Publication Record (accepted or in print)
Books:
1) The Orange Order: A Contemporary Northern Irish History, (Oxford University Press 2007; paperback 2009); Serialised in Belfast News Letter, 21 to 26 May 2007; Reviewed in Belfast News Letter (5 June 2007), Irish Times (30 June 2007), Prospect (November 2007), Irish Independent (July 2007), Irish Studies Review (Dec 2007), History Ireland (Nov/Dec), London Review of Books
3) The Rise and Fall of Anglo-America: The Decline of Dominant Ethnicity in the United States (Harvard University Press, 2004) - sole-authored monograph. Reviewed positively in Financial Times (2004), Times Higher Education Supplement (2005), Review of Metaphysics (2004), Choice (2005), The Journal of American Culture (2005), Modern Age (2005), The Journal of American History (2005), Cercles: Revue pluridisciplinaire du monde anglophone (2006), Journal of American Ethnic History (2006), Rhetoric and Public Affairs (2007)
4) Rethinking Ethnicity: Majority Groups and Dominant Minorities (Routledge, 2004) - edited
Refereed Articles:
'Human Development and the Demography of Secularisation in Global Perspective', Interdisciplinary Journal of Research on Religion - draft version (final version can be downloaded here) abstract figures tables appendix
The Lenses of Nationhood: An Optical Model of Identity', Nations and Nationalism, forthcoming in 14.3 (2008), [figure 1 2 3 4]
Invited Articles
'The Dominant Ethnic Moment: Towards the Abolition of 'Whiteness'?,' Debate article with David Roediger (Also reply to Roediger's reply). Ethnicities, vol. 6.1 (March), 2006, pp. 231-253
Popular Magazines & Newspapers
Article on the legacy of the late Samuel Huntington, ‘The Meaning of Huntington’, in Prospect magazine, February 2009
‘Peaceful Xenophobes’, Prospect, November 2008
" 'God Returns to Europe', review of God's Continent, by Philip Jenkins, Prospect, November 2007
" 'Shall the Religious Inherit the Earth', Jewish Quarterly, Autumn 2007
" 'Parades ... could there soon be a deal?', Belfast Telegaph, 11 July 2007
'An
Orange History from the Inside', Belfast News
Letter, 21 May 2007 (Followed by six daily extracts from my book, The
Orange Order, 22-26 May)
'Breeding for God', Prospect, November 2006
" 'Canada Blazes Trail', Prospect, March 2006
" 'The New Unionism', Prospect, November 2005
" 'Simply Canadian', Vancouver Sun, 30 August 05
" 'Ethnic America,' Prospect, July 2004, pp. 34-39
Book Chapters:
'Faith's
Comeback?: The Demographic Revival of Religion in Europe',
in Un Nuovo Umanesimo per L'Europa, University
of San Pio V, Basilica de San Giovanni in Laterano conference volume,
forthcoming
Policy Papers
'
A Dying Creed?: The demographic contradictions of liberal capitalism', ESRC UPTAP
programme briefing paper, March 2007. Also available at:
<http://www.uptap.net>
" 'From Deference to Defiance: Popular Unionism and the Decline of Elite Accommodation in Northern Ireland,' ESRC Devolution & Constitutional Change programme, Devolution Briefings, No. 29, August 2005 <http://www.devolution.ac.uk/pdfdata/Briefing%2029%20-%20Kaufmann%20and%20Patterson.pdf>
Media Appearances
January 2008 - Secularization and Religious demography Interview, Revista Palabra, Spain
25 November 2007: BBC Northern Ireland 'Sunday Sequence' on my book, The Orange Order
24 October 2007: Ulster Television (UTV) re Loyalist decommissioning
12 July 2007: BBC Radio Ulster 'Stephen Nolan Show' Programme re Belfast Twelfth Parade
22 June 2007: Interviewed on Italian television at conference in Rome. About inter-ethnic relations, comparing the UK and Italy
7
May 2007: BBC Radio Ulster 'Talkback' Programme regarding my new Orange Order
book
11 August, 2005: BBC News 24 TV 'Multiculturalism Survey', live debate with two other panelists re multiculturalism in context of Islamism/London bombings
9 June, 2005: BBC 2 TV Northern Ireland (live) Breakfast program, Belfast (UK) - Comment on the future of the UUP and UUP-Orange connection
7 May, 2005: SKY TV (Live) News 4:30pm, London (UK) - Comment on May 2005 Northern Ireland election result for the Ulster Unionist Party and David Trimble's resignation
4 March, 2005: SKY TV (Live) News 9:30pm, London (UK) - Comment on implications of murder of Robert Macartney and Sinn Fein 100th Anniversary Ard Fheis
23 February 2005 - Financial sanctions against Sinn Fein: Dr Eric Kaufman - 'Peace process needs major concession from Sinn Fein' - politics.co.uk interview, London (UK)
9 February, 2005: SKY TV (Live) News 7:30pm, London (UK) - Comment on implications for Northern Ireland Peace Process of Tony Blair's apology to the Guildford Four
8 July, 2004: Michigan Public Radio 'Stateside' show: 20-minute interview with host Charity Nebbe regarding my book 'The Rise and Fall of Anglo-America'
20 March 2004: Belfast News Letter, N. Ireland (UK). Interview on UUP research for story 'Traditional Versus Modern Tells Tale Amid the Voters' by Ross Smith.
