Bart Bonikowski is an American sociologist. Prior to joining the faculty at New York University (NYU), Bonikowski was an

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of Sociology at Harvard University.

Early life and education

Bonikowski earned his Bachelor of Arts degree in Sociology from

Queen's University Queen's or Queens University may refer to: *Queen's University at Kingston, Ontario, Canada *Queen's University Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK **Queen's University of Belfast (UK Parliament constituency) (1918–1950) **Queen's University of Belfast ...

and his first Master's degree from

Duke University Duke University is a private research university in Durham, North Carolina. Founded by Methodists and Quakers in the present-day city of Trinity in 1838, the school moved to Durham in 1892. In 1924, tobacco and electric power industrialist James ...

in 2005. While at Queens, he served as Vice President of Operations for the Alma Mater Society. Following Duke, he enrolled in Princeton University for his second Master's and PhD. His thesis, published in 2011, was titled ''Toward a Theory of Popular Nationalism: Shared Representations of the Nation-State in Modern Democracies.''

Career

Upon earning his PhD, Bonikowski joined the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Harvard University as a faculty associate. In 2016, Bonikowski and sociologist Paul DiMaggio published a paper in the '' American Sociological Review'' titled "Varieties of American Popular Nationalism." Their research found supporting evidence that there were at least four kinds of American nationalists; (1) the disengaged, (2) creedal or civic nationalists, (3) ardent nationalists, and (4) restrictive nationalists. In 2020, Bonikowski announced he was leaving Harvard to accept an

position at New York University (NYU).

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