CURRICULUM VITAE
John Markoff
June, 2004
CONTACT
office: department of sociology
university of pittsburgh
pittsburgh, pennsylvania 15260
voice: (412) 648-7570
fax: (412) 648-2799
e-mail: jm2@pitt.edu
EDUCATION
B.A. Columbia College, 1962
Ph.D. The Johns Hopkins University, 1972
HONORS
Pinkney Prize (1997) for best book in French history (given by the Society for French Historical Studies for The Abolition of Feudalism)
Sharlin Prize (1997) of the Social Science History Association (co-winner for The Abolition of Feudalism)
Distinguished Scholarly Publication Award (1998) of the American Sociological Association (for The Abolition of Feudalism)
Pinkney Prize (1999) for best book in French history (given by the Society for French Historical Studies for Revolutionary Demands)
Chancellor’s Distinguished Research Award, University of Pittsburgh (2001)
Election to the Sociological Research Association
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
1969-1971 Lecturer in Sociology, City College of New York
1972-1975 Assistant Professor of Sociology and History, University of Pittsburgh
1975-1989 Associate Professor of Sociology and History, University of Pittsburgh
1990-1996 Professor of Sociology and History, University of Pittsburgh
1996 - Professor of Sociology, History and Political Science, University of Pittsburgh
1999 - Research Professor, University Center for International Studies, University of Pittsburgh
PUBLICATIONS
Books
The Great Wave of Democracy in Historical Perspective (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Western Societies Occasional Papers #34, 1995).
Waves of Democracy: Social Movements and Political Change (Newbury Park, CA: Pine Forge Press, 1996). [A Spanish translation appears as Olas de Democracia: Movimientos Sociales y Cambio Político, Madrid: Colección de Ciencias Sociales, 1999].
The Abolition of Feudalism: Peasants, Lords and Legislators in the French Revolution (University Park, PA: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 1997).
Gilbert Shapiro and John Markoff, Revolutionary Demands: A Content Analysis of the Cahiers de Doléances of 1789 (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1998).
Articles
Gilbert Shapiro, John Markoff and Sasha R. Weitman, "Quantitative Studies of the French Revolution," History and Theory: Studies in the Philosophy of History 12, 1973, pp. 163-191.
John Markoff and Gilbert Shapiro, "Linkage of Data Describing Overlapping Geographical Units," Historical Methods Newsletter 7, 1973, pp. 34-46.
John Markoff, Gilbert Shapiro and Sasha R. Weitman, "Toward the Integration of Content Analysis and General Methodology," pp. 1-58 in David Heise, ed., Sociological Methodology, 1975 (San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1974).
"Governmental Bureaucratization: General Processes and an Anomalous Case," Comparative Studies in Society and History 17, 1974, pp. 479-503.
Gilbert Shapiro and John Markoff, "The Incidence of the Terror: Some Lessons for Quantitative History," The Journal of Social History 9, 1975, pp. 193-218.
Sasha R. Weitman, Gilbert Shapiro and John Markoff, "Statistical Recycling of Documentary Information: Estimating Regional Variations in a Pre-censal Population," Social Forces 55, 1976, pp. 338-365.
"The World as a Social System," Peasant Studies 5, 1977, pp. 2-7.
Sherif El-Hakim and John Markoff, "Solid Waste Accumulation in Residential Neighborhoods as a Socio-Political Process," in Joyce Aschenbrenner and Lloyd Collins, eds., The Process of Urbanism: A Multidisciplinary Approach (The Hague: Mouton, 1978).
Silvio R. Duncan Baretta and John Markoff, "Civilization and Barbarism: Cattle Frontiers in Latin America," Comparative Studies in Society and History 20, 1978, pp. 587-620. [Reprinted in Fernando Coronil, E. Valentine Daniel and Julie Skurski, eds., States of Violence (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, forthcoming).]
"Suggestions for the Measurement of Consensus," American Sociological Review 47, 1982, pp. 290-298.
John Markoff and Daniel Regan, "The Rise and Fall of Civil Religion: Comparative Perspectives," Sociological Analysis 42, 1982, pp. 333-352.
John Markoff and Silvio R. Duncan Baretta, "Professional Ideology and Military Activism in Brazil: Critique of a Thesis of Alfred Stepan," Comparative Politics 17, 1985, pp. 175-192.
John Markoff and Gilbert Shapiro, "Consensus and Conflict at the Onset of Revolution: A Quantitative Study of France in 1789," American Journal of Sociology 91, 1985, pp. 28-53. [Reprinted in Gilbert Shapiro and John Markoff, Revolutionary Demands: A Content Analysis of the Cahiers de Doléances of 1789 (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1998).]
"The Social Geography of Rural Revolt at the Beginning of the French Revolution," American Sociological Review 50, 1985, pp. 761-781.
