CURRICULUM VITAE
September, 2017
Peter O'Brien
PERSONAL INFORMATION:
Address: Trinity University, 1 Trinity Place, San Antonio, TX 78212-7200
Telephone Number: (210) 999-8340
Fax Number: (210) 999-8320
E-mail:
Website: https://new.trinity.edu/faculty/peter-obrien
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
2000-present Professor of Political Science (Trinity University, San Antonio)
2011 German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) Visiting Research Fellow (Institute for Social Sciences, Humboldt University of Berlin)
2009 Interim Chair, Political Science Department, Trinity University
2005-2006 Fulbright Senior Scholar (Humboldt University of Berlin)
1995—1996 Fulbright Senior Scholar (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 Social Science Research Council Fellow (Free University of 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), Immigration, Political Theory, Religion and Politics
MINOR FIELD:
Middle East Studies
LANGUAGES:
English, German, Turkish, Spanish
PUBLICATIONS (BOOKS):
The Muslim Question in Europe: Political Controversies and Public Philosophies (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2016). link
European Perceptions of Islam & America from Saladin to George W. Bush: Europe’s
Fragile Ego Uncovered (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009)
Beyond the Swastika: The Legacy of the Holocaust and Postwar Immigration Policy in
Germany (London: Routledge, 1996)
PUBLICATIONS (REFEREED JOURNALS):
“Islamophilia in Medieval Spain.” (with Christiana Zgourides). Common Knowledge 24/1 (2018): 35–55.
“Islamophobia & Europhobia: Subaltern Discourse & Its Limits.” Islamophobia Studies Journal 3/2 (2016): 101-115. link
"Counter-terrorism in Europe: the Elusive Search for Order.” European Security 23/3 (2016): 366–384. link
“Islamophobia, Euro-Islam, Islamism and Post-Islamism: Changing Patterns of Secularism in Europe.” American Journal of the Islamic Social Sciences 30/3 (June/July 2013): 59-93
“Clashes within Western Civilization: Debating Citizenship for European Muslims.” Migration Studies 1/2(2013): 131-55
“Islamic Civilization and (Western) Modernity.” Comparative Civilizations Review 65(Fall 2011): 18-32
“Making (Normative) Sense of the Headscarf Debate in Europe.” German Politics and Society 27/3(2009): 50-76
“America: A Civilization of Its Own?” Comparative Civilizations Review 57(Fall 2007): 29-52
“Europe: A Civilization on the Edge.” Comparative Civilizations Review 53(Fall 2005): 52-85
“Islamic Civilisation’s Role in the Waning of the European Middle Ages.” Medieval History Journal 2/2 (1999): 387-404
“Race Is Dead.” The Political Chronicle 6/1 (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 (CHAPTERS):
“Irregular Migration in Europe: Inclusive Exclusion.” In Migrants and Refugees in Times of Crisis, ed. Theodoros Fouskas (Athens: European Public Law Organization, forthcoming).
“Transnationalism and Citizenship: Competing Normative Frames in Europe.” In Migration und Integration: Akzeptanz und Widerstand im transnationalen
Nationalstaat. Deutsche und internationale Perspektiven, ed. Sandra Kostner (Berlin: LIT Verlag, 2016), pp. 289-320
“Postmodern Politics: Manipulating Images of Islam in Contemporary Europe.” In Muhammad in the Digital Age, ed. Ruqayya J. Khan (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2015), pp. 83-107
“Islam, Liberalism, and Xenophobia in Europe.” In Islam: Portability & Exportability, ed., Samy Swayd (Los Angeles: Centers for Near Eastern and European Studies, UCLA, 2007)
“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:
“Inclusive Exclusion: Counter-terrorism and Irregular Migration in Europe.” Article for European Journal of Criminology
Muslims and the Politics of Post-Truth. Book-length manuscript
ACADEMIC DISTINCTIONS & HONORS:
2017 Trinity University Summer Research Stipend
2015 Trinity University Academic Leave
2014 Trinity University Summer Research Stipend
2012 Trinity University Summer Research Stipend
2011 Research Visit Grant from the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), Institute for Social Sciences, Humboldt University of Berlin
2010-2011 Academic Leave from Trinity University
2009 Trinity University Summer Research Stipend
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:
“Immigration and the Post-consensus Society in Europe.” Address delivered at Macalester College, St. Paul, 4 April, 2017
“Migration and the Post-consensus Society.” Address delivered at the University of the Incarnate Word, San Antonio, Texas, 3 November, 2016
“The Muslim Question in Europe: Political Controversies and Public Philosophies.” Paper presented at the Institute for Islamic Studies, Free University of Berlin, 9 June, 2016
