Karen Barkey
Department of Sociology
Columbia University
501 Knox Hall- MC 9649
6060 west 122nd Street
New York, N.Y. 10027
Phone: (212)
854-3692/Fax: (212) 854-2963
Email: kb7@columbia.edu
Web: http://www.sociology.columbia.edu/fac-bios/barkey/faculty.html
EDUCATION
Ph.D.
University of Chicago, Chicago, December 1988.
M.A.
University of Washington, Seattle, Fall 1981.
A.B.
Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, June 1979.
AREAS
OF SPECIALIZATION
Historical and Political Sociology.
Study of Empire/Imperial Organization
Politics and Religion; Religious and
Ethnic Toleration; The Politics of Sacred Sites.
Nationhood and Forms of Nationalism;
State Control and Dissent Against Imperial States; the Ottoman
Empire in Comparative Perspective.
PROFESSIONAL
HISTORY
2011-
Chair, Faculty Steering Committee, Global Centers,
1998-2006
Associate Professor with Tenure, Columbia University, New
York, N.Y.
1993-1998
Associate Professor without Tenure, Columbia University,
New York, N.Y.
2000-2004
Co-Director, Center for Historical Social Science,
Columbia University, New York, NY
1989-1993
Assistant Professor, Columbia University, New York, N.Y.,
1988-1989
Assistant Professor, University of Wisconsin, Madison,
WI.,
PUBLICATIONS
Books,
Edited Volumes, and Book Awards
Empire of Difference: The Ottomans in Comparative
Perspective (Cambridge UP, 2008).
Barrington
Moore
Award:
best book in the area of comparative/historical sociology 2009
American Sociological Association.
J.
David Greenstone Award for the best book in politics and history
2009, American Political Science Association.
Alternative Routes to State Formation: A
Relational Approach to Politics, Culture and Society in Japan,
China and Turkey, with Eiko Ikegami and R. Bin Wong. In process.
Bandits and
Bureaucrats: The Ottoman Route to State Centralization, 1994, Cornell University Press. Translated into Turkish, 1999.
Allan
Sharlin Memorial Award for outstanding book of the year in
Social Science History, 1995 Social Science History Association.
After Empire:
Multiethnic Societies and Nation-Building: The Soviet Union,
and the Russian, Habsburg and Ottoman Empires, ed. with Mark von Hagen 1997,
Westview Press.
New
Project
Choreography of
Sacred Spaces: State, Religion and Conflict Resolution. (with
Elazar Barkan)
This project will
start with an international conference on this issue, discussing
sites in the Balkans, Anatolia and Palestine/Israel, all three
regions once under Ottoman rule. It will, bring the
accommodation and contention around specific sites to the modern
period, tracing comparatively areas and regime changes.
Research Articles
“Aspects of Legal
Pluralism in the
“Empire and Toleration: A Comparative
Sociology of Toleration within Empire,” in Boundaries of
Toleration, eds. Alfred Stepan and Charles Taylor,
“States, Regimes and
Decisions: Why Jews were Expelled from Medieval England and
France,” (with Ira Katznelson) Theory and Society, Vol.
40 (2011).
“Comparisons Across Empires: The
Critical Social Structures of the Ottomans, Russians and
Habsburgs,” (with Rudi Batzell) in Empires in Contention:
Sociology, History and Cultural Difference, eds. P.F. Bang
and C.A. Bayly. Palgrave Press, 2010.
2009 “In the Lands
of the Ottomans: Religion and Politics,” in Religion
and the Political Imagination, eds. Ira
Katznelson and Gareth Stedman Jones, Cambridge University Press,
2010.
“Analytic
Historical
Sociology,”
pp. 712-734 in The Oxford Handbook of Analytic Sociology,
eds. Peter Bearman and Peter Hedstrom, Oxford University Press,
2009.
“Trajectoires imperiales:
L’histoire connectée ou études comparées?” Revue d’histoire moderne et contemporaine,
Vol. 54-4bis; 2007.
“Islam and Toleration: Studying the
Ottoman Imperial Model,” International
Journal of Politics, Culture and Society, Vol. 19, No. 1-2
(2007).
“Changing Modalities of Empire: A
Comparative Study of the Ottoman and Habsburg Decline,” in Empire
to Nation eds, Joseph W. Esherick and Hasan Kayali
(London, Rowan and Littlefield, 2006).
“Hegemonic
Rise
and
Decline in Comparative Perspective: Lessons from the Early 20th Century,”
in Hegemonic Declines: Past and Present eds., Jonathan
Friedman and Christopher Chase-Dunn Paradigm Press, Boulder
Colorado. September 2004.
Networks of
Contention: Villages and Regional Structure in the Seventeenth
Century
Ottoman
Empire. Reprinted in Critical
Concepts: Social Networks, Routledge Press, 2002.
