University of Pittsburgh

People

John Markoff, PhD

Johns Hopkins, 1972

Title: Professor of Sociology, History and Political Science; UCIS Research Professor
Campus Address: 2605 Wesley W. Posvar Hall
Tel: 412-648-7570
Fax: 412-648-2799
E-mail: jm2@pitt.edu
Web Page: www.pitt.edu/~jm2

 

Curriculum Vitae

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

Distinguished Sociologist Award (2005) of the Pennsylvania Sociological Society

ACADEMIC POSITIONS

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

2005-8 Chair, Department of Sociology, University of Pittsburgh

2006- University Professor, University of Pittsburgh (changed to Distinguished University Professor in 2009)

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: Editorial Tecnos, 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).

-Verónica Montecinos and John Markoff, eds., Economists in the Americas: Convergence, Divergence, and Connection (Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing, expected 2009.

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. [Reprinted in Bill Jenkins and Edward C. Page, eds., The Foundations of Bureaucracy in Economic and Social Thought (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004), v.1, pp. 261-285.]

- 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 and Julie Skurski, eds., States of Violence (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2006), pp. 33-73.]

- "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 Mesure 2, 1987, pp. 115-172. [Republished online in 2007 at http://www.persee.fr/showPage.do?urn=hism_0982-1783_1987_num_2_3_1328.]

- "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) and in Roberto Franzosi, ed, Content Analysis, in Sage Benchmarks in Social Research Series (Sage, forthcoming).]

- 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; a Russian translation is in preparation].

- "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; 2nd edition 2006)].

- "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). [An abridged version is republished in Chris Chase-Dunn and Salvatore Babones, ed., Global Social Change: Historical and Comparative Perspectives (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006), pp. 336-361.]

- "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), pp. 19-36.

-“Democracy,” in George Ritzer, ed., The Encyclopedia of Social Theory (Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 2005), v.1, pp. 191-196.

- “Transitions to Democracy,” in Robert Alford, Alexander Hicks, Thomas Janoski, and Mildred Schwartz, eds., Handbook of Political Sociology (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005), pp. 384-403.

-“Problematické dejiny demokratického občianstva” [“The Troubled History of Democratic Citizenship”], Sociológia [Slovak Sociological Review] 37, 2005, pp. 305-384. [Appeared in Spanish as “La problemática historia de la ciudadanía democrática”, Historia Constitucional. Revista electrónica, 2005, no. 6 (online at http://hc.rediris.es).

-“The Peasantry and Its Grievances," in Peter Campbell, ed., The Origins of the French Revolution (London: Macmillan, 2005), pp. 239-267.

-Review symposium on Mounira Maya Charrad, States and Women’s Rights: The Making of Postcolonial Tunisia, Algeria and Morocco Political Sociology. States, Power and Societies 12, winter 2005.“Afterword," in Fernando Coronil and Julie Skurski, eds., States of Violence (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2006), pp. 75-82.

-“Globalization and the Future of Democracy”, in Chris Chase-Dunn and Salvatore Babones, ed., Global Social Change: Historical and Comparative Perspectives (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006), pp. 336-36.

-Małgorzata Markoff and John Markoff, “Jeden Bóg, wiele islamów” [“One God, Many Islams”], interview with Reza Aslan, Nowy Dziennik, October 7-8, 2006, pp. 44-45.

-“Communism,” in Roland Robertson and Jan Aart Scholte, eds., Encyclopedia of Globalization
(New York: Routledge, 2006).

-“Comparative Analysis,” in Roland Robertson and Jan Aart Scholte, eds., Encyclopedia of Globalization (New York: Routledge, 2006).

-“Imperialism,” in Roland Robertson and Jan Aart Scholte, eds., Encyclopedia of Globalization
(New York: Routledge, 2006).

-“Peasant Movements,” in Roland Robertson and Jan Aart Scholte, eds., Encyclopedia of Globalization (New York: Routledge, 2006).

