Professor of International Studie
Phone:(206) 543 6890
email: kasaba@u.washington.edu
Education
Ph.D. (1986): Sociology, State University of New York at Binghamton
M.A. (1978): Sociology, State University of New York at Binghamton
B.S. (1976): Economics and Statistics, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey
Professional Appointments
Professor, Jackson School of International Studies, University of Washington , 1999-
Adjunct Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Washington , 1999-
Chair, International Studies Program, Jackson School of International Studies, University of Washington , 1995- 2001
Director, National Resource Center for International Studies, University of Washington,
1995-2001
Visiting Fellow, Transregional Studies Institute, Princeton University , 1999.
Associate Professor, Jackson School of International Studies, Univ. of Washington, 1991-99 -
Assistant Professor, Jackson School of International Studies, Univ. of Washington, 1986-1991
Acting Assistant Professor, Jackson School of Internt’l Studies, Univ. of Wash., 1985-1986
Adjunct Lecturer, Department of Sociology, State University of New York at Binghamton , 1978-1985
Research Assistant, Fernand Braudel Center , SUNY at Binghamton , 1977-1985
Academic Honors
Distinguished Teaching Award, University of Washington , 1999.
Liberal Arts Professor, College of Arts and Sciences, University of Washington, 1995-1996.
The Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies, Student Service Award, Presented by
the Student Organization of International Studies Majors, 1994.
Grants and Fellowships
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Grant to organize a Sawyer Seminar at the University of Washington on Ethnic Conflict in the Modern World, 2001-2003 (with Daniel Chirot).
U.S. Department of Education. Title VI Grant for National Resource center for International Studies, Principal Investigator, 1997-2000, 2000-2003.
Walter A. Chapin Simpson Center for the Humanities, University of Washington . Grant for a Program on Envisioning the Ottoman Empire (with Sarah Abraveya Stein and Selim Kuru), 2000-2001.
Royalty Research Fund Research Grant, University of Washington , 1995.
Social Science Research Council and the American Council of Learned Societies, Advanced Research Grant, 1992-1993.
Social Science Faculty Scholar Award, Graduate School, Univ. of Washington, Winter 1992.
Graduate School Research Fund Project Support, University of Washington, 1987-1988.
Foreign Student Scholarship Award, Foundation of the State University of New York, 1982.
National Science Foundation Grant for Doctoral Research, 1981-1983.
Language Skills
Turkish, English, French (reading), Ottoman Turkish
Books
(Coedited with Sibel Bozdoxan) Rethinking Modernity and National Identity in Turkey Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1997. (Turkish translation, Tarıh Vakfı, 1998.)
(Coedited with Ellis Goldberg and Joel Migdal) Rules and Rights in the Middle East: Democ<ETH>racy, Law, and Society, Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1993. (Arabic Translation, Cairo: Al-Jeel Center for Youth and Social Studies, 1995.)
The Ottoman Empire and the World-Economy: The Nineteenth Century, Albany: SUNY Press, 1988. (Turkish translation, Istanbul: Alan, 1993.)
(Edited) Cities in the World-System, Westport: Greenwood Press, 1991.
Articles
”Izmir 1922; A Port City Unraveled" L. Fawaz ed. European Modernity and Cultural Difference from the Mediterranen to the Indian Ocean, 18902-1920s, New York: Columbia University Press, 2001 (Forthcoming).
“Human Rights in Turkey,ä special section of Human Rights Review, Vol. 3, No. 2 (Spring 2001), co-edited with Nicole Watts (forthcoming).
“L’Empire ottoman, ses nomads et ses frontiers,ä Critique internationale, 12 (July 2001): 111-127.
“Turkey’s War with the Kurdsä in D. Chirot and M. Seligman eds., Ethnopolitical Warfare: Causes, Consequences, and Possible Solutions, Washington D.C.: APA Books, 2001, pp. 163-177.
“Turkey at a Crossroad,ä Journal of International Affairs, Vol 54, No. 1., Fall, 2000, pp. 1-20 (Co-authored with Sibel Bozdoxan).
