Fatos Tarifa (born 21 August 1954) is a
social scientist
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and a former diplomat from
Albania
Albania ( ; sq, Shqipëri or ), or , also or . officially the Republic of Albania ( sq, Republika e Shqipërisë), is a country in Southeastern Europe. It is located on the Adriatic and Ionian Seas within the Mediterranean Sea and shares ...
.
Education
Tarifa has a double doctorate, with a Ph.D. in Sociology from the
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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and a doctorate in Political Science from the
University of Tirana
The University of Tirana ( sq, Universiteti i Tiranës, abbreviated UT) is a public university located at the central borough of Tirana 10 in Tirana, Albania. It was established as the ''State University of Tirana'' in 1957 through merging of ...
. He has been, inter alia, a lecturer, a researcher and a distinguished visiting fellow since 1981, when he joined the School of Political Science and Law at the University of Tirana. In 1992 he was awarded a
Fulbright Fellowship
The Fulbright Program, including the Fulbright–Hays Program, is one of several United States Cultural Exchange Programs with the goal of improving intercultural relations, cultural diplomacy, and intercultural competence between the people of ...
at the Department of Sociology at UNC
Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Chapel Hill is a town in Orange, Durham and Chatham counties in the U.S. state of North Carolina. Its population was 61,960 in the 2020 census, making Chapel Hill the 17th-largest municipality in the state. Chapel Hill, Durham, and the state ca ...
.
Career
Tarifa served as Albanian ambassador to
the Netherlands
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(1998–2001) and to the
United States
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(2001–2005). Currently he is Professor of Sociology and International Relations, and Director of the Institute for Studies on Democracy and Development at the
University of New York Tirana
Introduction
University of New York Tirana (UNYT) is the first private university in Albania founded in 2002. UNYT offers English language teaching including three cycles of studies. Many of UNYT alumni are currently employed by major companies ...
. Tarifa has taught and conducted research at the
University of Tirana
The University of Tirana ( sq, Universiteti i Tiranës, abbreviated UT) is a public university located at the central borough of Tirana 10 in Tirana, Albania. It was established as the ''State University of Tirana'' in 1957 through merging of ...
, the
European University of Tirana
The European University of Tirana ( al, Universiteti Europian i Tiranës, UET) is an accredited private university in Tirana, Albania. It was established in 2006 by four PhD students (at the time): Adri Nurellari, Blendi Kajsiu, Ermal Hasimja ...
, the
Institute of Social Studies
The International Institute of Social Studies (ISS) of Erasmus University Rotterdam is an independent and international graduate school of policy-oriented critical social science. ISS was established in 1952 by Dutch universities and the Neth ...
at The Hague,
Webster University
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(Leiden, the Netherlands),
Campbell University
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, the
University of North Carolina
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at Chapel Hill, and
Eastern Michigan University
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and he has delivered lectures at institutions of higher education throughout the world, such as
Duke University
Duke University is a private research university in Durham, North Carolina. Founded by Methodists and Quakers in the present-day city of Trinity in 1838, the school moved to Durham in 1892. In 1924, tobacco and electric power industrialist James ...
,
Stanford University
Stanford University, officially Leland Stanford Junior University, is a private research university in Stanford, California. The campus occupies , among the largest in the United States, and enrolls over 17,000 students. Stanford is consider ...
,
New York University
New York University (NYU) is a private research university in New York City. Chartered in 1831 by the New York State Legislature, NYU was founded by a group of New Yorkers led by then-Secretary of the Treasury Albert Gallatin.
In 1832, the ...
,
Harvard University
Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1636 as Harvard College and named for its first benefactor, the Puritan clergyman John Harvard, it is the oldest institution of higher le ...
,
Brown University
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, the
University of California at Berkeley
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,
Tufts University
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, the
University of Essex
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, and the
University of Amsterdam
The University of Amsterdam (abbreviated as UvA, nl, Universiteit van Amsterdam) is a public research university located in Amsterdam, Netherlands. The UvA is one of two large, publicly funded research universities in the city, the other being ...
.
Tarifa has authored, co-authored and edited 45 books and more than 90 journal articles. His books and articles have covered topics ranging from democratic transition and social issues in Eastern Europe to Human development, and current international affairs. In 1998 he became the founding Editor of "Sociological Analysis", an innovative, international scholarly journal published at Chapel Hill, NC, which he edited for 15 years. He serves as a member of the International Advisory Board of the "Journal of Social Sciences" and the "Journal of Applied Social Science".
Dr. Tarifa will probably be best remembered as the leader of a campaign to introduce the discipline of
sociology
Sociology is a social science that focuses on society, human social behavior, patterns of Interpersonal ties, social relationships, social interaction, and aspects of culture associated with everyday life. It uses various methods of Empirical ...
into higher education in Albania. He is widely considered to be "the founder of sociological studies in Albania, and one of the country's most prominent social scientists". Tarifa has "already earned the title of father of Albanian sociology, a moniker he has generally resisted".
Main publications
* ''The First Decade and After'' (2000) –
* ''The Breakdown of State Socialism and the Emerging Post-Socialist Order'' (2001) –
* ''Culture, Ideology, and Society'' (2001) –
* ''The Quest for Legitimacy and the Withering Away of Utopia'' (2001) –
* ''The Balkans: A Mission neither Accomplished nor Impossible'' (2002) –
* ''To Albania, with Love'' (2007) –
* ''Europe Adrift on the Wine-Dark Sea'' (2007) –
*
ocial Life as Sociological Experience(2007) –
*
he Tale of Two Continents(2007) –
* ''Vengeance is Mine: Justice Albanian Style'' (2008) –
*
mericanophobia and Anti-Americanism in Europe(2008) –
*
nunited Europe(2009) –
*
he Paradigm of Democratic Transition(2009) –
*
he Defeated Warriors of the anti-Kadare Crusade(2010) –
*
urope's Renaissance(2010) –
*
he Fate of a Century(2010) –
* ''Letters to America / Letra Amerikes'' (2011) –
*
he Dynamics of Pluralizing Modernity(2012) -
*
olitics and History(2012) -
*
nowledge, the University, and Democracy(2012) -
*
he Impossibility of the European Project(2013) -
*
he Sciences of Society: Sociology as an Integrative Discipline for the Study of Social Lifewith a Foreword by Anthony Giddens (2013) -
*
lash of Civilizations? Radical Islam in Historical and Political Contexts(2013) -
*
igher Education for an Open Society(2013) -
*
olitics as Grammar and Metaphor(2014) -
*
he Sociological Imagination and Our Social World(2014) -
*
World Loaded for the 21st Century(2014) -
* ''Bona fide'' (2014) -
*
engeance is Mine: The Social Morphology and Moral Grammar of Vengeance(2014)
Sources
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1954 births
Living people
20th-century Albanian writers
University of Tirana alumni
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill alumni
Ambassadors of Albania to the Netherlands
Date of birth missing (living people)
Ambassadors of Albania to the United States
Academic staff of the University of Tirana
21st-century Albanian writers
Albanian male writers
Albanian-language writers
Campbell University faculty
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill faculty
Eastern Michigan University faculty
Academic staff of the International Institute of Social Studies
Albanian social sciences writers
20th-century male writers