Curriculum Vitae

Edward A. Tiryakian

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Personal: Born in Bronxville, New York
Married, 2 sons (Edmund and Edwyn)

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Education

Ph.D. Harvard University 1956

M.A. Sociology Harvard University 1954

B.A. Sociology Princeton University 1952

Occupational History

September 01, 2004 - present Professor Emeritus, Sociology, Duke University 1965-67 Associate Professor, September 01, 1967 - August 31, 2004 Professor, Sociology September 01, 1967 - August 31, 2004 Professor, Sociology 1996 Visiting Professor, J.F. Kennedy Institute of North American Studies, Free University of Berlin 1992 Elie Halevy Visiting Professor, Institut d'Etudes Politiques (Paris) 1985 Senior Lecturer, Kyoto American Studies Summer Seminar 1985 Visiting Professor, U.E.R. de Sciences Sociales, Université René Descartes, Paris V 1981 Senior Lecturer, Korean American Studies Summer Seminar 1978 Visiting Professor, Laval University (Québec) and Adjunct Professor, Concordia University (Québec) 1971-72 Directeur Associé, Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, 6e Section, Université de Paris 1962-65 Lecturer,, Harvard University 1957-62 Assistant Professor, Princeton University 1956-57 Instructor 1957-59 Visiting Lecturer, Bryn Mawr College 1954-55 Visiting Lecturer, University of the Philippines 1955-56 Teaching Fellow, Harvard University (Assistant to Professors 1953-54 Sorokin, Homans, C. Kluckhohn and H. Murray)

Awards, Honors, and Distinctions: Chair (elected), History of Sociology Section, American Sociological Association, 2005-2006

