Menchik Offers Insight on Indonesian Presidential Candidate
“There is cause for alarm when a pedigreed intellectual like [former Jakatar governor Anies] Baswedan deploys a craven election strategy…he knows better.”
Menchik’s “STAT” Op-Ed Tops the Publications Most Read of 2022
Of the nearly 500 First Opinion essays published by STAt in 2022, written by more than 700 authors from the biopharmaceutical industry, health care, academia, government, and private life in the United States and beyond, Menchik’s recollection of taking part in the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine trial was the site’s most viewed.
Menchik Article Explores Fatwas and Impact in Indonesian Politics
“To understand MUI’s growing power, it is necessary to look beyond these traditional modes of Islamic legal authority to modern organizational forms and their attendant strategies for exerting social control. In the modern age, Islamic legal authority reflects the dominant logic of political authority in society.”
Menchik Breaks Down Indonesia’s New Criminal Code
Professor Menchik argues that the passage of the new criminal code marks a bad moment for Indonesian democracy; however, these kinds of moments have played out in the past, and in those instances, civil society and human rights organizations mobilize and the moderates tend to win in the end.
Menchik Discusses Spread of Moderate Islam During AICIS Plenary
In his remarks, Professor Menchik addresses two main questions: how can moderate Islam be effectively implemented in the public sphere, and what are the internal and external challenges to identity politics in Indonesia and the wider world?
Menchik Co-Authors Journal Article on Election Campaigns in Indonesia
Under what conditions will Islamists moderate to support democracy and pluralism? Under what conditions will they adopt more exclusive behavior?
Menchik Discusses Global Vaccine Equity & Need for Increased COVID Vaccine Production
In an interview with Tavis Smiley, Professor Menchik discusses why he resigned from the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine trials and his efforts to mobilize fellow trail participants to pressure Moderna to share the protection provided by their vaccine globally.
Menchik Interviewed on Moderna Vaccine Trial & Effort to Make mRNA More Accessible
“We have to treat this pandemic as a global crisis, as a global public health emergency. And that means that Moderna needs to think about not just selling vaccines to rich countries…but seriously scaling up the technology so that the world can be vaccinated and boosted.”
Menchik Argues for Global, Equitable COVID-19 Vaccine Solution
“While the process of science and the products it yields are noble, science for outrageous profit that costs people their lives is not noble. That is why I can no longer in good conscience be part of Moderna’s trials.”
Menchik Co-Launches Indonesia Social Science Seminar Series
The IS4, sponsored by the Sydney Southeast Asia Centre, will bring together social science experts from across the globe to discuss pressing issues facing Indonesia.
Mass Movements and State Violence in Myanmar
Professor Menchik and Professor Mary Callahan, the preeminent scholar of the military in Myanmar, explore the military coup in Myanmar as well as the resistance that has arisen in its wake.
Menchik Workshops New Research at the Bush School
Professor Menchik’s research examines the diffusion of missionary practices over the 18th and 19th centuries, demonstrating deep entanglements between the seemingly distinct ventures of Christianity, Islam, and liberalism.
Menchik Publishes Article on Liberal Internationalism
Woodrow Wilson is among most influential presidents in U.S. foreign policy history, and the most pious. So what was the role of religion in Wilson’s worldview?
Menchik Discusses Jokowi’s Address at UN General Assembly
Professor Menchick said it was impressive how Jokowi’s remarks laid out how Indonesia must be wary of all great powers.
Menchik Promoted to Associate Professor
Jeremy Menchik was recently promoted to Associate Professor with Tenure at the Pardee School.
Menchik in BU Today on Anti-Lockdown Protests
Professor Jeremy Menchik was interviewed by BU Today’s for a Q&A Segment on Anti-Lockdown Protests and the 2020 Election
Menchik’s Twitter Thread in NYT Op-Ed on 2020 U.S. Elections
Menchick quoted in new OpEd in The New York Times on role COVID-19 response protests could play in the 2020 U.S. elections.
Menchik Speaks in Toronto on Missionaries in World Politics
Prof. Jeremy Menchik presents his research on missionaries in world politics at the Munk School, University of Toronto.
Menchik Discusses Indonesian Democracy on Al Jazeera
Prof. Jeremy Menchik was interviewed for a recent online segment examining whether Indonesia is moving away from democracy.
Menchik Publishes Journal Article on Democratic Decline in Indonesia
Prof. Jeremy Menchik published an article in Asian Studies Review on a potential breakdown in Indonesia’s democracy.