-“Revolution,” in Roland Robertson and Jan Aart Scholte, eds., Encyclopedia of Globalization
(New York: Routledge, 2006).

-“Prólogo” [“Forward”] for Antonio Herrera González de Molina, La Construcción de la democracia en el campo 1975-1988. El Sindicalismo agrario socialista en la Transición Española [“The Construction of Democracy in the Counryside: Socialist Agrarian Unionism in the Spanish Transition”] (Madrid: Ministerio de Agricultura, Pesca, y Alimentación, 2008), pp. 7-11.

-“Contentious Politics and Liberal Democracies”, Kasarinlan: Philippine Journal of Third World Studies 23 (1), 2008, pp. 145-150.

-“The Global Wave of Democratization” (with Amy White), pp. 55-73 in Christian W. Haerpfer, Ronald Inglehart, Chris Welzel and Patrick Bernhagen, Democratization in a Globalized World (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009)

-Verónica Montecinos, John Markoff, and María José Alvarez, “Economists in the Americas: Convergence, Divergence, and Connection”, introductory chapter in Verónica Montecinos and John Markoff, eds., Economists in the Americas: Convergence, Divergence, and Connection (Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, forthcoming, 2009?).

-Verónica Montecinos and John Markoff, “Epilogue: A Glance Beyond the Neoliberal Moment”, concluding chapter in Verónica Montecinos and John Markoff, eds., Economists in the Americas: Convergence, Divergence, and Connection (Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, forthcoming, 2009?).

-Verónica Montecinos and John Markoff, “Preface”, in Verónica Montecinos and John Markoff, eds., Economists in the Americas: Convergence, Divergence, and Connection (Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, forthcoming, 2009?).

-“The Past and Future of Democracy”, forthcoming in the proceedings of the 2008 International Conference on Sociology of the Athens Institute for Education and Research

-María José Alvarez, John Markoff, and Verónica Montecinos, “The Transamerican Market-Oriented Think Tank Movement”, in Adolfo Garcé and Gerardo Uña, eds., Think Tanks and Public Politics in Latin America (forthcoming)

-“Collective Movements and Collective Protest”, John Levine and Michael Hogg, Encyclopedia of Group Processes and Intergroup Relations (Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, forthcoming)

-“Les cahiers de doléances”, Larousse Dictionnaire de la Révolution française (Paris: Larousse, forthcoming)

-“Movimientos sociales, democracia y ciudadanía” [“Social Movements, Democracy, and Citizenship”], in Salvador Cruz Artacho, ed., La historia de Andalucía a debate: Historia y política (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.

-Charles Tilly, Contention and Democracy in Europe, 1650-2000 in Journal of Social History (winter) 39, 2005, pp. 539-540.

- Jackie Smith, Social Movements for Global Democracy in Journal of World-System Research (forthcoming)

Translations and Republications

(in order of original publication date)

- John Markoff, Gilbert Shapiro and Sasha R. Weitman, "Toward the Integration of Content Analysis and General Methodology," in Roberto Franzosi, ed, Content Analysis, in Sage Benchmarks in Social Research Series (Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, forthcoming in 2008).

- "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, 2004), v.1, pp. 261-285.

- Silvio R. Duncan Baretta and John Markoff, "Civilization and Barbarism: Cattle Frontiers in Latin America," in Fernando Coronil and Julie Skurski, eds., States of Violence (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2006), pp. 33-73.

- 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).

- 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 Mesure 2, 1987, pp. 115-172. Republished online in 2007 at http://www.persee.fr/showPage.do?urn=hism_0982-1783_1987_num_2_3_1328.

- "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).

- "Peasants Protest: The Claims of Lord, Church and State in the Cahiers de Doléances," in Roberto Franzosi, ed, Content Analysis, in Sage Benchmarks in Social Research Series (Thousand Oaks, California: Sage, forthcoming in 2008).

