Department of Sociology

Peter Stamatov (Ph. D., University of California Los Angeles, 2006) is Associate Professor of Sociology. He works in the areas of sociology of culture and religion, comparative-historical sociology, and the sociology of global and transnational processes. His current research focuses on the intersections of popular politics and religious organizations in early-modern and modern Europe, as well as in the context of imperial expansion overseas. He is completing a book manuscript for the Cambridge University Press entitled The Origins of Global Humanitarianism: Religion, Empires, and Advocacy. A related project traces the institutional genesis of modern forms of popular political mobilization in Britain and the United States in the first half of the nineteenth-century. In his earlier work he has addressed issues of ethnicity and nationalism, as well as the political implications of cultural production and consumption.