Professional Service: Council member, History of Sociology section, American Sociological Association, 2012 - present; , Josiah Charles Trent Memorial Foundation, for travel to East Europe ($1800), 2001; Fellow, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, 1997-98; , NEH Summer Seminar Director ($87, 597 award), 1996; , Mellon Foundation grant for interdisciplinary seminar on Contemporary Nationalism ($85,000), 1994; , IREX Travel Grant to the Baltics, 1992-93; , Office of Education, U.S. Dept. of Education, Title VI grant for an Undergraduate Center in International Studies (3-year grant, $98,000 per year), 1991; , NEH Summer Seminar Director ($85,441 Award), 1991; , NEH Summer Seminar Director ($84,851 Award), 1989; , Endowment Challenge Grant to Center for International Studies, William and Flora Hewlett Foundation ($200,000), 1989; , Docteur honoris causa, Université René Descartes-Paris (the Sorbonne), 1987; , Conference Grant, Japan Foundation ($8,200 award), 1986; , Invited Fellow, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Palo Alto, 1983; , NEH Summer Seminar Director ($58,816 award), 1983; , NEH Summer Seminar Director at Duke ($49,356 award), 1980; , Educational Grants, Government of Quebec, for development of Quebec Studies ($52,000 award), 1979-82; , NEH Summer Seminar Director ($46,133 award), 1978; , Planning Award, Council for European Studies ($10,000 award), 1977; , NEH Summer Fellowship ($2,000 award), 1975; , Faculty Fellowship, Ford Foundation, 1971-72; , Bicentennial Preceptorship, Princeton University, 1958-61; , Teaching Fellowships, Harvard University, 1955-56; , Fulbright Research Award, for research in the Philippines, 1954-55; , Teaching Fellowships, Harvard University, 1953-54; , Phi Beta Kappa, summa cum laude, Princeton University, 1952; "New Nationalism, New Identities, New Perspectives", Co-director, Mellon Faculty Seminar, 1996-97; President, Duke Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, 1996-97; , Academic Council, 1994-97; interdisciplinary faculty seminar, "Growth of Knowledge", Co-organizer, 1993-94; , Arts and Sciences Council, 1993-97; Organizer and chair, interdisciplinary faculty committee on Nationalism, National Identity and Ethnicity, 1992-97; Duke University Board of Trustees, Committee on Institutional Advancement, 1990-91; , Director of International Studies, 1988-91; , Committee on Judaic Studies, 1985-87; , Chairman, Review Committee on Appointment, Promotions, and Tenure Procedures, 1984-85; , Provost's Academic Priorities Committee, 1984-87; , Academic Council (elected, 3 terms), 1984-90; , University Research Council, 1983-84; , Faculty Representative, Steering Committee of the Capital Campaign for the Arts and Sciences, 1983-86; , Search Committee for the Director of International Studies, 1983-84; , Dean's Committee to Evaluate Status of Performing Artists, 1983-84; , University Committee on Promotion and Tenure, 1980-83; , Search Committee for the Dean of the Graduate School, 1979-80; , Academic Council (elected), 1979-83; , Director, Program in Quebec Studies, 1979-87; , Commonwealth Studies Committee, 1975-78; , Faculty Hearing Committee (Chairman, 1976-77), 1973-77; , Undergraduate Faculty Council, 1969-76; , Chairman, Search Committee for the Dean of the Women's College, 1968-69; , Chairman, Committee for the Comparative Study of Social Systems and Institutions, 1968-80; , Chairman, Search Committee for the Director of Black Studies, 1969-70; , President's Committee for Study of Residential Life, 1968-69; , Academic Council (elected), 1967-71; , Chairman, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, 1969-72; "Religion and Social Trends" Southern Sociological Society, Atlanta, Chair, session, April 4-7, 2001; Organizer and Chair, "Nielsen™s Three Faces of God," Association for the Sociology of Religion, Anaheim, August 17-19, 2001; Organizer and Chair, regular sessions, Social Theory ASA, Anaheim, "New Wines in old Casks" and "Theorizing New, 2001; Chair, session, "Fernand Dumont: Sociologue Extraordinaire" AISLF World Congress, Quebec City, 2000; Chair, session, "Les Balkans Hier et Aujourd'hui" le AISLF, Quebec City, 2000; Organizer, session, "Durkheim and the Communitarian Movement," Communitarian Summit Conference, February 27-28, 1999, Washington,DC; Organizer, sessions on, "Emergent Global and Regional Identities" ASA, 1997; Organizer and chair, sessions on, "Sociology and Values," ASA, 1995; Organizer, sessions, "The Bearing of Social Theory on Japanese Studies," and "The Bearing of Japanese Studies on Social Theory," international conference on Japanese Studi, October 1994; Co-organizer, symposium session, "Nationality", ISA, Bielefeld, 1994; Co-organizer, session, "Nature & Status of Classical Sociological Theory" (RC 08-12) ISA, Bielefeld, 1994; Chair, session, "Métamorphoses des Sociétés Balkaniques," (SS04-1), ISA, Bielefeld, 1994; Organizer and Chair, plenary session,, 100th Anniversary of Durkheim's Division of Labor, Eastern Sociological Society, Boston, 1993; Chair, panel session on ethnic nationalism, ASA, 1991; , AISFL Program, 2 sessions, ISA Congress, Madrid, 1990; , Thematic Session 1968 in Retrospect, Southern Sociological Society, 1988; , Thematic Session on "Transnational Meaning of Concepts," ASA,, 1987; , Program, ASA Theory Section, 1986: "East Meets West". Theory Dialogue on East Asia Session on The Actuality of Democracy in America, ASA, 1985; Program Chairman, American Society for the Study of Religion, 1982-84; , Program for the Round Table of AISLF, Louisiana, April 9-11, 1984. Theme: "Democracy and Society in 1984/ Démocratie et Société en 1984", 1984; , Session on "Trends in French-Speaking Sociology", Southern Sociological Society, 1984; , Symposium, "Rereading Classical Theories in the 1980s," ISA, 1982; , Session on New Perspectives in Western European Sociology, ASA,, 198l; , Sessions on history of sociology, theoretical sociology, ASA,, 1980; Organizer, 39th Congress, International Institute of Sociology, June 12, 2009; American Sociological Association, American Sociological Association. March 08, 2008, March 2008; Chair 2005-2006, ASA History of Sociology Section, September 2005-August 2006; organizer and chair, American Sociological Association, August, 2004; Presider, The Durkheimian Tradition in Sociological Research, August 2002