“Introduction,ä as the General Editor, Hard Times in Turkey, Special Issue of New Perspectives on Turkey, Fall 2000. -
"Economic Foundations of a Civil Society: Greeks in the Trade of Western Anatolia, 1840-1876," C. Issawi and D. Gondicas eds., Ottoman Greeks in the Age of Nationalism, Princeton: Darwin Press, 1999, pp. 77-87.
"Writing History: Armenians in the Empire," New Perspectives on Turkey, 19, Fall 1998: 147-152 (with Keyder).
"Why Modernity Still is Important" (in Turkish). 1923-1998: Proceedings of the International Conference on History of the Turkish Republic, A Reassessment, Volume I: Politics-Culture-International Relations, Istanbul: Tarih Vakfı Yayınları, 1999: 19-26.
"Commentary on 'Indigenous Approaches to Water Conflict Resolution and Implications for International Waters in the Middle East,'" Mark Leek, ed., Cultural Attitudes about the Environment and Ecology and their Connection to Regional Political Stability, Columbus: Batttelle Press, 1999: 105-106.
"Studying Empires, States, and Peoples: Polanyi, Hopkins and Others," Mentoring, Methods, and Movements: Colloquium in Honor of Terence K. Hopkins by His Former Students, Binghamton: Fernand Brandel Center, 1998: 55-62.
"Migration and State: A Comparison Between the Empire and the Republic," Osmanlı'dan Cumhuriyete: Problems, Research, Discussions, Proceedings of the First International History Congress, Istanbul: Tarih Vakfı Yayınları, 1998: 336-343.
"Cohabitation? Islamist and Secular Groups in Modern Turkey," R. Hefner, ed., Democratic Civility: The History and Cross-Cultural Possibility of a Modern Ideal, New Brunswick: Transaction Publishers, 1998: 265-284.
"Fatal Conjuncture: The Decline and Fall of the Modern Agrarian Order during the Bretton Woods Era," P. McMichael ed., Food and Agrarian Orders in the World-Economy, Westport: Praeger, 1995: 79-93 (co-authored with Faruk Tabak).
"A Time and a Place for the Non-State: Social Change in the Ottoman Empire During the 'Long Nineteenth Century'," J. Migdal, A. Kohli, V. Shue eds., State Power and Social Forces, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press: 1994: 207-230.
"Izmir," Review, XVI, 4, Fall 1993, 387-410 (Turkish translation in ‚. Keyder, D. Quataert, E. …zveren eds., Doxu Akdeniz Liman Kentleri, Istanbul: Tarih Vakfı Yayınları, 1994: 1-22.)
"Migrants, Refugees, and Smugglers," Turkish Studies Association Bulletin, XVII, 1, April 1993: 88-91
"Populism and Democracy in Turkey, 1946-1961," E. Goldberg, R. Kasaba, J. Migdal eds., Rules and Rights in the Middle East: Democracy, Law, and Society, Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1993: 43-68. Turkish translation in MŸrekkep, 6, Winter-Spring 1996: 7-18.
"Treaties and Friendships: British Imperialism, The Ottoman Empire, and China in the Nineteenth Century," Journal of World History, IV, 2, Fall 1993: 215-241.
"Free Trade Treaties: China and the Ottoman Empire Compared," New Perspectives on Turkey, 7, Spring 1992: 71-89. -
"By Compass and by Sword: The Meanings of 1492," Middle East Report, 178, September-October 1992: 6-10.
"Migrant Labor in Ottoman Agriculture," ‚. Keyder and F. Tabak eds., Landholding and Commercial Agriculture in the Middle East, Albany: State University of New York Press, 1991: 113-121. -
"Ottoman Court Records as a Source for Late Ottoman Social History," H. Lowry and R. Hattox eds., Proceedings of the IIIrd Congress on the Social and Economic History of Turkey, Istanbul: The ISIS Press, 1990: 115-121.
"Was There a Compradore Bourgeoisie in mid-Nineteenth Century Western Anatolia?" Review, XI, 2, Spring 1988: 215-228. -
"Up the Down Staircase: British Policy in the Near East, 1815-1874," F. Ramirez ed., Rethinking the Nineteenth Century, Westport: Greenwood, 1988: 149-160.
