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About Peter O'Brien

My research investigates the way in which Europeans view and interact with non-Europeans both in the past and in the present, including what that reveals about European identity or self-understanding itself.While my predominant focus is on relations with Muslims (e.g., Islamophobia in Europe), I have also published in the area of anti-Americanism in Europe. I have been Social Science Research Council Fellow at the Free University in Berlin and Fulbright Professor at Boğaziçi University in Istanbul and at the Humboldt University in Berlin.

Positions

Present Professor, Political Science, Trinity University ‐ Department of Political Science
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Honors and Awards

  • 1982 Graduate Exchange Scholarship from the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
  • 1985 Turkish Studies Fellowship from University of Wisconsin-Madison
  • 1985-86 Ogg Fellowship from the University of Wisconsin-Madison
  • 1986 Travel Grant from University of Wisconsin for Research in Turkey
  • 1986-88 Dissertation Fellowship at the Free University of Berlin from the Social Science Research Council
  • 1990 Kalamazoo College Foreign Study Grant (Costa Rica and Nicaragua)
  • 1991 Research Fellowship from the Program for Inter-Institutional Collaboration in Area Studies at the University of Michigan
  • 1992, 1997, 1999, 2002, 2007, 2009, 2012, 2014 -- Trinity University Summer Research Stipend
  • 1993 Fellow in the Institute for European Studies' Faculty Seminar on "Germany after Unification, and the New Europe," Berlin, June 11-25
  • 1995-1996 Fulbright Senior Lecturer at Boğaziçi University in Istanbul, Turkey
  • 1997 Salzburg Seminar Fellow "Europe: Consolidation and Enlargement"
  • 1998 Conference on European Problems Fellow “Meaning and Implications of the NATO and EU Extension”
  • 2002 Fulbright German Studies Seminar
  • 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
  • 2005-2006 Fulbright Senior Scholar, Institute for Social Sciences, Humboldt University of Berlin
  • 2011 Research Visit Grant from the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), Institute for Social Sciences, Humboldt University of Berlin
  • 2020 Distinguished Achievement Award (Distinguished Research, Scholarship, or Creative Work or Activity)

Courses

  • Contemporary Political Thought
  • Senior Seminar in Political Science
  • The Politics of Diversity
  • Politics of the Middle East
  • Politics of Minority Groups
  • Power and Knowledge
  • European Politics
  • Political Economy
  • Introduction to Comparative Politics
  • Introduction to Political Philosophy

Education

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1983 - 1988 MA, PhD, University of Wisconsin - Madison ‐ Political Science
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1978 - 1982 BA, Kalamazoo College ‐ Political Science
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Contact Information

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

Books (3)

Articles (22)