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Biography
Eric Peter Kaufmann (born 11 May 1970) is professor of politics at Birkbeck College, University of London. He is a specialist on Orangeism in Northern Ireland, nationalism, and political demography.
Early life and education
Eric Kaufmann was born in Hong Kong and raised in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. He received his BA from the University of Western Ontario in 1991. He received his MA from the London School of Economics in 1994 where he subsequently also completed his PhD in 1998.
Career
Kaufmann was lecturer in comparative politics at the University of Southampton from 1999 to 2003. He was a fellow at the Belfer Center, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, for 2008–09. Kaufmann joined Birkbeck College, University of London, in 2003. He became professor of politics there in 2011.
Selected publications
- Rethinking Ethnicity: Majority Groups and Dominant Minorities. Routledge, 2004. (editor) ISBN 978-0415315425
- The Rise and Fall of Anglo-America. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, 2004. ISBN 978-0674013032
- The Orange Order: A Contemporary Northern Irish History. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2007. ISBN 978-0199208487
- Unionism and Orangeism in Northern Ireland Since 1945: The Decline of the Loyal Family. Manchester University Press, Manchester, 2007. (with Henry Patterson) ISBN 978-0719074967
- Shall the Religious Inherit the Earth?: Demography and Politics in the Twenty-First Century. Profile, 2010. ISBN 978-1846681448
- Political Demography: How Population Changes Are Reshaping International Security and National Politics. Oxford University Press, 2012. (joint editor) ISBN 978-0199949229
- Whither the Child: causes and consequences of low fertility. Paradigm, 2012. (Edited with W. Bradford Wilcox) ISBN 978-1612050935