Curriculum vitae
Name:
Eric Kaufmann
Address:
Department of Politics
Birkbeck College, University of London
Malet St., London, United Kingdom
WC1E 7HX
Telephone:
office: 0203-073-8126; 0207-631-6789
Email address:
e.kaufmann@bbk.ac.uk
Qualifications:
PhD (Sept. 1994 - Nov. 1998)
London School of Economics and Political Science
London, U.K.
Masters of Science (Sept. 1993 - Sept. 1994)
London School of Economics and Political Science
London, U.K.
Bachelor of Arts (Sept. 1988 - Apr. 1991)
University of Western Ontario
London, Ontario, Canada
Date of Birth:
11 May 1970
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Academic Posts Held
 Professor of Politics, Birkbeck College, University of London, 2011-present. Director
of Masters Programme in Nationalism and Ethnic Conflict since 2005
 Fellow, Religion in International Affairs Initiative/International Security Program,
Belfer Center, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 2008-9
 Reader in Politics, Birkbeck College, University of London 2007-2010. Lecturer from
October 2003 - 2006; Senior Lecturer 2006.

Lecturer in Comparative Politics, University of Southampton, February 1999 September 2003
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Publication Record
Books
Edited Books
Refereed Journal Articles
Awards and Research Grants
Articles Submitted or Planned
Other Journal Articles
Chapters in Edited Books
Policy, Think Tank or Briefing Papers
Magazine, Newspaper and Blog Articles
Electronic Media Appearances and Extended Interviews
Book Reviews
Invited Lectures and Keynote Speeches
Conference Presentations
Datasets
Editorships and Board Memberships
Organisational Activities
Administrative Roles
Courses Taught
Supervision and External
Advanced Training
Professional Development
Community
Media Coverage of research
Books
1. Shall the Religious Inherit the Earth: Demography and Politics in the 21st Century,
Profile Books 2010. - Reviewed in Sunday Times, Observer, FT, Literary Review,
Independent, Telegraph, New Humanist, London Metro, Toronto Globe and Mail, The
(Sydney) Australian, Morning Star, Sunday Star Times (New Zealand), Spiked Online,
Huffington Post, Big Issue Scotland and others. Academic reviews in Comparative
Strategy (Sept 2010) and Population and Development Review (Autumn 2010).
2. 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 (June 2007), Irish Times (July 2007), Irish
Independent (July 2007), Prospect (November 2007), Irish Studies Review (Dec
2007), History Ireland (November/December 2007), Political Studies (March 2008),
Twentieth Century British History (Sept 2008), Journal of Contemporary History
(2009)
3. Patterson, H. and E. Kaufmann, Unionism and Orangeism in Northern Ireland Since
1945 (Manchester University Press, 2007). Reviewed in Prospect (November 2007),
History Ireland (November/December 2007), Political Studies (March 2008)
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4. The Rise and Fall of Anglo-America: The Decline of Dominant Ethnicity in the United
States (Harvard University Press, 2004). Reviewed 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)
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Edited Books
1. Co-edited with Jack Goldstone and Monica Duffy Toft, Political Demography: How
Population Changes Are Reshaping International Security and National Politics
(Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012)
2. Co-edited with W Bradford Wilcox, Whither the Child?: Causes, Consequences and
Responses to Low Fertility (publisher: Boulder, CO: Paradigm Press, 2013)
3. Co-edited with Robert Schertzer and Eric Taylor Woods, Nationalism and Conflict
Management (Routledge, August 2012)
4. Rethinking Ethnicity: Majority Groups and Dominant Minorities (Routledge, 2004)
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Refereed Articles
1. ‘ “White flight” or Positive Contact?: local diversity and attitudes to immigration in
Britain,' Comparative Political Studies, vol. 48, no. 12, pp. 1563-1590
2. with A. Goujon, M.Stonawski and V. Skirbekk, 'The End of Secularisation through
Demography?: projections of Spanish religiosity,' Journal of Contemporary Religion,
Vol. 30, No. 1, January 2015
3. ‘ “It’s the Demography, Stupid”: Ethnic Change and Opposition to Immigration,’
Political Quarterly, Vol. 85, No. 3, pp. 267-76, November 2014
4. 'Land, History or Modernization?: explaining ethnic fractionalization,' Ethnic &
Racial Studies, 38:2, 2014, pp. 193-210
5. 'The Northern Ireland Peace Process in an Age of Austerity,' Political Quarterly, vol.
83, no.2, (March) 2012, pp. 203-209 (also editor of special issue on Northern Ireland)
6. ‘Primordialists and Constructionists: A typology of theories of religion,’ Religion,
Brain and Behavior, Issue 2 (2), 2012, pp 140-60
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7. with Vegard Skirbekk and Anne Goujon, 'American political affiliation, 2003–43: A
cohort component projection,' Population Studies, vol. 66, no.1 (2012), pp. 53-67
8. with Anne Goujon and Vegard Skirbekk, 'The End of Secularization in Europe?: A
Socio-Demographic Perspective', Sociology of Religion, vol. 73, no.1, 2012, pp. 69-91
9. 'Demographic Change and Conflict in Northern Ireland: Reconciling Qualitative and
Quantitative Evidence,' Journal of Ethnopolitics, vol. 3, no. 4, September, 2011, pp.
369-89
10. 'Reflections on the Swiss Sonderfall,' Nations and Nationalism, vol. 17 (September
2011), pp. 815-20
11. with Eric Woods and Robert Schertzer, 'Ethno-national conflict and its Management,'
Commonwealth and Comparative Politics, 49.2, April 2011, pp. 153-61
12. with Vegard Skirbekk and Anne Goujon, 'Secularism, Fundamentalism or
Catholicism? The Religious Composition of the United States to 2043,' Journal for
the Scientific Study of Religion, vol. 49, no. 2 (June) 2010, pp. 293-310
13. with Oded Haklai, 'Dominant Ethnicity: From Minority to Majority,' Nations and
Nationalism, issue 14.4 (2008), pp. 743-67; see also my introduction to the dominant
ethnicity section and our debate piece with Andreas Wimmer in same issue
14. 'Human Development and the Demography of Secularization in Global Perspective,'
Interdisciplinary Journal of Research on Religion, Volume 4: 2008, pp. 1-37
15. 'The Lenses of Nationhood: An Optical Model of Identity,' Nations and Nationalism,
14.3 (2008), pp. 449-77
16. Kaufmann, E. and H. Patterson, ‘The Dynamics of Intra-Party Support for the Good
Friday Agreement in the Ulster Unionist Party,’ Political Studies, vol. 54, no. 3
(October) 2006, pp. 509-32
17. 'The Dynamics of Orangeism in Scotland: The Social Sources of Political Influence in
a Large Fraternal Organization,' Social Science History, volume 30: 2 (Summer)
2006, pp. 263-92
18. with O. Zimmer, ' "Dominant Ethnicity" and the "Ethnic-Civic" Dichotomy in the
work of A. D. Smith,' Nations and Nationalism, special issues 10.1 and 10.2 (March)
2004, pp. 61-76
19. ‘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
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20. 'The Rise of Cosmopolitanism in the Twentieth Century West: A Comparative and
Historical Perspective on the United States and European Union,' Global Society, Vol.
17, no. 4 (2003), pp.359-83
21. 'The Ethnic Origins of the American Nation,' Geopolitics, vol. 7, no. 2 (Autumn
2002), pp. 99-120
22. 'Nativist Cosmopolitans: Institutional Reflexivity and the Decline of "DoubleConsciousness" in American Nationalist Thought: Interrogating a Nineteenth Century
Paradox,' Historical Sociology, vol. 14, No. 1 (2001), pp. 47-78
23. 'Liberal Ethnicity: Beyond Liberal Nationalism and Minority Rights,' Ethnic and
Racial Studies, vol. 23, no. 6 (2000, #3060), pp. 1086-1119
24. 'Ethnic or Civic Nation?: Theorizing the American Case,' Canadian Review of Studies
in Nationalism, vol. 27 (2000, #3060), pp. 133-54
25. 'American Exceptionalism Reconsidered: Anglo-Saxon Ethnogenesis in the
"Universal" Nation, 1776-1850,' Journal of American Studies, 33 (1999), 3, pp. 437457
26. 'The Sensory Basis of Historical Analysis,' Rethinking History: The Journal of Theory
and Practice, 3:3 (1999), pp. 329-332
27. ' "Naturalizing the Nation": the Rise of Naturalistic Nationalism in the United States
and Canada,' Comparative Studies in Society and History, vol. 40, no. 4 (October
1998), pp. 666-695
28. 'In Search of the Authentic Nation: Landscape and National Identity in Canada and
Switzerland,' (with O. Zimmer), Nations and Nationalism, vol. 4, part 4 (1998), pp.
483-5101
29. 'Condemned to Rootlessness: The Loyalist Origins of Canada's Identity Crisis,'
Nationalism and Ethnic Politics, vol.3, no.1, (1997), pp. 110-135
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Awards and Research Grants
 October 2012-31 May 2014 – Principal Investigator on £197,330 Economic and Social
Research Council (ESRC) Secondary Data Analysis grant for project on 'Diversity and the
White Working Class'
 February 2010 - £7500 British Academy grant.
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Paper won the American Sociological Association's Reinhard Bendix Prize for 1998.
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 April 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
 April 2008 - Leverhulme Trust grant, £21,000
 March 2008 - Belfer Center Visiting Fellowship, Harvard University, US$34,000
 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 and Social Research Council (ESRC) Understanding
Population Trends and Processes Programme sole-authored grant for £40,000
 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 (2001) 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 (2001) 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 and
Nationalism
 May 2002 - £700 British Academy Conference Grant award for conference on 'Majority
Groups and 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)
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 November, 2001 - Economic and 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 and 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 American Sociological Association's Reinhard Bendix Prize (with
Oliver Zimmer) for paper, 'In Search of the Authentic Nation: Landscape and National
Identity in Canada and Switzerland,' awarded for the best graduate student paper in
comparative and historical sociology in past two years.
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Articles Submitted or Planned
‘Elections versus Voting: reconciling aggregate and individual models of UK
Independence Party performance in the 2014 European Elections,’ submitted to American
Political Science Review 17 April 2015
With Gareth Harris, ‘White Flight? Opposition to Diversity and Mobility Decisions in
Britain, 1991-2012,’ based on PAA working paper of 2014 at
http://paa2014.princeton.edu/papers/140166. Will be sent to American Sociological Review
‘ “Why China is Content to Stay at Home”: Internal Ethnic Diversity and the Propensity to
Engage in Interstate Conflict, based on American Political Science Association conference
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paper at http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2299868, to be sent to
International Security
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Other Journal Articles
1. ‘Reflections on UKIP and the 2015 Election,’ Political Quarterly website, 18 May
2. Introduction to theme section on John Armstrong’s work, Nations and Nationalism 21
(1), 2015, 162–164.
3. 'The Politics of Immigration: UKIP and Beyond', Political Quarterly, Vol. 85, No. 3, pp.
247-50, November 2014 (also editor of special issue on the politics of immigration)
4. 'The Demography of Ethnic Conflict,' Journal of Ethnopolitics (also Editor of special
section on 'The Politics of Ethnic Demography') vol.3, no. 4, September 2011, pp. 367-8
5. 'Shall the Religious Inherit the Earth?,' Ethical Record, November 2010
6. 'Shall the Religious Inherit the Earth?,' Studies: An Irish Quarterly Review, Winter 2010
7. 'From Background to Foreground: Majority Groups and Dominant Minorities,'
introduction to themed section on Dominant Group Identity, Nations and Nationalism,
vol. 14:4 (2008), as well as debate article (co-authored with Oded Haklai) with Andreas
Wimmer
8. 'Introduction,' Debate on John Hutchinson’s Nations as Zones of Conflict, Nations and
Nationalism, vol. 13, issue 4 (2007), pp. 1-4
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Book Chapters
1. ‘White Exit and How to Stop It,’ in D. Goodhart (eds), Mapping Integration (Demos,