Silvio R. Duncan Baretta and John Markoff, "The Limits of the Brazilian Revolution of 1930," Review: A Journal of the Fernand Braudel Center for the Study of Economies, Historical Systems and Civilizations 9, 1986, pp. 413-452.
John Markoff and Silvio R. Duncan Baretta, "What We Don't Know About the Coups: Some Observations on Recent South American Politics," Armed Forces and Society 12, 1986, pp. 207-235.
"Contexts and Forms of Rural Revolt: France in 1789," Journal of Conflict Resolution 30, 1986, pp. 253-289.
"Some Effects of Literacy in Eighteenth Century France," Journal of Interdisciplinary History 17, 1986, pp. 311-333.
"Literacy and Revolt: Some Empirical Notes on 1789 in France," American Journal of Sociology 92, 1986, pp. 323-349.
John Markoff and Daniel Regan, "Religion, the State and Political Legitimacy in the World's Constitutions," in Thomas Robbins and Roland Robertson, eds., Church-State Relations: Tensions and Transitions (New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Books, 1987), pp. 161-182.
Silvio R. Duncan Baretta and John Markoff, "Brazil's Abertura: A Transition from What to What?" in James Malloy and Mitchell A. Seligson, eds., Authoritarians and Democrats: The Politics of Regime Transition in Latin America (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1987), pp. 43-65.
Gilbert Shapiro, John Markoff and Silvio R. Duncan Baretta, "The Selective Transmission of Historical Documents: The Case of the Parish Cahiers of 1789," Histoire et Measure 2, 1987, pp. 115-172.
"Allies and Opponents: Nobility and Third Estate in the Spring of 1789." American Sociological Review 53, 1988, pp. 477-496. [Reprinted in Gilbert Shapiro and John Markoff, Revolutionary Demands: A Content Analysis of the Cahiers de Doléances of 1789 (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1998).]
"Notes on the New Comparative Study of Revolution," in States and Societies (Newsletter of the ASA Political Sociology Section) 5, 1988.
Silvio R. Duncan Baretta and John Markoff, "Impasse, Ideology and Crisis: The Brazilian Coup of 1964" in Richard G. Braungart and Margaret M. Braungart, eds., Research in Political Sociology 4 (Greenwich, Conn.: JAI Press, 1989), pp. 57-88.
"Images du Roi au Début de la Révolution" ["Images of the King at the Beginning of the Revolution"] in Michel Vovelle, ed., L'Image de la Révolution Française. Communications Présenteés lors du Congrès Mondial pour le Bicentenaire de la Révolution (Paris: Pergamon Press, 1989), vol. I, pp. 237-245. [Appears in English in Gilbert Shapiro and John Markoff, Revolutionary Demands: A Content Analysis of the Cahiers de Doléances of 1789 (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1998).]
"Słowa i Rzeczy: Rewolucyjna Burżuazja Francuska Definiuje System Feudalny," ["Words and Things: The French Revolutionary Bourgeoisie Defines the Feudal Regime"] in Andrzej Zybertowicz and Adam Czarnota, eds., Interpretacje Wielkiej Transformacji. Geneza Kapitalizmu jako Geneza Współczesności (Warsaw: Kolegium Otryckie, 1989), pp. 357-381.
"¿Cual Es la Cuestión? Algunos Comentarios sobre la Transición hacía el Capitalismo" ["What is the Question? Some Comments on the Transition to Capitalism?"], AREAS. Revista de Ciencias Sociales 11, 1989, pp. 37-46.
"Peasants Protest: The Claims of Lord, Church and State in the Cahiers de Doléances of l789," Comparative Studies in Society and History 32, 1990, pp. 413-454. [Reprinted in Gilbert Shapiro and John Markoff, Revolutionary Demands: A Content Analysis of the Cahiers de Doléances of 1789 (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1998).]
John Markoff and Silvio R. Duncan Baretta, "Economic Crisis and Political Change in Brazil: The 1960s and the 1980s," Comparative Politics 22, 1990, pp. 421-444. "Comment on Root," Rationality and Society 2, 1990, pp. 379-382.
"Peasant Grievances and Peasant Insurrection: France in 1789," Journal of Modern History 62, 1990, pp. 445-476. [Reprinted in Timothy C. Blanning, ed., The Rise and Fall of the French Revolution (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996); and in Gilbert Shapiro and John Markoff, Revolutionary Demands: A Content Analysis of the Cahiers de Doléances of 1789 (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1998)].
"A Comparative Method: Reflections on Charles Ragin's Innovations in Comparative Analysis," Historical Methods 23, 1990, pp. 177-181.
Gilbert Shapiro and John Markoff, "L'Authenticité des Cahiers" ["The Authenticity of the Cahiers"], Bulletin d'Histoire de la Révolution Française, 1990/91, pp. 17-70.
"Prélèvements Seigneuriaux et Prélèvements Fiscaux: Sur l'Utilisation des Cahiers de Doléances" ["The Lord's Claims and the State's Claims: On the Use of the Cahiers de Doléances"], in Mélanges de l'Ecole Française de Rome 103, 1991, pp, 47-68.
