Jeremy Menchik (He/Him)

Director of the Institute on Culture, Religion, and World Affairs (CURA)

Education
PhD University of Wisconsin-Madison
MA University of Wisconsin-Madison
BA University of Michigan
Office
121 Bay State Road, Boston, MA
Email
menchik@bu.edu
Phone
(617) 358-0692

Jeremy Menchik (He/Him) is Director of the Institute on Culture, Religion and World Affairs (CURA) and Associate Professor of International Relations and Political Science. His first 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. He has received numerous awards and fellowships for teaching and research, and his work has appeared in the academic journals Comparative Studies in Society and History, Comparative Politics, Party Politics, International Studies Review, Politics and Religion, Indonesia, and South East Asia Research as well as in The New York Times, The New York Review of Books, The Washington Post, Christian Science Monitor, The Wall Street Journal, and USA Today.

 

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