Professor of International Studies
Phone: (206) 543-6406
email: migdal@u.washington.edu
Positions Held
Robert F. Philip Professor of International Studies, University of Washington, 1994-present -
Professor of International Studies, University of Washington, 1982 - present -
Chair, International Studies Program, Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies, University of Washington, 1981 - 1995 -
Director, National Resource Center in International Studies, University of Washington, 1985 - 1995 -
Associate Director, Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies, University of Washington, 1983 - 1985 -
Associate Professor of International Studies, University of Washington, 1980 - 1982 -
Associate Professor of Government, Harvard University, 1975 - 1980 -
Research Fellow, Harvard Center for International Affairs, 1976 - 1980 -
Senior Lecturer, Tel-Aviv University, 1974 - 1975 -
Lecturer, Tel-Aviv University, 1972 - 1974 -
Graduate and Undergraduate Studies
Harvard University, Department of Government -
M.A.,1968 -
Ph.D., 1972 -
Rutgers University (New Brunswick) -
B.A., 1967, with highest honors -
Awards
Governor's Writers Award, 1994, for Palestinians: The Making of a People -
Distinguished Teaching Award, University of Washington, 1993 -
Student Service Award, Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies, University of Washington, 1992 (awarded in recognition of outstanding service to students in the International Studies Program) -
Yavor Prize for the best work on developing countries, 1986, awarded by the David Horowitz Institute for the Research of Developing Countries for Strong Societies and Weak States: State Society Relations and State Capabilities in the Third World
Principal Investigator for three major federal grants (Department of Education, Washington,D.C.) totalling well over $1 million -
World Society Fellowship (1989-90) -
Fulbright Research Fellowship (declined) -
Fulbright-Hayes Research Fellowship (1985-86) -
Phi Beta Kappa -
Harvard University Graduate Prize Fellowship -
Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship -
Selected Professional Activities -
Member, Editorial Board, Kesher, published by the Institute for the Study of Jewish Press and Communications, Tel Aviv University -
Member, Visiting Committee, Harvard University Center for Middle Eastern Studies -
Member, Editorial Board, World Politics, 1996-present
Member, Editorial Board, Comparative Political Studies, 1992-present
Member, American Political Science Association
Member and Vice-president, Association for Israel Studies
Member of the International Joint Committee for the Near and Middle East, Social Science Research Council, 1988-1996. Chair of Committee, 1991-92, 1992-93, 1993-96
Books -
Through the Lens of Israel: Explorations in State and Society (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2001)
State-in-Society: Studying How States and Societies Transform and Constitute One Another (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001)
Joel S. Migdal, Atul Kohli, Vivienne Shue, eds., State Power and Social Forces: Domination and Transformation in the Third World (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1994)
Joel S. Migdal and Baruch Kimmerling, Palestinians: The Making of a People (New York: The Free Press, 1993). Paperback edition, Harvard University Press, 1994. Italian edition (I palestinesi: la genesi di un popolo), La Nuova Italia, 1994; Hebrew edition, Keter, 1999. Serialized by Al-Ithihad (Israeli newspaper in Arabic), Jan.-March 2000. Arabic edition, The Palestinian Forum for Israeli Studies (Madar), 2001
Ellis Goldberg, Resat Kasaba, and Joel S. Migdal, eds., Rules and Rights in the Middle East: Democracy, Law and Society (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1993)
Strong Societies and Weak States: State-Society Relations and State Capabilities in the Third World, (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1988) -
Joel S. Migdal, et al., Palestinian Society and Politics (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1980) -
John D. Montgomery, Harold D. Lasswell, and Joel S. Migdal, eds., Patterns of Policy: Comparative and Longitudinal Studies of Population Events (New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Books, 1979) -
Peasants, Politics, and Revolution: Pressures Towards Political and Social Change in the Third World (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1974) Chinese edition, 1996
Articles -
"Changing Boundaries and Social Crisis: Israel and the 1967 War" in Stephen Heydemann, ed., War, Institutions, and Social Change in the Middle East (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000)
