Karen Barkey
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Karen Barkey is currently a professor of sociology at Columbia University.
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[edit] Education
Karen Barkey holds a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago, an M.A. from the University of Washington, Seattle, and an A.B. from Bryn Mawr College.
[edit] Personal
Karen Barkey was born in Istanbul, Turkey. She is married to Anthony Marx, the former president of Amherst College, in Amherst, Massachusetts.
[edit] Scientific contributions
Karen Barkey studies state centralization / decentralization, state control and social movements against states in the context of empires.
Her research focuses primarily on the Ottoman empire, and recently on comparisons between Ottoman, Habsburg and Roman empires.
[edit] Selected bibliography
- Barkey, Karen. 2008. Empire of difference: The Ottomans in comparative perspective. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
- Barkey, Karen, and Ronan Van Rossem. 1997. "Networks of Contention: Villages and Regional Structure in the Seventeenth-Century Ottoman Empire." American Journal of Sociology 102:1345-82.
- Barkey, Karen, and Mark von Hagen. 1997. After empire: multiethnic societies and nation-building : the Soviet Union and the Russian, Ottoman, and Habsburg empires. Boulder, CO: Westview Press.
- Barkey, Karen. 1996. "In Different Times: Scheduling and Social Control in the Ottoman Empire, 1550 to 1650." Comparative Studies in Society and History 38:460-483.
- Barkey, Karen. 1994. Bandits and bureaucrats: the Ottoman route to state centralization. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press.
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