CURRICULUM VITAE
February 2007
PETER O'BRIEN
PERSONAL INFORMATION:
Date
and Place of Birth:
16 April
1960,
in
Grand Rapids,
MI
Current Address:
Trinity University, 1 Trinity Place,
San Antonio,
TX
78212-7200
Telephone Number: (210) 999-8340
Fax
Number: (210) 999-8320
E-mail: pobrien@trinity.edu
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
2000-present Professor of Political Science (Trinity
University, San Antonio)
2005-2006 Fulbright Senior Scholar (Humboldt
University of
Berlin)
1995—1996 Fulbright Senior Lecturer (Boğaziçi
University, Istanbul)
1994-2000 Associate Professor of Political Science (Trinity
University, San Antonio)
1991-1994 Assistant Professor of Political Science (Trinity
University, San Antonio)
1988-1991 Assistant Professor of Political Science (Kalamazoo
College)
1986-1988 Berlin Program Fellow (Free University,
Berlin)
EDUCATION:
Undergraduate Training:
1978-1982 Kalamazoo College, BA (Major: Political Science)
Graduate Training:
1982-1983 University of Erlangen-Nuremberg (Major: Political Science)
1983-1988 University of Wisconsin-Madison
1984 MA. in Political Science
1988 Ph.D. in Political Science
MAJOR FIELDS IN POLITICAL
SCIENCE:
Comparative Politics (Europe),
Political Theory, Religion and Politics, Public Administration
MINOR FIELD:
Middle East
Studies
LANGUAGES:
English, German,
Turkish, Spanish
PUBLICATIONS (BOOKS):
Beyond the
Swastika: The Legacy of the Holocaust and Postwar Immigration Policy in
Germany
(London:
Routledge, 1996)
PUBLICATIONS (REFEREED):
“America:
A Civilization of Its Own?” Comparative Civilizations Review
(forthcoming)
“Europe:
A Civilization on the Edge” Comparative Civilizations Review (Fall
2005): 52-85
“Islamic Civilisation’s Role in the Waning of the European Middle Ages”
Medieval History Journal (October 1999): 387-404
“Race
Is Dead.” Political Chronicle 11 (Spring 1999): 34-44
"Germany's
Newest Aliens: the East Germans" East European Quarterly (January
1997): 449-470
"Unplanned Resistance: Turkish Immigrants in a Postmodern
Germany"
Boğaziçi Journal: Review of Social, Economic and Administrative Studies
Vol. 10, No. 1-2 (1996): 77-88
"Migration and Its Risks" International Migration Review 30/4(Fall
1996): 1067-77
"Identity Crisis in the New
Germany" Debatte 1(1994): 64-81
"The
Underside of John Locke's Philosophy: The Politics of Distrust" The
Political Chronicle 6/1(1994): 1-8
"Islam
vs. Liberalism in
Europe" The American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences (Fall 1993):
367-81
"German-Polish Migrations: The Elusive Search for a German Nation-State”
International Migration Review (Summer 1992): 373-87
"The
Civil Rights of
West Germany's Migrants"
German Politics and Society 19 (Spring 1990): 27-40
"Continuity and Change in
Germany's Treatment of Non-Germans" International Migration Review
(Fall 1988): 110-34
PUBLICATIONS (NON-REFEREED):
“Islam, Liberalism, and Xenophobia in
Europe,” Islam: Portability & Exportability, ed., Samy Swayd
(Los
Angeles:
Centers for Near Eastern and European Studies, UCLA, forthcoming)
“Islam vs. Liberalism in
Europe,” Working Paper
No. 9 (Fall 2003), Center for Western European
Studies,
Kalamazoo
College
“Europe
Pinched between Islam & America” Perihelion (28 April, 2003)
“Europe
and Its Muslims” Proceedings of ISSEI 2000 (Bergen:
Humanities Information Technologies
Research Programme of the University of
Bergen,
2000).