8 November 2002: Radio Ulster, Belfast, N. Ireland (UK) - Interviewed re Orange Order research for religious affairs programme
Reviews
Book Review of Appiah, K. Anthony, 'The Ethics of Identity,' H-Nationalism, 26 June 2006
Book review of David Brown, 'Contemporary Nationalism,' Ethnic and Racial Studies, vol. 24, no. 5 (Sept. 2001), pp. 570-71
Work in Progress:
1. Monograph - Shall the Religious Inherit the Earth: Religion, Demography and Politics in the 21st Century, Profile Books, contracted for delivery in September 2009
2. (edited, with Jack Goldstone and Monica Toft) - Political Demography: Interests, Conflict and Institutions (Palgrave-Macmillan 2010)
3. (edited) - Neoconservatism and the Legacy of the New York Intellectuals
Awards, Honours and Funded Research
" March 2008 - Winner of Belfer Center Postdoctoral Fellowship, Harvard University, US$34,000
" February 2008 - Winner of Political Studies Association 2008 Richard Rose Prize, awarded to a scholar under 40 who has made a distinctive contribution to the study of British politics (including Northern Ireland), through the publication of books and articles
" 15 January 2008 - Invited Panelist, 2008 UK-US Fulbright Debate, 'Is Multiculturalism Dead', Notre Dame University, London
" September 2006 - 'Outstanding' (highest possible) rating on ESRC Grant end of award report" 9 December 2005 - British Academy Conference Grant award for conference on 'The Legacy of the New York Intellectuals', £2000
" 21 August 2005 - Economic & Social Research Council (ESRC) Understanding Population Trends and Processes Programme sole-authored grant for £40,000 'Outstanding' (highest possible) rating on ESRC Grant end of award report (May 2007)
" 2 June 2005 - Invited to speak for the motion at Oxford Union annual debate/dinner on Multiculturalism in Britain (University of Oxford). Other speakers for the motion were Trevor Phillips, Ted Cantle and Baronness Uddin.
" 1 March 2005 - 'Outstanding' (highest possible) rating on ESRC Grant end of award report
" 1 March 2005 - Invited to participate on roundtable, 'Britishness Today', chaired by David Goodhart (Prospect Magazine) and Gordon Brown (Chancellor of the Exchequer). Department of the Treasury, London. (Proceedings published in April 2005 issue of Prospect)
" 12 October 2004 - 'Outstanding' (highest possible) rating on ESRC Fellowship end of award report
" 6 April 2004 - $3000 CDN award from J.R. Smallwood Foundation, Memorial University, St. John's, NF, Canada, for project on 'The Orange Order in the Twentieth Century (Newfoundland phase).'
" 1 March, 2003 - Nominated for Harvard University Press' Wilson Prize for first-time authors by Michael Aronson, Senior Editor in the Social Sciences at HUP. " August 2002 - Invited to join editorial board of Cambridge journal, Nations & Nationalism
" May 2002 - £700 British Academy Conference Grant award for conference on 'Majority Groups & Dominant Minorities' (held at LSE, December 2002)
" February 2002 - £400 Foundation for Canadian Studies in the UK grant for workshop on 'Orangeism and Protestant Politics,' (University of Ulster, February 2002)
" November, 2001 - Economic & Social Research Council (ESRC) Devolution and Constitutional Change Programme grant for £67,000. This for a joint project with Professor Henry Patterson (University of Ulster) entitled "Popular Unionism and the Devolution Process." - Project awarded an 'outstanding' (highest possible) grade by ESRC and referees, 2005
" July, 2001 - Economic & Social Research Council (ESRC) two-year academic Fellowship for £70,000 for three related sole-authored projects concerning "Dominant Ethnicity and Social Change." - Project awarded an 'outstanding' (highest possible) grade by ESRC and referees, 2004
" June, 2000 - British Academy grant for £1700 for research on the Orange Order in Northern Ireland and Scotland.
