People
John Markoff, PhD
Johns Hopkins, 1972
Title: Chair; Professor of Sociology, History and Political Science; UCIS Research Professor
Campus Address: 2406 WWPH (Chair's Office); 2605 Wesley W. Posvar Hall
Tel: 412-648-7584 (Chair's Office); 412-648-7570
E-mail: jm2@pitt.edu
Web Page: www.pitt.edu/~jm2
Fields
Social movements, comparative revolutions, democratization
Teaching
Comparative and global sociology, political sociology, social movements
Selected Publications
Waves of Democracy: Social Movements and Political Change (Newbury Park, CA: Pine Forge Press, 1996).
The Abolition of Feudalism: Peasants, Lords and Legislators in the French Revolution (University Park, PA: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 1997).
(with Gilbert Shapiro) Revolutionary Demands: A Content Analysis of the Cahiers de Doléances of 1789 (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1998)
"Revolutions, Sociology of," in Neil J. Smelser and Paul B. Baltes, International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences
"Archival Methods," in Neil J. Smelser and Paul B. Baltes, International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences
"Margins, Centers and Democracy: The Paradigmatic History of Women’s Suffrage", forthcoming in SIGNS: Journal of Women in Culture and Society
Honors/Awards
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
Project
History of democracy