{"id":11689,"date":"2014-09-17T13:20:19","date_gmt":"2014-09-17T17:20:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/?post_type=profile&#038;p=11689"},"modified":"2026-04-29T11:52:05","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T15:52:05","slug":"jeremy-menchik","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/profile\/jeremy-menchik\/","title":{"rendered":"Jeremy Menchik"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Jeremy Menchik is Associate Professor of International Relations and Political Science, and Director of the Institute on Culture, Religion and World Affairs (CURA). His most recent book, co-authored with\u00a0<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.oii.ox.ac.uk\/people\/profiles\/clara-martiny\/\">Clara Martiny<\/a> (BA IR &#8217;21),<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Gianluca Stringhini, Samuel Bazzi, Pujan Puadel,<\/span> and Seth Soderborg, <i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cambridge.org\/us\/universitypress\/subjects\/sociology\/political-sociology\/protests-and-radicalization-digital-age-reopen-movement\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"https:\/\/www.cambridge.org\/us\/universitypress\/subjects\/sociology\/political-sociology\/protests-and-radicalization-digital-age-reopen-movement\" rel=\"noopener\">Protests and Radicalization in the Digital Age: The Reopen Movement<\/a><\/i>\u00a0(Cambridge University Press) examines how social movements emerge, evolve, and radicalize in an era shaped by social media and digital infrastructure.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">His first book, <a href=\"http:\/\/a.co\/iFFJxZQ\"><em>Islam and Democracy in Indonesia: Tolerance without Liberalism<\/em><\/a><\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> (Cambridge University Press, 2016) explains the meaning of tolerance to the world\u2019s largest Islamic organizations and was the winner of the 2017 International Studies Association award for the best book on religion and international relations.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">He has received numerous awards and fellowships for teaching and research, and his work has appeared in the academic journals <\/span><i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Comparative Studies in Society and History, Comparative Politics, Party Politics, International Studies Review, Politics and Religion, Indonesia, <\/span><\/i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">and<\/span><i><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> South East Asia Research <\/span><\/i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">as well as in<\/span><i><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> The New York Times, The New York Review of Books, The Washington Post, Christian Science Monitor, The Wall Street Journal, <\/span><\/i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">and<\/span><i><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> USA Today.<\/span><\/i><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\"> He was also named the <a href=\"https:\/\/jewishheritagecenter.org\">Jewish Heritage Center<\/a>\u2019s 2026 Genevieve Geller Wyner Research Fellow.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Professor Menchik\u2019s areas of expertise include comparative politics, religion and politics, Southeast Asia, and the Middle East.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Read more at Jeremy Menchik\u2019s <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/jeremymenchik.com\/\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">personal website<\/span><\/a><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> and follow him on <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jeremymenchik\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><span data-contrast=\"auto\">.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8774,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/11689"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8774"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/11689\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63568,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/11689\/revisions\/63568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}