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
2007
-
Professor,
Columbia
University
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
“Rethinking
Ottoman Management of Diversity:
What Can We Learn for Modern Turkey?” in Democracy, Islam and
Secularism in
Turkey, eds. Ahmet Kuru and Alfred Stepan, Columbia University
Press, 2010.
“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).
Minor Publications
Reviews
of
Resat
Kasaba, A Moveable Empire: Ottoman Nomads, Migrants
and Refugees, New Perspectives on Turkey, 2010
Cihan
Tuğal, Passive Revolution: Absorbing The Islamic Challenge to
Capitalism.
Contemporary Sociology 2010.
Caroline
Finkel, Osman’s Dream: The History of the Ottoman
Empire
Dimitris
J.
Kastritsis, The Sons of Beyazid: Empire
Building and Representation in the Ottoman Civil War of 1402-1413
Review
Article of James Mahoney and Dietrich Rueshemeyer, Comparative
Historical
Analysis in the Social Sciences. New York: Cambridge University
Press,
2003. in Historical Methods: A Journal of Quantitative and
Interdisciplinary
History, Vol 39. 4 (Fall 2006).
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 Middle
East in
International Labor and Working Class History.
Vol. 56, 1999.
Author,
Los Angeles Times, Editorial Page Article, June 1999.
Review
article
of Halil Inalcik, The Middle East and the
Balkans under the Ottoman Empire: Essays on Economy and Society in
Mediterranean Historical Review, Vol. 9 (June 1994).
“Haim
Gerber's
The Social Origins of the Modern Middle East:
a Critical Review,” International Review of Social History, Vol
XXXIV, 2
(1989).
Articles in Progress
The Empire as
Organizational Form: Applying
Political models to Business Organizations (with Frederic Godart).
2006
“States,
Regimes and Decisions: Why Jews were Expelled from
Medieval England and France,” (with Ira Katznelson) Theory and Society,
under review.
2006
“Empire
and Toleration.” Manuscript under preparation.
2006 “Networks of
Social Control: Cohesion and Fragmentation in Historical Context,”
(with Yonca
Koksal). Manuscript under preparation.
2006 “Taming
Imperial Frontiers: Ottoman and Russian Frontier Policies,” Manuscript
under
preparation.
AWARDS, HONORS, FELLOWSHIPS
·
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
Choreography
of Sacred Spaces: State, Religion and Conflict Resolution.” Conference
at
Bogazici University, Istanbul, May 2010. Co-Sponsored Columbia
University,
Institute on religion, Culture and Public Life.
“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
·
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, 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.