Professional Biography

Keith Doubt is professor emeritus at Wittenberg University. His teaching interests were Social Theory, American Social Character, Sociology of Mental Health, Sociology of War, and Interdisciplinary Courses. He published articles on a range of sociological theorists: Harold Garfinkel, Georg Simmel, Hans-Georg Gadamer, George Herbert Mead, Jurgen Habermas, Talcott Parsons, Erving Goffman, and Kenneth Burke. He is the author of several books: Towards a Sociology of Schizophrenia: Humanistic Reflections (University of Toronto Press), Sociology after Bosnia and Kosovo: Recovering Justice (Rowman & Littlefield), Sociologija nakon Bosne (Buybook) translated by Asim Mujkić, Understanding Evil: Lessons from Bosnia (Fordham University Press), Through the Window: Kinship and Elopement in Bosnia-Herzegovina (Central European University Press), Ethnic and National Identity in Bosnia-Herzegovina: Kinship and Solidarity in a Polyethnic Society (Lexington Books) with Adnan Tufkečić, and Sociocide: Reflections on Today’s Wars with Jeffrey Boucher (Lexington Books).

He is the editor of the interdisciplinary, online, bilingual journal, Duh Bosne / Spirit of Bosnia. The journal disseminates scholarly research and writing on the history, politics, and literature of Bosnia-Herzegovina to honor and preserve the long-standing traditions of social and civil order that created Bosnia's heritage. The journal has been published quarterly since 2006.

He was a Senior Fulbright Scholar in the Faculty of Political Science at University of Sarajevo in 2001 and held the Fulbright Distinguished Chair in the Department of Sociology at University of Innsbruck, Austria in 2007. He was the recipient of a third Fulbright Award, a Fulbright Flex Grant, involving teaching and research in Tuzla, Bosnia-Herzegovina. He joined the Wittenberg faculty in 2000.

Radio Interviews

• Link to Book Nook Interview with Vic Mickunas on National Public Radio, WYSP, about Sociocide: Reflections on Today’s Wars, February 2022.

• Link to Book Nook Interview with Vic Mickunas on National Public Radio, WYSO, about Ethnic and National Identity in Bosnia-Herzegovina: Kinship and Solidarity in a Polyethnic Society, January 2020

• Link to Book Nook Interview with Vic Mickunas on National Public Radio, WYSO, about Through the Window: Kinship and Elopement in Bosnia-Herzegovina, January 2016.

Wittenberg News Items

• Reflections on Today’s Wars

• Joining in the March for Peace

• Fulbright Scholar Looks to Study Culture Untouched By War

• Wittenberg Professor Of Sociology Keith Doubt Selected For Second Prestigious Fulbright Award

• Wittenberg University Hosts Conference Based On Unique Interdisciplinary Class On Bosnia-Herzegovinia

Links of Interest

Scholarly articles at Academia.edu. Link.

Photo Gallery: Beautiful Places Visited, Austria, Italy, and Bosnia. Link.

Reflections from Sarajevo, Fulbright Journal, Spring 2001. Link.

Curriculum Vitae. Link.

Photos from Tunisia, February 2022. Link

Travel Photos from Bosnia, Austria, and Italy Link