2014), pp. 71-78
2. ‘Religion Returns to Europe,’ in Almqvist, K. (2013). The Pursuit of Europe:
Perspectives from the Engelsberg Seminar 2012, Axel and Margaret Ax:son Johnson
Foundation.
3. 'Sacralization by Stealth: the religious consequences of low fertility in Europe', in E.
Kaufmann and W. Wilcox (eds), Whither the Child?: Causes and Consequences of
Low Fertility (Boulder, CO: Paradigm, 2012)
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4. (with Daniele Conversi) 'Ethnic and Nationalist Mobilization,' in J. Tournon and A.
Guelke (eds.), The Study of Ethnicity and Politics: Recent Analytical Developments
(Berlin: Barbara Budrich, 2012), pp. 47-78
5. (with V. Skirbekk), " 'Go Forth and Multiply': the Politics of Religious Demography"
in Political Demography: identity, conflict and institutions, edited by J. A. Goldstone,
Eric Kaufmann and Monica Duffy Toft. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012), pp.
194-212
6. "Sacralisation by Stealth: the demography of de-secularisation" in Stillwell, John et.
al (eds.), Spatial and Social Disparities (Springer, 2010), pp. 217-32
7. "Dominant Ethnicity and Dominant Nationhood: Empirical and Normative Aspects"
in Lecours, A. and G. Nootens (eds.), Dominant Nationalism, Dominant Ethnicity:
Identity, Federalism and Democracy (Brussels: Peter Lang, 2009), pp. 35-56
8. 'Dominant Ethnicity and Integration: the Estonian Case,' Tallinn Conference on
Conceptualising Integration (Tallinn: Hill and Knowlton, 2008)
http://www.meis.ee/book.php?ID=182
9. 'Faith's Comeback?: The Demographic Revival of Religion in Europe,' in Un Nuovo
Umanesimo per L'Europa, University of San Pio V conference volume, forthcoming
10. 'The Orange Order in Scotland since 1860: A Social Analysis,' in M. Mitchell (ed),
The Irish in Scotland (Edinburgh: Birlinn 2008), pp. 159-90
11. 'Loyalism,' in International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences (2nd ed.) (Farmington
Hills, MI: Macmillan Reference, 2007)
12. 'The Orange Order in Ontario, Newfoundland, Scotland and Northern Ireland: A
Macro-Social Analysis,' in David A. Wilson (ed.), The Orange Order in Canada
(Dublin: Four Courts, 2007), pp. 42-68
13. (with Henry Patterson) 'From Deference to Defiance: Popular Unionism and the
Decline of Elite Accommodation in Northern Ireland,' in Knox, C. et al., Devolution
and Constitutional Change In Northern Ireland (Manchester: MUP, 2007), pp. 83-95
14. 'National Ethnicity and the Modern State' in Leos Muller and Linas Eriksonas (ed):
Statehood Before and Beyond Ethnicity (Brussels: Peter Lang, 2005), pp. 37-52
15. 'Dominant ethnicity: from background to foreground,' in Eric Kaufmann (ed.),
Rethinking Ethnicity: Majority Groups and Dominant Minorities (London: Routledge,
2004), pp. 1-14
16. 'The Decline of the WASP in the United States and Canada,' in Eric Kaufmann (ed.),
Rethinking Ethnicity: Majority Groups and Dominant Minorities (London: Routledge,
2004), pp. 61-83
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17. 'Ethnic Nationalism,' in Bibliography of Nationalism, Canadian Review of Studies in
Nationalism, vol. 30 (2003)
18. 'Multiculturalism,' chapter in Singh, Robert (ed.), Governing America: The Politics of
a Divided Democracy (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003), pp. 449-66
19. ‘The Decline of Sectarianism in the West?: A Comparison of the Orange Order in
Canada, Ulster and Scotland,' in N. Singh and T. Vanhanen (eds.) Ethnic Violence
and Human Rights (Delhi: KIRS, 2002)
20. 'Dominant Ethnie,' 'Melting Pot,' 'Assimilation,' 'Nation-Building,' The Companion
Guide to Nationalism (London: Transaction Publishers), 2000, pp. 12-13, 51-3, 177-8,
208-9
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Policy, Think Tank or Briefing Papers
 ‘Changing Places: The white British Response to Ethnic Change’, Demos report, 29
September 2014 (with Gareth Harris)
 ‘White Flight in England?’, contribution to Policy Exchange report on British Minority
dynamics, 6 May 2014, p. 32
 contributor (among several) to Europe section of 'The Future of the Global Muslim
Population' (Washington, DC: Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life, 2011)
 Brief on political demography to the Royal Society working group 'People and the
Planet' chaired by Sir John Sulston FRS, 1 October 2010
 Co-authored with Richard Cincotta, 'Uncompromising Demography in a Promised
Land: The Growth of Dissonant Minorities and the Escalation of Demographic Politics in
Israel,' National Intelligence Council (NIC) Special Report, July 2010 (Washington, DC:
NIC)
 'Secularism, Fundamentalism or Catholicism? The Religious Composition of the United
States to 2043,' Vienna Institute of Demography (VID) Working Paper, November 2008
 'Sacralisation by Stealth: Demography, Religion and Politics in Europe,' JPR (Institute
for Jewish Policy Research) pamphlet, June 2007
<http://www.jpr.org.uk/publications/index.php>
 ' 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 and Constitutional Change
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programme, Devolution Briefings, No. 29, August 2005
<http://www.devolution.ac.uk/pdfdata/Briefing%2029%20%20Kaufmann%20and%20Patterson.pdf>
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Magazine, Newspaper and Blog Articles
 ‘Partition: it’s time to recognise reality in Syria,’ LSE US Politics blog, 3 October
2015
 ‘The ‘shy’ English nationalists who won it for the Tories and flummoxed the
pollsters,’ LSE British Politics blog, 12 May
 ‘Why winning back Ukippers won’t necessarily save Tories’, New Statesman
May2015 blog, 6 May 2015
 ‘The Myth of London Exceptionalism': London not as invulnerable to UKIP as
commonly reported‘, Demos Quarterly, Issue #5, 2014-15
 ‘Ukippers are likely to have voted Tory in 2010 – but Labour in the 1990s,’ New
Statesman May 2015 blog
 ‘Rochester and UKIP: We shouldn’t leap to the conclusion that this by-election is a
bellwether for 2015,’ LSE British Politics and Policy blog, 21 November 2014
 “Dear Ukipper…” The letter the Prime Minister should write on immigration’, New
Statesman (The Staggers blog), 19 November
 ‘White Flight and the rise of UKIP’, Understanding Society podcast, 27 October
2014
 ‘Demystifying ‘White Flight’, Understanding Society Insights 2014, 30 Oct, pp. 2930
 ‘The lessons of Clacton and Heywood: Why UKIP will damage the Tories in 2015
but may ultimately harm Labour’, British Politics LSE blog, also Huffington Post and
Birkbeck blog, 10 October 2014
 Despite a degree of accommodation to change, white British citizens remain largely
opposed to increased ethnic diversity,’ Democratic Audit, 6 October
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‘Distant Concerns’, Progress Online, 4 September 2014
 'Go West? No, argue for the revitalisation of Britishness,' Bright Blue, August 2014
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 ‘London is less integrated than the rest of the country, a report finds,’ LSE British
Politics and Policy blog/Institute for Social Integration blog/Huffington Post, 2 July 2014
 Review of Robert Mayhew, 'Malthus,' Literary Review, June 2014
 Review of 'The Son Also Rises', by Gregory Clark, Literary Review, April 2014
 ‘Turning off the European migration tap may actually hasten ethnic change in Britain,
ironically leading to an own-goal for UKIP’, LSE British Politics Blog and Huffington
Post, 30 April 2014
 'Will the Global Population Hit 10 Billion?,' GQ, March 2014
 ‘White Flight: the Emerging Story’, Understanding Society Findings,
www.understandingsociety.ac.uk, February 2014
 ‘Understanding White Flight,’ Demos Quarterly, 17 January 2014
 review of Paul Collier, 'Exodus,' and David Goodhart, 'The British Dream,' Literary
Review, Christmas Edition, December 2013
 ‘White Flight in England?: White attraction rather than repulsion seems to be the
story,’ LSE British Politics and Policy blog, December 17, 2013, also reprint at
Huffington Post, 23 December
 Demos press release for ‘White Flight?’ research, 25 November 2013
 'How Liberals Helped Create Ted Cruz and the Tea Party', Huffington Post, 18 October
2013
 'Too Many People', review of Steven Emmott, 10 Billion; Danny Dorling, Population
10 Billion; Alan Weisman, Countdown, Literary Review, October 2013
 'We Are All Starving Artists Now: Why Web 2.0 is About Meaning Not Money,'
Huffington Post, 24 July 2013
 ‘Many Different Englands,’ Prospect, April 29, 2013
 'Thatcher and Immigration: Can the White Majority be Reassured?', Huffington Post,
18 April 2013
 ‘London and the English”, Huffington Post (and Demos Blog), 15 January 2013
 ‘London: an Island of Religion in a Secular Sea,’ Huffington Post (and Demos Blog),
21 December 2012
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 ‘ "White Flight” from London?,’ Huffington Post (and Prospect and Demos Blog), 12
December 2012
 'Mormons: A Rising Force?,' Huffington Post, May 14, 2012
 ‘Why the Future Will be More Religious and More Conservative Than You Think,’
American.com, 8 May 2012, republished in Blaze.com and National Journal
 Review of Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson, 'Why Nations Fail,' Literary Review,
April 2012
 Review of Steven Pinker, 'The Better Angels of our Nature,' Literary Review,
Christmas 2011
 'Moneyball: Can Sports Statistics Save Political Studies?', Political Insight, December
2011 (also featured on LSE Politics blog)
 ‘Rural and religious fuel the world’s population boom,’ Providence Journal, Nov.6,
2011
 ‘Religious revival: Western societies are being dramatically reshaped by the strong
birth rate of religious people,‘ Bright Blue, Autumn 2011, p. 37
 Review of Robert Putnam and David Campbell, 'American Grace,' Literary Review,
May 2011
 Review of Olivier Roy, 'Holy Ignorance,' Literary Review, February 2011
 ‘Out of the mouths of babes – religious will rise as secular birth rates fall,' Sydney
Morning Herald, September 20, 2010
 Review of Doug Saunders, 'Arrival City,' Literary Review, September 2010
 'White Guilt,' review of Pascal Bruckner, 'Tyranny of Guilt,' Prospect, August 2010
 'Population boom in third world provides a boost for religions,' Irish Times, 20 July
2010
 'Why Orangemen Must Put Best Foot Forward,' Belfast Telegraph, 8 July 2010
 'Europe's Muslim Future,' Prospect, April 2010
 ‘The Return of Economic Nationalism,' Providence Journal, June 2009
 'The Changing Face of Israel' (co-authored with R. Cincotta), Foreign Policy (web
exclusive), June 2009
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 'The Global War for Souls,' review of John Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge, 'God
is Back,' Prospect, June 2009
 ‘The Meaning of Huntington,' Prospect, February 2009
 ‘Peaceful Xenophobes,' Prospect, November 2008
 ‘Europe's Coming Demographic Revolution,' NACS Magazine, October 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 Telegraph, 11 July 2007
 'The Poverty of Liberalism,' review of A world beyond politics: a defense of the nationstate, by Pierre Manent, Prospect, June 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)
 'Faith's Comeback,' Newsweek (International edition), 7-13 November 2006 - rated 4.5
stars/5 by readers
 ' Breeding for God,' cover story in Prospect (November 2006) - rated among top 10
most read articles in Prospect in 2006
 'Canada Blazes Trail,' Prospect, March 2006
 'The New Unionism,' Prospect, November 2005
 'Simply Canadian,' Vancouver Sun, 30 August 05
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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 'Simply Canadian,' Vancouver Sun, 30 August 05
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'Ethnic America,' Prospect, July 2004, pp. 34-39
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Electronic Media Appearances and Extended Interviews
Interviewed about UKIP rift on BBC London 94.9 Vanessa Feltz show, 15 May
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Interviewed about UK election on Global TV (Canada), 6 May
Interviewed on ITV television documentary ‘Things We Don’t Say About Race That Are
True ,’ hosted by Trevor Phillips, 19 March 2015
Interview on ITV on politics of immigration, 19 March 2015
Interviewed as ‘We Asked an Expert What Would Happen If Nigel Farage Quit As UKIP
Leader,’ Vice.com, 17 March
On BBC Radio 3 Freethinking programme on Social Identity in a time of transformation
with Philip Dodd, 25 Feb