" May, 2000 - University of Southampton, Faculty of Social Science Research Award for £900 for research on the Orange Order in Scotland.
" February, 2000 - Canadian High Commission Faculty Research Award for $4,500 Cdn. To fund research on the Orange Order in Canada during July-September 2000.
" December, 1999 - Molson Research Award for £500 from the British Association for Canadian Studies. To fund research on the Orange Order in Canada during winter, 1999/2000.
" 1999 - University of Southampton, Faculty of Social Science Research Award for £790 for research on the Orange Order in Northern Ireland.
" 1998 - Received the Reinhard Bendix Prize (with fellow LSE doctoral student Oliver Zimmer) for paper, 'In Search of the Authentic Nation: Landscape and National Identity in Canada and Switzerland.' This award is for the best graduate student paper in comparative and historical sociology and is awarded every two years by the Comparative & Historical Sociology section of the American Sociological Association.
Invited Lectures (some available for download in powerpoint)
21-22 February 2008 - Bureau of Intelligence and Research, U.S. Department of State/National Intelligence Council, 'National Intelligence Council and Intelligence Community Study Group on the Middle East 2025', Meridian International Center, Washington [invited roundtable participant]
25 October 2007, 'Loyalism', discussion with Paul Bew, Steve Bruce and myself, moderated by BBC's William Crawley, Belfast Literary Festival, Elmwood Hall
19 October 2007, 'Dominant Ethnicity and Integration: the Estonian Case', Tallinn Conference on Conceptualizing Integration, Estonian Ministry of Integration
3 July 2007 - 'Minorities, Multiculturalism, and Contemporary US Politics: The Return of Assimilation', University of Westminster conference for 'A' level teachers, London
'Dominant Ethnicity and Dominant Nationhood: Empirical and Normative Aspects', at conference on 'Majority and state nationalism: ethnicity, culture and politics/Nationalisme majoritaire et étatique: ethnicité, culture et politique', Université de Québec a Montréal, 5 April 2007
2 June 2005 - Invited to speak for the motion at Oxford Union annual debate/dinner on Multiculturalism in Britain (University of Oxford). Other speakers for the motion were Trevor Phillips, Ted Cantle and Baronness Uddin.
2 March 2005 - 'From Deference to Defiance: the Transformation of the Orange Order since 1950,' Institute for the Study of Social Change, University College, Dublin, Ireland
1 March 2005 - Invited to participate on roundtable, 'Britishness Today', chaired by David Goodhart (Prospect Magazine) and Gordon Brown (Chancellor of the Exchequer). Department of the Treasury, London. (Proceedings published in April 2005 issue of Prospect)9 December 2004 - 'The Orange Order in comparative perspective: Northern Ireland, Scotland and Canada,' Institute of Irish Studies, Aberdeen, Scotland
Invited to sit on roundtable, 'Is Britain too Diverse?', chaired by David Goodhart (Prospect Magazine), Political Studies Association, Lincoln, 6 April 2004
19 February, 2004 - 'The Dynamics of Intra-Party Support for the Good Friday Agreement in the Ulster Unionist Party', for conference on 'New Representations: the use of Geodemographic Classifications in Research and Public Service Delivery, joint ESRC/NERC/EPSRC Transdisciplinary Seminar Series and ESRC Research Methods Seminar Series, UCL, London, England
19 February, 2004 - 'The Orange Order and Politics in Northern Ireland and Canada: A Comparative Perspective,' Institute of Commonwealth Studies, London, England
13-15 June, 2003 - Keynote address: 'National Ethnicity and the Modern State,' for conference on 'Statehood Beyond Ethnicity: From the Early Modern to the Present State, A Comparative Study of Smaller States in Northern and Eastern Europe,' University College of Southern Stockholm, in collaboration with Northern European Historical Research Network (NEHRN)
5 March 2002 - 'The Dynamics of Orangeism in Northern Ireland,' Department of Politics and International Relations, University of the West of England, Bristol
27 February, 2002 - 'The 'Real World': The Sensory Basis of Social Concepts', School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), London, England
21 January 2001 - 'The Decline of the WASP?: The Orange Order and Dominant Ethnic Decline in Canada and Northern Ireland,' Centre for Ethnicity and Pluralism Studies, University of Toronto, Canada.
