in French, by Odile Jacob in 2007. The New York Review of Books noted it as an “authoritative and optimistic reading of the successes and failures of cultural integration” in France. Both Integrating Islam and Emancipation were named one of Choice magazine’s ”Outstanding Academic Titles” of the year (2007 and 2012). He is completing a new book examining the evolution of Official Islam."

Publications
His work has been featured in: and other publications.
 * The Economist
 * The Washington Post
 * La Croix
 * National Public Radio (Berlin)
 * European Political Science
 * Foreign Affairs
 * Foreign Policy
 * International Crisis Group
 * Le Monde
 * The New York Times
 * Perspectives on Politics
 * Sueddeutsche Zeitung
 * Der Tagesspiegel
 * Slate.com

2015

 * "Will France Attack Fuel Tensions?" (30 June, 2015), CNN.com
 * "The Algerian Legacy: How France Should Confront its Past," (16 January, 2015) Foreign Affairs
 * "The Right Message" (8 January 2015), Slate.com
 * "Tunisia, The Courage of Compromise" (5 February 2015), ResetDOC.org
 * Interview: Morocco's Regional Islam policy (French) (5 January 2015), Libération

2014

 * Essay: A Historic Compromise in Tunisia? (21 November 2014), Brookings.edu
 * "French Jihad Movements and Jewish Flight" ( 24 October 2014), nce Brookings.edu
 * "Essay: The Berlin Republic in the 21st Century" (June 2014), Brookings.edu

Previous Years (Selected)

 * The Prophet of Moderation (Foreign Affairs, 2012)
 * Why is it so hard to say sorry in french? (Foreign Affairs, 2012)
 * Islam and Social Democrats (Dissent, 2013)
 * Integration or Emancipation? (Berlin prize, 2012)
 * How to Integrate Europe's Muslims (New York Times, 2012)
 * Islam's place in Europe (CNN, 2012)