Research Interests

• Ideology and political myth
• Political communication
• European nationalisms (esp. the extreme right)
• Group alignments on EU integration
• French politics and intellectual history

Publications

Major Publications since 2000

• [Co-editor, with S. Hutchings, G. Miazhevich and H. Nickels] Political and Cultural Representations of Muslims: Islam in the Plural (Leiden/Boston: Brill, 2012), 212 pages.
• [Co-author, with S. Hutchings, G. Miazhevich and H. Nickels] Islam, Security and Television News (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012), 312 pages.
• [Co-author, with P. Balestrini and C. Flockton] “How Identity Interacts with Economic and Societal Rationality to Drive Public Opinion on the EU: The Role of Crime, Unemployment and Immigration, Perspectives on European Politics and Society, 12.2 (2011), 121-138.
• [Co-author, with S. Hutchings, G. Miazhevich, H. Nickels], “Transnationalizing Islam: Theoretical Challenges and Cosmopolitan Potential” in S. Hutchings, C. Flood, G. Miazhevich and H. Nickels (eds) Islam in its International Context: Comparative Perspectives (Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2011), 14-33.
• [Co-editor, with S. Hutchings, G. Miazhevich and H. Nickels] Islam in its International Context: Comparative Perspectives, (Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2011), 275 pages.
• [Co-editor, with M. Barrett and J. Eade] Nationalism, Ethnicity, Citizenship: Multidisciplinary Perspectives (Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2011), 230 pages.
• [Co-author, with S. Hutchings, G. Miazhevich, H. Nickels], “Representing the Nation and the Muslim Other: Television News Coverage in Three Countries” in M. Barrett, C. Flood and J. Eade (eds) Nationalism, Ethnicity, Citizenship: Multidisciplinary Perspectives (Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2011), 49-75.
• [Co-author, with S. Hutchings, G. Miazhevich, H. Nickels] “Between Impartiality and Ideology: The BBC’s Paradoxical Remit and the Case of Islam-Related Television News”, Journalism Studies, 12.2 (2011), 221-238.
• [Co-author, with P. Balestrini and C. Flockton], "National Public Opinion and the EU in the Post-Maastricht Era: Is the Socialisation Theory Actually Dead?" Journal of Contemporary European Studies, 18.3 (2010), 377-400.
• [Co-author, with S. Hutchings, G. Miazhevich, H. Nickels] “Daily Television News Coverage of Islamism as Security Threat: A Comparative Analysis (Russia, France, Britain)”, Russian Journal of Communication, 3.3/4 (2010), 295-312.
• [Co-author with H. Frey] “Henry Rousso”, in P. Daileader and P. Whalen (eds) French Historians, 1900-2000 (Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010), 545-55.
• [Co-author, with S. Hutchings, G. Miazhevich, H. Nickels] “The Performance of Tolerance in European Television News: Responses to the Islamic Threat in Russia, Britain and France”, in R. Dannreuther and L. March (eds) Russia and Islam: State, Society and Radicalism (London: Routledge, 2010), 63-83.
• "Nationalism or Nationism? Pierre-André Taguieff and the Defence of the French Republic", South Central Review, 25.3 (2008), 86-105.
• [Co-editor, with M. Barrett, J. Eade, R. Race] Advancing Multiculturalism, Post-7/7 (Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2008), 205 pages.
• [Co-author, with S. Hutchings, G. Miazhevich, H. Nickels] "The Impact of 'Islamic Extremism' on Television News Representations of Multiculturalism: A Comparative Analysis ( Russia , UK , France )", Russian Journal of Communication , 1.1 (2008), 43-69.
• "Marcel Gauchet, Pierre-André Taguieff and the Question of Democracy in France ", Journal of European Studies , 37.3 (2007), 253-73.
• "French Euroscepticism and the Politics of Indifference", in Helen Drake (ed.) French Relations with the European Union ( London : Routledge, 2005), 42-63.
• "The Politics of Counter-Memory on the French Extreme Right", Journal of European Studies , 35.2 (2005), 221-36.
• "National Republicanism: Politics, Intellectuals and the Case of Pierre-André Taguieff", Modern and Contemporary France, 12.3 (2004), 353-70.
• "Some European Thoughts in the Wake of 9/11", special issue on International Responses to September 11th, South Central Review, 19.2 (2002).
• "Myth and Ideology", in Kevin Schilbrack (ed.) Mythical Thinking: Philosophical Contributions to the Study of Myth ( New York : Routledge, 2002), 174-90.
• "The Challenge of Euroscepticism", in Jackie Gower (ed.) The European Union Handbook, 2nd ed. (London/Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn, 2002), 73-84.
• Political Myth: A Theoretical Introduction, (New York: Garland/Routledge, 1996/2002), 310 pages.
• [Co-author, with H. Frey] "Defending the Empire in Retrospect: The View from the Extreme Right", in T. Chafer and A. Sackur (eds) Promoting the Colonial Idea: Propaganda and Visions of Empire in France ( Basingstoke : Palgrave, 2001), 72-83.
• "Extreme Right-Wing perspectives on the Touvier and Papon Trials", in R. Golsan (ed.) The Trial of Maurice Papon: Perspectives and Interpretations ( New York : Routledge, 2000), 73-95.
• "Pétain and De Gaulle: Making the Meanings of the Occupation", in V. Holman and D. Kelly (eds) France at War in the Twentieth Century: Myth, Metaphor and Propaganda ( Oxford : Berghahn, 2000), 88-110.
• [Co-editor, with R. Golsan] French Intellectuals in the 1990s: New Paradigms, New Commitments , for special issue of Contemporary French Civilisation, 24.2 (2000), 250 pages. Contributed:
  - Co-author [with R. Golsan] "Intellectuals in the 1990s", 169-191;
  - "The Cultural Struggle of the Extreme Right and the Case of Terre et Peuple" , 241-266.
• "Euroscepticism in the Ideology of the British Right" in W. Armstrong and N. Parker (eds) Margins in European Integration ( Basingstoke : Macmillan, 2000), 178-202.
• [Co-editor with N. Hewlett] Currents in Contemporary French Intellectual Life ( Basingstoke : Macmillan, 2000), 248 pages. Contributed:
  - Co-author [with N. Hewlett ) "Change and Continuity in Contemporary French Intellectual Life", 1-22;
  - Co-author [with H. Frey] "History Writing: From the Annales to the Institut d'Histoire du Temps Présent", 56-75.

