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Director
Jonathan Laurence is director of the Clough Center for the Study of Constitutional Democracy and a Political Science Professor at Boston College. Prof. Laurence received a B.A., summa cum laude, from Cornell University, a C.E.P. at Sciences Po, and an M.A. and Ph.D. in Government from Harvard University. His principal areas of teaching and research are comparative politics and religion and politics in Western Europe, Turkey and North Africa.
Postdoctoral Research Fellow and Center Coordinator
Isaiah Sterrett is the Postdoctoral Research Fellow and Center Coordinator. He holds a B.A., cum laude, and an M.A. in Political Science, as well as a Ph.D. in History, all from Boston College.
Graduate Assistant
Meghan McCoy is a third-year Ph.D student specializing in twentieth century United States history with a specific focus on topics related to neoliberalism, families and reproduction, and the state. Her current research primarily deals with questions surrounding U.S. - based commercial surrogacy and transnational commercial surrogacy, as well as race, pregnancy and maternity, and state control more broadly. Meghan was a Clough Doctoral Fellow from 2022-2024 and has been working as Graduate Assistant since January of 2024.
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The Clough Center for the Study of
Constitutional Democracy
Boston College
10 Stone Avenue
Chestnut Hill, MA 02467
Phone 617.552.8176
Fax 617.552.0630
Email clough.center@bc.edu