Verónica Montecinos and John Markoff, "Democrats and Technocrats: Professional Economists and Regime Transitions in Latin America," Canadian Journal of Development Studies 14, 1993, pp. 7-22.
John Markoff and Verónica Montecinos, "The Ubiquitous Rise of Economists," Journal of Public Policy 13, 1993, pp. 37-68. [A Spanish translation appears as "El Irresistible Ascenso de Los Economistas," Desarollo Económico. Revista de Ciencias Sociales, no. 133, April-June 1994; a Polish translation appears as "Marsz Ekonomistów ku Władzy" Studia Polityczne, no 7, 1997, pp. 211-239].
"Frontier Societies," Encyclopedia of Social History (New York: Garland Publishing Company, 1994), pp. 289-291.
"Violence, Emancipation and Democracy: The Countryside and the French Revolution," American Historical Review 100, 1995, pp. 360-386. [Reprinted in Gary Kates, ed., The French Revolution (London: Routledge, 1997)].
"Kiedy i jak zbuntowała się wieś? Badania statystyczne revolucyjnej Francji" ["When and How Did the Countryside Revolt? A Statistical Study of Revolutionary France"], Kwartalnik Historyczny 102, 1996, pp. 113-129.
"Demokracie" ["Democracy"] in Jiři Linhart, Hana Mariková, Miloslav Petrusek and Alena Vodáková, eds., Velký Sociologický Slovník ["Encyclopedia of Sociology"] (Prague: Karolinum, 1996).
"Demokratizace" ["Democratization"] in Jiři Linhart, Hana Mariková, Miloslav Petrusek and Alena Vodáková, eds., Velký Sociologický Slovník ["Encyclopedia of Sociology"] (Prague: Karolinum, 1996).
"Hnutí Sociální" ["Social Movements"] in Jiři Linhart, Hana Mariková, Miloslav Petrusek and Alena Vodáková, eds., Velký Sociologický Slovník ["Encyclopedia of Sociology"] (Prague: Karolinum, 1996).
"Monarchie" ["Monarchy"] in Jiři Linhart, Hana Mariková, Miloslav Petrusek and Alena Vodáková, eds., Velký Sociologický Slovník ["Encyclopedia of Sociology"] (Prague: Karolinum, 1996).
"Stát absolutistický" ["Absolutist State"] in Jiři Linhart, Hana Mariková, Miloslav Petrusek and Alena Vodáková, eds., Velký Sociologický Slovník ["Encyclopedia of Sociology"] (Prague: Karolinum, 1996).
"Terorismus" ["Terrorism"] in Jiři Linhart, Hana Mariková, Miloslav Petrusek and Alena Vodáková, eds., Velký Sociologický Slovník ["Encyclopedia of Sociology"] (Prague: Karolinum, 1996).
“Zmĕna revoluční” [“Revolutionary Change”] in Jiři Linhart, Hana Mariková, Miloslav Petrusek and Alena Vodáková, eds., Velký Sociologický Slovník ["Encyclopedia of Sociology"] (Prague: Karolinum, 1996).
“Peasants Help Destroy an Old Regime and Defy a New One: Lessons from (and for) the Study of Social Movements," American Journal of Sociology 102, 1997, pp. 1113-1142.
Gilbert Shapiro and John Markoff, "A Matter of Definition," in Carl W. Roberts, ed., Textual Analysis for the Social Sciences. Methods for Drawing Statistical Inferences from Texts and Transcripts (Hillside, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum, 1997), pp. 9-31.
"Really Existing Democracy: Latin America in the 1990s," New Left Review 223, 1997, pp. 48-68.
John Markoff and Małgorzata Markoff, "Okupant z Waszyngtonu" ["Occupation by Washington"], Polityka, June 26, 1997, pp. 38-39.
"On `The Abolition of Feudalism,'" CWES Monthly Electronic Newsletter, October, 1997 (http://www.pitt.edu/~wesnews).
"Peasants," in Jack Goldstone, ed., The Encyclopedia of Political Revolutions (Washington, DC: Congressional Quarterly, 1998), pp. 392-394.
Małgorzata Markoff and John Markoff, "Nowa Gwiazdka" [“A Small New Star”], Polityka, December 12, 1998, pp. 46-48.
"From Center to Periphery and Back Again: The Geography of Democratic Innovation," in Michael Hanagan and Charles Tilly, eds., Extending Citizenship, Reconfiguring States (Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 1999), pp. 229-246.
"Interview on Republicanism Today," in Nuri Bilgin, ed., Demokrasi, Kimlik ve Yurttaşlık Bağlamında Cumhuriyet (Izmir: Ege Üniversitesi Basımevi, 1999), pp. 119-122.