Interviewed on ITV television documentary ‘Things We Don’t Say About Race That Are
True ,’ hosted by Trevor Phillips, 19 March 2015. 2m viewers.
Interview on ITV on politics of immigration, 19 March 2015
On BBC Radio 3 Freethinking programme on Social Identity in a time of transformation
with Philip Dodd, 25 Feb
Interviewed on BBC London radio 94.9 Drivetime on European immigration to London,
16 Feb 2015
Discussing decline of the Far Right in Britain on Islam Channel, 15 January 2015 (from
3:29)
On BBC 94.9 London radio Breakfast Show with Penny Smith and Paul Ross, 12
December (from 1:14:00)
On LBC Radio with Nick Ferrari, discussing Conservatives’ overshoot of immigration
cap, 27 November
On LBC Radio with Nick Ferrari, discussing foreign offenders, 22 October
On LBC Radio with Nick Ferrari, discussing Cameron EU reform proposal on
immigration, 16 October 2014
On LBC Radio with Nick Ferrari, discussing UKIP and immigration, 13 October
On Sky News re Clacton and Heywood by-elections, 430 pm, 10 October 2014
BBC Scotland TV interview on planned Scottish Orange march and independence
referendum, 23 July 2014
Interviewed on Nick Ferrari, LBC morning radio show, on politics of immigration, 27
June 2014 (link: around 7:20 am)
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‘Pen portrait: white flight,’ Policy Exchange think tank (video), 6 May
TV interview on white flight in England in ’Going Underground’ programme, Russia
Today, 2 January 2014 (from 00:57)
BBC Asian Network Reports TV interview re White Flight research, 28 November 2013
(from 4:47-8:30)
TV interview re my nonwhite PM finding on BBC Asian Network, 6 November 2013
[from 14:40]
Interviewed as part of CNN feature on segregation and Islamist patrols in London, 1 Feb
2013
Fairness Radio (US) with Patrick O’ Heffernan and Chuck Morse, May 24, 2012
Interview on political demography of Northern Ireland, for blogger Slugger O’ Toole, 5
April 2012
10 September 2011: Interview on Clay Naff radio show, Lincoln, Nebraska, ‘Science
Odyssey: Demography Shows How Religion Drives Population Growth’
10 June 2011: Interview on Fox News Live
23 March 2011: EITB Basque Television interview for documentary on religious trends
in the UK and Europe
26 December 2010: Sunday Breakfast Show, Premier Christian Radio (London)
29 September 2010: Philip Adams Late Night live, ABC radio, Wednesday 29
September, in Sydney, Australia
22 September 2010: Sunday Night Safran, Triple J radio (ABC), Sydney, Australia
24 August 2010: SKY TV 24: Claudy Massacre Revelations in N. Ireland
15 August 2010: BBC Radio 4, InSpirit with Jumoke Fashola, on book
20 July 2010: Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC), 'Sunday Nights' programme
with John Cleary, on book
10 June 2010: 4 FM, Dublin, Tom McGuirk on 4, on new book
26 May 2010: BBC World Service, Persian Language Section, on 'Islamophobia'
29 April 2010: BBC World Service, World Update, 11-12 AM on my new book
14 April 2010: Afternoon Show with Sean Moncreiff, RTE Radio (Ireland)
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12 April 2010: BBC World Service ‘Politics UK’. Debate with Lord Robert Skidelsky
and Mehdi Hasan, political editor, New Statesman, on immigration in the UK and Europe
7 April 2010 : BBC Radio 4 'Thinking Allowed' with Tariq Ramadan and Rebecca
Goldstein (pre-recorded)
1 April 2010, 11-12 am: Today Show with Pat Kenny, RTE (Ireland) Radio 1 on new
book
28 March 2010: BBC Radio Scotland (religious affairs programme) on my new book
19 March 2010: Friendly Atheist (interview on book)
17 March 2010: New Humanist (interview on book)
15 March 2010: Blackwells podcasts (interview on book)
31 January 2008: Press TV. Live debate on the question of whether secularism is a
prerequisite for democracy in the Arab world
January 2008: published interview on secularization and religious demography with
Revista Palabra, Spanish-based Catholic monthly magazine
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' 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
4 October 2006: BBC Radio 4 'Thinking Allowed' with Laurie Taylor. Live discussion
about recent article on the 'End of Secularisation in Europe' (religious demography)
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
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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
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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
back to publications
Reviews
1. “Immigration and Integration in Britain: The Great Nationalism Debate,” Review
essay of Tariq Modood, Multiculturalism, David Goodhart, The British Dream, and
Ted Cantle, Interculturalism, Nationalities Papers, 2014
2. Review of Robert Kaplan, the Revenge of Geography, Population and Development
Review, vol. 39, no. 2, 2013
3. Review of John Breuilly (ed), Oxford Handbook of the History of Nationalism, LSE
Review of Books (06 Nov 2013) Blog Entry.
4. Review of Vivian Ibrahim and Margit Wunsch (eds) Political Leadership, Nations and
Charisma, Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, Sept 2012
5. Review of Alain-C. Gagnon et. al, 'Contemporary Majority Nationalism,' Canadian
Review of Studies in Nationalism, May 2012
6. Review of Christopher Caldwell, 'Reflections on the Revolution in Europe,'
Population and Demographic Review, December 2009
7. Review of Amy Chua, ‘Day of Empire,' Nationalism and Ethnic Conflict, vol. 15: 1,
2009, pp.133-136
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8. Review of S. Saideman and W. Ayres, ‘For Kin and Country,' Nations and
Nationalism, Vol.15, Issue 1, 2009, pp.172-174
9. Review of T. Baycroft and M. Hewitson, 'What is a Nation?,' The Nationalism
Project, 2008
10. Review of Aviel Roshwald, 'The Endurance of Nationalism' , Nationalism and Ethnic
Politics, vol. 13, no. 4, 2007
11. Review (combined) of Aviel Roshwald, 'The Endurance of Nationalism' and T.
Baycroft and M. Hewitson, 'What is a Nation?,' English Historical Review, CXXII:
781 - 784, June 2007
12. Review of Pickus, Noah, 'True Faith and Allegiance,' Nations and Nationalism,
Volume 13 Issue 2 Page 358, April 2007
13. Review of Appiah, K. Anthony, 'The Ethics of Identity,' H-Nationalism, 26 June 2006
14. Review of Hutchinson, John, 'Nations as Zones of Conflict,' British Journal of
Sociology, Volume 57, p. 319 (June) 2006
15. Review of Zubaida, Sami, 'Law and Power in the Islamic World,' Comparative
Studies in Society and History, vol. 47, no. 1., (2004)
16. Review of Wimmer, Andreas, 'Nationalist Exclusion and Ethnic Conflict,' Political
Studies Review, July 2003
17. Review of Swain, Carol M., 'The New White Nationalism in America,' Nations and
Nationalism, vol. 9, part 4 (Oct. 2003), pp. 641-2
18. Review of O’Leary, Cecilia, E., 'The Paradox of American Patriotism,' Canadian
Review of Studies in Nationalism, vol. 30 (2003)
19. Review of Yoram Hazony, ‘The Jewish State,’ Nations and Nationalism, vol. 8, no. 1
(Jan. 2002), pp. 122-23
20. Review of David Brown, ‘Contemporary Nationalism,’ Ethnic and Racial Studies,
vol. 24, no. 5 (Sept. 2001), pp. 570-71
21. Review of David Brown, ‘Contemporary Nationalism,’ Political Studies, vol. 49, no.3
(Aug. 2001), p. 624
22. Review of Desmond King, ‘Making Americans,’ Political Studies, vol. 49, no. 2
(June 2001), pp. 364-5
23. Review of Dru Gladney (ed.), 'Making Majorities,' Nations and Nationalism, vol. 7,
no. 1 (Jan 2001), pp. 117-18
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24. Review of Frank Füredi, 'The Silent War,' Ethnic and Racial Studies, vol. 23, no. 6
(November 2000), pp. 1132-33
25. Review of Steve Bruce, 'Comparative Protestant Politics,' Nations and Nationalism,
vol. 5, no.3, 1999, pp. 588-90
26. Review of Will Kymlicka, 'Finding Our Way: Rethinking Ethnocultural Relations in
Canada,' Ethnic Conflict Research Digest, Vol. 2, no. 2 (1999), pp. 42-3
27. Review of Wallace, Walter, 'The Future of Ethnicity, Race and Nationality,' Ethnic
and Racial Studies, Vol.21, no.6 (November 1998), pp. 1201-2
28. Review of Del Gado, Richard and Jean Stefancic (eds.), 'Critical White Studies,'
Ethnic and Racial Studies, Vol. 21, no.5 (October 1998), pp. 1022-24
29. Review of Frantzen, J. and John D. Niles, 'Anglo-Saxonism and the Construction of
Social Identity,' Humanist Sociology, 22 (3), August 1998
30. Review of Ohmae, Kenichi, 'The End of the Nation-State,' Nations and Nationalism,
vol. 2, part 2, July, 1996, pp. 342-44
back to publications
Invited Lectures
1. ‘Taxpayers and kippers: why the polls got it wrong’, at University of Kent Election
Blues: Why Labour Lost event, House of Lords, 25 June, 2015
2. BISR Political and Social Theory Seminar: “Complexity, Nationalism and Political
Theory”, Birkbeck College, University of London, 10 June, 2015
3. ‘The Future of religion in world politics’, at NIC-DCDC-Blavatnik School-Brasenose
Workshop on Future Trends, University of Oxford, June 4, 2015
4. Talk at launch of Demos Integration Hub, Demos 20 May, 2015
5. ‘UKIP’s Effect on this Election’, Birkbeck College ‘Who Will Win?’ event, 30 April
2015
6. Keynote speech, ‘Nationalism and Complexity’ at Association for the Study of
Ethnicity and Nationalism conference, LSE, 21-23 April 2015
7. Talk on Nationalism, Ethnicity and Religious Conflict, IAPSS World Congress 2015,
London, 16 April 2015
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8. Respondent to speech by Lisa Nandy, MP speech on ‘Patriotism and the Left’, Class
(Centre for Labour and Social Studies), 25 March 2015
9. ‘Ethnic Dynamics in England,’ City Forum Creating police leaders for the 21st
century, Reform Club, London, 27 November 2015
10. Presentation at Demos (Mapping Integration meeting), 6 October 2014
11. Panelist on Guardian/British Academy roundtable on immigration, 29 September
2014, Conservative party conference fringe event
12. ‘Changing Places: The white British Response to Ethnic Change’, 29 September 2014
at Demos Conservative Party Conference fringe event, Birmingham
13. ‘London and the White British’, Centre for London, 18 September 2014
14. ‘The Demography of Religious Change in the West’ at ‘Diversity Rising: The
Changing Face of Religion in Europe,’ symposium of the International Association of
Religion Journalists, Birkbeck College, University of London, 17 Sept slides
15. ‘White Flight’, talk at Conspire ‘Flight’ performance/art event, 47-49 Tanner St,
London, 22 July 2014
16. ‘UKIP, immigration and national identity in England,’ for RSA-ESRC-U.
Manchester, ‘Individual Interests and Collective Values: Increasing cooperative
behaviour and constructive communication’ policy conference, Royal Society of Arts
(RSA), London, 19 June 2014
17. ‘Local Context and UKIP support,’ British Future (think tank), 8 May, London 2014
18. ‘White Flight from London?’, LSE London ”How is London being transformed by
migration?” conference, London School of Economics, 24 March 2014
19. ‘UKIP, White Flight and Integration: The White British Response to Ethnic Change’,
19 March, 2pm, Birkbeck College, Department of Politics
20. ‘The Politics of Population Change’, at Population Matters “A Tale of Sex and
Money: the 21st Century Population Challenge Issues” conference, St George’s
House, Windsor, 12-13 March 2014
21. ‘White and Minority Mobility in England and Wales,’ Longitudinal Study-Census
Link Event, Church House, Westminster, London, 6 March 2014
22. ‘White Flight and Attitudes to Immigration in England,’ Demos Integration Hub
launch event, 26 February, 2014, House of Commons
23. ‘White Avoidance or Attraction?: why white British tend to leave diverse wards’,
Ethnic Diversity, Population Change and ‘Integration’: Exploring the Evidence and
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Considering Future Research and Policy,' Leverhulme Trust/University of Liverpool,
Dept of Geography, 24 January 2014
24. ‘The White British Response to Ethnic Change,’ The First International Conference
on Political Demography and Social Macro-Dynamics, Russian Presidential National
Academy of Economy and Public Administration (RANEPA), Moscow, December
13-14 , 2013
25. Eric Kaufmann and Gareth Harris, ’White Flight from London?’, National Institute
for Economic and Social Research (NIESR), London, 28 November 2013
26. Eric Kaufmann and Gareth Harris, ‘ “White Flight” in London and the UK?’, Demos,
London, 20 November 2013
27. ‘Contact, Threat or ‘White Flight’?: local ethnic change, UKIP and anti-immigration