Selected Recent Invited Talks: Global Challenges of Modernization, Beijing, China, 22 August 2016; Global Challenges of Modernization, Beijing, China, May 21, 2016; Teilhard deChardin and Robert Bellah: Kindred Souls?, New York, 2013; Les Formes Elementaires de la Vie Religieuse: Past, Present, and Future," keynote address., Porto Alegre, Brazil, October, 2012; Altruism and the New Face of Capitalism in the 21st Century, Madrid, Spain, 2011/06/24; From Secularization to Paganization: Weber Had It Almost Right, Las Vegas, 2011/08/19; Civilization in the Global Era: One, Many... or None?, XVII Congress, International Sociological Association, Gothenburg, Sweden, July 14, 2010; The Diaspora Community: Lifeline or Albatross in the Peace Process?, XVII World Congress, International Sociological Association, Gothenburg, Sweden, July 14, 2010; Antinomies of the Human Condition in the 21st Century: Some Sociological Reflections, International Conference of New Directions in the Humanities, UCLA, June, 2010; After Gouldner:The Coming Demise of Rational Choice Theory, Atlanta GA, April, 2010; Twenty Years Ago Into the Future, Yerevan, Armenia, June 12, 2009; Avant-Garde Art and Avant-Garde Sociology: "Primitivism" and Durkheim, ca. 1905-1913, American Sociological Association, Boston, 2008; Talcott Parsons and Vaclav Havel on the Human Condition, Charles University, Prague, Czeck Republic, 2008; The Second Return of Mechanical Solidarity, Oxford, England, October 10, 2008; Talcott Parsons' Structural Functionalism/Parsons as Action Theorist, Southern Sociological Society, Richmond, Virginia, April 10, 2008; Cartoons Are No Laughing Matter: A Durkheimian Perspective, University of South Carollina, Columbia SC, April 03, 2008; Les Degats du Terrorisme Contemorain: le cas des Etats-Unis, New Bulgarian University, Sofia, Bulgaria, September 28, 2007; Sociological Theory meets Constructal Theory: Some Considerations, Duke University, April 04, 2006; Tocqueville's One-Night Stand in New Orleans, New Orleans, March 23,2006; Trois Salutations a Guy Rocher, Montreal, Canada, February 24, 2006; Sorokin and Mills: Marginals at Elite Universities, Philadelphia, August 16, 2005; "Can History (Re)Cover Memory?", Stockholm (Sweden), July 08, 2005; Can History (Re)Cover Memory?, Stockholm, Sweden, July 08, 2005; Durkheim, Solidarity and American Society before and after September 11, University of Genoa (Italy), 21 May 2003; Challenges for Sociology in the Bioglobal ge. Is there room for Sociology in the 21st Century?, University of Bicocca, Milan (Italy), 19 May 2003; "Comparative Aspects of Multiculturalism: The US, Europe and the Baltic States", Tallinn, Estonia, 25 October 2002; "Multiculturalism in the United States and Europe", University of Latvia, Riga (Latvia), 21 October 2002; Rethinking Hegemonic Analysis: American Hegemony Before and AFter 9/11, ISA, Brisbane, Australia, 20 October 2002; "Parsons, Sorokin and the Civilization of Modernity", ASA, Chicago, IL, 17 August 2002; "The Next Phase of Modernity after September 11", University of Nanjing (China), 22 July 2002; Assessing Multiculturalism Theoretically, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK, 10 July 2002; "A Sociological Assessment of the Post-September 11 World", University of Lund (Sweden), 11 June 2002; "De Sainsaulieu a Zola par Gurvtich: L'Engagement intellectuel", Royaumont, France, 4 June 2002; "Comparative Aspects of National Identity in Eastern Europe", Centre for Research in Ethnic Relations, University of Warwick (UK), 9 February 2002; "Americanization or Globalization? An Answer to McDonaldization,", presidential session, Eastern Sociological Society, March 1-4, Philadelphia; "Remodeling Graduate Training in the 21 st Century: the Renovation of Social Relations,", Southern Sociological Society,lc Atlanta, April 4-7, 2001; "The Kosovo War:Epilogue or Prologue?", ASA, Anaheim, August 18-21, 2001; "Psycho-Social Obstacles to Development,la (in French), AISLF international conference, "Transition and National Reconstruction,", Ohrid, Macedonia, March 16-18, 2000; *"The Kosovo War and American Involvement", ASA, Washington DC, 2000; "Durkheim's Elementary Forms and New Art Forms 