"Incorporation of the Ottoman Empire," Review, X, Supplement, Summer/Fall 1987: 805-847. -
"Commercial Bank of Izmir," Tarih ve Toplum, 43, July 1987: 57-60. (In Turkish).
"Eastern Mediterranean Port Cities and Their Bourgeoisies: Merchants, Political Projects, and Nation-States," Review, X, 1, Summer 1986: 121-135 (co-authored with ‚. Keyder & F. Tabak).
"The Incorporation of the Ottoman Empire into the World-Economy," in Huri Islamoglu-Inan ed., The Ottoman Empire and the World-Economy, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987: 88-97. German translation in Jahrbuch zur Geschichte und Gesellschaft des Vorderen und Mittleren Orients 1984: Islam und Politik in der Turkei, J. Blaschke and M van Bruinessen eds, Berlin: EXpress eds, 1985: 397-417; Turkish translation in Toplum ve Bilim, 23, Spring 1983: 41-54 (co-authored with Immanuel Wallerstein and Hale Decdeli).
"Ottoman State and World Capitalism," Yapıt, 11, June-July 1985: 37-50 (in Turkish).
"Court Records as a Source for Late Ottoman Social History," Tarih ve Toplum, 14, February 1985: 121-125 (in Turkish).
"Incorporation into the World-Economy: Changes in the Structure of the Ottoman Empire: 1750-1839," in Jean Louis Bacque-Grammont and Paul Dumont eds., Economies et Societes dans l'Empire Ottoman, Paris: Editions CNRS, 1983: 336-354. Turkish translation in METU Studies in Development, VIII, 1-2, 1981: 537-570. Hungarian translation in Vil‡gtsˇrtZˇnet, 1987: 113-141; (co-authored with Immanuel Wallerstein).
"Cyclical Rhythms and Secular Trends of the Capitalist World-Economy," Review, II, 4, Spring 1979: 483-500 (co-authored as a member of the research working group).
"Turkey and/or Iran," Toplum ve Bilim, 5, Summer, 1977: 72-87 (in Turkish).
Book Reviews
Harry J. Psomiades, The Eastern Question: The Last Phase. A Study in Greek-Turkish Diplomacy, Journal of the Hellenic Diaspora (forthcoming).
“Recent Documentaries on AtatŸrkä (video), Middle East Studies Association Bulletin, 35:1 (Summer 2001): 43-44..
Edhem Eldem, Daniel Goffman, Bruce Masters, The Ottoman City Between East and West, in International Journal of Middle East Studies, 33, August 2001: 461-463.
Erik ZŸrcher, Turkey: A Modern History, 2nd Edition, The Turkish Studies Association Bulletin, 22, 2, Fall 1998: 103.
Fatma Mu˝ge Gsˇ?ek, Rise of the Bourgeoisie, Demise of the Empire: Ottoman Westernization and Social Change, in New Perspectives on Turkey, 18, Spring 1998: 153-161.
Mete Tun?ay and Eric ZŸrcher eds., Socialism and Nationalism in the Ottoman Empire, 1876-1923, in The Historian, LVIII, 2, Winter 1996: 453-54.
Donald Quataert, Ottoman Manufacturing in the Age of Industrial Revolution, in American Historical Review, December 1995: 1634-35.
Erik Zurcher, Turkey: A Modern History, in Turkish Studies Association Bulletin, Volume 19, Number 1, Spring 1995: pp. 95-100.
Karen Barkey, Bandits and Bureaucrats: Ottoman Route to State Centralization, in Contemporary Sociology, XXIII, 6, November 1994: 831-832.
Elena Frangakis-Syrett, The Commerce of Smyrna in the Eighteenth Century (1700-1820), in International Journal of Middle East Studies, XXVI, 2, May 1994: 291-293. -
Aron Rodrigue, French Jews, Turkish Jews, in New Perspectives on Turkey, 8, Fall 1993: 124-127. -
Yexim Arat, The Patriarchal Paradox: Women Politicians in Turkey, in Women and Politics, XII, 2, Spring 1992: 97-99. -
Simon Bromley, American Hegemony and World Oil, in MESA Bulletin, XXV, 2, December 1991: 219-220.