Selected Conference Papers and Guest Lectures since 2000

• "Inadvertent Islamophobia? Representations of Muslims on BBC Television News", Workshop on Muslims and Jews: Citizenship, Identity and Prejudice in Europe, the US and Israel, Pears Institute, Birkbeck College, University of London (February 2012).
• "Framing and Ideology in Television News: Representations of Islam as Security Threat in Britain and France", APSA Political Communication Pre-Conference, Seattle, (August 2011).
• [Co-author, with R. Soborski] "Ideology and the Rights of the Nation in Party Alignments on the EU: A Comparison of Conservative Parties in Britain, France and Poland", 107th Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Seattle (September 2011).
• [Co-author, with P. Balestrini and C. Flockton] "National Public Opinion and the EU in the Post-Maastricht Era: Do National Utilitarian Societal Appraisals Have as Much Importance as National Utilitarian Socio-Economic Assessments?" 68th Midwest Political Science Association Annual Conference, Chicago (April 2010).
• “Putting Ideology Back in the Media Frame”, Departments of Political Science and of European Languages & Cultures, Texas A & M University (March 2010).
• "Framing Islam-Related News on British and French Public Television", invited lecture, School of Politics & IR, University of Reading (Feb. 2010).
• "Whose Civil Liberties? And Which Ones? Television News Coverage of Radical Islam among Ethnic Minorities in Britain and France", CMRC Conference on Islam and the Media, University of Colorado at Boulder (Jan. 2010).
• "Framing and Ideology: A Theoretical Reconsideration", 67th Midwest Political Science Association Annual Conference, Chicago (April 2009).
• [Co-author, with Henri Nickels, Stephen Hutchings and Galina Miazhevich] "Ideology in the Media: A Transnational Analysis of the Categorisation of Islam in British and French Television News", Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association (August 2008).
• [Co-author, with Rafal Soborski] "Utopian Catastrophism and Eco-localism in the Ideology of the Antiglobalist Right", Global Studies Association Annual Conference, New York (June 2008).
• [Co-author, with Nickels, H.C., Hutchings, S. & Miazhevich, G.] " The Ideological Construction of Liberalism: A Comparative Study of TV News ", 66th Midwest Political Science Association Annual Conference, Chicago (April 2008).
• [Co-author, with Nickels, H.C., Hutchings, S. & Miazhevich, G.] " Framing the Ideological Agenda in TV News: Relational Construction of Westernism and Islamism as Antithetical Systems in British, French and Russian Media ". 58th Political Studies Association Annual Conference, Swansea University (April 2008).
• [Co-author, with Hutchings, S., Miazhevich, & Nickels, H.C.] " Litvinenko, Bond(iniana)and Post-Imperialism in New Cold War Discourse ", BASEES Annual Conference, University of Cambridge (March 2008).
• "Nationalism or Nationism? Pierre-André Taguieff and the Defence of the French Republic ", Conference on European Intellectuals and the Nation, Texas A & M University , College Station (February 2008).
• [Co-author, with Hutchings, S., Miazhevich, & Nickels, H.C.] " The Polonium Trail to Islam: Litvinenko, Liminality and the Media's (Cold) War on Terror ", MECCSA Conference, Cardiff University (January 2008).
• [Co-author, with R. Soborski] " Comparing Conservative Party Alignments on the EU: British, French and Polish Cases", UACES 37th Annual Conference and 12th Research Conference , University of Portsmouth (Sept. 2007).
• [Co-author, with H. Nickels, S. Hutchings, G. Miazhevich] "European Identity and the Framing of Islamic Otherness in British, French and Russian TV News Broadcasts", UACES 37th Annual Conference and 12th Research Conference , University of Portsmouth (Sept. 2007). Organized and chaired panel on Media Framing of Europe and Its Others.
• [Co-author, with Simon Usherwood] "Ideological Factors in Party Alignments on the EU: A Comparison of Three Cases", EUSA Tenth Biennial International Conference, Montreal (May 2007).
• [Co-author, with Henri Nickels, Stephen Hutchings and Galina Miazhevich], " The Ideological Dimension of the Propaganda Model: A Case Study of Television News Representations of the War on Terror", Conference on 20 Years of Propaganda? Critical Discussions & Evidence on the Ongoing Relevance of the Herman & Chomsky Propaganda Model, University of Windsor , Ontario (May 2007).
