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Lecturer in International Relations and Foreign Policy, Boston University

Jim Wallace, scholar, author, religious leader and businessman, is an adjunct faculty member at Boston University. As well, he is a Fellow with Boston University’s Religion Fellows Program under the aegis of the BU School of Theology and the Institute on Culture, Religion and World Affairs. He teaches and lectures regularly in universities in China including Fudan University and Shanghai University.

He is a consultant as the founder and CEO of Lacuna Group International. Previously he worked for over 30 years as a religious leader, government consultant and political advisor in the United States and Canada.

Jim is currently a PhD (ABD) candidate in Political Science at Boston University with additional studies at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government. His PhD dissertation is entitled “Blowback of the Gods: The U.S. Government’s Covert Use of Religion as a Tool of Foreign Policy in the Early Cold War Years and Its Consequences.”

Jim is co-author of a forthcoming book with Oxford University Press – Smarter Than You Think: The Surprising Emergence of an Evangelical Intelligentsia in America – with Dr. Timothy S. Shah detailing the results of a three year, foundation-funded research project. He has also published articles in the Journal of Cold War Studies, the Review of Faith & International Affairs, the Journal of the Canadian Evangelical Theological Association, as well as op-eds and other public writings in the U.S. and Canada.

Experience

  • –present
    Lecturer in International Relations, Boston University
  • 2010–present
    CEO & Sr. Partner, LACUNA Group International
  • 2013–present
    Visiting lecturer, Shanghai University, China

Education

  • 2016 
    Boston University, PhD Canadidate (ABD)
  • 2008 
    Boston University, MA, IR & Religion
  • 2006 
    Samford University, Beeson Divinity School, DMin, Theology & Ministry
  • 1982 
    Southwestern Theological Seminary, MDiv, Old Testament & Ministry
  • 1977 
    Baylor University, BMus, Vocal Performance

Publications

  • 2013
    "Contained? The Religious Life of George F. Kennan and its Influence", Journal of Cold War Studies
  • 2013
    "The Promise of Canada's Office of Religious Freedom", Review of Faith & International Affairs
  • 2013
    "A Religious War? The Cold War and Religion", Journal of Cold War Studies

Grants and Contracts

  • 2009
    Research Grant
    Role:
    Senior Researcher
    Funding Source:
    Cecil B Day Foundation
  • 2009
    Provost's Fellowship
    Role:
    Research Associate
    Funding Source:
    Boston University
  • 2008
    Research Grant
    Role:
    Senior Researcher
    Funding Source:
    Institute on Culture, Religion and World Affairs
  • 2007
    IR Fellowship
    Role:
    Research Associate
    Funding Source:
    Boston University

Professional Memberships

  • American Political Science Association
  • Canadian Political Science Association
  • Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations
  • Foreign Policy Association
  • American Academy of Religion

Honours

Alberta Centennial Meda - Government of Alberta, Canada