"Why Do So Many States Stay Intact?" in Peter Dauvergne, ed., Weak and Strong States in Asia-Pacific Societies (Sydney: Allen and Unwin, 1998)
"Studying the State" in Mark I. Lichbach and Alan S. Zuckerman, eds., Comparative Politics: Rationality, Culture, and Structure (Cambridge University Press, 1997)
"Finding the Meeting Ground of Fact and Fiction: Some Reflections on Turkish Modernization" in Rewat Kasaba and Sqbel Bozdo`an, eds., Rethinking Modernity and National Identity in Turkey (University of Washington Press, 1998). Also published in Turkish
"Integration and Disintegration: An Approach to Society Formation" in Luc Van DeGoor, Kumar Rupesinghe, and Paul Sciarone, eds., Between Development and Destruction: An Enquiry into the Causes of Conflict in Post-Colonial States (St. Martin's Press, 1996)
"Society Formation and the Case of Israel" in Michael Barnett, ed., Israel in Comparative Politics: Challenging the Conventional Wisdom (SUNY Press, 1996)
"The State in Society: An Approach to Struggles for Domination," in Joel S. Migdal, Atul Kohli, Vivienne Shue, eds., State Power and Social Forces: Domination and Transformation in the Third World (Cambridge University Press, 1994)
"Introduction" and "Civil Society in Israel," in Rules and Rights in the Middle East: Democracy, Law and Society, Ellis Goldberg, Resat Kasaba, Joel S. Migdal, eds. (University of Washington Press, 1993)
"The Power and Limits of States: Struggles for Domination Between States and Societies" in Volker Bornschier and Peter Lengyel, eds., Waves, Formations and Values in the World System, World Society Studies Vol. 2 (New Brunswick, N.J.: Transaction Publishers, 1992)
"Religion, Class, and Democracy in the Middle East," Perspectives on War and Peace, 8 (Spring. 1991): 13-14
"The State in Society: Struggle and Accommodations in Multiple Arenas," States and Social Structures Newsletter, No. 13 (Spring, 1990): 1-5
Individual Change in the Midst of Social and Political Change," Social Science Journal 25 (1988), 125-139
"The Individual and Rapid Change," Paper No. 1/87 of The David Horowitz Institute for the Research of Developing Countries, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel (1987) -
"The Crystallization of the State and the Struggles over Rulemaking: Israel in Comparative Perspective," in Boundaries of the Israeli System ed. by Baruch Kimmerling (Albany: SUNY Press, 1988)
"Vision and Practice: The Leader, the State, and the Transformation of Society," International Political Science Review 9 (1988): 23-41
"Strong States, Weak States: Strategies of Elite Survival," in Understanding Political Development, ed. by Myron Weiner and Samuel Huntington (Cambridge, MA: Little, Brown, 1987)
"A Model of State-Society Relations" in New Directions in Comparative Politics, ed. by Howard J. Wiarda (Boulder: Westview Press, 1985) -
"Studying the Politics of Development and Change: The State of the Art" in Political Science: The State of the Discipline, ed. by Ada W. Finifter (Washington,D.C.: American Political Science Association, 1983).
"Capitalist Penetration in the Nineteenth Century: Creating Conditions for New Patterns of Social Control" in Power and Protest in the Countryside: Studies of Rural Unrest in Asia, Europe and Latin America," ed. by Robert P. Weller and Scott E. Guggenheim (Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1982)
Harold D. Lasswell, John D. Montgomery, and Joel S. Migdal, "Thinking about Policies in Patterns: Contexts and Sequences" (in Patterns of Policy)
"Policy in Context: The Intended and the Unintended in Migration Policy in the third World" (in Patterns of Policy)
"Policy and Power: A Framework for the Study of Comparative Policy Contexts in Third World Countries," Public Policy, 25 (Spring, 1977); reprinted in Policy Studies Review Annual, Vol. II, ed. by Harold E. Freeman (Beverly Hills, Calif.: Sage, 1978)
"State and Society in a Society Without a State" in The Palestinians and the Middle East Conflict, ed. by Gabriel Ben-Dor (Ramat Gan, Israel: Turtledove, 1978)
"Urbanization and Political Change: The Impact of Foreign Rule," Comparative Studies in Society and History, 19 (July, 1977)
"The Tensions of Modernization: A Theory of the Role of the Family in Societal Change," International Journal of Group Tensions, (September, 1974)
"Internal Structure and External Behavior: Explaining Foreign Policies of Third World States," International Relations, 4 (May,1974)
"Population Growth, Economic Crisis, and Development in Rural Areas of the Third World," ITCC Review, 3 (July,1974)
"Why Change? Towards a Theory of Change Among Individuals in the Process of Modernization," World Politics, 26 (January, 1974)