Karen Barkey

PROFESSOR OF SOCIOLOGY AND HISTORY

Turkey / USA

Karen Barkey (Turkey/USA), sociologist and historian, specialist of the Ottoman Empire, teaches at Columbia University (New York). She studies decentralization, state control, and social movements against states in the context of empires. She is the Director of the Institute for Religion Culture and Public Life, which is currently working on various research projects on religion and tolerance.

> Empire of Difference : The Ottomans in Comparative Perspective (Cambridge University Press, 2008)

> Boundaries of Toleration (coll. dir. A. Stepan et C. Taylor, University Press Group Ltd, 2014)