• "The Dialectic of Swamping and Absorption: British (Mis)Perceptions of Prospective Bulgarian and Romanian Immigration in the Context of EU Integration", British Academy Workshop on People Movement between Bulgaria and Britain in the Accession Period: Policies, Attitudes, Representations, University of Plovdiv (Oct. 2006).
• [Co-author, with Simon Usherwood] "Mapping the European Issue in Three National Parties: Contextualising Positions", ECPR - Standing Group on the European Union, Third Pan-European Conference on EU Politics, Istanbul (Sept. 2006).
• "Has the Traditional French Republican Model Failed? Intellectual Debates", Sixth European Social Science History Conference, Amsterdam (March 2006).
• "A New Antisemitism in Britain? Arguments and Counterarguments", Conference on Antisemitism in Europe, Texas A & M University , College Station (Feb. 2006).
• [Co-author, with S. Usherwood] "A Developing Model of Partisan Alignment on EU Integration", UACES 35th Annual Conference and 10th Research Conference, Zagreb (Sept. 2005).
• [Co-author, with S. Usherwood] "Positions, Dispositions, Transitions: A Model of Group Alignment on EU Integration" Annual Conference of the Political Studies Association, University of Leeds (April 2005)
• "Decline or Disarray? Intellectual Debates on the French malaise", paper for Twenty-Fourth International Colloquium in 20th and 21st Century French and Francophone Studies, University of Florida-Gainesville (March 2005).
• "The Paradoxes of National Republicanism", Annual Conference of the Association for the Study of Modern and Contemporary France, University of Surrey, July 2004.
• "Disappearing Euroscepticisms? The Limits of Party-Based Opposition to European Integration in France", Workshop on Euroscepticism in the European Union, EU Center, Syracuse University, New York (May 2004).
• "The Politics of Counter-Memory on the Extreme Right", Conference on Cultural Memory in France: Margins and Centers, Florida State University, Tallahassee (Oct. 2003).
• "Problematising European Union Citizenship", Conference on Connections: Active Citizenship and Multiple Identities, Catholic University , Leuven (Sept. 2003)
• "Ideology, Mythology and Strategy of Violence in Irish Republicanism", European Perspectives on Terrorism Symposium, European Union Center, Texas A & M University (April 2003)
• "Antiglobalism in the Discourse of the French and the British Extreme Right", Twenty-Second International Conference in 20 th /21 st -Century French Studies, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (March 2003).
• "Euroscepticism: A Problematic Concept", UACES 32nd Annual Conference and 7th Research Conference, Queen's University Belfast (September 2002).
• "Multidisciplinarity and Interdisciplinarity in Area Studies Programmes", LTSN Subject Centre Conference on Languages, Linguistics and Area Studies in Higher Education, Manchester Conference Centre (June 2002).
• "National Republicanism: Beyond Left and Right?" Twenty-First International Conference in 20th/21st-Century French Studies, Hartford, Connecticut (April 2002).
• "Quality Assurance Issues in European Studies Programmes", Conference on European Studies in the Twenty-First Century: The State of the Art, Loughborough University (March 2002).
• "British Perspectives on EU/NATO Relations after 11 September", Symposium on United States-European Union Cooperation in the Aftermath of 9-11: Terrorism and Security, European Union Center and George Bush Presidential Library Foundation, Texas A & M University (March 2002).
• "The Front National in Retrospect", Conference on Fascism, University College Chichester (Oct. 2001).
• "Euroscepticism in Comparative Perspective", Annual Conference of the Association for the Study of Modern and Contemporary France, U of Portsmouth (Sept. 2001).
• European Studies and the QAA", UACES Conference on Teaching European Studies, King's College London (March 2001).
• "The Terre et Peuple Group: A Case Study in the Cultural Struggle of the French Extreme Right", 17th International Colloquium in Twentieth-Century French Studies, Penn State University, Philadelphia (March 2000).

