Liliana Riga
Job Title
Senior Lecturer
Room number
6.28 CMBResearch interests
Research interests
- art-historical sociology
- comparative historical sociology
- social theory, civil society, the moral self
If you are interested in being supervised by Liliana Riga, please see the links below for more information:
- PhD in Sociology (opens in new window)
Background
Education
Ph.D. Sociology (McGill University)
M.A. Political Science (Columbia University)
B.A. Political Science (University of California, Berkeley)
Teaching
The Modern Self and Art (Honours)
Select Publications
Books
(forthcoming) Moral Encounters with Political Modernity. Essays.
(forthcoming) Art Historical Sociology and Modern Selfhood
(2021) Riga, et al. Young Refugees and Forced Displacement: Navigating Everyday Life in Beirut Routledge
2012 [2014, pbk] The Bolsheviks and the Russian Empire New York: Cambridge University Press.
Select articles/chapters
(forthcoming) 'Civil Society in contexts – theoretical, comparative, historical, in R. Lachmann, D. Emigh, D. McCourt (eds) The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Historical Sociology Oxford University Press.
2023. 'Art, Refugeedom and the Aesthetic Encounter' Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies (with A. Dakessian)
2020. 'Theorizing Refugeedom: Becoming Young Political Subjects in Beirut' Theory and Society 49: 709-744 (with Langer and Dakessian)
2019. 'How Homogenous Need America be? Nation, Race and Civility' in F. Duina (ed) Hallsian Perspectives on Nation and States, Powers and Civility University of Toronto Press
2016. 'Ethnicity, class and the social sources of U.S. exceptionalism' in Ralph Schroeder (ed) Global Powers: Mann’s Anatomy of the 20th Century and Beyond Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
2016. 'Jewish Conditions, Theories of Nationalism: Cartographical Notes' Nations and Nationalism 22(2): 371-390 (With J.A. Hall)
2015. 'Ernest Gellner and the Land of the Soviets' Special Issue of Thesis Eleven 128(1): 100-112
2012. ''Putting Cruelty First': War Crimes as Human Rights in US Policy in Bosnia and Herzegovina' Sociology 46(5): 861-75 (with J. Kennedy)
2009. 'Tolerant majorities, loyal minorities and 'ethnic reversals': constructing minority rights at Versailles 1919' Nations and Nationalism 15(3): 461-482 (with J. Kennedy)
2008/9. 'The Ethnic Roots of Class Universalism: Rethinking the 'Russian' Revolutionary Elite' American Journal of Sociology 114(3): 649-705. Winner of 2009 Honorable Mention Award for Best Article in Comparative Historical Sociology, American Sociological Association
Works within
Staff Hours and Guidance
By appointment
Publications by user content
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Dakessian A, Riga L. Art, refugeedom and the aesthetic encounter. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies. 2023 Dec 17;1-22. Epub 2023 Dec 17. doi: 10.1080/1369183X.2023.2290990 |
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Riga L, Holmes M, Dakessian A, Langer J, Anderson D. Young Refugees and Forced Displacement: Navigating Everyday Life in Beirut. 1 ed. Abingdon: Routledge, 2020. 178 p. (Routledge Advances in Sociology). Epub 2020 Dec 29. |
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Riga L, Langer J, Dakessian A. Theorizing refugeedom: Becoming young political subjects in Beirut. Theory and Society. 2020 Jun 30;49(4):709-744. Epub 2020 May 5. doi: 10.1007/s11186-020-09393-2 |
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Riga L. Grounded Nationalisms' political grounding? Invited comment for ‘Debates Section. Irish Journal of Sociology. 2019 Aug 29;079160351987212. Epub 2019 Aug 29. doi: 10.1177/0791603519872128 |
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Riga L. How homogeneous need America be? Nation, race, and civility. In Duina F, editor, States and Nations, Power and Civility: Hallsian Perspectives. University of Toronto Press. 2018. p. 54-78 |
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Riga L. How homogenous need America be? Nation, race, and civility. In Duina F, editor, States and Nations, Power and Civility: Hallsian Perspectives. Toronto, ON: University of Toronto Press. 2018. p. 54–78 doi: 10.3138/9781487515201-004 |
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Riga L. Ethnicity, class and the social sources of US exceptionalism. In Schroeder R, editor, Global Powers: Michael Mann's Anatomy of the Twentieth Century and Beyond. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2016. p. 185-208 doi: 10.1017/CBO9781316091166.010 |
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Riga L, Hall JA. Jewish conditions, theories of nationalism: Cartographical notes. Nations and Nationalism. 2016 Apr;22(2):371-390. Epub 2016 Jan 14. doi: 10.1111/nana.12141 |
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Riga L. Ernest Gellner and the land of the Soviets. Thesis Eleven. 2015 Jun 30;128(1):100-112. doi: 10.1177/0725513615587351 |
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Riga L, Kennedy J. To Build a Notion: US State Department Nation Building Expertise and Postwar Settlements in 20th Century East Central Europe. Sociological Research Online. 2013;18(2):21. Epub 2013 May 31. doi: 10.5153/sro.3097 |
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Kennedy J, Riga L. A Liberal Route from Homogeneity? US Policymakers and the Liberalization of Ethnic Nationalists in Bosnia's Dayton Accords. Nationalism and Ethnic Politics. 2013;19(2):163-186. doi: 10.1080/13537113.2013.788910 |
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Riga L. The Bolsheviks and the Russian Empire. Cambridge University Press, 2012. 324 p. |
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Riga L, Kennedy J. ‘Putting Cruelty First’: Interpreting War Crimes as Human Rights Atrocities in US Policy in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Sociology. 2012 Oct;46(5):861-875. doi: 10.1177/0038038512451529 |
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Riga L, Kennedy J. Tolerant Majorities, Loyal Minorities and ‘Ethnic Reversals’: Constructing Minority Rights at Versailles 1919. Nations and Nationalism. 2009 Jul;15(3):461-482. doi: 10.1111/j.1469-8129.2009.00382.x |
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Riga L. The Ethnic Roots of Class Universalism: Rethinking the “Russian” Revolutionary Elite. American Journal of Sociology (AJS). 2008;114(3):649-705. doi: 10.1086/592862 |
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