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Email

tlynch@unimelb.edu.au

Credentials


Position
Professor in American Politics
School of Social and Political Sciences
Education
PhD
Boston College
Masters (Coursework & Research)
University of London
Bachelors Degree (Honours)
East Anglia
ORCID

0000-0002-4230-9765

Prof Timothy J. Lynch

Professor in American Politics
School of Social and Political Sciences

149 Scholarly works
0 Projects

HIGHLIGHTS

  • 2026

    Media

    Lionel Shriver skewers progressive immigration in new novel
  • 2026

    Media

    American dominance is better than the alternative, argues influential academic
  • 2026

    Media

    Epstein files reveal tawdry sex and power but fail to create a true political crisis
  • 2019

    Book

    In the Shadow of the Cold War: American Foreign Policy from George Bush Sr. to Donald Trump
    DOI: 10.1017/9781139027120
  • 2019

    Book

    Turf war: The clinton administration and Northern Ireland
    DOI: 10.4324/9780429059834
  • 2008

    Journal article

    Kristol Balls: Neoconservative visions of Islam and the Middle East
    DOI: 10.1057/palgrave.ip.8800227
  • 2008

    Book

    After Bush: The case for continuity in American foreign policy
    DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511491542
Timothy J. Lynch

Latest Honours,
Awards and Fellowships


2021
Milward L. Simpson Visiting Fulbright Professor at the University of Wyoming Australian Fulbright Commission
2009
Richard E. Neustadt Prize for the best book on US government and politics by a British-based scholar published in 2008 for After Bush Political Studies Association (American Politics Group)
1997
PhD Boston College (Massachusetts) Fulbright Scholar (1995-2000)

RECENT SCHOLARLY WORKS

  • 2026

    Media

    Republicans trash-talk ‘liberal white women’ as identity politics triumphs in Minneapolis
  • 2026

    Media

    Trump and the ‘Davocrats’ were never going to get on
  • 2026

    Media

    America is an enduringly radical experiment: Venezuela proves it
  • 2026

    Media

    Creatives lose the plot as writers’ festivals trade debate for ideological comfort
  • 2026

    Media

    There’s no reason a powerful democracy should endure rogue neighbours
  • 2026

    Media

    The great unsayable: How trendy multiculturalism invites violent antiSemitism
  • 2025

    Media

    Bad luck or systemic failure? How the left flipped the script on Bondi

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