“Negotiated
Paths
to
Nationhood: A Comparison of Hungary and Romania in the Early
Twentieth Century,” East European Politics and Societies,
Vol. 14, No. 3; Fall 2000.
“Networks of
Contention: Villages and Regional Structure in the Seventeenth
Century
Ottoman Empire,”
with R. van Rossem, American Journal of Sociology, 102:
5 (March
1997).
“In
Different
Times:
Scheduling and Social Control in the Ottoman Empire, 1550-1650,”
Comparative Studies in Society and History, 38: 3 (1996).
“Rebellious
Alliances:
The
State and Peasant Unrest in Early 17th Century France and
the Ottoman Empire,” American Sociological Review, 56
December (1991).
“Comparative
Perspectives on the State,” with S. Parikh, The Annual
Review of
Sociology 17, (1991).
“The Use of Court
Records in the Reconstruction of Village Networks: A Comparative
Perspective,” International
Journal of Comparative Sociology, XXXII, 1-2 (1991).
“States
in
Search
of Legitimacy,” with Daniel Chirot, International Journal of
Comparative Sociology, Vol. XXIV, 1-2 (1983).
“Durkheim
Scholarship
and
Suicidology,” with K. D. Breault, The Sociological Quarterly,
Vol. 24 (Autumn 1983).
“A Comparative
Analysis of Durkheim's Theory of Egoistic Suicide,” with K. D.
Breault,
The Sociological
Quarterly, Vol. 23 (Summer 1982).
Other
Publications/Reviews
Olivier Roy, Holy Ignorance:
When Religion and
Stephen F. Dale, The
Muslim Empires f the Ottomans, Safavids, and Mughals,
Journal of the American Oriental Society, 2011.
Resat Kasaba, A Moveable Empire: Ottoman
Nomads, Migrants and Refugees, New Perspectives on
Cihan Tuğal,
Passive Revolution: Absorbing The Islamic Challenge to
Capitalism. Contemporary Sociology 2010.
Caroline Finkel, Osman’s Dream: The History
of the Ottoman Empire , Slavic Review.
Dimitris J. Kastritsis, The Sons of
Beyazid:
Review
Article of James Mahoney and Dietrich Rueschemeyer, Comparative
Historical Analysis in the Social Sciences.
After Empire In Search of Imperial Legacy: Historians’
Recollections and Historiographic Milestones pp. 34-37 Ab
Imperio 4
2005.
Review of Ehud R. Toledano, Slavery and
Abolition in the Ottoman
Author,
Review article of Halil Inalcik, The Middle
East and the Balkans under the
“Haim Gerber's The Social Origins of the
Modern
Articles in
Progress
“Empires, Federated
States, Kingdoms: Applying Political Models of Governance to
Understand Business Groups in Creative Contexts.” (with Frederic
Godart) Organization Studies. R & R
“Notes on ‘The Secular
Age’ Outside Latin Christendom: A View from the Ottoman East,”
(with Tolga Kobas).
“Networks
of Social Control: Cohesion and Fragmentation in Historical
Context,” (with Yonca Koksal). Manuscript under preparation.
“Taming Imperial Frontiers: Ottoman and
Russian Frontier Policies,” Manuscript under preparation.
AWARDS, HONORS, FELLOWSHIPS
·
Member, Sociological
Research Association, ASA
·
Teaching Award, Department of
Sociology, 2008.
·
Teaching Award, Department of
Sociology, 2008.
·
SSRC/Mac Arthur Foundation Fellowship
on Peace and Security 1997-1999
·
National Humanities Center,
Rockefeller Fellow 1997-98.
·
United States Institute of Peace
Grant, 1994.
·
Howard Foundation Fellowship, 1993-94.
·
Social Science Research Council,
Research Development Grant, 1994.
·
Member of Research Team on two grants
from the Carnegie Corporation Grant and Pew Foundation, 1993-94.
·
National Endowment for the Humanities,
Summer Stipend, Summer 1993.
·
Columbia University Council for
Research in the Humanities and Social Sciences, Summer Grants,
1990 & 1991.
·
American Research Institute in Turkey
(ARIT) Fellowship, 1989-90.
·
Dissertation Writing Grant, The
Institute of Turkish Studies, 1987-88.
·
Josephine De Kármán Fellowship,
1987-88.
·
University Fellowship, University of
Chicago, 1983-86.
PROFESSIONAL PRESENTATIONS, 1996 – PRESENT
“Ottoman Innovations in State-Making: Examples
for Comparative Work,”
“A Rethinking of ‘Bringing the State Back In’”
Presidential Session, SSHA: November 2010.
“Teaching Toleration,” in Ariane de Rothschild
Fellows Program: Dialogue and Social Entrepreneurship, Columbia
Business School Executive Education Program, Summers 2009-2010
“Ottoman
Religious Diversity: What Do We Know? What Should Be Our Next
Questions?” Keynote Speaker at The University of Washington,
Conference on Ottoman Studies. April 2010.