sentiment in Britain,’ University of Reading, Politics Department seminar, 19
November 2013, 430 pm
28. ’Belonging: Solidarity and Division in Modern Societies,' 26 November, 2013 Queen
Mary University of London
29. “Shall the Religious Inherit the Earth: the political demography of religious
fundamentalism,” Dondena Center, Bocconconi University, Milan, Italy, 13
November
30. ‘Complexity and Nationalism,’ University of Berne, Switzerland, 6 November 2013
31. Eric Kaufmann and Gareth Harris on ‘The Fortunes of Right-Wing Parties’ at "None
of the Above" event, Birkbeck College, U. London, 19 October 2013
32. ‘Multiculturalism or Integration?: Can Complexity and Localism Help Us Rethink
National Identity’, Birkbeck Politics Blog, 16 July 2013
33. ‘Shifting Values: National Identity in the UK and Japan,’ Daiwa Anglo-Japanese
Foundation, London, 10 July 2013
34. ‘White Flight and White Nationalism in England: is there a connection?’, Chatham
House " White Nationalism and White Flight: Transatlantic Perspectives," London,
June 13 2013
35. ‘Contact or ‘White Flight?’: Why Are Whites in Diverse English Wards More
Tolerant of Immigration?,’ Cathie Marsh Centre, University of Manchester, 7 May
2013
36. ‘Positive Contact or Selective ’White Flight’? : Why Whites in Diverse British
Neighbourhoods are More Tolerant of Immigration,’ University of Oxford,
Department of Sociology, April 22, 2013
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37. ‘White Flight and White Nationalism in the UK: is there a connection?,’ at
Birkbeck/ESRC/Demos Roundtable, ‘Diversity and the White Working Class,’
Birkbeck College, London, April 3, 2013
38. ‘Why America is Not Exceptional: Immigration and National Identity in the United
States,‘ at “Identity Politics: The New World versus New (and Old) Europe”
conference, University of Texas, Austin, March 22, 2013
39. ‘White Flight and White Nationalism in the UK: is there a connection?,’ Immigration
Studies Initiative, University of Texas at Austin, March 21, 2013
40. Gareth Harris and Eric Kaufmann, ‘Exit, Voice or Accommodation?: Diversity and
the White Working Class in England and Wales,’ University of East Anglia, March 6,
2013
41. 'Mediating Values, Tackling Extremism: Civic approaches for a cohesive society', Res
Publica (think tank) breakfast briefing, respondent, 27 February
42. 15 June 2012, 'Religion Returns to Europe,' Engelsberg Seminar, Avesta Manor,
Sweden
43. 13 June 2012, Inaugural Lecture as a Professor, 'Ultra-Orthodox Jews, Jewish
Antisemitism and the Fate of Western Civilization,' Birkbeck College, London
44. 1 May 2012, Spoke on roundtable ‘The New Population Bomb’, London School of
Economics
45. 19 April 2012, 'Political Demography: Why Now?,' Birkbeck College, University of
London
46. 19 March 2012 ‘The political and geographical boundaries of identity and ethnicity,’
Birkbeck College, University of London (with interlocutor Karen Wells, of
Geography)
47. 9 March 2012, Speaker at Reason Week, University of Southampton
48. 7 March 2012, ‘Primordialists and Constructionists: From Nationalism to Religion’,
London School of Economics Religion Forum seminar
49. 27 January 2012, Keynote speaker, Atlantic College (United World Schools) Peace
Conference, Wales, Jan. 27, 2012
50. 11 January 2012, 'Political Demography of Differential Ethnic and Religious
Population Growth,' Woodrow Wilson Center, Washington, DC
51. 10 January 2012, Berkley Center for Religion, Peace and World Affairs, Georgetown
University, Washington, DC
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52. 17 Nov, 2011, ‘The Lenses of Nationhood: an optical model of identity,’ at Centre for
Ethnicity and Citizenship, University of Bristol
53. 7 November, 2011, Royal Holloway University of London, Department of History
54. May 20, 2011, American Enterprise Institute, Washington, DC
55. May 18, 2011, New America Foundation, Washington, DC
56. May 16, 2011, Woodrow Wilson Center, Washington, DC
57. 1 December 2010, at Open Discussions, Abrar House, London
58. 17 November 2010, LSE Forum on Religion, 'Shall the Religious Inherit the Earth?:
The Demographic Return of Faith in the 21st Century,' London School of Economics
59. 7 October, participated in Battle of Ideas Satellite panel, 'Papal plots, burqa bans:
what does it mean to be secular today?,' Foyle's Bookshop, London
60. 3 October 2010, 'Why the Religious Will Inherit the Earth,' Festival of Dangerous
Ideas, Sydney Opera House, Australia
61. 2 October 2010, participated in IQ-squared debate, 'If you want peace, forget justice,'
Festival of Dangerous Ideas, Sydney Opera House, Australia
62. 7 September 2010, Furman University, Department of Political Science, Greenville,
South Carolina
63. 11 July 2010 –South Place Ethical Society, London
64. 10 June 2010 –Iona Institute, Dublin
65. 6 May 2010- ICSR (International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation), King’s
College, University of London
66. 5 May 2010 –Reading Public Library
67. 15 April: Debate on Shall the Religious Inherit the Earth, with Dominic Lawson of
The Sunday Times at Royal Society for the Arts (RSA), London. Moderated by
Laurie Taylor and co-sponsored by New Humanist magazine
68. 4 March 2010, Appearance at Jewish Book Week, on panel with Dominique Moisi
and John Kampfner on panel on 'Threats to our Democracy,' London
69. 10-13 March 2010: 'Sacralization by Stealth?: The Religious Consequences of Low
Fertility in Europe,' for workshop on Wither the Child?: Causes, Consequences and
Responses to Low Fertility, hosted by the Social Trends Institute, Barcelona
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70. 27 October 2009 'The Demography of Religion in Europe,' for visiting Chinese
delegation, Centre for Religion and Contemporary Society, Birkbeck College, London
71. 17 October 2009: 'Only an atheist can be a good Christian; only a Christian can be a
good atheist,' Debate on Ernst Bloch's Atheism in Christianity, Birkbeck Institute for
the Humanities, London (podcasted event)
72. 30 September-1 Oct 2009 - ' 'The Demography of Salafism,' for 'The Future of the
Global Jihadist Movement,' International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation and
Political Violence (ICSR), King's College, together with National Intelligence
Council and Chatham House, UK
73. 29 May 2009 – ‘The Role of Islam in the Re-Sacralization of Europe,' lunchtime
speech for conference on ‘The Political Future of Muslim Communities in Western
Europe: Implications for Western European States in 2030,' National Intelligence
Council and the Bureau of Intelligence and Research of the U.S. Department of State,
Washington, DC
74. 17 April, 2009 - 'The Power of Ethnicity?: the Geographic Limits to Modernist
Theories of Intra-State Violence,' Intrastate Conflict Seminar, Kennedy School of
Government, Harvard
75. 14 April 2009 – ‘From Loyalty to Resistance: The Orange Order in a Changing
Ulster, 1969-2007,' Boston College, Boston, MA
76. 24 March 2009 – ‘The Role of the Second Demographic Transition in Secularism’s
Evolutionary Demise,' Evolution, Cognition, and Culture Seminar, University of
Connecticut, Storrs, CT
77. 16 March 2009 – ‘Dominant Ethnicity: Majority Groups, Dominant Minorities and
Conflict,' Civil Conflict Workshop, Department of Government, Harvard University,
Cambridge, MA
78. 27 February 2009 - ‘Religious Fundamentalism as the End of History?: The Political
Demography of the Abrahamic Faiths’ International Affairs/Political Science,
Northeastern University, Boston, MA
79. 20 February 2009 – ‘The Lenses of Nationhood: A Grand Theory of National
Identity,' Montreal Research Group on Ethnic Conflict seminar, McGill University,
Montreal, PQ
80. 9 February 2009 – Invited panelist, ‘Inter-Ethnic Relations in Quebec: The
‘Accommodations Crisis’ and The Bouchard-Taylor Report,' Weatherhead Center for
International Affairs, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
81. 5 February 2009 - ‘Religious Fundamentalism as the End of History?: The Political
Demography of the Abrahamic Faiths,' International Security Program Seminar,
Belfer Center, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
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82. 27 January 2009 – ‘Shall the Religious Inherit the Earth,' Department of History,
Georgetown University, Washington, DC
83. 12 December 2008 – ‘Demographic Trends in Religion,' for conference on ‘Global
religious trends: risks and opportunities for the United States,' National Intelligence
Council and the Bureau of Intelligence and Research of the U.S. Department of State,
Washington, DC
84. 7 November 2008 – ‘The Orange Order, Unionism and the Peace Process,' University
of Texas, Austin, TX
85. 20 November, 2008 ‘The Next American Voter: the political demography of
American partisanship,' American Politics Research Workshop, Harvard University,
Cambridge, MA
86. 6 November 2008 – ‘Sacralization by Stealth?: The Demography of De-Secularization
in Europe,' Institute for the Study of Religion, Baylor University, Waco, TX
87. 29 October 2008 – ‘Sacralization by Stealth: Religion Returns to Europe,' Riley
Institute Public Lecture, Furman University, Greenville, SC. Also participated on
panel on the headscarf controversy in Europe
88. 24 October 2008 – ‘Islamism, Religiosity and Fertility in the Muslim world,' Pew
Forum for Religious Research, Washington, DC
89. 15 June 2008 - 'The Demography of Europe, Today and Tomorrow,' NACS
(Association for Convenience & Petroleum Retailing) Global Forum, Munich,
Germany
90. 30 May 2008 - Lecture at Writer's Week Literary Festival, Listowel, Co. Kerry,
Ireland
91. 25 & 26 February, 2008 – ‘Shall the Religious Inherit the Earth?:Demography,
Religion and Radicalization,' for "Policing, Justice and Security in a Diverse Canada:
Building an Empirical Evidence Base", Public Safety, Hampton Inn Ottawa &
Conference Centre
92. 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]
93. 30 January 2008 - 'Visualising Nationhood - A Grand Theory of National Identity,'
ASEN seminar series, LSE, London
94. 15 January 2008 - Invited Panelist, 2008 Fulbright Debate, 'Is Multiculturalism
Dead?,' Notre Dame University, London
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95. 13 December, 2007 - 'From Loyalty to Resistance: The Orange Order in a Changing
Ulster, 1963-2007,' Queen's University of Belfast Irish Studies Series
96. 25 October 2007, 'Loyalism,' discussion with Paul Bew, Steve Bruce and myself,
moderated by BBC's William Crawley, Belfast Literary Festival, Elmwood Hall
97. 19 October 2007, 'Dominant Ethnicity and Integration: the Estonian Case,' Tallinn
Conference on Conceptualizing Integration, Estonian Ministry of Integration
98. 4 July 2007, 'Sacralisation by Stealth: Demography, Religion and Politics in Europe,'
JPR (Institute for Jewish Policy Research), London
99. 3 July 2007 - 'Minorities, Multiculturalism, and Contemporary US Politics: The
Return of Assimilation,' University of Westminster conference for 'A' level teachers,
London
100. 22 June 2007 - 'Faith’s Comeback?: The Demographic Revival of Religion in Europe,'
The Council of European Episcopal Conferences, 'A New Humanism For Europe: The
Role of the Universities,' Rome, Italy
101. '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
102. 26 February 2007 - Discussant on live webcast with Jack Goldstone, 'Flash Points and
Tipping Points: Security Implications of Global Population Changes, 2005-2025,' Wilson
Center for International Scholars, Washington, DC
103. 14 September 2006 - Invited to lecture on 'Ethnicity in Europe' at Jean Monnet
European Centre, Trento, Italy
104. 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.
105. 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
106. 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)
107. 9 December 2004 - 'The Orange Order in comparative perspective: Northern Ireland,
Scotland and Canada,' Institute of Irish Studies, Aberdeen, Scotland
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108. Invited to sit on roundtable, 'Is Britain too Diverse?,' chaired by David Goodhart
(Prospect Magazine), Political Studies Association, Lincoln, 6 April 2004
109. 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
110. 19 February, 2004 - 'The Orange Order and Politics in Northern Ireland and Canada:
A Comparative Perspective,' Institute of Commonwealth Studies, London, England
111. 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)