-"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: Recent Debates and New Controversies (New York and London: Routledge, 1997).

-"Violence, Emancipation and Democracy," reprinted by Tapestry Press, Acton (MA), 1997.

- "Violence, Emancipation and Democracy," in Gary Kates, ed., The French Revolution: Recent Debates and New Controversies , 2nd edition (New York and London: Routledge, 2006), pp. 165-197.

-Olas de Democracia: Movimientos Sociales y Cambio Político (Madrid: Colección de Ciencias Sociales, 1999).

-“La problemática historia de la ciudadanía democrática”, Historia Constitucional. Revista Electrónica, 2005, no. 6 (online at http://hc.rediris.es)

-“La problemática historia de la ciudadanía democrática”, to appear in collection of essays edited by Francisco Acosta

Under Review

-"Response to Jack Goldstone's Comments on Abolition of Feudalism," prepared for Jeff Goodwin and James Jasper, ed., Opportunistic Protest? Political Opportunities and Social Movements

-“Essential contestants, essential contests”

-María José Alvarez, John Markoff, and Verónica Montecinos, “The Transamerican Market-Oriented Think Tank Movement”

-“Talking With Students About An Earlier Election”

-“A Moving Target: Democracy”

WORK IN PROGRESS

- From Revolution to Democracy (to be published by Cambridge University Press)

- "How do social movements migrate? A research agenda."

-“Movements spin off movements”

- "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 Piotr Konieczny)

-“Argentina’s electoral reform of 1912 in its transnational context” (with Dora Orlansky)

-“Once Again They Have a Word for It: Greeks Talk About the Global Age” (with Mike Epitropoulos)

-“National Movements and Transnational Contexts: Postcommunist Europe’s Roma” (with Eva Riecanska, Veronica Szabo and Mihnea Vasilescu)

-“Global think tank networks” (with Verónica Montecinos, María José Álvarez, and Patrick Doreian)

PROGRAM AFFILIATIONS

at University of Pittsburgh:

- Center for Latin American Studies

- Center for West European Studies

- Center for Russian and East European Studies

REVIEWING MANUSCRIPTS AND PROPOSALS

- Allen and Unwin

- Blackwell

- Cambridge University Press

- Greenwood Publishing Group

- Harcourt Brace Jovanovich

- Harvard University Press

- McGraw-Hill

- Oxford University Press

- Palgrave Macmillan

- Pennsylvania State University Press

- Pine Forge Press

- Routledge

- Russell Sage Foundation

- Sage Publications

- Stanford University Press

- University of California Press

- University of Chicago Press

- University of Pittsburgh Press

- University of Rochester 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

- Comparative Studies in Society and History

- Current Sociology

- Deviant Behavior

- East European Politics and Society

- French Historical Studies

- Global Governance

- 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 Forum

- Sociological Methodology

- Sociological Review

- Sociological Theory

- Studies in Comparative International Development

- Theory, Culture and Society

- American Council of Learned Societies

- Economic & Social Research Council (United Kingdom)

- National Science Foundation

- Israel Science Foundation

- Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada

- Belagio Study and Conference Center’s Residency Program

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, Spring, 1999.

- "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 McAdam, Tarrow and Tilly, 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 democracia como objeto de investigación” [Democracy as an object of research], invited presentation at University of Cadiz, November, 2004

-“La democracia como objeto de investigación” [Democracy as an object of research], invited presentation at University of Seville, November, 2004

-“La democracia como objeto de investigación” [Democracy as an object of research], invited presentation at University of Jaén, November, 2004

-“La democracia como objeto de investigación” [Democracy as an object of research], invited presentation at University of Granada, November, 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

-Organizer of two panels on new student work on social movements, meetings of North Central Sociological Association, Pittsburgh, April, 2005

-“Democracy as an object of research”, invited lecture, Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia, April, 2005

