School of Social and Political Science

Liliana Riga

Senior Lecturer

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l.riga@ed.ac.uk
6.28 CMB
School of Social and Political Science
15 A George Square
Edinburgh
EH8 9LD

Research interests

  • sociology of art; art-historical sociology
  • art/poetics, the self and the Anthropocene
  • comparative historical sociology

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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)

'Art, the Anthropocene and Us' (Soc 2B)

PostGraduate Research Seminar

Current projects

Moral Encounters with Political Modernity. Essays. (book)

The Modern Self and Art. An Art-Historical Sociology. (book)

Works within

On Research Leave Autumn 2025

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 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. 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. 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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