112. 5 March 2002 – 'The Dynamics of Orangeism in Northern Ireland,' Department of
Politics and International Relations, University of the West of England, Bristol
113. 27 February, 2002 - 'The 'Real World': The Sensory Basis of Social Concepts,'
School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), London, England
114. 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.
back to publications
Conference Papers
1. 'Contact Not White Flight': contextual diversity and the UKIP vote in Britain,
(accepted, forthcoming) at American Political Science Association, San Francisco,
September 3-6, 2015
2. ‘White Flight’ in the West?: explaining the persistence of white-minority segregation,
Alpine Population Conference, La Thuile, Italy, 25-28 January 2015
3. ‘ ‘White Flight’ or Positive Contact?: Local Diversity and Attitudes to Immigration in
Britain, 2009-11,’ Elections, Parties and Public Opinion (ePop) conference,
Edinburgh, 13 September 2014
4. ‘Working Class Tories not Labour Traditionalists: why UKIP is damaging the
Conservatives,’ Elections, Parties and Public Opinion (ePop) conference, Edinburgh,
12 September 2014
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5. ‘White Flight in Britain?’, British Society of Population Studies (BSPS), Winchester,
8-10 September 2014
6. ‘ “It’s the Demography Stupid”: Ethnic Change and Immigration Restriction in
England’, for Political Quarterly roundtable on The Politics of Immigration:
UKIP and Beyond, Birkbeck College, University of London, 5 June 2014
7. ‘Tackling Endogeneity in research designs: the case of white flight and opposition to
immigration’, Birkbeck College, University of London, SSHP seminar 19 May
2014
8. ‘White Flight? Opposition to Diversity and Mobility Decisions in Britain, 19912012,’ Population Association of America, Boston, May 3, 2014 slides
9. ‘UKIP, White Flight and Integration’, Political Studies Association, Manchester, 15
April 2014
10. ‘Complexity and Nationalism,’ Association for the Study of Ethnicity and
Nationalism, LSE, London, 3 April, 2014
11. ‘Anti-Immigrant Nativism as Sons of the Soil Conflict: the role of immigration and
ethnic change in stimulating ethno-nationalism in Britain,’ International Studies
Association, Toronto, March 28, 2014
12. Eric Kaufmann and Gareth Harris, ‘White flight’?: Opposition to Diversity and
Mobility Decisions in Britain, 1991‐2012,’ British Society for Population Studies,
Swansea, 9-11 September 2013
13. ‘ “Why China is Content to Stay at Home”: Internal Ethnic Diversity and the
Propensity to Engage in Interstate Conflict,’ American Political Science Association,
August 30, 2013
14. 'Huntington Revisited: Nationalism, Civilization and IR,' Political Studies
Association, Belfast, 5 April, 2012
15. 'Demography and Conflict in Northern Ireland, Political Studies Association, Belfast,
3 April, 2012
16. 'Ethnic and State History as Determinants of Ethnic Fractionalization,' American
Political Science Association, Seattle, WA, September 2, 2011
17. 'Why Ethnicity is Linked to Civil War: The Case for, and Limits of, Perennialism,'
American Political Science Association, Washington, DC, September 2-6, 2010
18. ‘The Demography of Religious Radicalism,' American Political Science Association,
Toronto, September 3-6, 2009
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19. ‘The Next American Voter: The Political Demography of American Partisanship,'
American Political Science Association, Toronto, September 3-6, 2009
20. “‘Go Forth and Multiply’: the Politics of Religious Demography” (co-authored with
V. Skirbekk), for conference on ‘Demography and Security: The Politics of
Population Change,' Weatherhead Center, Harvard University, May 1-2, 2009
21. ‘The Future of American Religion to 2050,' Association for the Study of Religion,
Economics, and Culture (ASREC) conference, Crystal City, VA, April 5, 2009
22. ‘Islamism, Religiosity and Fertility in the Muslim World,' International Studies
Association, New York, February 18, 2009
23. 'Demographic Radicalization?: The Religiosity-Fertility Nexus and Politics,'
International Studies Association, New York, February 18, 2009
24. ‘A 'Fear of Being Swamped': Why Modernity Leads to Ethno-Demographic Conflict,'
American Political Science Association, Boston, 28-31 August, 2008
25. ‘Secularism, Fundamentalism or Catholicism: the Religious Composition of the
United States to 2043,' American Political Science Association, Boston, August 2831, 2008
26. 'Islamism, Religiosity and Fertility in the Muslim World,' European Population
Conference, Barcelona, July 9-12, 2008
27. 'An Optical Model of National Identity,' "Nationalism, East and West: Civic and
Ethnic Conceptions of Nationhood", ASEN conference, LSE, London, 15-17 April
2008
28. ‘Eurabia?: the Foreign Policy Implications of West Europe’s Religious Composition
in 2025 and Beyond,' International Studies Association (ISA), San Francisco, March
25-29, 2008
29. ‘Immigration and National Identity in England: Contemporary Developments in
Comparative Perspective,' European Social Science History Conference (ESSHC),
Lisbon, Portugal, 27 Feb – 1 March, 2008
30. 'Religion and Politics: The Demographic Imperative,' for panel on 'Religion and
International Order,' American Political Science Association (APSA), Chicago, Aug
30- Sept 2, 2007
31. 'The Orange Order and 'No' Unionism since 1998,' Conference on 'Reviewing the
Good Friday Agreement: Effects, impact and prospects,' University of
Wolverhampton, UK 27-28 June 2007
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32. 'Dominant Ethnicity: A Normative Exploration,' Association for the Study of Ethnicity
and Nationalism (ASEN) conference, 'The Dark Face of Nationalism,' LSE, London,
19 April 2007
33. 'The Return of Religion to Western Europe?: Demography and Politics,' UPTAP
Meetings, University of Leeds, 21-23 March 2007
34. 'The End of Secularisation in Europe?,' Birkbeck College Staff Seminar, 23
November 2006
35. 'The End of Secularisation in Europe?,' London School of Hygiene and Tropical
Medicine, 23 October 2006
36. 'The End of Secularisation in the West?,' Political Demography: Ethnic, national and
Religious Dimensions, LSE, London, 29-30 September 2006
37. 'De-secularisation?: Religiosity, fertility and politics,' British Society for Population
Studies, Southampton, 18-20 September 2006
38. 'The Religious Shall Inherit the Earth?: De-Secularisation and the Demographic
Imperative,' American Political Science Association (APSA), Philadelphia, August
31, 2006
39. 'Shall the Religious Inherit the Earth?: the political implications of the second
demographic transition,' European Population Conference, Liverpool, 21-24 June
2006
40. ‘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
41. 'The Storm Behind Lodge Doors: The Orange Order in Northern Ireland, 1995-2005,'
Political Studies Association, Reading, UK 5 April, 2006
42. 'A Dying Creed?: The Demographic Contradictions of Liberal Capitalism,' ESRC
UPTAP programme meetings, University of Leeds, 30-31 March 2006
43. 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
44. 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
45. '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
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46. "The Decline of the WASP?: Anglo-Protestant Ethnicity and the American NationState" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science
Association, Washington, DC, September 1, 2005
47. '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
48. '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
49. ‘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
50. '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
51. 'Dominant Ethnicity: From Background to Foreground,' International Political
Science Association conference on Ethnicity and Politics, University of Ottawa,
Canada, 30 September - 2 Oct 2004
52. '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
53. 'The Orange Order in Newfoundland in the 20th Century: A Comparative Analysis,'
Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada, 19 May,
2004
54. '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
55. ' "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
56. 'The Decline of the UUP: an electoral analysis,' Political Studies Association, Lincoln,
England, 6 April 2004
57. 'Conceptualising Dominant Ethnicity, Past and Present,' European Social Science
History Conference (ESSHC), Berlin, Germany, 26 March 2004
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58. '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
59. '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
60. 'Twentieth Century Orangeism in Comparative Perspective,' ESRC/University of
Ulster at Jordanstown, 'Orangeism and Popular Unionism,' November 8, 2002,
Belfast, Northern Ireland
61. '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
62. 'The Decline of the Orange Order and the Crisis of British-Canadian Ethnicity, 192070,’ Institute of Commonwealth Studies, 'Canada and the End of Empire,' April 26-28,
2001, London, England
63. '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
64. 'Liberal Ethnicity: Beyond Liberal Nationalism and Minority Rights,' Canadian
Political Science Association, July 27-30, 2000, Quebec City, Canada,
65. 'National Ethnicity: the Empirical and Normative Status of Majority Groups,'
University of Bristol Department of Sociology, 'Nationalism and Minority Rights,' 1619 September, 1999, Bristol, England
66. 'Naturalizing the Nation: Northern Landscape and Canadian Identity,' British
Association for Canadian Studies, 'Culture and Context,' 6-9 April, 1998, University
of Staffordshire, England
67. '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
68. '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
69. 'American Exceptionalism Reconsidered: the Case of WASP America,' British
Association of American Studies, 'Reconstructing America,' 4-7 April, 1997,
University of Birmingham, England
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70. 'Condemned to Rootlessness: The Loyalist Origins of Canada's Identity Crisis,' British
Association for Canadian Studies, 24-27 March, 1997, University of Swansea, Wales
71. 'Beyond the End of History: the Coming Utilitarian Revolution,' Utilitas,
'Utilitarianism Reconsidered,' 22-23 March, 1997, New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S.A.
72. ' "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
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Datasets
UK Data Archive [SN t.b.a] Diversity and the White Working Class focus group data
(delivered in August 2014)
UK Data Archive [SN t.b.a] Yougov/ESRC survey on immigration attitudes and white flight
(delivered in August 2014)
UK Data Archive Study Number 4916: Orange Membership Data, with a focus on Ireland,
Canada and Scotland, 1852-2002 (Delivered in March 2004)
UK Data Archive Study Number 4911: Canadian Census Data, County/Census Division
Level, Ontario, 1891-1961 (Delivered in March 2004)
UK Data Archive Study Number 4910: Newfoundland Colonial Census Data,
Electoral/Census Division Level, 1911, 1935, 1945 (Delivered in March 2004)
UK Data Archive Study Number 4435: Orange Order Lodge Membership, Northern Ireland,
1893-2000 (Released 30 May 2002)
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Editorships and Board Memberships
 Vice-President, ASEN (Association For the Study of Ethnicity and Nationalism), LSE,
2011
Editor, Nations and Nationalism journal, London School of Economics. Joined editorial
team in August 2002, became one of three editors in April 2015
 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 –
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 Advisory Board, Religion, Brain and Behaviour, 2010 –
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Referee: Comparative Politics, American Journal of Political Science, American Political
Science Review, Journal of Politics, Religion and Politics, Political Psychology, Journal
of Peace Research, Political Quarterly, Comparative Political Studies, Nations &
Nationalism, Ethnic & Racial Studies, Global Society, Social Movements, Economic &
Social Research Council, Cambridge Review of International Affairs, Population and
Development Review, Population Studies, Population Space & Place, Journal for the
Scientific Study of Religion, Templeton, Leverhulme Trust, and others
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Organisational Activities