"Identidade nacional e democracia" ["National Identity and Democracy"], in João Barroso, ed., Globalizacão e Identidade Nacional (São Paulo: Atlas, 1999), pp. 65-97.
"Globalization and the Future of Democracy," in Journal of World-System Research 5, 1999 (http://csf.colorado.edu/wsystems/jwsr/vol5/num2/v5n2a6.htm). (to be reprinted in series “Critical Studies in Social Science” by Brill Academic Publishers).
"Our Common European Home -- But Who Owns the House?", in Dennis Smith and Sue Wright, eds., Whose Europe? The Turn Towards Democracy, pp. 21-47 (Oxford: Blackwell/Sociological Review, 1999).
"Where and When Was Democracy Invented?", Comparative Studies in Society and History 41, 1999, pp. 660-690.
Gilbert Shapiro and John Markoff, "About Revolutionary Demands," The European Union and Center for West European Studies Newsletter, summer 2000 (http://www.pitt.edu/~cwes/CWES/Newsletter.htm)
Verónica Montecinos and John Markoff, "From the Power of Economic Ideas to the Power of Economists," in Miguel Angel Centeno and Fernando Lopez-Alves, eds., The Other Mirror: Grand Theory through the Lens of Latin America (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2001), pp.105-150.
“Economics and Politics: Does Democracy Have a Future?,” in York W. Bradshaw, Joseph F. Healey and Rebecca Smith, Sociology for a New Century (Thousand Oaks, CA: Pine Forge Press, 2001), pp. 353-391.
"The Internet and Electronic Communications," in Mary Kupiec Cayton and Peter W. Williams, eds., Encyclopedia of American Cultural and Intellectual History (New York: Scribner's, 2001), vol. 3, pp. 387-395.
Gilbert Shapiro and John Markoff, “Officially Solicited Petitions: The Cahiers de Doléances as a Historical Source”, International Review of Social History 46, 2001, Supplement, pp. 79-106.
John Markoff and Gilbert Shapiro,“Reaction of John Markoff and Gilbert Shapiro to Fred E. Schrader’s Review of Revolutionary Demands”, International Review of Social History 47, 2002, pp. 137-139.
"Revolutions, Sociology of," in Neil J. Smelser and Paul B. Baltes, International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences (Oxford: Elsevier, 2002), v. 20, pp. 13310-13314.
"Archival Methods," in Neil J. Smelser and Paul B. Baltes, International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences (Oxford: Elsevier, 2002), v. 1, pp. 637-642.
“The French Revolution: The Abolition of Feudalism”, in Jack A. Goldstone, ed., Revolutions: Theoretical, Comparative, and Historical Studies, 3d edition (San Diego: Thomson/Wadsworth, 2002), pp. 171-177.
“Margins, Centers and Democracy: The Paradigmatic History of Women’s Suffrage,” Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 29, 2003, pp. 85-116.
“Who Will Construct the Global Order?”, in Bruce William Morrison, ed., Transnational Democracy in Critical and Comparative Perspective: Democracy's Range Reconsidered (London: Ashgate Publishing, 2004)
“Afterword," in Fernando Coronil, E. Valentine Daniel and Julie Skurski, eds., States of Violence (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, forthcoming).
“The Peasantry and Its Grievances," in Peter Campbell, ed., The Origins of the French Revolution (London: Macmillan, forthcoming).
“Transitions to Democracy,” in Robert Alford, Alexander Hicks, Thomas Janoski, and Mildred Schwartz, eds., Handbook of Political Sociology (New York: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming).
“Democracy,” in George Ritzer, ed., The Encyclopedia of Social Theory (Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, forthcoming).
“Comparative Analysis,” in Roland Robertson and Jan Aart Scholte, eds., Encyclopedia of Globalization (Grolier Academic, forthcoming).
“Peasant Movements,” in Roland Robertson and Jan Aart Scholte, eds., Encyclopedia of Globalization (Grolier Academic, forthcoming)
“Revolution,” in Roland Robertson and Jan Aart Scholte, eds., Encyclopedia of Globalization (Grolier Academic, forthcoming).
Brief Reviews
Robert N. Bellah and Phillip E. Hammond, Varieties of Civil Religion in Sociological Analysis 42, 1981, pp. 179-181.
Frederick Cople Jaher, The Urban Establishment, Upper Strata in Boston, New York, Charleston, Chicago, and Los Angeles, in Contemporary Sociology 12, 1983, pp. 736-73.
Michael W. Hughey, Civil Religion and Moral Order: Theoretical and Historical Dimensions in Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 25, 1984, pp. 319-320.
Christopher Clapham and George Philip, The Political Dilemmas of Military Regimes in Journal of Political and Military Sociology 14, 1986, pp. 348-349.
Judith Devlin, The Superstitious Mind: French Peasants and the Supernatural in American Journal of Sociology 93, 1988, pp. 1253-1254.
Hilton L. Root, Peasants and King in Burgundy. Agrarian Foundations of French Absolutism in American Journal of Sociology 93, 1988, pp. 1532-1534.