1905-1914,", The British Center for Durkheimian Studies, Oxford, England, May 15, 1999; "Durkheim's Forms and New Forms of Art", Scandinavian Collegium for the Advanced Study of the Social Sciences, Uppsala, November 23, 1999; "Hilbert's Challenge and Sociology, 1900 and 2000",, Institute of Sociology, Lund University (Sweden), November 24, 1999; "Pitirim A. Sorokin, My Teacher: Prophet of Late Modernity,", International symposium in honor of Pitirim A. Sorokin, Institute of Economics, Russian Academic of Sciences, Moscow and St. Petersburg, February 4-6, 1999; iNationalism and the Collapse of Empires: 1959 and 1989 Compared,li international conference Creating the Other: the causes and dynamics of nationalism, ethnic enmity, and racism in central and eastern Europe, University of Minnesota, May 6-8, 1999; "Is There a Future for Sociology in the Global Age?" British Association for the Advancement of Science", Cardiff, Wales, September 7-11, 1998; "Strategies of Survival of Small Democratic States: Armenia and Israel," ISA 14 th World Congress of Sociology, Montreal, July 26-August 1, 1998; "The Flesh is Willing but the Spirit is Weak: Cultural Impediments to Transformation," International Conference Postcommunist Transformation and the Social Sciences: Cross-Disciplinary Approaches, Berlin, October 30-31, 1998; "The Flesh is Willing but the Spirit is Weak: Cultural Impediments to Transformation," International Conference Postcommunist Transformation and the Social Sciences: Cross-Disciplinary Approaches, Berlin, October 30-31, 1998; "Time to Change the Calendar? Sacred and Secular Problems of Y2K," ISA 14 th World Congress of Sociology, Montreal, July 26-August 1, 1998; "An Emergent French Connection: Revisiting Parsons's Durkheims", international conference, A Legacy of ‘Verantwortungsethik’: Talcott Parsons’s Structure of Social Action after Sixty Years Heidelberg, Internationales Wissenschaftsforum(IWH), 26-27 June, 1997; "Modernization, Goffman, and German National Identity" ASA, August 1997; " ifThe Wild Cards of Modernity," Dædalus international conference on Nationalism, Religion, Race and Ethnicity, Magadelen College Oxford, March 1996; "Modernization Analysis and German National Identity: an Outsider's Perspective," International Conference, ioStaat-Nation Ethnizität,", Hannover, Germany, June 1996; "Rethinking Modernization and the Legacies of Parsons and Hilbert," Abteilung "Sozialstruktur u. Sozialberichterstattung," Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung, Berlin, May 1996; "The Intellectuals' Ambivalence toward Nationalism," ASA,, 1996; "Three Metacultures of Modernity: Christian, Gnostic, Chthonic," Congress of the International Institute of Sociology, Trieste (Italy), July 1995, and (revised version), ASA, Washington, August 1995; "Can Humpty Dumpty be put together again? (Rethinking Modernity in a Millenarian Decade), "Daedalus-SCASS Conference, "Rethinking Modernity", Uppsala, Sweden, May 1994; "Contemporary collective effervescence and charisma: Durkheim, Weber and '1989'" ISA, Bielefeld, 1994; "L'actualité de la sociologie aux Balkans," AISLF-Bulgarian Sociological Association international conference, La Sociologie et les Balkans, Sofia, Bulgaria, March, 1994; "Sociological Theory and the Good Society: Rethinking Durkheim and Japan Today,", International Conference on Japanese Studies, IRCJS, Kyoto, October 1994; "Tyranny of the majority or tyranny of the minority?" ISA, Bielefeld, 1994; "100 Ans Après: De la Division du Travail Social et son Actualité," Congress of the International Institute of Sociology, Paris, June 1993; "From Center to Periphery and Back Again," keynote address, International Symposium, Collective Identities in the Contemporary World, Center for Studies on Collective Identity, Bilbao, Spain, December 1993; "Modernization in a Millenarian Decade: Lessons for and from Eastern Europe," International Conference, Social Change and Modernization: Lessons from Eastern Europe, Università degli Studi di Trento, Trento, Italy, December 1993; "Nationalist Movements in Advanced Societies: Some Methodological Considerations" International Congress Nationalism in Europe, Past and Present/Los Nacionalismos