Organised ‘The Rise of the Populist Right’, Theme Panel at 2015 American Political
Science Association, San Francisco, September 3-6, 2015

Chairing Malcolm Potts and Martha Campbell, UC Berkeley, on “Population: The
Elephant in the Room is our Friend”, Birkbeck College, University of London, 12 June
2014

The Politics of Immigration: UKIP and Beyond, Council Room, Birkbeck College,
London, 5 June 2014 (basis for Political Quarterly special issue)

‘Ethno-Demographic Change and Nationalism in the UK and Beyond’, Birkbeck College,
University of London, ‘ Politics of Population, Migration and Ecology – Programme
Launch Event, 15 May 2014

Political Quarterly/Birkbeck, "The Politics of Immigration: UKIP and Beyond,'
symposium, Council Room, Birkbeck College, University of London, 5 June 2013

Roundtable organiser, 'White Flight and Anti-Immigration Politics in the West:
Perspectives from America, Britain and Europe,' Chatham House, London, 13 June 2013
(Ritula Shah, BBC, as moderator)

'Whither the Child?: the Causes and Consequences of Low Fertility in the West and East
Asia,' London School of Economics event, 11 March 2013

Roundtable event co-organiser, 'The New Population Bomb,' London School of
Economics, 1 May 2012
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Roundtable event organiser, 'Political Demography: How Population Changes Are
Reshaping International Security and National Politics,' Birkbeck College, 19 April 2012

Panel organiser, ‘The Peace Process in an Age of Austerity’, Political Studies
Association, Belfast, 2 April 2012
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Conference organiser, ‘Northern Ireland: Fragile Peace in an Age of Austerity’ Birkbeck
College, Oct. 14, 2011. Basis of special issue of Political Quarterly in early 2012.

