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Banchoff's scholarship centers on ethical and religious issues in world politics. His most recent books are The Jesuits and Globalization: Historical Legacies and Contemporary Challenges (Georgetown University Press, 2016), co-edited with José Casanova, and Embryo Politics: Ethics and Policy in Atlantic Democracies (Cornell University Press, 2011). He is also the author of several edited volumes, including Religion and the Global Politics of Human Rights, co-edited with Robert Wuthnow (Oxford University Press, 2011); Religious Pluralism, Globalization, and World Politics (Oxford University Press, 2008); and Democracy and the New Religious Pluralism (Oxford University Press, 2007). 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 (University of Michigan Press, 1999) and Legitimacy and the European Union: The Contested Polity, co-edited with Mitchell Smith (Routledge, 1999). 

Banchoff received his B.A. from Yale University in 1986, an M.A. from the University of Bonn in 1988, and a Ph.D. in politics from Princeton in 1993. He held a James Bryant Conant Post-Doctoral Fellowship at Harvard's Center for European Studies from 1997 to 1998 and was a Humboldt Fellow at the University of Bonn from 2000 to 2001. Banchoff was awarded the DAAD Prize for Distinguished Scholarship in German studies in 2003.