“New
Perspectives on Legal Pluralism: The Case of Ottoman Diversity
and the Kadi Court” Newberry Library April 2010.
“Imperial Forms
of Toleration: Comparative Thoughts” Presentations:
Suny Stony
Brook, NY
September 2009
Yale University,
CN
January 2010
Brown
University, RI
April 2010
Northwestern
University, IL.
April 2010
“Table Ronde:
Cultures d’empires: Discussion” Cultures d’empires:
Circulations, Echanges et Affrontements culturels en situations
coloniales et imperiales, Universite Paris IV, Paris 2009.
“State
Management of Islam: Politics and Society in the Ottoman
Empire,” Buffett Center for International and Comparative
Studies, Northwestern University, May 2009.
“Imperial
Comparisons and Sociology, cui bono?” Tributary
Empire-Comparative Histories. COST. A 36. Accademia Di
Danimarca, Rome. April 2009.
“Empire and
Religious Diversity: The Ottoman Model in Contemporary
Perspective,” Democracy, Islam and Secularism: Turkey in
Comparative Perspective, Columbia University. March 2009.
“Sorting out Toleration and Persecution: Imperial
Examples,”
Stanford University, Humanities
Center January 2009,
Princeton University, Department
of Near Eastern Studies March 2009.
“Religion
and
Politics:
The Legacy of Empire in Early Republican Turkey,”
The
New
School
for Social Research: The New Sociological Imagination, October
2008; Limmud Istanbul,
Turkey November 2008.
“The
Role
of
Islam in Politcs: The Ottoman Example,” The Institute for
Religion, Culture and Public Life, Columbia University, November
2008.
“Mercenaries and Modern Private Military Companies
in Comparative Perspective,” Violences et
mobilizations: Les fabriques coercitives du politique at the Colloque international
IFEA-FASOPO/REASOPO-Université de Galatasaray (5 and 6 November
2007).
“Trajectoires
imperiales connectées, ou du bon usage de la comparaison.” Histoire
“Globale”, histoire “connectée”: un changement d’échelle historiographique? Societe d’Histoire
Moderne et Contemporaine, Paris June 9, 2007.
“Empire
to
Nation-State:
How to Rethink Alternative Trajectories to Decline.” Centre des
Etudes et Recherchs Internationales, CERI, Sciences Politiques,
Paris June 8, 2007.
“Islam:
Continuities
between
an Ottoman Past and a Turkish Present.” Presentation
at The New School for Social Research, February 16, 2006.
“Religion
and
the
Political Imagination” at the Centre for History and Economics
at King’s College in Cambridge England, July 26-27, 2005.
“Ottoman
Toleration:
The
Construction of Mechanisms of Inter-Religious, Inter-Ethnic
Peace,” at Religion, Identity, and Empire
Conference. April 16-17, 2005
Council on European Studies, Yale University.
“The
Social
Organization
of Dissent in Empire: An Overview of Changing Forms of Dissent
in the Ottoman Centuries,” at Empire and Dissent:
Reflections on History, The Social Science Research
Council (SSRC) and Fonds d’Analyse des Societes Politiques
(FASOPO), Paris, June 15-16, 2004.
“A
Comparative
Note on Imperial Toleration: Ottoman and Habsburg Variants,” at
“International Congress in Honor of Professor Halil
Inalcik: Methods and Sources in
Ottoman History,” Harvard University, April-May 2004.
“Empire
and
Toleration,”
Paper Presented at Amherst College, LGST Workshop Series.
April
2004.
“The
Social
Organization
of Diversity in the Ottoman Empire: The Millet System,”
Department
of
Sociology
and History, Colloquium Series, Koc University, Istanbul,
March
2004.
“Reflections
on
Empire
in the Age of Globalization,” Two lectures at Koc University,
Department
of
International
Relations, March 2004.
“Changing
Modalities
of
Empire: A Comparative Note on the Ottoman and Habsburg
Decline,”
Empire to Nation Workshop, University of
California, San Diego, December
2003.
“Debates
on
Ottoman
Toleration: Constructing a New Imperial Order,” Social Science
History
Association,
November
2003.
“Ethnic
and
Religious
Boundaries: The State and Toleration in Early Ottoman Identity
Formation,”
Empire and Identity: An Interdisciplinary Inquiry,
March 2003.
“How
to
Conceptualize
Imperial Decline,” Paper prepared for University of California,
San
Diego,
Empire
to Nation Workshop, December 2002.
“Taming
Imperial
Frontiers:
Wily Empires and Unruly Borderland Peoples,” Centre des
Etudes
et
Recherches
Internationales, CERI, Paris, March 2002.
“The
End
of
Empires and the Changes in Ethnic Relations” Centre Americain de
Sciences
Politiques,
Paris,
March 2002.
