Jonathan Laurence

Fellowship

Status

Past Fellow

Year

2009

Biography

Biography

American
Political Science
Assistant Professor
Boston College

Jonathan Laurence won the prestigious Lasswell prize for the best dissertation in public policy from the American Political Science Association, which he wrote at Harvard, and has published an important study of Muslim integration in France for the Brookings Institution. He was also a participant in the Bellagio Dialogue. He was a DAAD scholar at the Freie Universität Berlin and has academic experience in Italy and France as well. He will be working on state-Islam relations in Europe and in particular on how Islamic leaders and programs have been changed by their participation in government sponsored forums.