Jonathan S. Blake
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Scholarly Research

“Ethnic Elites and Rituals of Provocation: Pastors, Politicians, and Paramilitaries in Northern Ireland,” Terrorism & Political Violence (forthcoming). 
  • Awarded the 2015 Martin O. Heisler Award for best graduate student paper by the International Studies Association’s Ethnicity, Nationalism and Migration Section

“The Culture of Ethnic Conflict: Parades and Contention in Northern Ireland” (working paper) 


Public Writing (select)

““We Are Almost Dead”: The Politics of Migrants and Refugees in an Unequal World,” Los Angeles Review of Books, February 21, 2018.

“What a Protestant Parade Reveals About Theresa May’s New Partners,” The Atlantic, July 11, 2017. 

“Republican Legislators Want You to Think Confederate Monuments Aren't Political,” The Nation, June 15, 2017.

“The Dangerous Illusion of American ‘Good’ vs. Islamic ‘Evil,’” GOOD Magazine, March 10, 2017.

“How Ethno-Nationalism Explains Trump’s Early Presidency,” VICE, February 26, 2017.

“Around the World, Do Symbols like the Confederate Flag Stand for Heritage or Hate?” The Monkey Cage, June 26, 2015. ​