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 Edward
A.Tiryakian, an alumnus of the Fulbright
Program, is Professor of Sociology
at Duke University, Durham, North
Carolina. He received his Ph.D. from
Harvard and held faculty positions
at Princeton and Harvard before joining
the Sociology Department at Duke in
1967, where he has served as departmental
chair and as Director of International
Studies. He has held visiting professorships
at Freie Universität Berlin,
at the Institut d'Etudes Politiques
in Paris; and at the Sorbonne (where
he is docteur honoris causa),
among others.
Professor Tiryakian has served as
president of both the American Society
for the Study of Religion and the
Association Internationale des Sociologues
de Langue Française and twice
elected chair of the Theory Section
of the American Sociology Association.
He holds memberships in numerous national
and international sociological associations
and has been active on several editorial
boards, most currently Nations
and Nationalism, International Sociology,
and The Journal of the History
of Sociology.
His current research projects relate
to comparative aspects of national
identity in the global age, the bearing
of religious factors in American foreign
policy, and a reconsideration of macro
sociological theory.
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Tiryakian's complete c.v. with list
of publications.
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