Margaret Levi, Of Rule and Revenue in American Journal of Sociology 95, 1989, p. 220-222.
William Brustein, The Social Origins of Political Regionalism: France, 1849-1981 in American Journal of Sociology 95, 1989, pp. 222-223.
Thomas E. Skidmore, The Politics of Military Rule in Brazil, 1964-1985 in Contemporary Sociology 19, 1990, pp. 64-65.
Atlas de la Révolution Française vol. 1: Routes et communications; vol. 2: L'enseignement, 1760-1815 in Journal of Modern History 62, 1990, pp. 610-611.
Jack Goldstone, Revolution and Rebellion in the Early Modern World in American Journal of Sociology 98, 1993, pp. 919-922.
Raymond A. Jonas, Industry and Politics in Rural France: Peasants of the Isère, 1870-1914 in Contemporary Sociology 24, 1995, pp. 197-198.
Joyce Appleby, Lynn Hunt and Margaret Jacob, Telling the Truth about History in Contemporary Sociology 25, 1996, pp. 130-131.
Frederick Cooper et al., Confronting Historical Paradigms. Peasants, Labor and the Capitalist World System in Africa and Latin America, in Hispanic American Historical Review 76, 1996, pp. 404-405.
William H. Sewell, Jr., A Rhetoric of Bourgeois Revolution: The Abbé Sieyes and "What is the Third Estate?," in Journal of Modern History 69, 1997, pp. 602-604.
Claus Offe, Modernity and the State. East, West in Sociological Inquiry 68, 1998, pp. 289-290.
William Beik, Urban Protest in Seventeenth Century France: The Culture of Retribution, in American Journal of Sociology 104, 1998, pp. 552-554.
Judith A. Miller, Mastering the Market: The State and the Grain Trade in Northern France, 1700-1860 in American Historical Review 106, 2001, pp. 268-269.
Doug McAdam, Sidney G. Tarrow, and Charles Tilly, Dynamics of Contention in International Labor and Working Class History 63, 2003 (spring), pp. 152-155.
Translations and Republications
(in order of original publication date)
"Governmental Bureaucratization: General Processes and an Anomalous Case," in Bill Jenkins and Edward C. Page, eds., The Foundations of Bureaucracy in Economic and Social Thought (Oxford: Oxford University Press, forthcoming).
Silvio R. Duncan Baretta and John Markoff, "Civilization and Barbarism: Cattle Frontiers in Latin America," in Fernando Coronil, E. Valentine Daniel and Julie Skurski, eds., States of Violence (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, forthcoming).
John Markoff and Gilbert Shapiro, "Consensus and Conflict at the Onset of Revolution," in Gilbert Shapiro and John Markoff, Revolutionary Demands: A Content Analysis of the Cahiers de Doléances of 1789 (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1998).
"Allies and Opponents: Nobility and Third Estate in the Spring of 1789," in Gilbert Shapiro and John Markoff, Revolutionary Demands: A Content Analysis of the Cahiers de Doléances of 1789 (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1998).
"Images of the King at the Beginning of the Revolution," in Gilbert Shapiro and John Markoff, Revolutionary Demands: A Content Analysis of the Cahiers de Doléances of 1789 (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1998).
"Peasants Protest: The Claims of Lord, Church and State in the Cahiers de Doléances," in Gilbert Shapiro and John Markoff, Revolutionary Demands: A Content Analysis of the Cahiers de Doléances of 1789 (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1998).
"Peasant Grievances and Peasant Insurrection: France in 1789," in Timothy C. Blanning, ed., The Rise and Fall of the French Revolution (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996)
“Peasant Grievances and Peasant Insurrection: France in 1789,” in Gilbert Shapiro and John Markoff, Revolutionary Demands: A Content Analysis of the Cahiers de Doléances of 1789 (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1998).
John Markoff and Verónica Montecinos, "El Irresistible Ascenso de los Economistas," Desarollo Económico. Revista de Ciencias Sociales, No. 133, April-June, 1994.
John Markoff and Verónica Montecinos, "Marsz Ekonomistów ku Władzy," Studia Polityczne no. 7, 1997, pp. 211-239.
"Violence, Emancipation and Democracy," in Gary Kates, ed., The French Revolution (London: Routledge, 1997).
"Violence, Emancipation and Democracy," reprinted by Tapestry Press, Acton (MA), 1997.
Olas de Democracia: Movimientos Sociales y Cambio Político (Madrid: Colección de Ciencias Sociales, 1999).
“Globalization and the Future of Democracy”, to be reprinted in series “Critical Studies in Social Science” by Brill Academic Publishers.
Under Review
"Response to Jack Goldstone's Comments on Abolition of Feudalism," prepared for Jeff Goodwin, ed., Opportunistic Protest? Political Opportunities and Social Movements (forthcoming).