“Boundaries
of
Difference:
Comparing Early Ottoman and European Models of Toleration”
Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington D.C. March 2002.
“How
to
Think
of Inter-ethnic Relations in the 18th Century Ottoman Lands?”
Workshop on the Ethnic Breakdown of the Ottoman
Empire,” Mediterranean Social and Political Research
Meeting, European University Institute, March 2001.
“Alternative
Routes
to
State Transformation: A Relational Approach to Politics, Culture
and Society in the Ottoman Empire,” The Jackson School of
International Studies, University of Washington, November 8, The
Watson Institute, Brown University, November 15, 2000.
“Accommodating
Difference:
The
Politics of Cultural Pluralism in Europe,” June 28 - July 1,
2000, Italian Academy for Advanced Study in America, Columbia
University.
“Turkey:
A
Struggle
Between Nation and State,” Comments and Introduction, Columbia
University,
April 2000.
“Comparative
State
Formation,
East and West: The Ottoman Case.” The XVII Annual
Irvine Conference on Social History and Theory:
American Culture and World History,
University
of
California,
Irvine, Department of History. March 2000.
“The
Continuing
Legacy
of Multi-National Empires: The Ottoman and Habsburg
Empires,”
Ethnic Conflict Workshop University Of
Washington, Seattle, May 1999.
“Paradigms
of
Decline,
The Ottoman Empire and the West,” New York University, The Hagop
Kevorkian Center, Workshop on Shared Histories of
Modernity: State Transformation in the Chinese and Ottoman
Empires, April 16 & 17, 1999.
“Reworking
Elite
Networks:
Elite Relations and Ottoman Decline in the 18th Century
Ottoman
Balkans,”
New
School for Social Research, Workshop on State, Networks and
Culture;
March
5
& 6, 1999.
“The
Origins
of
Ottoman Decline: New Elite Networks in the 18th Century,”
Trinity
College,
Department
of
History, February 4, 1999.
“State
Control
and
Social Transition: The Case of Ottoman Imperial Transformation
in the 18th Century,”
Yale University, Department of Sociology, December 1997.
Workshop
on
“State
and Market Formation,” Santa Fe Institute, October 1997.
“Changing
Conception
of
Nationhood in Interwar Eastern Europe.” New School for
Social
Research,
March
1997.
Author
Meets
Critics
Panel on Bandits and Bureaucrats, Social Science History
Association
(SSHA),
October
1996.
“Imperial
State
Policy
and the Political Capacities of Ethnic Minorities During and
After
the
Tanzimat
Period in the Ottoman Empire,” Workshop on The
Historian,
Nationalism and the End of Empire, Princeton
University, Dept. of History and the
Shelby
Cullom
Davis
Center for Historical Studies, May 1996.
PROFESSIONAL
ACTIVITIES
· Chair,
Faculty Steering Committee,
· Member, Editorial Board, Contemporary
Sociology 2008-
·
Teaching Fellow, Ariane de Rothschild Fellowship Program: Social
Entrepreneurship and Cross Cultural Network hosted by the Columbia Business
School’s Executive Education division and the Centre for History
and Economics at the University of Cambridge, July 2009 and July
2010.
·
Member, Comité scientifique Cultures d'Empires
CNRS and Paris X
·
Member, Board of The Institute on
Religion, Culture and Public Life 2007-
·
Member, Board of Rose Editorial
Series, 2004-
·
Member, Board of the Society for
Comparative Research, 1999-2006
·
Member, Columbia University Committee
on Instruction, 2002-2003
·
Co-Director, Center for Historical
Social Science, Columbia University, 2000-2003
·
Consultant, Ford Foundation, 2001
·
Fellow, Institute for Social and
Economic Research, Columbia U. 1999-Present
·
Member, Provost's Committee on Social
Science General Education, 1995-97
·
Member, President's Committee on
Ethnic Studies, 1996-97
·
Co-Chair, Workshop on Empires, Center
for Social Sciences, 1993-97
·
Member, Executive Committee of the
Faculty of Arts and Sciences, 1995-97
·
Member, Editorial Board - Contemporary
Sociology, 1992-1994
·
Member, Council, Comparative
Historical Sociology Section, ASA 1995-99
·
Member, Council, SSHA 1997-98
·
Session Organizer, ASA; 1990, 1997 and
2006 for the Historical Sociology and Comparative Historical
Sociology Sections
·
Fellow, Center for Social Sciences,
Columbia University, 1992-93
·
Panelist, NEH, NSF, and NHC in
Sociology and Middle East
·
Member, American Sociological
Association, Social Science History Association, North American
Friends of the American Research Institute in Turkey
LANGUAGE
PROFIENCY
French
and Turkish
Reading
knowledge
of
Ottoman Turkish, Arabic, and Spanish.