Haleh Asfandiari and A.L.Udovitch, eds., The Economic Dimensions of Middle Eastern History, in MESA Bulletin, XXV, 2, December 1991: 194-95.
Gershon Shafir, Land Labor and the Origins of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, in Contemporary Sociology, XX, 1, January 1991: 37-38. -
Ahmet GŸner Sayar, Osmanlı xktısadı Du˝xu˝ncesinin ‚axdaxlaxması, in New Perspectives on Turkey, 4, Fall 1990: 110-113. -
S. N. Eisenstadt and A. Shachar, Society, Culture, and Urbanization, in Studies in Comparative International Development, XXV, 2, Summer 1990: 104-106.
Charles Issawi, Fertile Crescent, 1800-1914, A Documentary Economic History, in The Middle East Journal, XLIV, 2, Spring 1990: 323-324. -
Irvin C. Schick and Ertuxrul A. Tonak eds. Turkey in Transition: New Perspectives, in New Perspectives on Turkey, III, 1, Fall 1989: 111-113.
Haim Gerber, The Social Origins of the Modern Middle East, in MESA Bulletin, Vol. 22, No: 1, July 1988: 75-77.
I. Baxgo˝z and Norman Furniss, editors, Turkish Workers in Europe, in MESA Bulletin, Vol. 21, No.2, December 1987: 173-174.
A. Baxıx, Osmanlı xmparatorluxunda Gayri MŸslimler, (Non-Muslims in the Ottoman Empire), in Yapıt, 11, June-July 1985: 115-119.
M. van Bruinessen, Agha, Shaikh, and the State: On the Social and Political Organization of Kurdistan, in MERIP Reports, 85, February 1980: 23-25.
Papers Presented
“Greek and Turkish Nationalism in Formation: Western Anatolia, 1919-1922,ä Workshop on Ethnic Breakup of the Ottoman Empire, Second Mediterranean Social and Political Research Meeting, European University Institute, Florence, Italy, March 21-25, 2001.
“The Clash of Nationalisms: Greeks and Turks in Western Anatolia, 1919-1922,ä Transformation of Europe Lecture Series, The Institute of European Studies, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C., February 8, 2001.
“Greek and Turkish Nationalism in Formation: Western Anatolia, 1919-1922,ä Conference on Evolving Identities in the Middle East: Armenians,, Turks, Kurds and Arabs, University of Chicago, May 5, 2000.
"State and Migration in the Ottoman Empire," Georgetown University, School of Foreign Service, April 23, 1999.
"States, Nomads and Refugees in the Ottoman Empire, 19th Century," The MŸnir ErtegŸn Foundation, Department of Near Eastern Studies, Princeton University, April 15, 1999.
"State and Migration in the Borderlands: Ottoman Empire and the Arab provinces in the Nineteenth Century" Harvard University, Middle East Center, April 6, 1999. -
"An Independent Greek or Greek Independence? Ottoman Society in the Late Eighteenth Century," American Historical Association, Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C., January 7019, 1999.
"Why Modernization Still Matters: Reassessing a Literature in Light of Turkey's Experience in the Republican Period," International Conference on the History of the Republic of Turkey, Ankara, December 10-12, 1998.
"An Independent Greek or Greek Independence? Ottoman Society in the Late Eighteenth Century," Middle East Studies Association, Annual Meeting, Chicago, December 4-6, 1998.
"Rethinking Modernity in Turkey," Middle East Center, University of Utah, October 30, 1998.
"Translating Culture: Not Word for Word," Northwest Book Fest, Seattle, October 25, 1998.
"Fin de Siecle Izmir," Workshop on European Modernity and Cultural Differ<ETH>ence from the Mediterranean Sea to the Indian Ocean, hosted by the Social Science Research Council, Maison des Sciences l'Homme, Tufts University, Aix-en-Provence, September 25-27, 1998.
