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MIGDAL, Joel S.

Professor of International Studies

 

 

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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.

 

List of Publications

 

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).


 

Books, continued

 

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).


 

Articles, continued

 

"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).


 

Articles, continued

 

"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).

 



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