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Karen Barkey
Professor
Columbia University
Sociology
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Biography
Karen Barkey, associate professor (Sociology), focuses on large-scale social change, state formation, the rise and decline of empires. Her work is especially focused on the Ottoman Empire , with comparisons to the Habsburg and Russian Empires. Her books include Bandits and Bureaucrats: The Ottoman Route to State Centralization (1994), and After Empire: Multiethnic Societies and Nation-Building: The Soviet Union and the Russian, Habsburg and Ottoman Empires (co-ed., 1997). Her first book received the 1995 Allan Sharlin Memorial Award for outstanding book of the year in Social Science History. Recently, she has worked on the decline of the Ottoman and Habsburg Empire, the movements of national self-determination that emerged within these empires, and state- and nation-formation in the post-imperial times. Her new book, entitled Empire of Difference: The Ottomans in Comparative Perspective is forthcoming with Cambridge University Press.
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