Timothy (Tim) Byrnes

BA, LeMoyne College
MA, Cornell University
PhD, Cornell University

City College and Graduate Center of the City University of New York; Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (HEI), Geneva, Switzerland; Nicolas Copernicus University, Torun, Poland

Transnational Politics, Religion and Politics

Transnational Politics, Religion and Politics

• Reverse Mission: Transnational Religious Communities and the Making of US Foreign Policy (Georgetown, 2011)
• Transnational Catholicism in Postcommunist Europe (Rowman & Littlefield, 2001)
• Catholic Bishops in American Politics (Princeton, 1991)
• Catholic Bishops in US Politics, guest editor, Religions, 2016
• Religion in an Expanding Europe, co-editor. (Cambridge, 2006)
• Abortion Politics in American States, co-editor. (M.E. Sharpe, 1995)
• The Catholic Church and the Politics of Abortion, co-editor. (Westview Press, 1992)

Journal articles and book chapters on religion in world politics:

• Comillas  (2024)
• The Geopolitics of Religious Soft Power (2023)
• Uncertainty and its Discontents (2022)
• Journal of Church and State (2020)
• Herder Korrespondenz (2025) (2020), (2019), (2018), (2017)
• Berkley Forum (2019)
• Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Politics (2018)
• Review of Faith in International Affairs (2017) reprinted in Modern Papal Diplomacy and Social Teaching in World Affairs (2019)
• Current History (2008) reprinted in Religion and Foreign Affairs: Essential Readings (2012)
• Transnational Actors in Central and East European Transitions (2008)
• Issue Brief: American Institute for Contemporary German Studies (2007)
• Perspectives on Politics (2006)
• The Catholic Church and the Nation-State (2006)
• The One, the Few, and the Many (2001); The Protection of Religious Minorities in Europe (1999)
• Mitteleuropa: Between Germany and Europe (1998)
• Religion, State, and Society (1997)
• American Review of Politics (1997)
• Tamed Power: Germany in Europe (1997)
• Conscience (1996)
• East European Quarterly (1996)
• Commonweal (1993)

Journal articles and book chapters on religion and politics in the United States:

• OMG! (2017
• National Catholic Reporter (2014)
• Albany Law Review (2007)
• Clergy and Politics (2001)
• Political Science Quarterly (1993)
• Journal of Church and State (1991)
• Do Elections Matter, 2nd ed. (1991)
• Church Polity and American Politics (1990)

Journal articles and book chapters on abortion policy and politics:

• Conscience (2017), (1996)
• Do Elections Matter, 3rd ed. (1996).  

Other articles and reviews in various journals.

Colgate Presidential Scholar, 2004-06; IREX Travel Grant, Hungary and Slovak Republic 1997; Fulbright Senior Scholar, Poland 1993; Colgate Alumni Corporation Distinguished Teaching Award, 2002