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Thomas Jeffrey Miley Thomas Jeffrey Miley Department of Sociology, Free School Lane Cambridge CB2 3RQ, United Kingdom E-mail: [email protected] Education Ph.D., Political Science, Yale University, 2004: “The Politics of Language and Nation: The Case of the Catalans in Contemporary Spain.” Committee: Juan J. Linz, Rogers M. Smith, and David Cameron. Awarded a mark of Distinction by the faculty and nominated for the Gabriel Almond Prize for the best dissertation in the field of Comparative Politics (2005). B.A., Summa Cum Laude, Political Science, U.C.L.A., 1995 Employment Lecturer of Political Sociology, Department of Sociology, University of Cambridge (Fall 2009- Present) García Pelayo Research Fellow, Centro de Estudios Políticos y Constitucionales, Madrid (Spring 2007-Fall 2009) Visiting Professor of Political Science, Department of Social Sciences and Humanities, Saint Luis University, Madrid Campus (Fall 2007-Summer 2009, Summer 2010) Visiting Assistant Professor of Government, Department of Government, Wesleyan University (Fall 2006) Lecturer, Program of Ethics, Politics, and Economics, Yale University (2006) Lecturer, Department of Political Science, Yale University (2004–06) Publications Books With Federico Venturini, Editors. Your Freedom and Mine. Abdullah Öcalan and the Kurdish Question in Erdogan’s Turkey (Montreal: Black Rose Books, 2018). Nacionalismo y política lingüística: El caso de Cataluña (Madrid: Centro de Estudios Políticos y Constitucionales, 2006). With José Ramón Montero. Editors, Juan J. Linz. Obras escogidas. Volumen 1. Fascismo: Perspectivas históricas y comparadas (Madrid: Centro de Estudios Políticos y Constitucionales, 2008). Awarded the Prize for Best Monograph by the Unión de Editoriales Universitarias (Spain), November 2009. With José Ramón Montero. Editors, Juan J. Linz. Obras escogidas. Volumen 2. Nacion, Estado y lengua (Madrid: Centro de Estudios Políticos y Constitucionales, 2008). Awarded the Prize for Best Monograph by the Unión de Editoriales Universitarias (Spain), November 2009. With José Ramón Montero. Editors, Juan J. Linz. Obras escogidas. Volumen 3. Regímenes totalitarios y autoritarios (Madrid: Centro de Estudios Políticos y Constitucionales, 2009). With José Ramón Montero. Editors, Juan J. Linz. Obras escogidas. Volumen 4. Democracias: quiebras, transiciones y retos (Madrid: Centro de Estudios Políticos y Constitucionales, 2009). With José Ramón Montero. Editors, Juan J. Linz. Obras escogidas. Volumen 5. Economía y empresarios en España (Madrid: Centro de Estudios Políticos y Constitucionales, 2013). With José Ramón Montero. Editors, Juan J. Linz. Obras escogidas. Volumen 6. Partidos y élites políticas en España (Madrid: Centro de Estudios Políticos y Constitucionales, 2013). With José Ramón Montero. Editors, Juan J. Linz. Obras escogidas. Volumen 7. Historia y sociedad en España (Madrid: Centro de Estudios Políticos y Constitucionales, 2013). Articles and Book Chapters With Alfred Stepan, “Federacy and the Kurds: Might This New Political Form Help Mitigate Hobbesian Conflicts in Turkey, Iraq, and Syria?,” in Andrew Arato, Jean Cohen, and Astrid von Busekist, eds., Forms of Pluralism beyond the Nation-State (New York, NY: Columbia University Press, 2018), pp.149-166. With Cihad Hammy and Guney Yildiz, “The Turkish-Kurdish Conflict in Historical Context,” in T. Miley and F. Venturini, eds., Your Freedom and Mine. Abdullah Öcalan and the Kurdish Question in Erdogan’s Turkey (Montreal: Black Rose Books, 2018), pp.3-123. “State Terror, Human Rights Violations, and Authoritarianism in Turkey: Report of the Third EUTCC Imrali International Peace Delegation,” in T. Miley and F. Venturini, eds., Your Freedom and Mine. Abdullah Öcalan and the Kurdish Question in Erdogan’s Turkey (Montreal: Black Rose Books, 2018), pp.225-258. With Donald H. Matthews, “Review of Abdullah Öcalan’s Manifesto for a Democratic Civilization, in T. Miley and F. Venturini, eds., Your Freedom and Mine. Abdullah Öcalan and the Kurdish Question in Erdogan’s Turkey (Montreal: Black Rose Books, 2018), pp.337-352. “1917 on the Brain.” Foreword for 1917: Revolution and its Aftermath (Montreal: Black Rose Books, 2018). “The Nation as Hegemonic Project,” Journal of Political Ideologies, Vol. 23, Issue 2, 2018: 183-204. With Enric Martínez-Herrera, “National Identity and Political Representation: Rival ‘Top-Down’ National Projects,” in Xavier Coller, Antonio M. Jaime –Castillo and Fabiola Mota, eds., Political Power in Spain. The Multiple Divides between MPs and Citizens (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018), pp.203-224. 