Teaching

Current: 

None.

Previous: 

European Political Ideologies; Nationalism, Migration and Identity in Europe; Political Communication and the Media in Britain; European Integration and Fragmentation; French Government and Politics; French Political Parties, Policies and Ideologies; C19th/20th French Political Thought; C19th/20th French History; C20th French Philosophy; French Political Fiction; MA/PhD dissertation supervision (European politics/contemp. European history, especially France and Britain).

Editorial/Advisory Posts (current or recent)

• International Advisory Board, Association for the Study of Ethnicity and Nationalism (since 2011).
• Academic Director, Centre for Research on Nationalism, Ethnicity and Multiculturalism (CRONEM), University of Surrey/University of Roehampton (2002-2011).
• Editorial Board, Modern and Contemporary France (1997-2007)
• Area Studies Editor, Web Guide to Good Practice in Teaching Languages, Linguistics and Area Studies, LTSN Subject Centre for Languages, Linguistics and Area Studies (2001-2005).
• Series Co-editor [with Richard Golsan (Texas A & M), Jeffrey Schnapp (Stanford), Richard Wolin (CUNY)], European Horizons: Politics, Ideology, Critique, University of Nebraska Press (1997-2005).
• Editorial Advisory Board, French Culture and Society Series, University Press of New England (1995-1998).

Current or Recent Professional Activity

American Political Science Association; Political Studies Association; Midwest Political Science Association; University Association for Contemporary European Studies; Association for the Study of Modern & Contemporary France; Standing Conference of Heads of European Studies (former Chairman); Area Studies Advisory Group, LTSN Subject Centre for Langs, Ling. & Area Studies; Council of Europe Working Party on European Studies for Democratic Citizenship (1998-2000); Area Studies Benchmarking Group, QAA (2000-2); Multidisciplinary Advisory Group, QAA (1998-9).