WORK IN PROGRESS
From Revolution to Democracy (to be published by Cambridge University Press)
Economists in the Americas (edited work with Verónica Montecinos to be published by Edward Elgar Publishing)
"How do social movements migrate? A research agenda."
"War, social movements and democratization."
"Talking about democracy in the House of Islam" (with Mounira Charrad).
"Is democracy an import? Political institutions in nineteenth-century South America" (with Victor Uribe).
"Poland's Constitution of 1791 in its Transnational Context” (with Małgorzata Markoff)
“Argentina’s electoral reform of 1912 in its transnational context” (with Dora Orlansky)
“Walt Whitman and Political Science Look at Democracy”
“Writing on the Wall: Bucharest Grafitti, December 1989” (with Veronica Szabo)
“John Stuart Mill and Racial Democracy”
“What Weber Missed”
“Once Again They Have a Word for It” (with Mike Epitropoulos)
“National Movements and Transnational Contexts: Postcommunist Europe’s Roma” (with Eva Riecanska, Veronica Szabo and Mihnea Vasilescu)
PROGRAM AFFILIATIONS AT UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH
Center for Latin American Studies
Center for Russian and East European Studies
Center of West European Studies
REVIEWING MANUSCRIPTS AND PROPOSALS
Allen and Unwin
Cambridge University Press
Greenwood Publishing Group
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
Harvard University Press
McGrawHill
Pennsylvania State University Press
Pine Forge Press
Routledge
Sage Publications
University of California Press
University of Pittsburgh Press
American Journal of Sociology
American Sociological Review
American Sociologist
Armed Forces and Society
Canadian Journal of Development Studies
Carl Beck Papers in Russian and East European Studies
Comparative Politics
Current Sociology
Comparative Studies in Society and History
Deviant Behavior
East European Politics and Society
French Historical Studies
Historical Methods
Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion
Journal of Conflict Resolution
Journal of Modern History
Journal of Political and Military Sociology
Latin American Research Review
Law and Social Inquiry
Peace Psychology Review
Public Opinion Quarterly
Qualitative Sociology
Rationality and Society
Social Forces
Social Problems
Social Science History
Sociological Methodology
Sociological Review
Theory, Culture and Society
National Science Foundation
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada
PROFESSIONAL CONFERENCES AND INVITED LECTURES
"Quantitative Studies in the French Revolution." Presented at the 1966 meetings of the Society for French Historical Studies (with Gilbert Shapiro and Sasha Weitman).
"A Data Bank for Studies of Social Change in France." Presented at a conference on the application of mathematical methods in history sponsored by the Mathematical Social Science Board, Boston, 1966.
"The Study of Public Opinion." Colloquium given at the University of Ottawa, 1972.
"Solid Waste Accumulation in Residential Neighborhoods as a Socio-political Process." Presented to the International Congress of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences, Chicago, 1973 (with Sherif El-Hakim).
Discussant at the Didactic Seminar on Historical Sociology at the Annual Meetings of the American Sociological Association, Montreal, August 1974.
"The Rise and Fall of Civil Religion: Comparative Perspectives." Presented to the 1980 meetings of the Association for the Sociology of Religion, New York, August 1980 (with Daniel Regan).
"Problems of Interpretation of the Cahiers de Doléances: Consensus and Conflict." Presented to the 1980 meetings of the Southern Historical Association, Atlanta, November 1980 (with Gilbert Shapiro).
Panelist at session on "American Civil Religion" at the meeting of the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion, Providence, October, 1982.
"Redemocratization in Brazil." Presented at conference on Redemocratization in Latin America, University of Pittsburgh, March 1985 (with Silvio Duncan Baretta).
"Transitional Regimes and the Abertura: Is Democracy Coming to Brazil?" Presented to 1985 Meetings of the American Sociological Association, Washington, August 1985 (with Silvio Duncan Baretta).
Sessions on "economy and society," 1986 World Congress of Sociology, New Delhi, India.
"Allies and Opponents: Nobility and Third Estate in the Spring of 1789." Presented to 1987 Meetings of the American Sociological Association, Chicago, August 1987.
Discussant on panel on "Cities and Countryside in the development of the world-system," 1987 Meetings of the American Sociological Association, Chicago, August 1987.
Panelist on history of Western literacy, 1987 meeting of the Social Science History Association, New Orleans, October, 1987.
Discussant on panel on revolutions in Central America and the Caribbean, 1988 Meetings of the Latin American Studies Association, New Orleans, 1988.
Discussant at Heinz Symposium on Contemporary Issues in Latin America, Pittsburgh, April, 1988.
"Peasant Grievances and Peasant Insurrection: France in 1789." Presented to 1988 Meetings of the American Sociological Association, Atlanta, August 1988.
"The Selective Transmission of Historical Documents: The Case of the Parish Cahiers of 1789" (with Gilbert Shapiro and Silvio R. Duncan Baretta). Presented to the 1988 Meetings of the American Sociological Association, Atlanta, August 1988.