“Platonism and Plagiarism at the End of the Middle Ages,”
in Christianizing Peoples and Converting Individuals, eds., Guyda
Armstrong and Ian Wood (Turnhout: Brepols, 2000), pp. 303-20
"Islam in Europe," in ECSA Conference Papers (1995) on CD-ROM
(Maastricht:
Ellis, 1995)
"Reflections on the Political Scholar," in The German Mosaic:
Cultural and Linguistic
Diversity in
Society, ed., Carol Blackshire-Belay (Westport: Greenwood Press,
1994), pp. 171-80
WORK IN PROGRESS:
Fragile Ego: Europe’s Relations with Islam & America from Saladin to George
W. Bush
(book-length manuscript the University of North Carolina Press has agreed to
referee)
“Three Approaches to Immigration & Cultural Diversity: Nationalism,
Liberalism, & Postmodernism” (analysis of the philosophical underpinnings of
various policies toward Muslim minorities in Europe)
ACADEMIC DISTINCTIONS & HONORS:
2007
Trinity University Summer Research Stipend
2005-2006 Fulbright Senior Scholar, Institute for Social Sciences,
Humboldt
University of
Berlin
2005-2006 Academic Leave from
Trinity University
2004
Fellow, the Institute for the International Education of Students
Seminar on “US-EU Relations since 9/11 and the
Iraq War,”
University
of
Freiburg,
Freiburg
2002
Fulbright German Studies Seminar
2002
Summer Research Stipend from
Trinity University
2000-2001 Academic Leave from
Trinity University
1999
Summer Research Stipend from
Trinity University
1998
Conference on European Problems Fellow “Meaning and Implications of the NATO
and EU Extension”
1997
Salzburg
Seminar Fellow "Europe:
Consolidation and Enlargement"
1997
Trinity University Summer Research Stipend
1995-1996 Fulbright Senior Lecturer at
Boğaziçi University in
Istanbul,
Turkey
1995-1996 Academic Leave Award from
Trinity University
1993
Fellow in the Institute for European Studies' Faculty Seminar on "Germany
after Unification, and the New
Europe,"
Berlin,
June 11-25
1992
Summer Research Stipend from
Trinity University
1991
Research Fellowship from the Program for Inter-Institutional Collaboration
in Area Studies at the
University of
Michigan
1990
Kalamazoo College Light Grant for Academic Leave
1990
Kalamazoo College Foreign Study Grant (Costa Rica and
Nicaragua)
1986-88 Dissertation Fellowship at the Free University of
Berlin
from the Social Science Research Council
1986
Travel Grant from
University of
Wisconsin
for Research in
Turkey
1985-86 Ogg Fellowship from the University of Wisconsin-Madison
1985
Turkish Studies Fellowship from University of Wisconsin-Madison
1982
Graduate Exchange Scholarship from the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
PRESENTATIONS BY INVITATION:
“The Head-Scarf Debate in Philosophical Perspective.” Paper
presented to the Society for
Religious Studies,
Bayreuth
University,
June 21, 2006
“Comparing Immigration Policies in
Europe: Assimilation, Integration and Multiculturalism.” Paper presented in
the “Perspectives on European Integration” series of the Institute for
Social Sciences, Humboldt University of Berlin,
May 17, 2006
“Before Western Hegemony: The Oriental Influence on the Occident during the
Middle Ages and Early Modernity.” Atlantische Akademie, Birkenfeld,
May 11, 2006
“America:
Europe’s Modern Rival.” Paper presented at the Institute for American
Studies, University of
Leipzig,
May 2, 2006
“US-European
Relations in Historical Perspective.” Paper presented at the
Otto-von-Guericke-University
Magdeburg,
May 3, 2006
“Immigration & Islam in
Europe: Liberal, Nationalist & Postmodern Strategies.” Institute of
International Relations and Political Science, Vilnius University,
March 28, 2006
“Three
Approaches to the Threat of Terrorism: Liberalism, Nationalism &
Postmodernism.” Institute for Social Sciences, Humboldt
University of
Berlin,
February 16, 2006.
“Islam
in
Germany: A Briefing.” Embassy of the United States of America, Berlin,
January 19, 2006.
“Three
Competing Moral Approaches to Immigration & Cultural Diversity: Nationalism,
Liberalism & Postmodernism.” Paper presented to the joint conference of the
German Marshall Fund and the European Forum for Migration Studies at Bamberg
University entitled “The Role of Religion for Integration,” Berlin, November
25, 2005
“The
West and the Rest.”
Babson College, Wellesley, MA
December 8, 2004
“America:
Europe’s Modern Rival.” Keynote address to the Institute for the
International Education of Students Seminar on “US-EU Relations since 9/11
and the Iraq War,” University of
Freiburg,
Freiburg,
June 13, 2004
“The
Problem with Islam in
Europe.” Center for European and East European Studies, UCLA, Los Angeles,
May 24, 2004
“Islam and Integration in
Europe.” Paper presented
to the “Conference on the Integration
of Immigrants from Turkey in Belgium, Denmark, France and
Sweden,” Boğaziçi University, Istanbul, March 26, 2004.
“Islam and Liberalism in
Europe.” Keynote address
to the conference on “Islam in
Europe,”
Kalamazoo College, Kalamazoo,
April 12, 2003
“Islamic Civilization’s Role in the European Renaissance.” Keynote address
to the conference on “Perceiving the Arab World and Islam: A Dialogue,”
University of the Incarnate Word,
San Antonio,
February 13, 1999
Testimony before the
United States Commission on
Immigration Reform.