2 “Challenges for the Struggle against Austerity in Britain and Europe,” in Shana Cohen, Christina Fuhr and Jan-Jonathan Bock, eds., Austerity, Community Action, and the Future of Citizenship in Europe (Bristol: Policy Press, 2017), pp.217-236. “Austerity Politics and Constitutional Crisis in Spain,” Perspectives on European Politics and Societies, Published Online 16 Oct. 2016: 1-21. “Constitutional Politics and Religious Accommodation: Lessons from Spain,” Politics, Religion & Ideology. Vol. 16, No. 4, 2015: 411–433. “Unsolvable Problems,” in Houchang Chehabi, ed. Juan J. Linz: Scholar, Teacher, Friend (Cambridge, Mass: Ty Aur Press, 2014). “Problemas insolubles” in J.R. Montero, T.J. Miley, et. al., “Juan J. Linz (1926-2013): un homenaje caleidoscópico,” Revista de Estudios Políticos, no. 164 (2014): 123-138. With Juan J. Linz, “Algunas reflexiones precautorias y no ortodoxas sobre la democracia hoy,” Revista de Estudios Políticos, no. 164 (2014): 1-23. With Xavier Coller and Enric Martínez, “Identidad nacional y representación política,” in X. Coller et. al.., eds., El poder político en España (Madrid: Centro de Investigaciones Sociológicas, 2014). “Democratic Representation and the National Question in Catalan and Basque Politics,” International Journal of Politics, Culture, and Society, September 2014, Volume 27, Issue 3, pp. 291-322. “Blocked Articulation and Nationalist Hegemony in Catalonia,” Regional and Federal Studies, Volume 23, Issue 1 (2013): 7-26. With Roberto Garvía, “'Linguistic Immersion' and Political Conflict in Contemporary Catalonia,” European Journal of Language Policy, Number 1 (Spring 2013). With Xavier Coller, “La visión de algunos intelectuales,” and “Conclusiones,” in X. Coller, ed., Perspectivas sobre la identidad andaluza. Polítiocs, intelectuales y ciudadanía (Sevilla: Centro de Estudios Andaluces, 2013). With Juan J. Linz, “Cautionary and Unorthodox Thoughts about Democracy Today,” in Douglas Chalmers and Scott Mainwaring, eds., Institutions and Democracy: Essays in Honor of Alfred Stepan (South Bend, Ind: University of Notre Dame Press, 2012), pp. 227-252. “Adaptation linguistique et assimilation culturelle en Catalogne contemporaine,” in Alicia Fernández and Mathieu Petithomme, eds., Les nationalisms dans l’Espagne contemporaine depuis la transition démocratique (1975-2010) (Prais: Armand Colin, 2012), pp. 354-378. With Enric Martínez, “The Defeat of ETA and the Prospects for Basque Secessionism,” in The Ruritanian. Newsletter for the Study of Ethnicity and Nationalism, Autumn 2011. “Franquism as Authoritarianism: Juan Linz and his Critics,” Politics, Religion and Ideology, Volume 12, Issue 1, No. 1, 27-50, March 2011. With Enric Martínez, “Cria cuervos. CiU Gobierna España,” en Viejo Topo, no. 278, March 2011. 3 “Spain: Federalism in Comparative Perspective,” in Rekha Saxena, ed., Varieties of Federal Governance: Major Contemporary Models (Foundation Books, Cambridge University Press, 2010), pp. 378-429. With Enric Martínez, “The Constitution and the Politics of National Identity in Contemporary Spain,” Nations and Nationalisms Vol. 16, Issue 1: 6-30 (2010). “Quiénes son los catalanes: Lenguaje, identidad y asimilación en la Cataluña contemporánea” in Pérez de la Fuente, O. and Oliva Martinez, J. D. (eds.), Una discusión sobre identidad, minorías y solidaridad (Madrid: Dykinson, Coleccion Debates, 2010), pp. 55-82. With Casiano Hacker-Cordón, “Una teoría anti-monopolio de reconocimiento de grupos,” in Pérez de la Fuente, O. and Oliva Martinez, J. D. (eds.), Una discusión sobre identidad, minorías y solidaridad (Madrid: Dykinson, Coleccion Debates, 2010), pp. 19-53. With Ken Dubin, “Reflexiones sobre la discriminación por edad y sus implicaciones,” in Jesús R. Mercader Urguina, dir., Trabajadores maduros. Un análisis multidisciplinar de la edad en el ámbito social (Valladolid, Spain: Lex Nova, 2009), pp.141-152. With Luis de la Calle, “Analyzing the Dynamics of Assimilation in Nationalist Contexts: Is There Really More Assimilation in Catalonia than in the Basque Country?,” European Journal of Political Research, 47: 710-736 (2008). “Les politiques de mobilisation nationaliste en Catalogne,” in Mohammad-Saïd Darviche and William Genieys, eds., Penser le dynamique des régimes politiques avec Juan Linz (Paris: L’Harmattan, 2008), pp.141- 162. “Ayrilikçi Siddet ve ‘Baris Süreçleri’: Ispanya’nin ETA Deneyimi” (“Separatist Violence and ‘Peace Processes’: The Spanish Experience with ETA”) in Türkiye’de Kürtler. Baris Süreci Icin Temel Gereksinimler (The Kurds in Turkey: Main Requirements for a Peace Process) (Istanbul: Heinrich Foundation, 2008), pp.75-89. “Ispanya’nin Katalonya Bölgesinde ‘Dilse Normalizasyon’ Politikasi” (“The Politics of ‘Linguistic Normalization’ in Catalonia, Spain”) in Türkiye’de Kürtler. Baris Süreci Icin Temel Gereksinimler (The Kurds in Turkey: Main Requirements for a Peace Process) (Istanbul: Heinrich Böll Foundation, 2008), pp.201-220. “Juan Linz on State
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