Education
Ph.D Sociology, Johns Hopkins University
M.A. Sociology, Johns Hopkins University
B.A. Sociology, Koç University
B.A. International Relations, Koç University
Courses Taught
- SOC 101: Introduction to Sociology
- SOC 202: Social Problems in Global Context
- SOC 290: Social Theory I
- SOC 302: Introduction to Data Analysis
- SOC 618: Advanced Data Analysis
- SOC 644: Sociology of Globalization
Research
Dr. Karataşlı examines dynamics of historical capitalism, globalization, global inequality, social movements, labor and nationalism from a global and long-historical perspective. He uses a combination of comparative-historical and quantitative/computational methods to examine serious challenges facing the world, and prospects for social justice in the 21st century.
His research on historical dynamics of capitalism has received many prestigious awards by the American Sociological Association including the 2021 Distinguished Article Award (PEWS), 2018 Distinguished Article Award (PEWS), 2017 Best Faculty Article Award (Sociology of Development, Honorable Mention), and 2014 Theda Skocpol Dissertation Award (CHS).
Dr. Karataşlı’s research has also been translated to many world languages including Chinese, Portuguese, Spanish, Hungarian, Persian and Turkish.
Selected Publications
- ‘Karatasli, Sahan Savas and D. Clark (2024) “Ibn Khaldun’s Labor Theory of Value and the Question of Race: Revisiting the “Nondebates of the 1970s” through The Muqaddimah”, Journal of World Systems Research 30(1): 302-338. https://doi.org/10.5195/jwsr.2024.1195
- Karatasli, Sahan Savas (2023) “Hegemonic World Orders, Distributional (In)Justice, and Global Social Change”, International Affairs 99(1): 23-40. https://doi.org/10.1093/ia/iiac312
- Karatasli, Sahan Savas (2023) “The Use of Digitized Newspaper Archives for World-Historical Research on Social Conflicts: The State-Seeking Nationalist Movements Database”, Research in Social Movements, Conflict and Change, 47:37-68 https://doi.org/10.1108/S0163-786X20230000047003
- Karatasli, Sahan Savas and Sefika Kumral (2022) “Crisis of capitalism and cycles of right-wing populism in contemporary Turkey: The making and unmaking of Erdoğanist hegemony”, Journal of Agrarian Change, 23: 22-46. doi: 10.1111/joac.12501
- Karatasli, Sahan Savas (2022) “Surplus Populations, Working-Class Struggles and Crises of Capitalism: A World-Historical Materialist Reconceptualization”, Chapter 10 in Marxism, Social Movements and Collective Action, edited by Adrian Piva and Agustin Santella. Palgrave, pp.207-249 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-12474-7_10
- Karatasli, Sahan Savas (2020) “Capitalism and nationalism in the longue durée: Hegemony, crisis and state-seeking nationalist Mobilization, 1492-2013”. International Journal of Comparative Sociology, 61(4): 1-31 https://doi.org/10.1177/0020715220946473
- Karatasli, Sahan Savas (2020) “Global Inequality in Capitalist World Economy, 1500 – Present: A Critique of Neo-Modernization Theories” in Ino Rossi (ed) New Frontiers of Globalization Research: Theories, Processes, and Perspectives from the Global North and the Global South, Springer. (pp.307-330)
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