"Images du roi au début de la Révolution française" [“Images of the king at the beginning of the French Revolution”]. Presented to the World Congress for the Bicentennial of the French Revolution, Paris, July, 1989.
"Peasants Protest: The Claims of Lord, Church and State in the Cahiers de Doléances." Presented at the 1989 Meetings of the American Sociological Association, San Francisco, August 1989.
Chair and Discussant, panel on comparative revolution, 1989 Meetings of the American Sociological Association, San Francisco, August, 1989.
"Contrasting Peasant Views of Taxation, Clerical Exactions and Seigneurial Rights at the Beginning of the Revolution." Presented to the 1989 Meetings of the Western Society for French History, New Orleans, October, 1989.
Panelist on methods of comparative history, 1989 Meetings of the Social Science History Association, Washington, November, 1989.
Organizer and discussant, panel on "Latin American Frontiers in Comparative Perspective," 1989 Meetings of the Latin American Studies Association, Miami, December, 1989.
Presentation to workshop on cahiers de doléances on "What can we learn from the Cahiers?," at the Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, Italy, December, 1989.
"The Irresistible Rise of Economists" (with Verónica Montecinos). Presented at the 1990 World Congress of Sociology, Madrid, Spain.
"Insurrectionary Peasants and Revolutionary Legislators." Presentation to workshop on the study of conflict events at Cornell University, October, 1990.
"Waves of Democratization: 1989 in Historical Perspective." Presented at a conference on Global Trends of Democratization, Skidmore College, November, 1990.
"When and How did the Countryside Revolt? A Statistical Study of Insurrection." Presented at 1991 meetings of the Western Society for French History, Reno, Nevada, November, 1991.
"The Great Wave of Democracy in Historical Perspective," lecture at McGill University, January, 1992.
Discussant at conference on The Social Construction of Democracy: 1890-1990, Pittsburgh, May 1992.
Keynote speech at annual meetings of Canadian Association for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, with Verónica Montecinos. Ottawa, October, 1992 (Topic: "Democrats, Technocrats and Regime Change in Latin America Today").
"Social Movements, Historical Contexts and Democracy." Presented at the First European Conference on Social Movements, Berlin, Germany, October 1992.
"Peasants Talk to Legislators (and Vice-Versa)." Presented at Northwestern University, April, 1993.
"Historical Waves of Democratization: Latin America in the 1990s." Presented at conference on "Deepening Democracy and Representation in Latin America," Pittsburgh, April 1993.
Chair and discussant on two panels on the comparative history of frontiers, Social Science History Association, Baltimore, November, 1993.
Chair and discussant on panel on the comparative history of food riots in England, France, and Germany, American Historical Association, San Francisco, January, 1994.
"Violence, Emancipation and Democracy: The Countryside and the French Revolution." Presented at conference on Violence and the Democratic Tradition in France, Irvine, California, February 1994.
"Frontier Violence and State Violence," presented at conference on States of Violence at the University of Michigan, April, 1994.
Discussant on session on urban disturbances in the nineteenth-century British Empire, conference on States of Violence, University of Michigan, April, 1994.
"Democracy: Two Centuries of a World-Wide Social Movement." Presented at the University of Minnesota, April, 1994.
"Regime Transitions and Historical Perspectives," presented at the World Congress of the International Council for Central and East European Studies, Warsaw, Poland, August 1995.
"The Countryside and the French Revolution," presented at Florida International University, October 1995.
"Historical Waves and Global Democratizations: Implications for Latin America," presented at Florida International University, October 1995.
Discussant on panel on eighteenth century British food riots and the debate over the moral economy at the meeting of the National Conference on British Studies, Chicago, October 1996.
"Waves of Democracy and Brazil," presented at conference on "Democracy, Development and Globalization: New Perspectives on Substantive Justice in Brazil," Pittsburgh, February, 1997.
Discussant on panel on "Nationalism and National Identity in Latin America," presented at the meetings of the Latin American Studies Association, Guadalajara, Mexico, April, 1997.
Panelist at symposium on "State Repression and the Poor in Central America," University of Pittsburgh, January, 1998.
"Centers, Peripheries and the History of Democracy," talk given at Oxford University, March, 1998.
"Social Movements, Democratizations, and Transnational Contexts: Some Unanswered Questions," presented at the Conference on European Social Science History, Amsterdam, March, 1998.
"The Past, Present and Future (if any) of Democracy: From the Big Bang of Eighteenth-Century Revolution to the Whimper of Twenty-First Century Globalization," presented at Carlow College, April, 1998.
"Globalization and the Future of Democracy," presented at the World Congress of Sociology, Montreal, July, 1998.
Discussant on panel on "Globalization and Nationalism in Latin America," meetings of Latin American Studies Association, Chicago, September, 1998.
