Bart Bonikowski is an Associate Professor of Sociology at Harvard University and Resident Faculty at the Minda the Gunzburg Center for European Studies. He earned his B.A. in Sociology from Queen’s University, M.A. in Sociology from Duke University, and M.A. and Ph.D. in Sociology from Princeton University.

Professor Bonikowski applies insights from cultural sociology to the study of politics in Europe and the United States, with a particular focus on populist claims-making in political discourse and the political implications of nationalist beliefs.

Representative Publications

Bonikowski, Bart. “Three Lessons of Contemporary Populism in Europe and the United States.” The Brown Journal of World Affairs 23.1 (2016): 9-24.

Bonikowski, Bart. “Nationalism in Settled Times.” Annual Review of Sociology 42 (2016): 427-449.

Bonikowski, Bart, and Noam Gidron. “The populist style in American politics: presidential campaign discourse, 1952–1996.” Social Forces 94.4 (2016): 1593-1621.