“Islamophobia, Euro-Islam, Islamism and Post-Islamism: Changing Patterns of Secularism in Europe.” Paper presented at the Institute for Political Science, University of Vienna, 23 May, 2013
“Immigration to Germany: Past and Present Experiences.” Paper presented at the conference “Debating the Immigration-Integration Nexus in Germany and Turkey: Where to Go from Here?” Boğaziçi University, Istanbul, 23-24 September, 2011
“Clashes within Western Civilization: Analyzing Political Controversy Surrounding Muslims in Europe.” Institute for Social Sciences, Humboldt University of Berlin, 6 July 2011
“Transformations in Germany’s (Negative) Other.” Presentation at the Institute for Islamic Studies, Free University of Berlin, 21 June, 2011
“Clashes within Western Civilization: Normative Controversies Regarding Muslim Immigrants in Europe.” Berlin Program for Advanced German and European Studies, Free University of Berlin, 7 February, 2011
“Islam in Europe Today.” Osher Lifelong Learning Institute, Aquinas College, Grand Rapids, MI, November 9, 2010
“Fragile Ego: European Perceptions of Islam & America.” “Imagining Global Citizenship Series,” University of Delaware, Newark, October 7, 2010
“European Perceptions of Islam & America from Saladin to George W. Bush: Europe’s Fragile Ego Uncovered.” Presentation at the BMW Center for German and European Studies, Georgetown University, Washington, DC, November 23, 2009
“Making (Normative) Sense of the Headscarf Debate in Europe.” Paper presented in the Department of Government, University of Texas, Austin, April 22, 2009
“European Perceptions of Islam & America from Saladin to George W. Bush: Europe’s Fragile Ego Uncovered.” Presentation at the Center for European Studies, University of Texas, Austin, April 22, 2009
“Religion, Ethics, Political Philosophy, and Immigration.” Presentation given at Furman University on October 31, 2008
Interviewee for KQED’s radio program “Forum” focusing on Islam in Europe, November
28, 2007
“Who Is Right & Who Is Wrong in the Headscarf Debate?” Paper presented at Bremen
University, June 18, 2007
“Is There a Philosophically Superior Solution to the Headscarf Controversy?” Paper
presented at the Otto-Suhr Institute, Free University, Berlin, June 12, 2007, and the
Institute for Social Sciences, Humboldt University of Berlin, June 13, 2007
“Clashes within Western Civilization: Europe’s Headscarf Debate in Philosophical Perspective.” Paper presented at the Centers for Near Eastern and European Studies, UCLA, April 30, 2007.
“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:
“Inclusive Exclusion: Explaining the Control Gap and Irregular Migration in Europe.” Paper presented at the Council for European Studies Conference, Glasgow, July 12, 2017
“Inclusive Exclusion: Counter-terrorism and Irregular Migration in Europe.” Paper presented at the Third Conference of Crimmigration Control – International Net of Studies (CINETS), College Park, October 7, 2016
“Counter-terrorism in Europe: Controversies and Contradictions.” Paper presented at the Council for European Studies Conference, Philadelphia, April 15, 2016
“Islamophobia and Europhobia in Europe: Politics in the Digital Age.” A paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Washington, DC, August 29, 2014
“Postmodern Politics: Manipulating Images of Islam in Contemporary Europe.” A paper presented at the 21st International Conference of Europeanists, Washington, DC, March 1, 2014
“Islam and the Politics of Secularism in Europe.” A paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Chicago, September 1, 2013
“Islamophobia, Euro-Islam, Islamism and Post-Islamism: Changing Patterns of Secularism in Europe.” A paper presented at 20th International Conference of Europeanists, Amsterdam June 25-27, 2013
“Islamophobia, Euro-Islam, Islamism and Post-Islamism: Changing Patterns of Secularism in Europe.” A paper prepared for the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, New Orleans, August 31, 2012
“Nationalism and Transnationalism in the Politics of Immigration in Europe: the Failure of Liberal Universalism.” Paper presented at the Annual Conference of the International Association for the Study of German Politics, London, May 17, 2011
“Citizenship and the Revival of Nationalism in Europe.” Paper presented at the World Convention of the Association for the Study of Nationalities, New York City, April 17, 2010
“Naturalizing Muslims in Europe: Normative Debates about Belonging.” Paper presented at the Meeting of the Western Political Science Association, San Francisco, April 4, 2010
“Ethical Debates about Islam in Europe.” Paper presented at the Meeting of the International Studies Association, New York, February 17, 2009
“The Ethics of Immigration in Germany.” Paper presented at the Meeting of the German Studies Association, St. Paul, October 4, 2008