Panel organizer, chair of panel on ‘The Causes and Consequences of Ethnic
Fractionalization,' American Political Science Association, Seattle, WA, Sept 2-6, 2011

Panel organizer, discussant, chair of panel on ‘Demography and Security: The Politics of
Population Change,' American Political Science Association, Toronto, Canada, Sept 3-6,
2009
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Co-organised conference on ‘Demography and Security: The Politics of Population
Change,' Weatherhead Center, Harvard University, May 1-2, 2009

Discussant, panel on Northern Ireland Politics, (UK) Political Studies Association (PSA)
conference, Swansea, Wales, 1-3 April, 2008

Discussant, panel on 'The Turn to Restriction,' European Social Science History
Conference (ESSHC), Lisbon, 26-29 February 2008

Chairing and Discussant on panel on: 'Immigration and Fertility: The Political
Demography of Ethnic, Religious and National Conflict,' American Political Science
Association (APSA), Chicago, Aug 30- Sept 2, 2007

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, #4225) '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
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Organised panel on 'Demographics and Politics' for American Political Science
Association meetings, 2006, Philadelphia
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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 and Protestant Politics,' at University of Ulster, 19
March 2004
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Organised and chaired Conference on 'Majority Groups and Dominant Minorities' at LSE,
16 December 2002
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Co-Chair of Workshop on 'Orangeism and Protestant Politics' (with Henry Patterson) at
University of Ulster, 8 November, 2002)
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Seminar Committee Chair - ASEN. (Association For the Study of Ethnicity and
Nationalism) at the L.S.E., 1995 - 1998
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Committee Chair - L.S.E. Graduate Students Committee, 1995-96
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Administration
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Research Committee, School of Social Sciences, History and Philosophy, Birkbeck
College, 2011-
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REF Lead and Chair of Research Committee, Department of Politics, Birkbeck College,
2011-
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Quality Assurance Director, Politics, 2009-11 (including preparation for audit of
November 2010)
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Birkbeck College, Department of Politics, Research Committee, 2010-

School of Social Sciences, History and Philosophy - STQEC committee representative for
Politics, 2009-
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Served on Internal Review Team for Review of Department of Management, May 2010
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Teaching Committee, Birkbeck, 2007-
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Publicity Officer, Birkbeck, 2007-9
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Programme Director, MSc Nationalism and Ethnic Conflict, Birkbeck, 2005 -
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Temporary Programme Director (Govt., Policy and Politics), Birkbeck, 2006-7
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Deputy QA Officer, Birkbeck, 2006-
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Library Liaison; Research Committee; Deputy QA Officer (one term), Birkbeck, 2004-6
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Undergraduate Dissertations Coordinator, University of Southampton, 1999-2001
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Undergraduate Admissions Selector, University of Southampton, 1999-2001
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Learning Resources Aspect Panel Co-Chair (Quality Assurance Exercise), 2000-2001
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Courses Taught
Postgraduate
Birkbeck:
 **The Politics of Population Change: Immigration, Aging and Conflict
 **Nationalism and Ethno-Religious Conflict (Birkbeck)
 **Nationalism in International Context (Birkbeck)
Southampton:
 * New Approaches to Political Science
 * Power and The State
 ** Nationalism and Ethnic Conflict
 *Social Science Faculty Research Training Scheme PhD Methodology Core Module
Undergraduate
Birkbeck:
 *Formation of Modern Societies (Birkbeck)
 *Political Transformations (Birkbeck)
 **Nationalism, Ethnicity and Religious Conflict (Birkbeck)
Southampton:
 PO 102 Political Systems
 PO 203 Comparative Politics
 **PO 204 Nationalism and Ethnic Conflict
 *PO 209 American Politics
* - Indicates co-authorship of course syllabus and contribution to teaching (usually 50%)
** - Indicates complete authorship and convenorship
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Supervision and External
PhD
 PhD Supervisor of Zoe Khor, Birkbeck College, 2009-2015 - Viva scheduled 9 July 2015
 PhD Supervisor of Kareem Kamel, Birkbeck College, 2010- completed without corrections
on 13 June 2012
 PhD Supervisor of Paul Morland, Birkbeck College, 2009 - completed with minor revisions
28 November 2012
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 Second supervisor of many others (Birkbeck)
Examining
 Examining Oded Steinberg (Oxford) on ‘English-Teutonic Circle of Historians,’ 2 June 2015
 Examining Ceren Lord (LSE) on Religious Majoritarianism in Turkey, 27 May 2015
 Examined Yuval Moshkwitz (Birkbeck), on Israeli-Jewish Identity in Britain, 2014
 Examined Durukan Kuzu (LSE) on ' Shifting Paradigms: Null Remedies for National
Minorities From Civic Egalitarianism to Ethnic Multiculturalism', 2014
 Examined Susana Carvalho (LSE) on 'Nationalism and Regime Overthrow in Early
Twentieth Century Portugal', 18 June 2012
 Examined Gareth Harris (Birkbeck) on ‘The Rise and Fall of the British National Party’:
The Demand for Extreme Right Politics in the UK, 7 February 2012
 Examined Anastasia Voronkova (QMUL) on thesis, 'Understanding the Dynamics of
Ethnonationalist Contention: Political Mobilization, Resistance and Violence in NagornoKarabakh and Northern Ireland,' 8 December 2011
 Examined Joanie Willett (Exeter) on her thesis, ‘Why is Cornwall so poor? Narrative,
perception and identity,' Exeter University, 29 January 2010
 External Examiner, MSc Nationalism and Ethnicity, Department of Government, LSE,
2007 External Examiner, MSc Nationalism in History, Department of International History, LSE,
2007 Auditor, Institute of Ulster Scots Studies (IUSS), University of Ulster at Magee, 22-23
November 2007
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Examined Daphne Haliokopolou (LSE) on her thesis, 'The Changing Dynamics of Religion
and National Identity: Greece and Ireland in a Comparative Perspective,' LSE, 26 September
2007
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Examined Heather Murchison (LSE) on her thesis, 'Unmasking Cultural Protectionism: An
Analysis of the Relationship between the Nation-State and Culture in Contemporary
Canada,' LSE, 16 March 2005
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Examined Jonathan Githens-Mazer (LSE) on his thesis, 'Cultural and Political Nationalism
in Ireland: Myths and Memories of the Easter Rising,' LSE, 24 August 2005
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Numerous Masters dissertations supervised to completion
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Advanced Training