en Europa, Pasado y Presente, Santiago de Compostela (Spain), September 1993; "Les Nouveaux Mondes et la Sociologie", presidential address, AISLF, Lyon (France), July 1992; "Durkheim et Weber: ponts et fossés", AISLF, Strasburg, April 1991; "East Meets West Squared", keynote address, Hawaiian Sociological, Association, Hilo, March 1991; "From State to Nation: A Comparative Look at Ethnic Nationalism", ASA, Cincinnati, Ohio, August 1991; "Internationalizing the Profession," Southern Sociological Society, Atlanta, April 1991; "Japan as exemplar of Durkheim's Modern Society", Conference Confucian Dimension of the Dynamics of Industrial East Asia, American Academy of Arts & Sciences, Cambridge, Mass., May 1991; "Nationalist Movements in Advanced Societies", National Academy of Sciences, Washington, D.C., November 1991; "From `1968' to `1989': Sociology and Annus Mirabilis", ISA, Madrid, 1990; "L'Actualité de Durkheim", ISA, Madrid, 1990; "Rethinking the Presuppositions of Macrosociology", ASA, Washington, 1990; "Culture et Mouvements Sociaux," French Sociological Society, Paris, September 1989; "On the Shoulders of Weber and Durkheim: East Asia and Emergent Modernity", Keynote address, Korean Sociological Association, Seoul, June 1989; "Emile Durkheim and the French Revolution," XVIIIth Consortium on Revolutionary Europe, Birmingham, Alabama, February, 1988; "`1968' en Rétrospective et Prospective,", AISLF Congress, Geneva, 1988; "Durkheim, Mathiez, and the French Revolution," International Conference on "The `Normative' in Durkheim,", Bad Homburg, Germany, November, 1987; "Nationalism, Modernity, and Sociology," Sociology Section, 2nd World Basque Congress, Victoria Spain, September, 1987; "Renovating Modernization Analysis" (in French), AISLF Symposium, Oporto, Portugal, May, 1987; "The Trans-National Meaning of Concepts: Comments and Reflections," ASA, August, 1987; "Dialectics of Modernity: Re-enchantment and Dedifferentiation," Second German-American Theory Conference, Berkeley, CA, August 1986; "From Durkheim to Managua: Revolutions as Religious Revivals," Society for the Scientific Study of Religion, 1985; "Directing a Program of Quebec Studies: Field Experiences in Academe," 11th International Congress of Anthropological and Social Sciences, Quebec City, Canada, August 1983; "Les Paliers en Profondeur chez Mannheim et Gurvitch,", AISLF, Louvain-la-Neuve (Belgium), 1983; "Où s'en va la Modernité?,", AISLF, Paris, 1982; "Recent Theories and Models of Nationalism,", ISA, Mexico, 1982; "The Changing Centers of Modernity," 11th Annual Meeting of the International Society for the Comparative Study of Civilizations, Pittsburgh, May 1982; "Tracking Modernity: A Preliminary Conceptualization," United Nations University, 5th Regional Symposium: Crisis, Culture and Innovation in the Western World, Milan, Italy, November 1982; "Changing American Values: Continuity and Rupture," keynote address, 16th annual American Studies Seminar, American Studies Association of Korea, Mt. Sorak, Korea, September 1981; "Nationalism and Modernity," Center for International Affairs, Harvard University,, March 1981; "Sexual Anomie in Pre-Revolutionary France," meeting of the Eleventh Consortium on Revolutionary Europe 1750-1850, Huntsville, Alabama, February 1981; "The Calling of Sociology," keynote address, Carolina Sociology Majors Symposium, Francis Marion College, Florence, SC. Condensed version presented at the 1981 annual meeting of the Eastern Sociological Society, New York, and at Salisbury State College, Salisbury, MD, April 1981; *"Journal d'un Sociologue Américain au Québec 1953-1978," Colloquium on 50 years of the Social Sciences in Quebec, sponsored by the Royal Academy of Canada, Mt. Gabriel, Quebec, October 1981; *"One Nation, Many Nationalisms: Competing Orientations to Modernity," Society for the Study of Social Problems (SSSP), August 1981; "Comparative Aspects of Devolution in Quebec, Wales, and Scotland," 1980, New England Political Science Association, 1980; Comparative Aspects of National Identity in Eastern Europe, Centre for Research in Ethnic Relations, University of Warwick (UK)., 0000

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