Professor, International Studies
Henry M. Jackson School
University of Washington
Seattle, WA 98195
Office: 201 Thomson
Phone: (206) 685-2412
email: chirot@u.washington.edu
Harvard University, B.A., Social Studies, 1964
Columbia University, Ph.D., Sociology, 1973
Peace Corps Volunteer, Republic of Niger, 1964/66
Instructor to Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 1971/74
Assistant Professor to Professor of International Studies and of Sociology, University of Washington, 1975 --
Member of the Joint Committee for Eastern Europe of the American Council of Learned Societies and the Social Science Research Council, 1976-77 and 1982-88
Consultant for Radio Free Europe, 1985 (evaluating Romanian language broadcasts)
Consulting Editor, American Journal of Sociology, 1986-88
Founder and First Editor, Eastern European Politics and Societies, 1986-1989, with a U.S. State Department Grant, Member Editorial Board of the journal since 1989
Guest Scholar, Woodrow Wilson Center, Smithsonian Institution, 1987 (for research on Eastern European economic history)
Visiting Professor of Sociology, National Taiwan University, 1989
Chair, Russian and East European Studies Program, University of Washington, 1988-1991
Member of the Academic Advisory Board of the East European Program, Woodrow Wilson Center, Smithsonian Institution, 1990-1995
John Simon Guggenheim Fellow, 1991-1992 (for research on tyranny)
Guest Scholar, Rockefeller Foundation Center, Bellagio, Italy, 1992
Visiting Fellow, Institute for Human Sciences, Vienna, 1992
Visiting Professor of Political Science, Northwestern University, 1993
Consultant for United States Information Agency, 1993 (planning higher education grants in the Balkans for USAID)
Consultant for the National Endowment for Democracy, 1995 (evaluating civil society grants in Romania)
Visiting Professor of Sociology, University of California at San Diego, 1996
Visiting Professor of Sociology, Bogazici University in Istanbul, summer 1997
Member of the Committee on Ethnopolitical warfare of the American Psychological Association, 1997-1998
Acting Chair, International Studies Program, University of Washington, 1999
Consultant, Ford Foundation, 1999 (evaluating higher education grants in Central Europe)
Consultant, CARE Niger, 2000-2001 (developing civil society programs)
Founder and co-chair with Resat Kasaba of University of Washington s Center for the Study of Ethnic Conflict and Conflict Resolution, 2000-2004
Chair, International Studies Program, University of Washington, 2001-2004
Consultant, CARE Côte d Ivoire, 2003-2004 (political analysis and program planning)
Recipient with Resat Kasaba of Mellon Foundation s Sawyer Seminar grant (for the study of ethnic conflict), 2001-2004
Jennings Randolph Senior Fellow at the United States Institute of Peace, 2004-2005 (for research on African conflicts)
Consultant for the United Nations High Commission for Refugees, 2005 (author of report on political conditions in West Africa and how these might affect refugee flows)
Social Change in a Peripheral Society (New York: Academic Press, 1976). Romanian translation (2002).
Social Change in the Twentieth Century (New York, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1977). Korean (1984) and Italian (1985) translations.
Translator (with Holley Coulter Chirot) of Henri H. Stahl's Traditional Romanian Villages (Cambridge: The University Press, 1980).
Social Change in the Modern Era (San Diego: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1986). Korean (1987) and Chinese (1991) translations.
Editor of The Origins of Backwardness in Eastern Europe (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989). Paperback edition, 1991. Romanian translation (2004).
Editor of The Crisis of Leninism and the Decline of the Left (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1991).
Modern Tyrants: The Power and Prevalence of Evil in Our Age (New York: Free Press, 1994). Paperback edition (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1996). Polish translation (1997).
How Societies Change (Newbury Park, CA: Pine Forge Press, 1994). Romanian translation (1996).
Editor with Anthony Reid of Essential Outsiders: Chinese and Jews in the Modern Transformation of Southeast Asia and Central Europe (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1997).
