Jeremy Menchik is Associate Professor of International Relations and Political Science in the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University and Director of the Institute on Culture, Religion, and World Affairs. He is the author of three books: The Gospel of Liberalism: Missionaries, Empire, and American Democracy Promotion (2027 from Cornell University Press), Protest Cycles and Radicalization in the Digital Age: The Reopen Movement (Cambridge University Press 2026, co-authored with Samuel Bazzi, Clara Martiny, Pujan Paudel, Seth Soderborg, Gianluca Stringhini) and Islam and Democracy in Indonesia: Tolerance without Liberalism (Cambridge University Press, 2016) which was the co-winner of the 2017 International Studies Association award for the best book on religion and international relations. He has received numerous awards and fellowships for teaching and research, and his work has appeared in the academic journals Comparative Studies in Society and History, Comparative Politics, Security Studies, Political Science Quarterly, International Studies Review, Politics and Religion, Asian Studies Review and South East Asia Research as well as in The New York Times, The New York Review of Books, The Washington Post, Christian Science Monitor, The Wall Street Journal, STAT, and USA Today. His recent research focuses on Jewish internationalism.