Conference Presentations (some available for download in powerpoint)
'Dominant Ethnicity: A
Normative Exploration', Association for the Study of Ethnicity and
Nationalism (ASEN) conference
2. 'The Demographic Contradictions of Liberal Capitalism: Rethinking Daniel Bell's Theory', Libertarian Hawks or Cultural Communitarians? Neoconservatism and the Legacy of the New York Intellectuals, Birkbeck College, 24-25 May 2006
3. 'The Storm Behind Lodge Doors: The Orange Order in Northern Ireland, 1995-2005', Political Studies Association, Reading, UK 5 April, 2006
4. 'A Dying Creed?: The Demographic Contradictions of Liberal Capitalism', ESRC UPTAP programme meetings, University of Leeds, 30-31 March 2006
5. Presentation on North American perspective, for Roundtable 'Integrating the Other in France: The Banlieues Riots in International Perspective', European Social Science History Conference (ESSHC), Amsterdam, 22-25 March 2006
6. Presentation on North American cases, for Roundtable on 'Global Perspectives on the Ethnic-Civic Nationalism Dilemma,' American Historical Association (AHA) Annual Conference, Philadelphia, 5-8 January 2006
7. 'The Orange Order in Ontario, Newfoundland, Scotland and Northern Ireland: A Macro-Social Analysis', The Orange Order in Canada, University of Toronto/Institute for Ulster-Scots Studies, University of Toronto, Canada, 5-6 November 2005
8. "The Decline of the WASP?: Anglo-Protestant Ethnicity and the American Nation-State" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Washington, DC, September 1, 2005
9. 'Dominant ethnicity: from background to foreground', CRONEM (Centre for Research on Nationalism, Ethnicity and Multiculturalism) conference on 'The Future of Multicultural Britain: Meeting Across Boundaries,' University of Surrey, Roehampton, 14-15 June 2005
10. 'Revenge of the Grassroots: The Transformation of the Orange Order since 1950' for ESRC/University of Ulster conference on 'Unionism and Orangeism in Northern Ireland: Past, Present and Future', University of Ulster at Jordanstown, 9 June 2005
11. 'The Rise of Cosmopolitanism in the West: A Comparison of the United States and European Union, Association for the Study of Ethnicity and Nationalism (ASEN) conference, 'Nation and Empire', LSE, London, 22 April, 2005
12. 'From Deference to Defiance: the Transformation of the Orange Order since 1950,' Institute for the Study of Social Change, University College, Dublin, Ireland, 2 March 2005
13. 'Dominant Ethnicity: From Background to Foreground,' International Political Science Association conference on Ethnicity and Politics, University of Ottawa, Canada, 30 September - 2 Oct 2004
14. 'From Deference to Defiance: the Transformation of the Orange Order since 1950,' for conference on 'Northern Ireland: A Civil or Uncivil Society', University of the West of England, Bristol, 25 September 2004
15. 'The Orange Order in Newfoundland in the 20th Century: A Comparative Analysis', Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada, 19 May, 2004
16. 'Orangeism in Northern Ireland, Scotland, Newfoundland and Ontario: A Comparative Perspective,' Renvall Institute for Area and Cultural Studies, 'The Celtic Connection in North America,' University of Helsinki, 5-7 May 2004
17. ' "Dominant Ethnicity" in the Work of A.D. Smith', for Association for the Study of Ethnicity and Nationalism (ASEN) conference, 'When is the Nation?', LSE, London, 23 April, 2004
18. 'The Decline of the UUP: an electoral analysis', Political Studies Association, Lincoln, England, 6 April 2004
19. 'Conceptualising Dominant Ethnicity, Past and Present,' European Social Science History Conference (ESSHC), Berlin, Germany, 26 March 2004
20. 'The Dynamics of Intra-Party Support for the Good Friday Agreement in the Ulster Unionist Party,' ESRC/University of Ulster ' "Simply British?": The Ulster Unionist Party and Devolution from Craig to Trimble,' Belfast, Northern Ireland, 19 March 2004
21. 'Theoretical Overview,' Association for the Study of Ethnicity and Nationalism/ESRC, 'Dominant Ethnicity: Majority Groups and Dominant Minorities,' 16 December, 2002, London School of Economics, London, England
22. 'Twentieth Century Orangeism in Comparative Perspective,' ESRC/University of Ulster at Jordanstown, 'Orangeism and Popular Unionism,' November 8, 2002, Belfast, Northern Ireland
