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Director
Jonathan Laurence is director of the Clough Center for the Study of Constitutional Democracy and a Political Science Professor at Boston College. Prof. Laurence received a B.A., summa cum laude, from Cornell University, a C.E.P. at Sciences Po, and an M.A. and Ph.D. in Government from Harvard University. His principal areas of teaching and research are comparative politics and religion and politics in Western Europe, Turkey and North Africa.
Postdoctoral Research Fellow and Center Coordinator
Isaiah Sterrett is the Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Clough Center for the Study of Constitutional Democracy, where he also leads the Junior Fellows program for undergraduates. An historian of the nineteenth-century United States, Isaiah has published in and , and he is currently at work on Freedom and Temptation: Children and Political Culture in the North's Age of Emancipation. He holds a Ph.D. in History (2023), as well as an M.A. and B.A. in Political Science, all from Boston College.
Graduate Assistant
Emily Turner is a fifth-year doctoral candidate studying Historical Theology at Boston College. She earned a B.A. in History at Willamette University in Salem, Oregon in 2017, and an M.A. in Religion, with a concentration in Theology, from Yale Divinity School in 2021. Emily's primary research interests are in the co-emergence of Christian legal and theological traditions in Late Antiquity, and in the development and application of contemporary canon law.Â
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Constitutional Democracy
Boston College
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Chestnut Hill, MA 02467
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