- Karen Barkey
Karen Barkey is currently a professor of
sociology atColumbia University .She holds a Ph.D. from the
University of Chicago , an M.A. from theUniversity of Washington , Seattle, and an A.B. fromBryn Mawr College .She is married to
Anthony Marx , the current president ofAmherst College , in Amherst, Massachusetts. They have two children, Joshua and Anna-Claire.cientific contributions
Karen Barkey studies
state centralization /decentralization ,state control andsocial movements against states in the context ofempires .Her research focuses primarily on the
Ottoman empire , and recently on comparisons between Ottoman,Habsburg andRoman empires.elected 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.References
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