23. 'The Orange Order in the Twentieth Century: A Comparative Analysis of N. Ireland, Scotland, Newfoundland and Ontario,' Canadian Political Science Association, May 29-31, 2002, Toronto, Canada
24. 'The Decline of the Orange Order and the Crisis of British-Canadian Ethnicity, 1920-70,' Institute of Commonwealth Studies, 'Canada and the End of Empire,' April 26-28, 2001, London, England
25. 'The Decline of Sectarianism in the West?: A Comparison of the Orange Order in Canada and Ulster,' International Political Science Association, August 1-5, 2000, Quebec City, Canada
26. 'Liberal Ethnicity: Beyond Liberal Nationalism and Minority Rights,' Canadian Political Science Association, July 27-30, 2000, Quebec City, Canada,
27. 'National Ethnicity: the Empirical and Normative Status of Majority Groups,' University of Bristol Department of Sociology, 'Nationalism and Minority Rights,' 16-19 September, 1999, Bristol, England
28. 'Naturalizing the Nation: Northern Landscape and Canadian Identity,' British Association for Canadian Studies, 'Culture and Context,' 6-9 April, 1998, University of Staffordshire, England
29. 'From Anglo-Saxon to Avant-Garde: Modernism and White American Identity Since 1913,' British Association for American Studies, 'Identifying America,' 6 December, 1997, Exeter University, England
30. 'The End of Anglo-America?: Theorizing the Decline of National Ethnicity in the United States and English Canada,' American Sociological Association, 'Bridges for Sociology,' 9-13 August, 1997, Sheraton Centre, Toronto, Canada
31. 'American Exceptionalism Reconsidered: the Case of WASP America,' British Association of American Studies, 'Reconstructing America,' 4-7 April, 1997, University of Birmingham, England
32. 'Condemned to Rootlessness: The Loyalist Origins of Canada's Identity Crisis,' British Association for Canadian Studies, 24-27 March, 1997, University of Swansea, Wales
33. 'Beyond the End of History: the Coming Utilitarian Revolution,' Utilitas, 'Utilitarianism Reconsidered,' 22-23 March, 1997, New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S.A.
34. ' "Anglo versus Cosmopolitan": the Genesis of a New Boundary in English-Canadian Political Culture,' British Association for Canadian Studies, 'Boundaries,' 3-5 May, 1996, Edinburgh University, Scotland
Datasets
Editorships and Board Memberships
" Editor, Nations and Nationalism journal, London School of Economics. Joined editorial team in August 2002 - " Editorial Board member, ARENA (Association for Research on Ethnicity and Nationalism in the Americas), 2006 - " Executive Board member, Research Committee on Politics and Ethnicity (RC14), International Political Science Association (IPSA), 2006 -
Extra-Curricular Activities
" Organised and chaired Conference on 'Political Demography: Ethnic, National and Religious Dimensions' at LSE, 29-30 September 2006
" Organised two-day event (evening plus day) under the aegis of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities (BIH) 'Models of the Public Intellectual' series on 'Cultural Conservatism, Economic Progressivism?: The Legacy of the New York Intellectuals' held at Birkbeck College, London, 24-25 May 2006
" Organised panel on 'Demographics and Politics' for American Political Science Association meetings, 2006, Philadelphia
" Organised panel on 'Anglo-Protestants and America', American Political Science Association meetings, 2005, Washington, DC
" Co-Chair of Workshop on 'Unionism and Orangeism in Northern Ireland: Past, Present and Future' at University of Ulster, 9 June, 2005
" Co-Chair of Workshop on 'Unionism & Protestant Politics,' at University of Ulster, 19 March 2004
" Organised and chaired Conference on 'Majority Groups and Dominant Minorities' at LSE, 16 December 2002
" Co-Chair of Workshop on 'Orangeism and Protestant Politics' (with Henry Patterson) at University of Ulster, 8 November, 2002)
" Referee: Nations & Nationalism, Ethnic & Racial Studies, Global Society, Social Movements, Economic & Social Research Council, Political Psychology
" Seminar Committee Chair - ASEN. (Association For the Study of Ethnicity and Nationalism) at the L.S.E., 1995 - 1998
" Committee Chair - L.S.E. Graduate Students Committee, 1995-96
