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Curriculum Vitae CURRICULUM VITAE John Markoff April 2, 2020 ADDRESS Office: Department of Sociology University of Pittsburgh Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15260 (412) 648-7570 Home: 6459 Phillips Avenue Pittsburgh, PA 15217 (412) 521-1533 Fax: (412) 648-2799 E-mail: [email protected] 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 Vitae: John Markoff 2 Distinguished Sociologist Award (2005) of the Pennsylvania Sociological Society Outstanding Author Contribution in the 2014 Emerald Literati Network Awards for Excellence for “Another Chapter from Democracy's Secret History: A Research Program on Some Small Spanish Towns,” Research in Political Sociology (2013). Provost’s Award for Excellence in Mentoring of the University of Pittsburgh (2019) Distinguished Career Award in Political Sociology of the Political Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association (2020) 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- Distinguished University Professor, University of Pittsburgh (title changed from University Professor in 2009) 2009- Investigador Doctor, Universidad Pablo de Olavide, Sevilla, Spain 2011-12 Interim Chair, Department of Sociology, University of Pittsburgh 2016-17 Acting Chair, Department of Sociology, University of Pittsburgh Vitae: John Markoff 3 PUBLICATIONS Books (Authored) - 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]. Second English-language edition: Boulder and London: Paradigm Publishing, 2015 [A second Spanish-language edition with a new Afterword appeared as Olas de Democracia: Movimientos Sociales y Cambio Político Granada: Editorial Comares, 2018.] - The Abolition of Feudalism: Peasants, Lords and Legislators in the French Revolution (University Park, PA: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 1997). [A Russian translation is in preparation for the Moscow publishing house Territory of the Future.] - Gilbert Shapiro and John Markoff, Revolutionary Demands: A Content Analysis of the Cahiers de Doléances of 1789 (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1998). Books (Edited) - Verónica Montecinos and John Markoff, eds., Economists in the Americas: Convergence, Divergence, and Connection (Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2009. [A Spanish translation appears as Economistas en las Américas (Santiago, Chile: Ediciones Universidad Diego Portales, 2015)]. - Jackie Smith, Michael Goodhart, Patrick Manning and John Markoff, eds., Social Movements and World-System Transformation: Prospects and Challenges (London: Routledge, 2017). Translations - Greetings from Novorossiya: Eyewitness to the War in Ukraine, a translation into English of Paweł Pieniążek, Pozdrowienia z Noworosji (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2017), tr. Małgorzata Markoff and John Markoff. - Poland, 1945: War and Peace, a translation into English of Magdalena Grzybałkowska, 1945. Wojna i Pokój (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, forthcoming), tr. John Markoff and Małgorzata Markoff Special issue of journal Vitae: John Markoff 4 - Antonio Herrera González de Molina and John Markoff, eds., Democracia y mundo rural en España [“Democracy and the rural world in Spain”], special issue of Ayer 89 (1), 2013 (Journal of the Asociación de Historia Contemporánea) 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). [Reprinted in in Roberto Franzosi, ed., Content Analysis, in Sage Benchmarks in Social Research Series (Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 2008), v. 2:267-311 and in Martin Bauer, Aude Bicquelet and Ahmet Suerdem, eds., Textual Analysis, (Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 2014), 3:171-213]. - "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.] Vitae: John Markoff 5 - "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. Vitae: John Markoff 6 - 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:
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