Mark Mazower
Mark Mazower (mm2669@columbia.edu) is a historian and writer, specialising in modern Greece, 20th century Europe and international history. He read classics and philosophy at Oxford, studied international affairs at Johns Hopkins University's Bologna Center, and has a doctorate in modern history from Oxford (1988). His books include Inside Hitler's Greece: The Experience of Occupation, 1941-44 (Yale UP, 1993); Dark Continent: Europe's 20th Century (Knopf, 1998); The Balkans (Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 2000); and After the War was Over: Reconstructing the Family, Nation and State in Greece, 1943-1960 (Princeton UP, 2000). His most recent book is Salonica, City of Ghosts: Christians, Muslims and Jews, 1430-1950 (HarperCollins, 2004).
Currently completing a study entitled Empire of the Dead: Nazi Rule in Occupied Europe, his interests include comparative dimensions of the post-Ottoman experience in the Balkans and the Middle East, war and population movements, and the history of international norms and institutions. He is the program director of the Center for International History at Columbia University, and he comments on world affairs for the Financial Times and other media.
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Karen Barkey
Karen Barkey (kb7@columbia.edu) 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 and Habsburg empires. Her book, Bandits and Bureaucrats: The Ottoman Route to State Centralization, studies the way in which the Ottoman state found new strategies of control and managed to incorporate potentially contentious forces into the Ottoman polity. 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. She co-edited (with Mark von Hagen) After Empire: Multiethnic Societies and Nation-Building, the Soviet Union and the Russian, Ottoman, and Habsburg Empires. She is now working on a project entitled, Declining Empires, Enduring Elites: Legacies of the Ottoman and Habsburg Empires.
Selected Work
--After Empire: Multiethnic Societies and Nation-Building: The Soviet Union and Russian, Ottoman, and Habsburg Empires. Eds Karan Barkey and Mark von Hagen. Boulder: Westview Press, 1997.
--Bandits and Bureaucrats: The Ottoman Route to State Centralization. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1994.
--"Changing Modalities of Empire: A Comparative Study of the Ottoman and Habsburg Decline," in Empire to Nation eds, Joseph W. Esherick and Hasan Kayali Rowan and Littlefield, forthcoming.
--"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.
--"Imperial Transformations: Eighteenth Century Ottoman Ruptures and Continuities" in Empire and Ethnicity: Coexistence and Conflict in Ottoman Society, (under review).
--"Negotiated Paths to Nationhood: A Comparison of Hungary and Romania in the Early Twentieth Century" Barkey, Karen. East European Politics and Societies, 2000
--"Taming Imperial Frontiers: Wily Empires and Borderland Peoples" Barkey, Karen. Yeni Turkiye Dergisi, 2000
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Christine Philliou
Christine Philliou (cmp9@columbia.edu), assistant professor, specializes in the political and social history of the Ottoman Empire , particularly in the 18th and 19th centuries. She received her M.A. and Ph.D. from Princeton . Her dissertation is entitled “Worlds, Old and New: Phanariot Networks and the remaking of Ottoman Governance, 1800–1850,” and among her publications is “Mischief in the Old Regime: Provincial Dragomans and Social Change at the Turn of the 19th Century,” New Perspectives on Turkey 25 (2001). Professor Philliou is the winner of the 2007 Brookings Institution–Sakip Sabanci International Research Award for Turkish Studies.
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James Meyer
James Meyer received his BA from McGill University prior to spending seven years in Istanbul, where he worked as an English teacher and studied Turkish, Russian, and Hungarian. In 2001, James received an MA in Near Eastern Studies from Princeton University, and in May of 2007 he received his PhD in History from Brown University, where his dissertation committee was made up of Engin Akarli, Abbott Gleason, and Adeeb Khalid. His dissertation, “Turkic Worlds: Community Representation and Collective Identity in the Russian and Ottoman Empires, 1870-1914,” discusses the trans-regional nature of Muslim community leadership politics in late imperial Russia. Based upon printed and handwritten sources in Russian, Ottoman Turkish, Tatar, and Azeri, this dissertation was researched in archives and libraries in St. Petersburg, Moscow, Kazan, Ufa, Simferopol, Baku, and Istanbul. Research undertaken for this dissertation has also produced an article, “Immigration, return, and the politics of citizenship: Russian Muslims in the Ottoman Empire, 1860-1914,” published in the International Journal of Middle East Studies [39:1 (2007), 9-26]. At the Harriman Institute, James will be revising his dissertation as well as two articles he hopes to make ready for publication this year. In addition to helping to organize the Harriman Institute’s conference on Russia and Islam, he will be organizing a graduate student conference to take place at the institute in early April. James will also be presenting his research on a number of occasions this year, including November 1 at the Harriman Institute, November 15 at the AAASS conference in New Orleans, and in early December at the Slavic Research Center’s symposia in Sapporo and Kyoto, Japan.
James Meyer's website
jhm2133@columbia.edu
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Sean Pollock
Sean Pollock holds an A.M. in Russian and Eurasian Studies and a Ph.D. in Russian History from Harvard University, where he taught in the Departments of History, History and Literature, and Slavic Languages and Literatures and received several awards for distinguished teaching, including the Thomas T. Hoopes Prize (2006) and the Stephen Botein Prize (2007). As Postdoctoral Fellow at The Harriman Institute, he is writing a book tentatively titled Empire by Invitation? The Origins of Russia’s Empire in the Caucasus, 1500-1800. He has organized an international workshop, “Russia and Islam in the Archives of Eurasia,” scheduled to take place at Columbia University’s Butler Library on December 1, 2007.
smp2146@columbia.edu
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Eileen Kane
Eileen Kane (ek2497@columbia.edu) received her Ph.D. from Princeton in 2005. She is currently working on a study of the hajj in imperial Russia.
ek2497@columbia.edu
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