Thomas Banchoff

Thomas Banchoff is Vice President for Global Engagement at Georgetown University. He also serves as Professor in the Department of Government and the School of Foreign Service and as Director of Georgetown's Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs, which he founded in 2006. Banchoff's scholarship centers on religious and ethical issues in world politics. His books include The Jesuits and Globalization: Historical Legacies and Contemporary Challenges, co-edited with Jose Casanova (2016); Embryo Politics: Ethics and Policy in Atlantic Democracies (2011); and, as editor, Religious Pluralism, Globalization, and World Politics (2008), and Democracy and the New Religious Pluralism (Oxford University Press, 2007). His essays have appeared in Commonweal, The Tablet, The Washington Post, and other outlets.

Banchoff received his BA from Yale in 1986 (summa cum laude), MA from the University of Bonn in 1988, and Ph.D. in Politics from Princeton in 1993. He has held fellowships at Harvard's Center for European Studies and at the University of Bonn and was awarded the DAAD Award for Distinguished Scholarship in German Studies in 2003. He is a co-convener of the Georgetown Global Dialogues and co-chairs the Task Force on Global Citizenship of the International Association of Jesuit Universities.