-“The connected histories of democracy and social movements”, presented at Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia, April, 2005

-“The transnational history of women’s suffrage”, presented at Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia, April, 2005

-“The problematic history of democratic citizenship”, presented at the Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, Slovakia, April, 2005

-“Is globalization a challenge to democracy?”, presented at the Department of Politics, Faculty of Philosophy, Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia, April, 2005

-“La democracia como objeto de investigación” [Democracy as an object of research], invited presentation at Universidad de Sevilla Pablo de Olavide, June, 2005

-“De la Respuesta a los Actores de la Globalización: Movimientos Antiglobalización” [“Responding to the movers of globalization: antiglobalization movements”], 1 day intensive workshop for graduate students, Universidad Internacional de Andalucía, Baeza, Spain, June 2005.

-Discussant at workshop on issues of European identity and security, Graduate School of Public and International Affairs, University of Pittsburgh, September 2005

-“A Moving Target: Democracy”, presented at Workshop on Power, Resistance and Social Change, University of Pittsburgh, October 2005

-Organizer, panel on “global social movements”, meetings of Pennsylvania Sociological Society, Penn State University, October 2005

-Discussant at Latin American Social and Public Policy Graduate Student Conference, Pittsburgh, February, 2006.

-“Why democracy mutates”, invited lecture, Department of Sociology, University of Western Ontario, April, 2006

-“Movimientos Antiglobalización” [“antiglobalization movements”], intensive workshop for graduate students, Universidad Internacional de Andalucía, Baeza, Spain, May 2006.

-Commentator at conference on the countryside in Spanish democratization, Baeza, Spain, May 2006.

-“Democracy and Its Problems”, Carnegie-Mellon University, September 2006

-Commentator on panel on Reid Andrews, Afro-Latin America, 1800-2000, University of Pittsburgh, September 2006.

-“Global Inequalities as a Challenge and Opportunity for Democracy”, presented at workshop on “Rethinking Global Inequalities” at the Russell Sage Foundation, New York, October 2006.

-“The Past and Future of Democracy”, presented at the Perlman Roundtable, University of Pittsburgh, March 2007

-“A Moving Target: Democracy”, presented at the Kellogg Institute for International Studies, University of Notre Dame, March 2008.

-“The Past and Future of Democracy”, International Conference on Sociology of the Athens Institute for Education and Research, Athens, May, 2008

-(with María José Alvarez and Verónica Montecinos) “The Transamerican Market-Oriented Think Tank Movement”, Society for the Advancement of Socioeconomics, San José, Costa Rica, July 2008.

-Participant in roundtable concluding discussion at conference on “The Origins of Democracy in the Americas, 1770s-1870s” at the Kellogg Institute for International Studies, University of Notre Dame, September 2008.

-Commentator on Jackie Smith, Social Movements for Global Democracy, at the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, October 2008

-“Movimientos sociales, democracia y ciudadanía” [“Social Movements, Democracy and Citizenship”], presented at a conference on the history of Andalusia, Jaén, Spain, November 2008.

-“Movimientos sociales, democracia y ciudadanía” [“Social Movements, Democracy and Citizenship”], presented at Universidad Pablo de Olavide (Seville), November 2008.

-“A Moving Target: Democracy”, inaugural lecture for university professorship, University of Pittsburgh, Spring 2009.


REFERENCES

Professor Arthur L. Stinchcombe
Department of Sociology
Northwestern University
Evanston, Illinois 60201

Professor Charles Tilly
Department of Sociology
514 Fayerwether Hall
Columbia University
New York, New York 10027

Professor Seymour Drescher
Department of History
University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15260

Professor Philip Dawson
Department of History
City University of New York
Bedford Avenue & Avenue H
Brooklyn, New York 11210

Professor Timothy Tackett
Department of History
University of California at Irvine
Irvine, California 92717

Professor Sidney Tarrow
Department of Government
Cornell University
Ithaca, New York 14853