Austin,
TX,
January 17, 1995
"The
Ossis:
Germany's
Newest Ausländer." A paper presented in the guest-lecture series of
the Department of Germanic Languages at the
University
of
Texas,
Austin,
April 9, 1992
"German-Polish Migration." A paper presented at the conference on "The New
Europe and International Migration,"
Turin, Italy,
November 25, 1991
"Betrachtungen zum Politischen." A paper presented at the Humboldt
University in the research seminar "Migration und ethnische Beziehungen,"
Berlin, June 3, 1991
"Deutschlands Türkenproblem." Paper presented at the Berliner
Institut für Vergleichende Sozialforschung, Berlin, January 23, 1990
"Formen Politischen Widerstands auf dem Land in der Türkei und
im Ghetto in der Bundesrepublik." Paper presented at the Berliner Institut
für Vergleichende Sozialforschung, Berlin, 3 February, 1987
CONFERENCE PAPERS:
“Three Approaches to
Immigration: Liberalism, Nationalism & Postmodernism.” A paper presented at
the
Meeting of the International Political Science Association, Fukuoka, July
13, 2006
“The Case for American
Civilization.” A paper presented at the annual meeting of the International
Society for the Comparative Study of Civilizations, Minneapolis, June 10,
2005
“America: A Civilization of
Its Own.” A paper presented at the annual meeting of the International
Society
for the Comparative Study of Civilizations, St. Petersburg, Russia,
September 16, 2003
“East Meets West: Islam and
the European Renaissance.” A paper delivered at the Meeting of the
International Society for the Study of European Ideas, Aberystwyth Wales, 23
July, 2002
“The Limits of Liberalism: Europe and Its Muslims.” A paper presented at
the annual meeting of the
American Political Science Association, San Francisco, September 1, 2001
“Beyond the Swastika:
Germany’s Postwar Immigration Policy.” A paper presented at the annual
meeting of the German Studies Association,
Houston,
October 7, 2000
“Europe
& Its Muslims.” A paper presented at the meeting of the International
Society for the
Study of European Ideas, Bergen Norway,
August 16, 2000
“Europe
Eclipsed: A Millennium of Marginality.” A paper presented at the annual
meeting
of the International Society for the Comparative Study of Civilizations,
St. Louis,
May 21, 1999
“Backward
Europe.”
A paper presented at the meeting of the International Studies
Association/Midwest,
Chicago,
November 7, 1998
“Race
is Dead.” A paper prepared for the meeting of the International Society for
the Study of
European Ideas,
Haifa,
July 20, 1998
"Platonism and Plagiarism at the End of the Middle Ages." A paper presented
at the International Medieval Congress,
Leeds,
July 15, 1997
"Unorganized Resistance: Underprivileged Minorities in a Postmodern European
Union." A paper presented at the International Conference of the European
Community Studies Association,
Seattle,
June 1, 1997
"Migration and Its Risks." A paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the
German Studies Association,
Chicago,
September 23, 1995
"Islam
in
Europe."
A paper presented at the Meeting of the European Community Studies
Association,
Charleston,
May 13, 1995
"Ossis:
Germany's Newest Ausländer." A paper presented at the annual meeting
of the German Studies Association, Dallas,
September 30, 1994
"Nationalism, Liberalism and Political Identity in
Germany." A paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political
Science Association, Washington, D.C.,
September 3, 1993
"Identity Crisis in the New
Germany." A paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Southwestern
Political Science Association, New Orleans,
March 20, 1993
"West
European Reactions to East European Migration." A paper presented at the
Annual Meeting of the Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies,
Phoenix,
November 21, 1992
"Islam
vs. Liberalism in
Europe."
A paper presented at the meeting of the Society for the Scientific Study of
Religion, Washington, D.C.,
November 6, 1992
"Identity Crisis in the New
Germany." A paper presented at the meeting of the German Studies
Association, Minneapolis,
October 8, 1992
"Migration Crisis in the European Community." Presentation made at the
meeting of the Southwest Association of the Social Sciences,
Austin,
April 9, 1992
"Which
of These Migrants Really Belong to Us?" A paper presented at the annual
meeting of the American Political Science Association.
Washington,
D.C.,
September 3, 1991
"The
Political Scholar." A paper presented at the 1991 International Symposium
on Germanic Languages and Literatures,
Columbus, OH,
March 15, 1991
"The
Changing Environment of Migration in
West Europe." A paper presented at the Seventh International
Conference of Europeanists,
Washington, D.C.,
March 23, 1990
"Civil Rights for
West Germany's Migrants." A
paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science
Association,
Atlanta,
September 3, 1989
"Religious Education for Turks in
West Germany: An
Interpretation of Inter-Group Conflict." A paper presented at the 1985
Annual Conference of the Middle East Studies Association,
New Orleans,
25 November 1985
COURSES TAUGHT:
Introduction to Political Philosophy
Comparing Countries
Political Economy
European Politics
Power
and Knowledge
Politics of American Minorities
Introduction to Comparative Politics
Politics of the
Middle
East
Contemporary Political Thought
SERVICE TO THE PROFESSION:
Member, International Society for the Comparative Study of Civilizations
Steering Committee (2005-present)
Member, Fulbright Review Board
Member, American Political Science Association
Member, Conference Group on German Politics
Member, European Union Studies Association
Member, German Studies Association
Member,
Middle East
Studies Association
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