'Population Dynamics and Projections,' London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine,
23 February-24 March 2006. 100 contact hours.
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'MLwiN Introductory Multilevel Modelling,' Centre for Multilevel Modelling, Institute of
Education, University of London, UK, 8-10 January 2003
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'Pooled Time-Series Cross Sectional Analysis,' ECPR Essex Summer School in Social
Science Data Analysis, University of Essex, Colchester, England, August 5-14, 2002
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'Introduction to Geographic Information Systems,' ECPR Essex Summer School in Social
Science Data Analysis, University of Essex, Colchester, England, July 8-19, 2002
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'Data Analysis III,' Centre for Advanced Social Science Analysis (CASS) & ESRC three-day
course, University of Southampton, April 2002
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'Data Analysis II,' Centre for Advanced Social Science Analysis (CASS) & ESRC three-day
course, University of Southampton, April 2001
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Professional Development
Birkbeck
 Media training, 2 September 2013
 Professional Development Reviewing, 1 June 2011
 Health and Safety, 2004-5
Southampton, 1999-2003
 'Introduction to Web Authoring,' Computing Services (6 hrs)
 ‘Powerpoint’ –CLT (U. Southampton). (6 hrs)
 'Developing a Research-Based Approach to Teaching,' (Oxford Centre for Staff
Development) at CLT (U. Southampton) - 3 hrs
 Course on Designing Web Pages - 1.5 hrs
 Admissions - CLT - 2 hrs
 Introduction to Teaching and Learning - Centre for Teaching & Learning (CLT) - 2 hrs
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Community
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 Member of steering committee of FilmClub, 2013-14, assisted in targeting ethnic
exchange activities at areas of England and Wales with limited diversity prior to 2001 that
had experienced rapid ethnic change in the ensuing decade
 Judge in Institute of Ideas Secondary School Debate, Wandsworth, London, 8 October
2012
 St Barnabas Church of England church, Southfields, London. Spoke at 'Space to Think'
series on 'Villains of the Peace?: religion and nationalism'. October 2007
 University of Westminster colloquium for 6th form teachers, on Multiculturalism in the
United States. July 2007
 Rural Development Northern Ireland - prepared a complementary GIS with plots of all
lodges in Northern Ireland June 2004
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Print media coverage of work on politics of immigration and segregation in UK
 Cited in Doug Todd, ‘How immigration issue may help Labour win the May British
election. What will it do in Canada?‘ Vancouver Sun, Feb. 25 2015
 Mention of our research in Harcharan Chandhoke, ‘These are not good times to be an
immigrant in Britain’, New Statesman, 30 Oct 2104
 Mention in ‘How will ‘super diversity’ affect the future of British politics?,’ Guardian, 8
October 2014
 ‘Tabloid readers, nationalists and the distrusting are most likely to be anti-immigration’,
coverage of report in New Statesman, 2 October 2014
 ‘Go West?’, part of ‘Immigration: A Balanced Agenda’ series, Bright Blue, 30 August
2014
 ‘The typical ukip voter has little experience of immigration,’ Independent on Sunday, 10
August 2014
 ‘Ukip does reflect voters’ concerns,’ Evening Standard, 28 April
 ‘White Londoners, seaside and countryside,’ Guardian, 23 January
 Demos press release for ‘White Flight?’ research, 25 November
 ‘Decoupling Immigration and Race in Britain,’ Aljazeera, 24 January 2014
 ‘London’s population: boom, change and churn’, Londoncitybreaks.org.uk, 23 December
2013
 ‘What’s the truth behind white flight?’, Guardian, 1 December 2013
 ‘Comfortably segregated: UK creeping towards ‘color-coded society’, Russia Today, 26
November 2013
 ‘When it comes to diversity, most of us vote with our feet,’ Spectator, 26 November 2013
 ‘UK ‘becoming colour-coded society’ because races don’t mix, says ex-equality chief‘,
Mail Online, 25 Nov 2013
 ‘Britain heading towards a ‘colour-coded society’, says Demos’, Telegraph, 25 Nov 2013
 ‘Polite white flight as culture divides us,’ Sunday Times, 24 November 2013
 ’34% of electorate uncomfortable with ethnic minority PM,’ YouGov News
 ‘One in three Britons uncomfortable with prospect of non-white Prime Minister,’
Independent, 3 October 2013
 ‘One in three Britons ‘uncomfortable’ with prospect of ethnic minority PM,’ Guardian, 3
October 2013
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 ‘Race Poll: Nearly Half of Ukip Members Against Idea of Non-white PM,’ Hope not Hate,
3 October 2013
 ‘Unease over prospect of non-white PM at No 10,’ Yorkshire Post, 3 OctoberResort 2013
 ‘Property Agent Says Londoners Fleeing Foreign Influx,’ Voice, 27 June 2013
 Mention of research in Jonathan Portes v David Goodhart, ‘An Exercise in Scapegoating,’
London Review of Books, 20 June 2013
 Eric Randolph, ‘Racial factors are not causing white flight’, Times of India, 26 May 2013
 ‘Everyone Out: whites are fleeing Britain’s inner cities. But so is everyone else,’
Economist, 11 May 2013
 ‘Jump In Minorities Becoming Majority Across Country,’ Voice, 7 May 2013
 ‘How rise of ‘white flight’ is creating a segregated UK: Study reveals white Britons are
‘retreating’ from areas dominated by ethnic minorities,’ Liveleak, 6 May 2013
 ‘White Britons abandon ethnic minority areas,’ Express, 6 May 2013
 ‘Warning bells ring as white Britons ‘retreat’,’ Yorkshire Post, 6 May 2013
 ‘White Britons ‘in retreat’ from racially mixed areas, reveals study by think-tank Demos,’
Independent, 6 May 2013
 ‘Demos: White Britons ‘in retreat’ from ethnic minority areas,’ Metro, 6 May 2013
 ‘Ethnic majority’ areas growing, says report,’ Telegraph, 6 May 2013
 ‘How rise of ‘white flight’ is creating a segregated UK: Study reveals white Britons are
‘retreating’ from areas dominated by ethnic minorities,’ Daily Mail, 6 May 2013
 ‘White Britons Culturally Segregated Due To Retreat From Minority Areas,’ Huffington
Post, 6 May 2013
 Coverage of our ESRC-Demos workshop in ‘Poverty tsar Frank Field: white, working
class need own citizenship ceremonies,’ Independent, 4 April 2013
 ‘White Flight’: the emerging story, Understanding Society
 Mention in Nick Hellen, ‘Britons ‘self-segregate’ as white flight soars,’ Sunday Times, 27
January 2013
 Mention in Emma Reynolds, ‘Rise of ‘white flight’: British families are ‘self-segregating’
as more Caucasians abandon urban areas for the countryside,’ Daily Mail, 27 January 2013
 Mention in David Goodhart, ‘London’s “White Flight” Deserves Attention,’ Financial
Times, December 26, 2012
Print Media Coverage of Religious Demography Research

Ross Douthat, ‘The Crisis of Faith‘, Atlantic Monthly, July/August 2007
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Commentary on my November 2006 Prospect/Newsweek article, ‘Breeding for God’
at Richard Dawkins.net (2008)
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Anthony Gottlieb, ‘Faith Equals Fertility’, Intelligent Life (Economist), Winter 2008

‘A Nightmare for Richard Dawkins: statistics show that atheists are a dying breed’,
Ed West, Daily Telegraph (UK), 18 September 2009
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15 March 2010 – Daily Telegraph (Ed West) – ‘Atheism is doomed: the
contraceptive Pill is secularism’s cyanide tablet‘
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Friendly Atheist (interview), Hemant Mehta, 19 March, 2010
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‘Rise of the Fundamentalists‘, Slugger O’ Toole, 22 March, 2010
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21 March, 2010 – Sunday Times (Dominic Lawson), ‘Shall the Religious Inherit the
Earth‘
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22-28 March, 2010 Big Issue Scotland (cover story), ‘God’s Comeback‘
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31 March, 2010 – London Metro (Robert Murphy), ‘Shall The Religious Inherit The
Earth?: Eric Kaufmann may have the answer‘
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New Humanist (cover story by Caspar Melville), ‘Battle of the Babies‘, March/April
2010 issue Chosen as an ‘article of note’ in Arts and Letters Daily, early April 2010
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Mercator.net (interview), April, 2010
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Belief.net (Rod Dreher) – ‘The (very) Religious Shall Inherit the Earth‘, 2 April, 2010
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‘Mormons: ‘We don’t want Bible bashers‘ (Alice Fishburn and Hattie Garlick),
Sunday Times, 1 April, 2010
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4 April, 2010 – Financial Times (John Lloyd), ‘Abraham’s Children on the March‘
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April – Literary Review (Douglas Murray), ‘We’re All Doomed‘
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4 April, 2010 – Theos (Nick Spencer) – ‘Shall the Religious Inherit the Earth‘
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9 April, 2010 – Independent (Ziauddin Sardar) – ‘Shall the Religious Inherit the
Earth‘
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17 April, 2010 – Toronto Globe and Mail (Doug Saunders) – ‘Swamped by Religion‘
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18 April, 2010 – Morning Star (Michael Boncza) – ‘Shall the Religious Inherit the
Earth‘
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‘I pity the Catholics who believed in their leaders’, (Catherine Nixey), Times, 23
April, 2010
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‘David Quinn: It is the religious who shall inherit the earth‘, (David Quinn), Irish
Independent, 30 April, 2010
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2 May, 2010 - Observer (Kenan Malik, #1853) - ‘Shall the Religious Inherit the
Earth’
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5 May, 2010 - Epiphenom (Tom Rees) - ‘Shall the Fundamentalists Inherit the Earth’
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16 May, 2010 - Sunday Star Times, New Zealand, (Mark Broatch) - ‘Revenge of the
Cradle’
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‘Credo: It takes faith to have a child, faith in mankind’s purpose’, (Rabbi Jonathan
Sacks), Times, 21 May, 2010
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‘Acts of God’, Standpoint (Daniel Johnson), May issue, 2010
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‘Why the 21st century will be religious’ (Ed West), Catholic Herald, 4 June, 2010
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‘The future of Right-wing politics – ‘Libertarian Islamophobes’ or inter-faith gaybashers?’ (Ed West), Telegraph, 9 June, 2010
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‘Why Religion Will Make a Comeback’ (David Quinn), Iona Institute, 15 June, 2010
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18 June, 2010 - Catholic Herald (Ed West) - ‘The future belongs to the children of
believers’
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22 June, 2010 – Taki’s Magazine (John Derbyshire) - ‘Religious Extremists Will
Inherit the Earth’
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25 June, 2010 - Spiked Online (Tim Black) - ‘The barbarians are copulating at the
gates’
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‘The West Should Stop Panicking’ (Aron Paul), The Australian, 24 September, 2010
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2 October, 2010 Miriam Cosic, ’Religious baby boom primed to send shock waves
through secular world’, The Australian
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21 October, 2010 Razib Khan, ‘The Wheel of History turns to the gods’, Discovery
Magazine
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Mention of book in ‘Survival of the Godliest: Does strong religious belief provide an
evolutionary advantage?’, Philip Longman, Big Questions Online, 12 November 2010
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God’s own party, Dec 20, 2010
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Grace Davie, ‘Religion’s Built-in Baby Boom?’, Church Times, 22 December 2010
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26 December, Andy Walton, Sunday Breakfast Show, Premier Christian Radio
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May 2011 - review of book by Allan Carlson in The Family in America, Winter issue
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Professor: the Religious Population will inherit the earth, Hal Boyd, Deseret News,
May 24, 2011
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Review of the book by Frank Ellis, Quarterly Review, Spring 2011
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Wrong, Rogue and Booklog, May 2011
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Homeschoolingallabout.com, May 4, 2011
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Superstition and Atheism blog, May 17, 2011
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Kitchendaily, May 19
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Kitman.tv, May 20, 2011
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‘Book Review: Between Religion and Politics’, Muhammad Khan, Muslim News,
May 27, 2011
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Discussion of my (and colleagues Vegard Skirbekk and Anne Goujon) predictions for
US religion in 2043 in David Briggs, ARDA ‘Ahead of the Trend’ and Huffington Post, May
25
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‘Book Review: Between Religion and Politics’, Muhammad Khan, Muslim News,
May 27, 2011
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Television Interview on Fox News Live, June 10, 2011
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Discussion in Blaze.com, June 11, 2011
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Discussion in Sharperiron.org, June 12, 2011
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‘Demography and the Future of Religion: Eric Kaufmann’s Shall the Religious Inherit
the Earth?’, Vox Nova, August 3, 2011
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Interview on Clay Naff’s radio show, ‘Science Odyssey: Demography Shows How
Religion Drives Population Growth’, September 10, 2011
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Interviewed as part of Alan Greenblatt, ‘As Europe Ages, Its Economies Look
Vulnerable,‘ NPR.org, September 24
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‘Religious revival: Western societies are being dramatically reshaped by the strong
birth rate of religious people,‘ Bright Blue, Autumn 2011, p. 37
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Mention in Nigel Barber, ‘ When Will Atheism Prevail Over Religion?,’ Huffington
Post, Nov.3, 2011
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Mention in Allan Carlson, ‘Demography, Destiny and New Foreign Policy Challenges
for the 21st Century,’ Foreign Policy Research Institute, Dec. 12, 2011
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Review of my work in Doug Todd, ‘Who shall inherit the Earth? Perhaps, the
religious’, Vancouver Sun, 10 October 2014
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