Jeremy Menchik

Jeremy Menchik is Assistant Professor in the Fredrick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University and faculty affiliate in Political Science and Religious Studies. His teaching and research focus on comparative politics and the politics of religion. His book, Islam and Democracy in Indonesia: Tolerance without Liberalism (Cambridge University Press, 2016) explains the meaning of tolerance to the world’s largest Islamic organizations and was the winner of the 2017 International Studies Association award for the best book on religion and international relations. His research has appeared in the journals Comparative Studies in Society and History, Comparative Politics, and South East Asia Research as well as The New York Times, The New York Review of Books, The Washington Post, Christian Science Monitor, The Wall Street Journal, and other venues. Email: menchik@bu.edu