Editor with Martin Seligman, Ethnopolitical Warfare: Causes, Consequences, and Possible Solutions (Washington DC: American Psychological Association Press, 2001).
Author with Clark McCauley, Why Not Kill Them All? The Logic and Prevention of Mass Political Murder (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2006)
“Urban and rural economies in the Western Sudan; Birni N'Konni and its hinterland,” Cahiers d'etudes africaines 8:4 (1968), 549-565.
“The growth of the market and servile labor systems in agriculture,” Journal of Social History 8 (Winter, 1975), 67-80.
With Charles Ragin, “The market, tradition and peasant rebellion: the case of Romania in l907,” American Sociological Review 40:4 (1975), 428-444.
“Social change in Communist Romania,” Social Forces 57:2 (1978), 457-499.
“The corporatist model and socialism: notes on Romanian development,” Theory and Society 9 (1980), 363-38l.
With Thomas Hall “World-system theory,” in Annual Review of Sociology. Volume 8, Ralph Turner, ed., (Palo Alto: Annual Reviews, 1982), pp. 8l-l06.
With Karen Barkey, “States in search of legitimacy: was there nationalism in the Balkans of the early nineteenth century?” International Journal of Comparative Sociology 24:l-2 (1983), 30-46.
“The social and historical landscape of Marc Bloch,” in Vision and Method in Historical Sociology. Theda Skocpol, ed., (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1984), pp. 22-46.
Charles Ragin and Daniel Chirot, “Immanuel Wallerstein's world system: sociology and politics as history,” in Vision and Method in Historical Sociology. Theda Skocpol, ed., (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1984), pp. 276-312.
“The Rise of the West,” American Sociological Review 50:2 (1985), 181-195.
“Romania: Ceausescu's Last Folly,” Dissent (Summer, 1988), 271-275.
“Ideology, Reality, and Competing Models of Development in Eastern Europe Between the Two World Wars,” Eastern European Politics and Societies 3:3 (1989), 378-411.
“What Happened in Eastern Europe in 1989?” in The Crisis of Leninism and the Decline of the Left: The Revolutions of 1989. Daniel Chirot, ed., (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1991), pp. 3-32.
“After Socialism, What?” Contention 1:1 (Fall, 1991), 29-49.
Liah Greenfeld and Daniel Chirot, “Nationalism and Aggression,” Theory and Society 9 (1994), 79-130.
“Modernism Without Liberalism: The Ideological Roots of Modern Tyranny,” Contention 5:1 (Fall, 1995), 141-166.
“Herder's Multicultural Theory of Nationalism and Its Consequences,” East European Politics and Societies 10:1 (Winter, 1996), 1-15.
“Conflicting Identities and the Dangers of Communalism,” in Daniel Chirot and Anthony Reid, eds., Essential Outsiders, (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1997), pp. 3-32.
“Is Civility Enough? Comparing Romania and the American South,” in Robert Hefner, ed., Democratic Civility (New Brunswick: Transaction Publishers, 1998), pp. 175-202.
“A Clash of Civilizations or of Paradigms? Theorizing Progress and Social Change,” International Sociology 16:3 (September, 2001), 341-360.
With Jennifer Edwards, “Making Sense of the Senseless: Understanding Genocide,” Contexts 2:2 (Spring 2003), 12-19.
“What Provokes Violent Ethnic Conflict? Political Choice in One African and Two Balkan Cases,” in Zoltan Barany and Robert Moser, eds., Ethnic Conflict in Post-Communist Societies, (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2005), pp. 140-165.
“Postcolonial African and Middle Eastern Tyrannies: Combining the Worst of the Classical and Modern Traditions,” in Toivo Koivukoski and David Tabachnick, eds., Confronting Tyranny: Ancient Lessons for Global Politics, (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2006), pp. 81-102.
“The Debacle in Côte d' Ivoire,” Journal of Democracy, 17:2 (April 2006), pp. 63-77.