Peter O'Brien (pobrien@trinity.edu) is professor of political science at Trinity University. He is author of The Muslim Question in Europe: Political Controversies and Public Philosophies (Temple University Press, 2016), European Perceptions of Islam & America from Saladin to George W. Bush: Europe’s Fragile Ego Uncovered (Palgrave, 2009) and Beyond the Swastika (Routledge, 1996), a study of the impact of the legacy of the Holocaust on postwar German immigration policy, as well as of many articles on the politics of cultural diversity in Europe. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and has been Social Science Research Council Fellow at the Free University in Berlin and Fulbright Professor at Boğaziçi University in Istanbul and at the Humboldt University in Berlin.