"Why Does the Kurdish Conflict Continue?" Conference on Ethno-Political Warfare: Causes and Solutions, Derry, Northern Ireland, June 29-July 3, 1998.
"A Port City and Its Discontents," Workshop on Urban Social History in the Middle East and South Asia, University of Utah, June 15-18, 1997.
"Empire States and People: Defining the Ottomans and Their Successors," 12th Symposium of the Comite International Des Etudes Pre-Ottomanes et Ottomanes, Prague, Czech Republic, September 9-13, 1996.
“Islamist Groups in Turkey,ä Invited lecture at University of California, San Diego, January 23, 1996.
"Cohabitation? Islamist and Secularist Groups in Modern Turkey," Working Group Seminar on Civil Society and Civic Values, Institute for the Study of Economic Culture, Boston University, April, 29-30, 1995, October 28-29, 1995.
"Modern Turkey at the Crossroads," Emile Bustani Lectures on Modern Middle East, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, March 15, 1994.
"Constructs of Old and New: Modernization Theories and Turkish Experience," Conference on "Rethinking the Project of Modernity in Turkey," Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, March 10-13, 1994. -
"State and Migration: A Comparison Between the Empire and the Republic," First International Congress on Economic and Social History, Sponsored by the Economic and Social History Foundation, Ankara, Turkey, May 24-26, 1993. -
"The Restructuring of the World Agriculture, 1873-1990," co-authored with Faruk Tabak, Conference on "Food and Agricultural Systems in the World-Economy," Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, April 15-17, 1993.
"Travelling Problem," Workshop on "Bridging the Divide: Comparing North/South Models of State and Society," Sponsored by the Joint Committee on the Middle East of the Social Science Research Council, Lyon, France, March 21-23, 1993. -
"Fluid Borders of the Ottoman Empire," Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association, Washington, D.C., December 27-30, 1992.
"Migrants, Refugees and Smugglers: The Impact of Borders on Border Crossers," Annual Meeting of the Middle Eastern Studies Association, Portland, October 28-31, 1992.
"Populism and Democracy in Turkey, 1946-1961," Conference on Democratic Movements and Representative Governments in the Middle East, University of Washington, April 11-13, 1992. -
"World-Systems Analysis," Invited Lecture, Comparative and World History in British Columbia: A Teaching and Planning Workshop, Sponsored by the World History Caucus of the University of Victoria, Victoria, B.C., Canada, March 28, 1992.
"Authority and Autonomy: State and Migration in Western Anatolia in the Nineteenth Century," Annual Meeting of the Middle Eastern Studies Association, Washington, D.C., November 23-26, 1991.
"The State is for Stasis but Masses Must Move!" Joint Meeting of the State Society Workshop and the Social Science Research Council on "Bridging the Divide: Comparing North/South Models of State and Society," University of Washington, October 19-20, 1991.
"Treaties and Friendships: British Imperialism, the Ottoman Empire and China in the Nineteenth Century," Ninth Symposium of Comite International Des Etudes Preottomanes et Ottomanes, Jerusalem, Israel, July 23-26, 1990.
"A Time and a Space for the Non-State: Social Change in the Ottoman Empire during the Nineteenth Century," invited lecture at the University of Texas at Austin, February 8, 1990.
"Economic Foundations of a Civil Society in the Ottoman Empire," Conference on the Greek Community and Politics in the Ottoman Empire, Princeton University, March 31 - April 1, 1989.
"Civil Society in the Ottoman Empire," invited lecture at the University of California at Los Angeles, May 18, 1989
"Open Door Treaties: China and the Ottoman Empire Compared," Conference on the Impact of the 1838 Anglo-Turkish Commercial Convention: Anatolia and Egypt Compared, SUNY Binghamton, October 7-8, 1988.
"Port City of Izmir in the Nineteenth Century," Annual Meeting of the Middle East Studies Association, Baltimore, November, 1987.
"The Ottoman Empire in the World-Systems Perspective," Workshop on Turkic Societies of Soviet Central Asia and the Middle East, University of Texas at Austin, September 25-26, 1987.
"Economy and Society in Western Anatolia During the Mid-Victorian Boom," Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association, Chicago, December 28-30, 1986.
