Thomas Banchoff

Banchoff received his BA in History from Yale (summa cum laude) in 1986, an MA in History and Political Science from the University of Bonn in 1988, and a Ph.D. in Politics from Princeton in 1993. He was a Conant Fellow at Harvard's Center for European Studies in 1997-98 and a Humboldt Fellow at the Centre for European Integration Studies in Bonn in 2000-01 and again in 2004-05. Banchoff served as Director of Georgetown's Master of Arts in German and European Studies from 2001-2003 and was awarded the DAAD Award for Distinguished Scholarship in German Studies in 2003.

Two of Banchoff's previous books explored the intersection of history, institutions, and values in European politics. The German Problem Transformed: Institutions, Politics, and Foreign Policy, 1945-1995 (1999) examined Germany's enduring turn towards a peaceful, multilateral, foreign policy, and Legitimacy and the European Union: The Contested Polity, co-edited with Mitchell Smith (1999), analyzed problems of political representation and identification beyond the level of nation state.

Banchoff received his BA from Yale (summa cum laude) in 1986, an MA from the University of Bonn in 1988, and a Ph.D. in Politics from Princeton in 1993. He was a Conant fellow at Harvard's Center for European Studies in 1997-98 and a Humboldt Fellow at the Centre for European Integration Studies in Bonn in 2000-01. Banchoff was awarded the DAAD Award for Distinguished Scholarship in German studies in 2003.