Chair of panel on changes in social policy in Latin America, meetings of Latin American Studies Association, Chicago, September, 1998.
"The History of Democracy and the Future of Globalization (and Vice-Versa)," presented at State University of New York at Stony Brook, October, 1998.
"Where and When Was Democracy Invented?", presented at Rutgers University, October, 1998.
"Where and When Was Democracy Invented?", presented at New York University, October, 1998.
Chair and organizer of panel on "New Methods of Content Analysis and their Applications for Social History," meetings of Social Science History Association, Chicago, November, 1998.
"Social Movements, Democratization and Globalization," presented at Johns Hopkins University, March, 1999.
"The Geography of Democratization," presented at UCLA, April, 1999.
"Boundaries: The History of Democratization and the Future of Social Science," Sorokin Lecture, meetings of the Midwest Sociological Association, Minneapolis,
"Geography and Democracy," presented at Northwestern University, May, 1999
Discussant at symposium on “Research Trends in the Southern Cone and Brazil,” University of Pittsburgh, September, 1999
Chair and discussant on panel on early twentieth century revolutions, Social Science History Association meetings, Dallas, November, 1999.
Discussant at Latin American Social and Public Policy Graduate Student Conference, Pittsburgh, February, 2000.
Discussant on panel on “Rethinking Latin American Studies: Cross-Fertilizing History and the Social Sciences,” meetings of the Latin American Studies Association, Miami, March, 2000
Chair of panel on French historical databases, meetings of the Society for French Historical Studies, Phoenix, Arizona, April, 2000.
Comments at “Author Meets the Critics” session on The Abolition of Feudalism, meetings of the American Sociological Association, Washington, D.C., August, 2000.
Discussant at Latin American Social and Public Policy Graduate Student Conference, Pittsburgh, February, 2001.
“Globalization as a Challenge to Democracy,” presented at the Johns Hopkins University, March, 2001
“The State, Democracy, and Globalization,” presented at States and Economies Seminar, University of Pittsburgh, March, 2001
Discussant at presentation of Daniel Rodgers on new trends in US economic thought and economic policy, Atlantic History Colloquium, University of Pittsburgh, April, 2001
“Challenges to Democracy: Some Old, Some New,” presented at congress of International Institute of Sociology, Cracow, Poland, July, 2001
Discussant at conference on “Democracy and Representation in Latin America ”, University of Pittsburgh, September, 2001
Discussant at panel on “The History of Economics in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, and Mexico,” meetings of the Latin American Studies Association, Washington, D.C., September, 2001
Discussant at colloquium on Marcus Rediker and Peter Linebaugh’s The Many-headed Hydra, University of Pittsburgh, October, 2001.
Presenter at session on Dynamics of Contention, Pittsburgh Social Movements Forum, University of Pittsburgh, February, 2002
“The World History of Women’s Suffrage,” presented at the Center for Interpretive and Qualitative Research, Duquesne University, March, 2002
Chair and discussant at panel on “Deliberative Democracy: Theories, Institutions, and Practices”, meetings of the American Sociological Association, Chicago, August, 2002.
Discussant at Latin American Social and Public Policy Graduate Student Conference, Pittsburgh, February, 2003.
Discussant on panel on Miguel Angel Centeno’s Blood and Debt: War and the Nation-State in Latin America, meetings of Eastern Sociological Society, Philadelphia, February, 2003
Discussant on panel on Mounira Maya Charrad’s States and Women’s Rights: The Making of Postcolonial Tunisia, Algeria, and Morocco, meetings of Eastern Sociological Society, Philadelphia, February, 2003
“‘This Experiment on a Small Scale’: Transnational Origins of Women’s Suffrage”, presented at Carlow College, April, 2003
(with Verónica Montecinos) “Economists in the Americas: Convergence, Divergence, and Connection”, annual conference of the Society for the Advancement of Socioeconomics, Aix-en-Provence, June, 2003.
(with Verónica Montecinos) “Economists in the Americas: Convergence, Divergence, and Connection”, presented at meetings of Pennsylvania Sociological Society, California, PA, October, 2003.
Discussant on panel on William Brustein’s The Roots of Hate, University of Pittsburgh, February, 2004
“Contention and the Troubled History of Democracy”, presented at SUNY-Binghamton, April, 2004
“La problemática historia de la ciudadanía democrática” [The Troubled History of Democratic Citizenship], invited presentation for conference on “The Construction of Citizenship in Europe”, Universidad Internacional de Andalucía, November, 2004
Lecturing on the history of democracy at Spanish universities, Thanksgiving break, 2004
Lecturing on social movements and democracy at Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia, spring 2005
“Economists in the Americas: Comparative Perspectives” (with Verónica Montecinos), meetings of the Society for the Advancement of Socioeconomics, Budapest, June, 2005
“Economists in the Americas: Comparative Perspectives” (with Verónica Montecinos), meetings of the International Institute of Sociology, Stockholm, 2005