"Methodological Problems in the Study of Social Change in the Ottoman Empire," Annual Meeting of the Middle East Studies Association, Boston, November 19-23, 1986.
"Migrant Labor in Commercial Agriculture in Western Anatolia," Conference on Large Scale Commercial Agriculture in the Ottoman Empire, SUNY Binghamton, October 24-25, 1986. -
"Up the Down Staircase, British Policy in the Middle East During the Nineteenth Century," Annual Conference on the Political Economy of the World-Systems, San Francisco State University, March 19-20, 1986. -
"Commercial Bank of Smyrna," Annual Meeting of the Middle East Studies Association, New Orleans, November 22-25, 1985. -
"Was There a Compradore Bourgeoisie in the Mid-Nineteenth Century Western Anatolia?" Conference on the Ottoman Empire and World Capitalism, State University of New York at Binghamton, November 9-10, 1984.
"Ottoman Court Records as a Source for Late Ottoman Social History," Third International Congress on the Economic and Social History of Turkey, Princeton University, August 24-26, 1983. -
"The Incorporation of the Ottoman Empire into the World-Economy," International Conference on Turkish Studies, University of Wisconsin at Madison May 25-27, 1979. (Co-authored with Immanuel Wallerstein and Hale Decdeli).
Work in Progress:
Empire, State, and Migration in Anatolia: A Historical Perspective. (Book manuscript in preparation.)
Topics of Courses Taught:
Contemporary Sociological Theory, Social Change in the Third World, Origins of the Global System, Change in International Affairs, States and Capitalism in Modern World, State Society Relations in the Third World, Methods in International Studies, Political Economy of Develop<ETH>ment in the Middle East, Comparative Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, Middle East and the World-Economy, Mediterranean in History and Today, World Cities, Globalization and Its Dis<ETH>contents.
Recent University Service
Member, President’s Search Advisory Committee on the Dean of Undergraduate Education and Provost (2001)
Member, International Faculty Council (1998- )
Member, University of Washington Teaching Academy (1999- )
Review and Search Committee for Chair of Sociology (Spring 1998)
President’s Task Force on International Studies (1995-1996)
Search Committee for Director of the American Ethnic Studies Program (1995-1996)
Search Committee for Director of the Jackson School (1995)
Selection Committee for the Dissertation Writing Grant, Graduate School (1994)
Associate Director, Middle East Studies Center (1990- 1995)
Graduate Program Coordinator, International Studies Program (1987- 1995)
Recent Activities
Co-organizer of workshop on Ethnic Break-up of the Ottoman Empire, Second Mediterranean Social and Political Research Meeting, European University Institute, Florence, Italy, March 21-25, 2001.
Series Editor for University of Washington Press on Modernity and National Identity.
Nominating Committee, Middle East Studies Association, 1998.
Member, Social Science Research Council-NMERTA Fellowship Committee, 1997-2000.
Co-Organizer of Conference on Rethinking the Project of Modernity in Turkey, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, March 10-13, 1994.
Coordinator of Lecture Series on Rethinking the Project of Modernity, University of Washington, 1993-1994. -
Nominating Committee of the Political Economy of the World Systems Section of the American Sociological Association, 1993-1994.
Area Advisory Committee for Central Eurasia and Southeast Europe, Council for International Exchange of Scholars, 1993-1996.
Postdoctoral Fellowship Screening Committee, Social Science Research Council, Joint Committee on the Near and Middle East, 1993, 1996
Chair, Selection Committee for the Fuad Koprulu Award of the Turkish Studies Association for the Best Book in Turkish Studies, 1992-94
Executive Committee, Turkish Studies Association, 1990-1993
Book Review Editor, New Perspectives on Turkey, 1987-
Manuscript Reviews for Cambridge University Press, Columbia University Press, Oxford University Press, State University of New York Press, Temple University Press, University of Washington Press, International Journal of Middle East Studies, International Organization, International Studies Quarterly.
Professional Affiliation
Middle East Studies Association
American Sociological Association
Turkish Studies Association
REFERENCES
Available upon request.