Joel S.

Migdal
Member, American Political Science Association.

Joel S. Migdal is the Robert F. Philip Professor of

International Studies in the University of Washington's
Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies.

Member of the International Joint Committee for

the Near and Middle East, Social Science Research
Council, 1988-1996. Chair of Committee, 1991
92, 199293, 1993-96.

Education

He received a B.A. from Rutgers University in 1967. He

then earned an M.A. (1968) and Ph.D. (1972) from the
Department of Government of Harvard University.[1]

4 Awards and honors

Fellowship, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton,
NJ, 20092010

Career

Provost Distinguished Lecturer, University of

Washington, 2008

Previously he served as an associate professor of Government at Harvard University (1975-80) and a lecturer
and senior lecturer at Tel-Aviv University (1972-75).[2]
He came to the University of Washington in 1982 and
was named the Robert F. Philip Professor of International
Studies in 1994.

Marsha L. Landolt Distinguished Mentor Award,

University of Washington, 2006
Lady Davis Fellow,
Jerusalem, 20022003

Hebrew University of

Governors Writers Award, 1994, for Palestinians:

The Making of a People

Memberships

Distinguished Teaching Award, University of Washington, 1993

Member editorial board, Comparative Political

Economy Book Series, School of Government at
Peking University, China

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)

President, Association for Israel Studies, 2003

2005

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.

Vice-president, Association for Israel Studies,

20012003
Editor, Studies on Israel series of the University of
Wisconsin Press
Member, Visiting Committee, Harvard University
Center for Middle Eastern Studies

Principal Investigator for three major federal grants

(Department of Education, Washington,D.C.) totalling well over $1 million

Chair, Visiting Committee, Harvard Academy of

International and Area Studies

World Society Fellowship (198990)

Fulbright Research Fellowship (declined)

Member, Editorial Board, Israel Studies Forum: An

Interdisciplinary Journal, 2001present.

Fulbright-Hayes Research Fellowship (198586)

Member, Editorial Board, World Politics, 1996

present.

Phi Beta Kappa

Harvard University Graduate Prize Fellowship

Member, Editorial Board, Comparative Political

Studies, 1992present.

Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship

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Publications
Shifting Sands: The United States in the Middle East, (New York: Columbia University Press,
forthcoming fall 2013)
Boundaries and Belonging: States and Societies
in the Struggle to Shape Identities and Local Practices, (editor) (New York: Cambridge University
Press, 2004).
The Palestinian People: A History, (with Baruch
Kimmerling) (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University
Press, 2003).
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).
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, Palestinians: The Making of a People": (with Baruch Kimmerling ) (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
second Italian edition, 2003; 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: Com-parative
and Longitudinal Studies of Population Events
(New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Books, 1979).

REFERENCES

Peasants, Politics, and Revolution: Pressures Towards Political and Social Change in the Third
World (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press,
1974) Chinese edition, 1996.

6 References
[1] Curriculum Vitae. University of Washington. Retrieved
20 May 2014.
[2] Faculty page. University of Washington. Retrieved 20
May 2014.

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